While late 1999 and especially the year 2000 were very horrid times for WCW, WCW started to get very good again during 2001 (the Cruiserweight division had gotten REALLY freaking good, they hired a lot of new talent (AJ Styles) and made the Crusierweight tag titles. The rest of the show was slowly making improvements leading to "THE BIG BANG: Rebirth of WCW" pay per view... which NEVER happened thanks to Time Warner / AOL selling WCW to WWE.
@@YousefTube - I'm glad that you replied and brought me back to this comment because I misspelled "doesn't." Thank you. Also: It was weird seeing Raven break the 4th wall during a skit.
Well I kinda think that the costs surrounding the AOL Time Warner merger probably caused WCW’s downfall alongside an increasing monopoly from the WWE. Ironic how WarnerMedia (as TW is known now), have reversed their stance on wrestling with TNT airing AEW. Who knows, maybe Ted Turner is proud that they did that? Either way, from what I’ve read it wasn’t directly Ted’s fault. It was probably the bad cross-breed between internet media, print media, and filmed media.
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It was the worst thing to happened and sadly WCW went out of business and it killed the wrestling industry and Ted was a lifelong wrestling fan, but the executives hated WCW.
+Martin Davis Jamie Kellner An executive from AOL/Time Warner was put in charge of TNT and TBS and Eric Bischoff who for six months position himself to buy WCW with a group of investors had a letter of intent and had a 10 year deal to air WCW programming on TBS, Kellner made to cancel all WCW programming and made it clear we're going to cancelled wrestling and people were like, it's your number rated show and Kellner said that doesn't matter, were no longer going to be the wrassling network. That was final nail in the coffin for World Championship Wrestling.
+Ivan Correa Of course they hated it. It was a success where they failed at everything to make revenue. I recall Nash telling a story where they filmed a tv movie and hoped for 2 rating, and Nash said to the guy "We are doing 3's on live products, and you're hoping for a 2?" Its sad when your company' product is doing great, but the executives hate how its doing great
@@CavemanJesus4Life Kevin Nash isn't the only one who has said something to that effect. Bill Watts said that when he was in charge of WCW, a lot of people in Turner Broadcasting didn't want wrestling, even though wrestling consistently outranked the station's average. I also recall Harley Race something like that in his autobiography. Hell, I don't think anyone at AOL/Time Warner wanted any sports at 1 time.
WCW was Ted's baby, and he personally loved it so it's no secret that he regrets Time Warner merging with AOL which overall killed WCW in the end which was stupid and horrible for the pro wrestling business. Nitro and Thunder were TNT and TBS's hottest commodities at the time, and even during the dark ages (1999-2001).
Chicken Bubblegum If you look at the ratings, then you'll realize it actually is. Not even Nitro were getting 1.0 ratings in 2000, and even during football season which fans like to use as a constant excuse.
Wglass90 I can't remember who said it but when WCW was losing money (in the early 90's) Ted said to them "I've got deep pockets, keep doing what you're doing" that's how much he loved it, didn't care that he was losing money on it
Wrong. WWE only bought certain WCW assets like titles, logos, certain trademarks, certain contracts. The parts that weren't picked up by WWE are still owned by Warner(AT&T) under the name Universal Wrestling Corporation.
I used to blame Vince Mcmahon a lot I really despised him at the time however like everyone has said it was really WCW that killed WCW the reason why I say that is because the company that owned it didn't know nor did they want Wrestling. Jamie Kellner hate's Wrestling when the new WCW book comes out it will be very interesting to hear what he has to say. I have heard stories that he said if WCW was making million's he still would have got rid of it he has been known to cancel high rating show's he didn't last long at Time Warner anyway. Shane Douglas brought up a story that when they had a meeting after Kellner sold WCW they wear all waiting for Ted Turner once he came in Kellner tried to shake his hand Ted told him off for selling WCW and put him in his place.
Well he can't now, WWE owns the rights. Plus I don't think he cares one bit. After looking at him and listening to him, I'm starting to wonder if he's even in touch with reality.
AdmiralOddSock There is a way. TBS owns something called Universal Wrestling Corporation which was assets not picked up by WWE like Guarantee Contracts & lawsuits. Ted could start they're.
@@alec1115But Billionaire Ted had a lot more than McMahon would ever have. Even if McMahon added alot more to his net worth, he will still not be as rich as Ted. WWE can only go as far as the professional wrestling industry will take it.
WCW in the 90's was/is better than WWE today and then WWE hit it's peak after they bought WCW, still think NITRO was better than Raw to bad it's no more, without it we have a watered down version of wrestling had it stayed around I think the shit would still be entertaining.
