re: June 4th Dark Side of the Ring -Who Killed WCW?

I’d say it’s a combination of a few things

- WCW kicking WWF’s arse so bad for nearly two years, which pushed McMahon to finally pivot from the extremely stale 80s crap to a much edgier product resulting in the attitude era

- Which in turn allowed guys like Stone Cold and The Rock to become white hot and more entertaining than anything WCW had. It’s pretty insane looking back that WWF had two of their all time Mount Rushmore type talents on the come up at the exact same time.

- Hogan having full creative control was a total disaster after the NWO angle started getting stale. They couldn’t pivot to anything else because “That doesn’t work for me, brother.”

Kevin Nash even said in a recent interview that he and Scott Hall created the NWO Wolfpac to get away from Hogan’s bullshite, only for Hogan to come up with the finger poke of doom angle that resulted in Hogan joining the Wolfpac No one could escape him

- The AOL Time Warner merger was the death blow since WCW’s severely overpaid dinosaur roster now no longer had Ted Turner signing blank checks. And they certainly couldn’t rationalize paying these ridiculous guaranteed contracts while getting destroyed by WWF in ratings at that point

- The nail in the coffin imo was bringing in Vince Russo to run the thing alongside Bischoff. I have no idea what WCW could’ve done to turn the ship around at that point, but that doofus Russo only sped up the process towards going out of business