THE POST INTERVIEW: Guy Evans, author of "NITRO"

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🗓️ 26 August 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On this edition of The POST Interview, John Pollock speaks with author Guy Evans on his new book “NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner’s WCW”. On this show they discuss:--The 120+ interviews Evans conducted for the book--New revelations on the corporate structure of WCW within the Turner empire--How Eric Bischoff came across and his role in the rise and fall--His interactions with Brad Siegel, the former president of Turner Entertainment--His conversation with Jamie Kellner Our Sponsors: * Check out TickPick and use my code No promotion code/URL for a great deal: https://www.tickpick.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:05.8	2001. The questions often asked by observers are why and how and one man set out to
1:11.8	answer those questions and many more in his new book
1:14.3	Nitro the incredible rise and inevitable collapse of Ted Turner's W.C. W.
1:19.5	A real pleasure to have Guy Evans joining us here at Post wrestling tonight. Guy, how are you doing today?
1:24.3	I'm doing very well, John. It's a pleasure to be here too. Well, I've had a chance to read the book. I've shared my thoughts and this was quite an undertaking on your part and I want to go back to the process of this project at square one and kind of your relationship to W.C.W. before this book became a reality for you.
1:46.9	Sure, well I'll try to be as succinct as possible, but just to give it a little bit of
1:51.4	background in terms of my relationship I suppose with with
1:55.8	W.C.W. and professional wrestling in general. I suppose we should go back really to the
2:00.9	to the mid to late 90s boom where like many other young people
2:04.6	obviously at the time I followed wrestling very closely and in fact kept up with
2:10.5	with both W. W. W. and the W. W. and to be quite honest with you, John, I think once
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