+Chris Ortiz Clearly he's part of the majority since the pro wrestling business currently in the terms of revenue, buyrates, and ratings have completely tanked compared to 20 years ago where it boomed. The storylines and angles are what generated people's attention. Cruiserweight matches were like a secondary bonus.
***** cruiserweights were the most over for long period besides the nwo when it was fresh but when died down no 1 wanted to watch double j or scott steiner😂😂 and the cruiserweigjts left and they dropped further and further. They were only 1s with really deeper stories everything else was just ur nwo or ur wcw so ihate you. If you listen to chris jerichos debut in wwe he got bigger reaction then the so called main attractions from wcw got
@@2HitWonder Yes they would there were die hard wcw fans. We would have 2 major wrestling companies. Wwe would prob still be pg because of the chris benoit incident, but we would have better storytelling. ROH and NJPW would suffer greatly tho. I dont think all in would do so well infact i think cody/young bucks would of been to wcw. But who really knows. I dont think 1 companie would die. I think one of them would of change the night put it in a diffrent time slot.
SuperHyphyOne a lot of people watch wrestling or at least used too but still he people knew he was involved in wrestling for many years and when AOL Merged with Time Warner and he literally driven out of his company so he couldn’t save WCW.
Ted Turner Was a trailblazing businessman. His style didn't mesh with bureaucratic system installed at TimeWarner. He build a multibillion dollar company with an Enterprising spirit.When you got manager running companies. You got people who's train to manage. They might have some success. But you have little success with growth and innovation. We see it daily with many of the tech companies today. I hate he sold his company.
@@jalen3666 that was something wall street was pushing. They pushed for and internet company to merge with old media. They didnt/dont know how to market companies like aol, yahoo, and excite. At the time. But back to it aol wanted to put their footprint on the business. Now they are a section in verizon like aol😅😆😂. The perfect company for aol at the time i kept beating the net up over it was worldcom/mci. That wouldve made more sense. Or nextel/sprint more far reaching reach for their core business oh well🤷🏾♂️
@@cjjonez well hey that's back then and it was a big mistake aol and time warner the worst merger in history. But at least today internet companies can merge cause we in the modern world like for example comcast nbcuniversal or at&t warnermedia. We all make mistakes.
Its interesting that mostly wrestling fans watch this video and others of Ted Turner. He was a business guru but low key remembered for owning WCW for a short time
Mr. M A J E S T I C XIII . Blackstruggle77 He would get GFW on the network or Corgan's NWA or both. He should make a whole new network. Air some original content, old shows like M.A.S.H., Law and Order, St. Louis Wrestling Club, few minor sports league like Baseball or Nippon Baseball Association, XFL2020, MMA like PANCRASE, 11:00 be a news coverage.
stephen mcgilliard well he can't get NFL cause they're extremely expensive and they have a tv deal with other networks so NFL is out, he could try bring to bring Canadian Football league.
Wcw dying was the worst thing scott Steiner even said in interview wrestling was fucked around after that it was big as before but I guess Vince is now getting karma now that wwe is in the crapper
Ted Turner loved the wrestling business and all his "wrasslers". He backed them time and time again and wouldn't hear of any cancellations. And they repaid his gratitude and faith by wasting his money and putting the company out of business. It never should have died, it was all too easy for Jamie Kellner to pull the trigger. That's the bottom line.
That Time Warner merger killed not only Ted's power but it killed professional wrestling in the states, arguably an industry that has not recuperated from the WWE monopoly on the business but the only competition being WCW at the time did not and was not a benefit to anyone except Time Warner who wanted to wash there hands of it and Vince McMahon who was drowning in his own failures since the end of the 80s and subsequent decade. It's been 20 plus years and we are yet to find a viable alternative let alone see WWE fall to its own avarice,mismanagement and lack of ratings, how they go on is still a more well guarded secret than where they tossed Hoffa's body.
Ted Turner will never regret Captain Planet b/c despite some of his misgivings, he was brave enough to entice people to be more aware & active about the future of Earth. Captain Planet is his achievement. I dare you to be achieve more than him.
Everyone saying bring wcw back is forgetting one thing. Once something dies it can never truly be revived. It's like sticking an air hose in a corpse and expecting it to breath. If it was brought back, the atmosphere, the talent, the voices, everything would be different and the nostalgia we are looking for would not be there. I hate the idea of it too but ECW and WCW are better off dead.
