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This movie killed WCW

posted 19 years ago by Rob_Carlson
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The publicity for this movie (having David Arquette win the real WCW world heavyweight title to promote the movie) was a big factor in the death of WCW. David Arquette even admitted he thought it was a stupid idea.

[–] LoFaroNYG27 12 years ago

HAHAHAHAHA! This movie was THE ONLY good thing that WCW did during its sub par existence. The only bad part about Ready to Rumble was that it was tied in with Dubya-c-Dubya. Other than that, this was the greatest wrestling themed movie to ever be made. It is hands down better than that "The Wrestler" garbage that everybody made such a big deal about. If anything, World's Crappiest Wrestling killed this movie's potential. It wasn't believable that there would be so many people in the stands of a WCW show, because as we all know WCW spent most of its time with empty seats at their shows. If this movie had been tied in with WWE, it could have been bigger. But WCW's mediocrity killed Ready to Rumble's potential. WCW sucked.

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[–] Thenewnexus 8 years ago

I think the ratings was one of the thing that killed WCW,WCW was never able to get back any momentum after losing to RAw that one week in the ratings

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[–] guncrazy54 7 years ago

WCW killed WCW unfortunately. It really is a shame since I felt it was a superior product by far at the time. But like one poster pointed out after Starcade '97 the decline began. The Hogan Sting feud was HUGE and went on for over a year while neither ever hardly even traded blows. Starcade '96 was the start of the Hogan feud so yeah about a year it went on. So finally comes the match and well....Its pretty lack luster. Sting wins the title and takes down Hogan. The NWO should have ended or at least begun its implosion. But nope Sting loses the title 2 weeks later to Nash I believe and then Nash lays for for Hogan "losing" the title to him. NWO is still on top...

The NWO went on for waaaaay past its shelf life. It even lasted over a year before it got stale. But then it just became the silly "brand" so we had NWO, NWO:Wolfpack then they merged after their silly feud and back was the NWO again. All the way until late '99. It was the Hogan, Hall (until he was too drunk to wrestle), Nash, Goldberg, Russo show. Young talent who had a lot of potential were kept down and ignored. I knew it was over when I heard Benoit, Malenko, Geurraro, and Jericho left. Apparently Russo and Hogan to some extent didn't think that was an issue. Then of course AOL/Time Warner wanted nothing to do with wrestling so they just wanted it gone. A shame Bishoff didn't buy it even just for the rights. According to Chris Jericho the WCW was purchased for $4 million. Jericho said if he knew it was that cheap he would have bought it.