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Old 12-25-2016, 12:43 PM   #30937
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Apparently Vince McMahon once asked Paul Heyman what he should do with WCW when it was up for sale and Heyman tried to persuade him to spend the money to keep ECW alive instead. The idea being it would be a lot cheaper to keep ECW running than whatever their plans were for WCW.

According to Bruce Pricard, WWE never had any real concrete plans for WCW because of too many conflicting ideas and other things causing problems like lack of a tv deal for Nitro.

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On episode 19 of Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard, the professional wrestling veteran talked about the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro and the sale of WCW in general. Apparently, WWE's interest in WCW began when it was assumed WCW would be kept on Turner networks, with the idea being that WCW would operate as a totally separate brand from WWE. Apparently, ECW owner Paul Heyman was not in favor of WWE purchasing WCW. Also, Prichard talked about what became of the WCW wrestling rings that went to WWE as part of the sale of WCW.

According to Prichard, there was originally interest on Vince McMahon's part to purchase WCW based on it being on TNT and having an existing time slot. Apparently, WWE's focus shifted to WCW's tape library when WWE learned that WCW would not stay on Turner television ...

Moreover, Prichard claimed that many ideas were thrown around as to how to make a standalone WCW television program, including talk of giving WCW RAW's TV spot and making SmackDown the WWE branded show.

"There was discussion of having the Monday Night RAW slot be WCW and the SmackDown spot be WWF. There were a lot of different plans discussed, and, obviously, a lot of them scrapped and different things that came up." Prichard continued, "we didn't have a lot of talent we ended up taking from them that was marquee talent."

During the podcast, Prichard recalled that Heyman buried the idea of WWE buying WCW when McMahon asked him for his opinion. In Prichard's estimation, Heyman wanted the money for ECW instead of WCW.
Also got revealed the old WCW rings ended up having a few given away to wrestlers as gifts and the rest used for developmental and small arenas hosting WWE shows.

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