Mark it Turner, the death of WCW also means the death of wrestling (sport) entertainment... WWE is very boring now with new talent quality is too low compared with old generation of both WCW and WWF superstars...
Giovanni Rain there are other companies out there besides WWE. New Japan Pro Wrestling(WCW strongest partner in the Wars) airs in the United States on AXS TV every friday. It has JR on commentary. Its good to watch. ESPN airs re-runs of Global Wrestling Federation
Un immense Monsieur, sa générosité exceptionnelle est grandement à saluer, cet homme m'impressionne et le respect doit couvrir toute son âme , c'est un philanthrope, il n'a fait que des dons, chapeau à cet immense Monsieur, peu de gens possède cette générosité démesurée. Il me fait penser à l'Abbé Pierre qui disait ""Donner ne coûte rien, à côté de ce que coûte de ne rien donner"" ou encore" c'est proprement ne rien valoir que de n'être utile à personne"". Cet homme à mes yeux grandit l'Amérique, je me dis que l'Amérique c'est cela aussi, des hommes magnifiques comme Ted......Chapeau Ted, ici on vous admire; on vous aime, vive la nature humaine quand son comportement est comme le vôtre.
ted turner should buy tna and hire jim cornette or eric brichoff and bill corgan as president and run the show. need talents and make monday night wars back and give fight till death to wwe,with money turner had and reputation many wrestles will join tna.maby change name to TCW
Actually Roberto, you're thinking of the cancer of the wrestling business named Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff was one of the most loyal guys to Ted and especially WCW
i've heard about the Merger from so many different ppl and i've always wanted to hear about it directly from Ted Turner in his own words. i wish this clip was longer but he has said so much in just these 3 minutes
He didn't have his lawyers go through every paper he got and explain every word to him so he knew exactly what was going on every step? How could that be?
Well, yes but not exactly. The way the company was being run with those crazy contracts and “creative control” it was bound to suffer greatly. The Aol thing was probably the premature final nail on the coffin.
@@alexalexalex797 It's exactly what happened. The suits in Time Warner minus Ted Turner himself wanted WCW gone even if it stayed successful. Ted was the only one stopping them from getting rid to if. Quit being so braindead.
@@SuperHyphyOne “braindead” Ok. So here we have a wrestling company where the wrestlers are making a TON of money. And in many cases have CREATIVE CONTROL. (Like hogan) literally every person who ever was there is bashing the backstage situation as chaos and BS. But in your head. That’s a sustainable long term business model. And would still be around today. You sir, must never be put in charge of anything😂 Fact is. With or without the Aol thing It would’ve faded away. there’s no pinpointing who is to blame. Its both
Ted turner I miss watcher laurel and Hardy on tnt. Gone with the wind and The King and I! Go days nothing on tv. You made tv makes us feel like billionaires. What images movies can do to the mind. Rich minded! Pray TED back in power. Love , joy good childhood from Ted Turner...., She s Ted Turner....
WCW will always live on in my heart!!! I think he knows this was his biggest mistake ever!!! If he still had WCW, the wrestling would be better to this day. WWE is just shit now!!!
The only thing I give him great credit for is the movie Gettysburg! One of my favorite movies of all time! Time magazine kept a lot people working for many years so I’ll give him that too! Wonder how he feels about how CNN turned out after he lost control, it actually used to be a real news, not propaganda!
It's amazing that 17 years later, people are still mourning the loss of WCW, myself included. WWE is not for us, it's for fucking teenagers. WCW was real wrestling for men. I miss WCW..
WCW was trash, where is it now, if you look at the age demographic, it’s not even teens mostly watching, so you’re comment is pointless with no facts🤣🤣
Mr Turner is exactly right. Getting rid of ink was dumb. How usage of media nowadays will diverge it seems a safe bet to have paper magazine. Here in Gothenburg some ten yrs ago we had the telly and papers and emerging internet. everyone put all their money into the last one. then suddenly someone started Metro International.
