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The Day WCW Nitro Died - Get The Table - 20 Years Since WWF Bought WCW! Where Did It All Go Wrong? What Is WCW's Legacy? Was It All Vince Russo's Fault?!

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🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Adam and The Dadley Boyz discuss the day WCW Nitro died...


20 years since WWF bought WCW!

Where did it all go wrong?

$60m lost in a year!

What is WCW's legacy?

Was it all Vince Russo's fault?!


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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:12.0

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast. Feel good travel.

0:41.0

Hello, and welcome to get the table another wrestling round table discussion podcast with myself Adam Wilborn.

0:48.0

And one of the deadly boys Michael Hamfoot from what culture here to discuss another burning wrestling issue.

0:53.0

But before we get into it, if you're a fan of this sort of thing, make sure you subscribe to watch a book to wrestling on either iTunes Spotify.

0:59.0

Really get your podcast from for daily wrestling podcast review rules, Matt and the Wednesday night war between AW and NXT pay reviews.

1:06.0

We have interviews more round table discussions like this one and a roundup of the week complete with a really good quiz.

1:11.0

Of course, on rest of culture, as I said, though, joined by Michael Hamfoot, and so we are gathered here to we are socially distanced here today to talk about the

1:22.0

day WCW Nitro died and the catalyst for all this is, of course, this month it is 20 years since the WWF bought WCW's unbelievable to think that and quite impressing a little bit.

1:39.0

Yeah, a lot of things age me, Wilborn, mainly my children and my age.

1:45.0

One of the other things that age is me is the prospect of it was hitting this anniversary, which we did.

1:52.0

I was at least moved to write a piece about it.

1:55.0

I think which I just tried to use is because I was just to get over the fact it had been 20 years.

1:59.0

The idea and I'm not one of these people that wants to put a thumb on the young and trying to stop people just like having ownership of a thing that just because they weren't alive for it.

2:09.0

But it is strange to me as a 35 year old wrestling fan who let's be honest, it hasn't even reached NXT's key demographic yet.

2:18.0

That promotion could have lived and died before so many people watching today and maybe even listen to this podcast were even born or a very least were too young to watch it and thus be able to have conversations about their memories of it.

2:34.0

That's how the world works, that's how life works, it's me staving off my imminent reality like everybody else.

2:41.0

But yeah, 20 years it's such a long time and wrestling is obsessed with anniversaries because it often replaces the need to tell stories.

2:50.0

But it's a really big one, it's a really, really significant one.

2:53.0

We're only two years and think about it like this, we're only two years in WWE's monopoly that they established 20 years ago even being broken.

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