This seems like Bischoff lies and stupidity. Hard pass. But then again who cares about a company that died 20 years ago anyway that has been well chronicled. Just seems like a project for a small audience
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I haven’t watched episode 1 yet, but it definitely seems from the feedback I have seen that this isnt close to as bad as what people were thinking.
Probably not but the question is do you care? Do you really care but rehashing a dead company that we largely know 90% of the story about?
Do you really need to listen to Eric Bishop to lie?
I mean if you have that much free time that you feel compelled to spend time listening to something that will provide very little new information by all means go for it. I would rather do other stuff.
Ya I care. I watched it last night after I posted and I very much enjoyed it. As someone who was a WCW fan, this is a subject that interests me. This series is bringing some new voices to the table, for example; I remember back in the late 2000s hearing about Brad Siegel, and it was nice to put a face to the name and hear his perspective.
The episode was only 40min or so, very easy watch. As for Bischoff, nothing he said seemed that glaring as a “lie”, maybe the way he framed the Sting/Hogan title match finish change, but I read that as “it was Hogan, but I’m going to take half the blame”.
I get it Alex if you have no interest and don’t blame you if you don’t want to watch. But for others, I thought it was a very good documentary and that’s what I’m primarily reading online as well. Not as hokey as dark side which I liked. Its a 4 part series as well, which makes it short. Had thing been 12 epsiodes, maybe Im saying something differant.
That’s great that you enjoy it! clearly the show has an audience
This is similar to what I said recently about the Iron Claw. Wrestling fans should go into viewing this type of show with a few things in mind.
- Most of the content will be stuff you’ve heard before.
- Some (possibly a lot of) details will be cut for time.
- And, of course, wrestlers are notorious liars.
Having said that, I will still watch it. I’m sure I will feel the same about Dark Side of the Ring… sometimes you learn something completely new (i.e. the Dino Bravo episode), sometimes you hear a bunch of entertaining stuff you’ve heard before (i.e. the Brawl For All episode), and sometimes you’re just bored (i.e. the Warrior episode).
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You sound very condescending, Alex.
Oh, that wasn’t my intent. I can see how I came across that way I mean it’s not a topic I remotely care about or I’m interested in specially with Eric Bishoff lying the whole time. Seems like others are interested though so I’m just saying makes sense that it exists because it clearly has an audience
Out of curiosity, were you a WCW fan?
Not before Hogan came. I watched it from when he arrived until probably the final year when I tuned out. But in the middle I was watching it
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Longer than me. I started watching around the summer of ‘98 (around the time the wolf pack was a thing), and I did start/stop throughout the years. I took a hiatus when Kevin Sullivan was booking as I remember it was just so boring, I did watch right up until the end as it was definitely something to see lol.
I did the Wai Ting… chose Nitro over Raw right before the attitude era and never looked back until the bitter end in 2001.
I was a channel flipper for a bit, but Nitro was my main jam starting with Bash at the Beach 1996. Though in true teenage smark fashion, it was Rey/Psicosis and Malenko/Disco (that match kind of sucks in retrospect, but we all know Dean was awesome) rather than Hogan and the NWO that pulled me in.
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I guess I was vindicated- ratings are so low and below DSOTR that I am surprised they don’t cancel it.
No one cares as much about this old dead story as you guys think they do
Can’t wait to see the ratings go up next week and Russo take credit lol
Russo will spend an hour on Who Killed WCW? talking about how and why ratings are bogus, then go on Twitter and brag about the rating of “his” episode.
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I mean, the ratings are pretty much in line with Darkside of the Ring, which is a very show for Vice.
The show is only four episodes, so there is no chance they’d stop the run.
Beyond the numbers, Vice is very happy to be working with The Rock. No way they’d cut it short.
Vice also wants to keep Jason Eisner and Evan Husney happy, as they created Darkside, and Tales from the Territory, which are some of their highest profile shows.
Wasn’t DSOTR over 200k viewers a lot of weeks?
I mean this has The Rock behind it and way bigger stars than a or al DSOTR on it. You would think it would do better but I still feel the topic is not that appealing to a lot of people that know the story and don’t want to hear more Eric B lies
On the high end, it would do over 200K occasionally. Usually less than that.
Overall, I think WKWCW is probably, within expectations. At this point, Vice knows what to expect.
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Yeah, I’m not talking about if they are happy. I just mean in general so much time is devoted to reviewing and discussing a show that has less of a national audience then a Wolverines game can fit in a stadium.
Like literally no one cares about this as I thought.
I haven’t watched episode 2 yet……for some reason Cogeco doesn’t have it available on crave yet.