if anyone doesnt know this by now let me tell you, first of all, WWF/WWE bought wcw 17 years ago. Ted didnt own WCW at the time they were bought. same with ECW wwe was giving ECW money, yet they still managed to go bankrupt, than wwe bought out all its talent, with the exceptions of The Sandman. Now lets look at this now,CZW is now ECW, TNA, ROH, NJPW and a bunch of others have taken WCWs place, and if the rumors are true, than in 2020 NJPW will be the "Top Brand" yet there still getting better ratings than WWE, mostly because they have the strongest group in Wrestling history, the "Bullet Club". NOW LISTEN im gonna list down ALL the famous names in Bullet Club, if your not interested scroll down now. Kenny Omega (Kicked) Chody Rhodes (Leader) Luck Gallows (EX-leader) The young bucks, Finn balor/Prince Devit Adam Cole Aj styles (EX-leader) Shinsuke Nakamura Karl Anderson. if you were too combine every championship these people had, you'd have well over 30 championships, that includes 2 WWE championships and 1 Universal championship, not too mention like 9 IGPW world championships
I knew WCW was done as early as January 1998. When Austin & Tyson had that segment on Raw, WCW was over, because no one was touching Austin/Tyson. Ted was forced out, because that's what happens when company's are sold, it's always "out with the old, in with the new" Ironically, Vince K McMahon is about to be forced out altogether from WWE/endeavor, Because Vince sold WWE for $9 billion & now they forced Vince out creatively & soon enough, Vince McMahon will be forced out completely, Just as Ted Turner was with his company.
Nope nope WCW was still hot. But after that finger poke of Doom there was insiders inside that company the new that s*** was about to hit the fan in the near future
folks ted turner can not buy back wcw because the naming rights was sold too wwe, and ted turner himself is getting too up there in age too run another business he's retired where he belongs. and also television is too small for two big wrestling shows too air, so one day one had too loose and go and that was wcw. the 90's were the best i was more of a fan of the wwf.
Time Warner/AOL screwed WCW
Plus Russo.
It helped WWE fans because we did something useful with our lives.
People who blame Russo have no knowledge of what really went on.
Gaming Palooza Empire I know 👎👎👎😡😡😡
While late 1999 and especially the year 2000 were very horrid times for WCW, WCW started to get very good again during 2001 (the Cruiserweight division had gotten REALLY freaking good, they hired a lot of new talent (AJ Styles) and made the Crusierweight tag titles. The rest of the show was slowly making improvements leading to "THE BIG BANG: Rebirth of WCW" pay per view... which NEVER happened thanks to Time Warner / AOL selling WCW to WWE.
**Ted doesn't mention WCW once during this interview**
**All of the comments in this video are about WCW**
as Raven says What a Mark hahaha
@@YousefTube - I'm glad that you replied and brought me back to this comment because I misspelled "doesn't." Thank you. Also: It was weird seeing Raven break the 4th wall during a skit.
Well I kinda think that the costs surrounding the AOL Time Warner merger probably caused WCW’s downfall alongside an increasing monopoly from the WWE. Ironic how WarnerMedia (as TW is known now), have reversed their stance on wrestling with TNT airing AEW. Who knows, maybe Ted Turner is proud that they did that? Either way, from what I’ve read it wasn’t directly Ted’s fault. It was probably the bad cross-breed between internet media, print media, and filmed media.
He never spoke about WCW or the Monday Nights War expect that one interview in 98 there might be more
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These cretins would've did the very same..
...Even if there were a separate TH-cam® "channel" for CNN® International uploading this.
It's effing "TH-cam® comments-section", after all.
i love how all the top comments are about WCW
Ragnaruq same
WCW > AOL/Time Warner 24/7
WCW 4 ever!!!
DICK LONG yes it was. WWE now is even worse than wcw was in the year 2000.
Makes me happy as fuck
It was the worst thing to happened and sadly WCW went out of business and it killed the wrestling industry and Ted was a lifelong wrestling fan, but the executives hated WCW.
+Martin Davis Jamie Kellner An executive from AOL/Time Warner was put in charge of TNT and TBS and Eric Bischoff who for six months position himself to buy WCW with a group of investors had a letter of intent and had a 10 year deal to air WCW programming on TBS, Kellner made to cancel all WCW programming and made it clear we're going to cancelled wrestling and people were like, it's your number rated show and Kellner said that doesn't matter, were no longer going to be the wrassling network. That was final nail in the coffin for World Championship Wrestling.
+Ivan Correa Of course they hated it. It was a success where they failed at everything to make revenue. I recall Nash telling a story where they filmed a tv movie and hoped for 2 rating, and Nash said to the guy "We are doing 3's on live products, and you're hoping for a 2?"
Its sad when your company' product is doing great, but the executives hate how its doing great
CavemanJesus4Life same ECW. TNN hated how ECW drew better ratings than Roller Jam despite not ever getting advertisements n
@@CavemanJesus4Life Kevin Nash isn't the only one who has said something to that effect. Bill Watts said that when he was in charge of WCW, a lot of people in Turner Broadcasting didn't want wrestling, even though wrestling consistently outranked the station's average. I also recall Harley Race something like that in his autobiography. Hell, I don't think anyone at AOL/Time Warner wanted any sports at 1 time.
CavemanJesus4Life WCW was losing so much money. That’s why it was cut.
WCW was Ted's baby, and he personally loved it so it's no secret that he regrets Time Warner merging with AOL which overall killed WCW in the end which was stupid and horrible for the pro wrestling business. Nitro and Thunder were TNT and TBS's hottest commodities at the time, and even during the dark ages (1999-2001).
+Chicken Bubblegum could'nt argree with you more
Chicken Bubblegum If you look at the ratings, then you'll realize it actually is. Not even Nitro were getting 1.0 ratings in 2000, and even during football season which fans like to use as a constant excuse.
Wglass90 has Ted ever talked about WWE brought WCW and losing the Monday night wars?
Wglass90 I can't remember who said it but when WCW was losing money (in the early 90's) Ted said to them "I've got deep pockets, keep doing what you're doing" that's how much he loved it, didn't care that he was losing money on it
+Sion Hughes
I'm sure he has, but I haven't seen a public interview of him talking about it.
bring back WCW
shadow jago SSJ He can't WWE owns the right to WCW now.
shadow jago SSJ vinnie mac owns wcw
Wrong. WWE only bought certain WCW assets like titles, logos, certain trademarks, certain contracts. The parts that weren't picked up by WWE are still owned by Warner(AT&T) under the name Universal Wrestling Corporation.
Brandon's EliteTV wrong. Wwe owns anything to do with wcw
@@brandonselitetv1436 You are a fucking idiot.
WCW will still be alive to this day if the merger never happened!
i say this all the time..... vince and the wwe didnt kill wcw...AOL DID... THE MOFOS
Yup Eric Bischoff would of brought it
I used to blame Vince Mcmahon a lot I really despised him at the time however like everyone has said it was really WCW that killed WCW the reason why I say that is because the company that owned it didn't know nor did they want Wrestling. Jamie Kellner hate's Wrestling when the new WCW book comes out it will be very interesting to hear what he has to say. I have heard stories that he said if WCW was making million's he still would have got rid of it he has been known to cancel high rating show's he didn't last long at Time Warner anyway. Shane Douglas brought up a story that when they had a meeting after Kellner sold WCW they wear all waiting for Ted Turner once he came in Kellner tried to shake his hand Ted told him off for selling WCW and put him in his place.
@supreme kaioshen Vince shut it down because they would not give him the spots on TV to air Nitro and Thunder.
I have so much respect for this man only dude who gave blacks a chance to be world champions in WCW.
....... that woman makes this interview extremely hard to listen to
ronjon83 she’s a woman
Allison Parker shouldn't all women be?
Bottom line is that women need men to survive.
Allison Parker I don’t
Allison Parker well women are the largest consumer group economically so maybe I should rephrase it a little 💁🏻♂️
TED BRING BACK WCW PLEASE!
Well he can't now, WWE owns the rights. Plus I don't think he cares one bit. After looking at him and listening to him, I'm starting to wonder if he's even in touch with reality.
He can’t bring back WCW, but he could buy the NWA from Billy Corgan, which has some historical ties to his old WCW company.
Vinnie mac sadly owns wcw...i was i could get access to all the old wcw footage without putting money in the pocket of wwe by getting the network
Dennis Day Vince owns the nwa , look it up , if they were making any real money Vince can clam it .
Mortiis we will give WCW a time slot during Smackdown. Main event will be Booker T vs Buff Bagwell
I will always HATE Time Warner/AOL for selling WCW to WWE. It fucked up the Wrestling business forever!
Chuck Taylor The wrestling business will never be the same.
@@tysonduffy5146 please tell me u still watch wrestling 🥺
TED BRING BACK REAL "'RASSLIN"!!!!!
AdmiralOddSock There is a way. TBS owns something called Universal Wrestling Corporation which was assets not picked up by WWE like Guarantee Contracts & lawsuits. Ted could start they're.
It's back on his network! AEW on Oct. 2! Wednesday nights!
@@ryansmith1044 that's sports entertainment
2.2 Billion. still doing better than Vince without wcw ,imagine if he still had wcw
Vince could have add a lot more to his net worth he did screw up the InVasion angle so badly.
The pro wrestling business would be still innovating. The Monday Night Wars would still make my day. NFL has gone to shits.
Vince is worth more than Ted now. 3.3 billion to 2.2 billion
Compared to that Vinnie Mac bought WCW for pennies.
@@alec1115But Billionaire Ted had a lot more than McMahon would ever have. Even if McMahon added alot more to his net worth, he will still not be as rich as Ted. WWE can only go as far as the professional wrestling industry will take it.
The man who made Vince shit bricks for at least 2 years
And look what happened in the end😬
That was Eric Bischoff LOL
WCW in the 90's was/is better than WWE today and then WWE hit it's peak after they bought WCW, still think NITRO was better than Raw to bad it's no more, without it we have a watered down version of wrestling had it stayed around I think the shit would still be entertaining.
I have to agree with u
+LP III WWE was going downhill when it bought WCW. They shot themselves in the foot when Stone Cold turned heel, everything after that was deflated.
you are 1 if the very few who think that.. only decent wrestling in wcw was the cruiserweights
+Chris Ortiz
Clearly he's part of the majority since the pro wrestling business currently in the terms of revenue, buyrates, and ratings have completely tanked compared to 20 years ago where it boomed. The storylines and angles are what generated people's attention. Cruiserweight matches were like a secondary bonus.
***** cruiserweights were the most over for long period besides the nwo when it was fresh but when died down no 1 wanted to watch double j or scott steiner😂😂 and the cruiserweigjts left and they dropped further and further. They were only 1s with really deeper stories everything else was just ur nwo or ur wcw so ihate you. If you listen to chris jerichos debut in wwe he got bigger reaction then the so called main attractions from wcw got
I know Ted is old but why the fuck is she yelling? even if he was hard of hearing I'm sure he can still afford a bell tone
Dude spent a fortune because he loved wrestling. *fistbump*
If ted didnt mess with aol and twc i feel wcw would still be in business
Turner should of never sold out... I miss WCW. I was a WWF fan and WCW fan and the product was better when both companies were still going.
for me Turner,TBS,TNT ..that all was just WCW for me....WCW 4-life
WCW would probably still be alive if not for that merge
But nobody would be watching.
@@2HitWonder
Yes they would there were die hard wcw fans. We would have 2 major wrestling companies. Wwe would prob still be pg because of the chris benoit incident, but we would have better storytelling. ROH and NJPW would suffer greatly tho. I dont think all in would do so well infact i think cody/young bucks would of been to wcw. But who really knows. I dont think 1 companie would die. I think one of them would of change the night put it in a diffrent time slot.
This is a TH-cam channel for business and just about all the comments are from wrestling fans about WCW.
And ? Lol
@@vlare3636 that's why it's funny. Of al thing things about Ted Turner over the yers, this is the one thing that's stuck on everyone's minds.
SuperHyphyOne a lot of people watch wrestling or at least used too but still he people knew he was involved in wrestling for many years and when AOL Merged with Time Warner and he literally driven out of his company so he couldn’t save WCW.
Kevin Nash's booking killed time warner
Who in the hell gave Nash of all people booking rights to a national televised program lol.
@@spawnninjacus1472 His bottom bitch, Eric Bischoff.
I thought he was gonna say WCW
Which part? Because he loved WCW as if it was one of his children
allowing it to be sold.
Well, he had no say about that unfortunately
Fayez Fawzi Time Warner sold WCW, not Ted Turner. Turner was fired 2 years prior, when WCW got sold.
Ted turner never fired form wcw
March 26 2001 the death of WCW
Ted Turner Was a trailblazing businessman. His style didn't mesh with bureaucratic system installed at TimeWarner. He build a multibillion dollar company with an Enterprising spirit.When you got manager running companies. You got people who's train to manage. They might have some success. But you have little success with growth and innovation. We see it daily with many of the tech companies today. I hate he sold his company.
Blame aol for ruining time warner and his company. If time warner never merge with aol everything will still be fine for him.
@@jalen3666 that was something wall street was pushing. They pushed for and internet company to merge with old media. They didnt/dont know how to market companies like aol, yahoo, and excite. At the time. But back to it aol wanted to put their footprint on the business. Now they are a section in verizon like aol😅😆😂. The perfect company for aol at the time i kept beating the net up over it was worldcom/mci. That wouldve made more sense. Or nextel/sprint more far reaching reach for their core business oh well🤷🏾♂️
@@cjjonez well hey that's back then and it was a big mistake aol and time warner the worst merger in history. But at least today internet companies can merge cause we in the modern world like for example comcast nbcuniversal or at&t warnermedia. We all make mistakes.
@@jalen3666 these are garbage mergers also
@@cjjonez if aol never merge or meddle with time warner ted would be fine.
Its interesting that mostly wrestling fans watch this video and others of Ted Turner. He was a business guru but low key remembered for owning WCW for a short time
You can tell in his eyes that he will NEVER get over not putting Vincent Kennedy McMahon out of business
Could Ted Turner get Turner Broadcasting back? I wonder what he thinks about TNA, ROH, or GFW. He would be a great investor for either company.
Mr. M A J E S T I C XIII . Blackstruggle77 He would get GFW on the network or Corgan's NWA or both. He should make a whole new network.
Air some original content, old shows like M.A.S.H., Law and Order, St. Louis Wrestling Club, few minor sports league like Baseball or Nippon Baseball Association, XFL2020, MMA like PANCRASE, 11:00 be a news coverage.
I don't think he has a snowballs chance in hell of getting the XFL
stephen mcgilliard well he can't get NFL cause they're extremely expensive and they have a tv deal with other networks so NFL is out, he could try bring to bring Canadian Football league.
AEW.
This interviewer is obnoxious.
much like that comment
This guy didn't care about WCW at all.
The fact that we are still talking about wCw to this day shows just had badly the promotion is missed :(
I decided to create a Nitro Consultancy Twitter page based on this comments section, because I feel we need a platform to discuss a relaunched WCW
Wcw dying was the worst thing scott Steiner even said in interview wrestling was fucked around after that it was big as before but I guess Vince is now getting karma now that wwe is in the crapper
one of the greatest successful and humble visionary..
As a kid, I grew up watching Hanna Barbera cartoons on Saturday morning. They were so representative for an entire generation of kids.
Early 80s TBS was a great, unique Atlanta based cable station. Georgia Championship Wrestling, Atlanta Braves baseball, CNN, TBS scoreboard show, etc.
But that's the problem people inside the company did not want to become a regional cable channel. They wanted more
Ted should had sent Goldberg to the negotiating table
Hahaha The lawyers would shit themselves
They screwed Ted Turner. Just like how Vince outta WWE
Ted Turner loved the wrestling business and all his "wrasslers". He backed them time and time again and wouldn't hear of any cancellations.
And they repaid his gratitude and faith by wasting his money and putting the company out of business. It never should have died, it was all too easy for Jamie Kellner to pull the trigger. That's the bottom line.
I miss WCW!!!!!
I miss it too.
Me too bring WCW back please
Losing the wrestling war to Vince McMahon
That Time Warner merger killed not only Ted's power but it killed professional wrestling in the states, arguably an industry that has not recuperated from the WWE monopoly on the business but the only competition being WCW at the time did not and was not a benefit to anyone except Time Warner who wanted to wash there hands of it and Vince McMahon who was drowning in his own failures since the end of the 80s and subsequent decade.
It's been 20 plus years and we are yet to find a viable alternative let alone see WWE fall to its own avarice,mismanagement and lack of ratings, how they go on is still a more well guarded secret than where they tossed Hoffa's body.
I'm still a little upset that Ted didn't admit that Captain Planet was his biggest regret.
Ted Turner will never regret Captain Planet b/c despite some of his misgivings, he was brave enough to entice people to be more aware & active about the future of Earth. Captain Planet is his achievement. I dare you to be achieve more than him.
Well, it had no bearing on him losing his creations the way that merger did
Wait captain plant the cartoon???
@@gosmith3999 i bet someone will.
😂😂😂
Everyone saying bring wcw back is forgetting one thing. Once something dies it can never truly be revived. It's like sticking an air hose in a corpse and expecting it to breath. If it was brought back, the atmosphere, the talent, the voices, everything would be different and the nostalgia we are looking for would not be there. I hate the idea of it too but ECW and WCW are better off dead.
kekster bojester ECW is the perfect example of your point.
kekster bojester Family Guy, XFL, Original Coke, Dead man Undertaker, Sexy, touchdown celebrations, etc. It can be done
@@beastieboys3 Lol @ Sexy
Time Warner/AOL killed World Championship Wrestling
What honestly killed them was thinking the future was dial up in the face of broadband internet
I wish Time Warner had never merged with AOL because WCW might still be around.
I thought he was gonna say letting Bischoff hire Russo. Who am I kidding, he probably has no idea who Russo is, nor would he give a shit if he knew.
WE NEED DUBBA CEEE DUBBA
For me Ted was a victim of a hostile takeover and they really back stab him completely.
He could have said no
This Man Needs To Fix His TBS Channel
With The Constant Big Bang Theory Reruns
Mark it Turner, the death of WCW also means the death of wrestling (sport) entertainment...
WWE is very boring now with new talent quality is too low compared with old generation of both WCW and WWF superstars...
Giovanni Rain there are other companies out there besides WWE. New Japan Pro Wrestling(WCW strongest partner in the Wars) airs in the United States on AXS TV every friday. It has JR on commentary. Its good to watch. ESPN airs re-runs of Global Wrestling Federation
AEW! Oct. 2 on TNT. We gotta spread the word!
WCW forever!
"Scott, give 'er two hours every Monday night, on TNT!" And thus, the War began...
azapro911 The War began but the Rivalry between Vince and Ted Turner started years back in mid 80s on Black Saturday
Un immense Monsieur, sa générosité exceptionnelle est grandement à saluer, cet homme m'impressionne et le respect doit couvrir toute son âme , c'est un philanthrope, il n'a fait que des dons, chapeau à cet immense Monsieur, peu de gens possède cette générosité démesurée.
Il me fait penser à l'Abbé Pierre qui disait ""Donner ne coûte rien, à côté de ce que coûte de ne rien donner"" ou encore" c'est proprement ne rien valoir que de n'être utile à personne"".
Cet homme à mes yeux grandit l'Amérique, je me dis que l'Amérique c'est cela aussi, des hommes magnifiques comme Ted......Chapeau Ted, ici on vous admire; on vous aime, vive la nature humaine quand son comportement est comme le vôtre.
ted turner should buy tna and hire jim cornette or eric brichoff and bill corgan as president and run the show. need talents and make monday night wars back and give fight till death to wwe,with money turner had and reputation many wrestles will join tna.maby change name to TCW
Ted would lose yet again. Wwe is way too big
ash unknown Mr. Ted still owns the W.C.W name (Vince purchased the rights) so he could still bring it back IF he wanted to.
Actually Roberto, you're thinking of the cancer of the wrestling business named Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff was one of the most loyal guys to Ted and especially WCW
ash unknown I'd rather it be just Cornette/Jeff Jarrett and Corgan. Bitchoff would just bring his buddies Hogan and co. in and ruin everything again.
i've heard about the Merger from so many different ppl and i've always wanted to hear about it directly from Ted Turner in his own words. i wish this clip was longer but he has said so much in just these 3 minutes
Obviously when you invest $165 billion dollars and it's life is only 2 years (2001-2003), it is a massive regret.
Poor Ted. They played him.
That merger killed WCW n the joy in his life!
*Vince Russo* shouldve been his answer
He didn't have his lawyers go through every paper he got and explain every word to him so he knew exactly what was going on every step? How could that be?
Ted turner should get involved With aew
So basically AOL killed WCW
Well, yes but not exactly.
The way the company was being run with those crazy contracts and “creative control” it was bound to suffer greatly. The Aol thing was probably the premature final nail on the coffin.
@@alexalexalex797 It's exactly what happened. The suits in Time Warner minus Ted Turner himself wanted WCW gone even if it stayed successful. Ted was the only one stopping them from getting rid to if. Quit being so braindead.
@@SuperHyphyOne “braindead”
Ok. So here we have a wrestling company where the wrestlers are making a TON of money. And in many cases have CREATIVE CONTROL. (Like hogan)
literally every person who ever was there is bashing the backstage situation as chaos and BS.
But in your head. That’s a sustainable long term business model.
And would still be around today.
You sir, must never be put in charge of anything😂
Fact is. With or without the Aol thing
It would’ve faded away. there’s no pinpointing who is to blame. Its both
The lack of real competition made wrestling lame. The day WCW went out the game it went fruity on us.
Why did Ted turner sell turner broadcasting to time warner?
This lady seems like she'd be fun at parties.
buy wcw back ted you made pro wrestling great
Biggest regret should be starting CNN. Despite earlier success I wouldn't want to be the person that started the laughingstock that it has become.
Ted shoulda kept wcw not sold to the aol/ time Warner
I have been a fan of WWE for 10 years. I would have kind of liked to see WCW.
At least, nowadays, we now have AEW.
Ted turner I miss watcher laurel and Hardy on tnt. Gone with the wind and The King and I! Go days nothing on tv. You made tv makes us feel like billionaires. What images movies can do to the mind. Rich minded! Pray TED back in power. Love , joy good childhood from Ted Turner...., She s Ted Turner....
Thanks to that merger he went from Trillionaire Ted to Billionaire Ted.
Bwahahahahaha!
#GoodOne
Dubya Cee Dubya... RASSLIN'.
WTF is he talking about, twice i watched this clip and i'm still confused,
WCW will always live on in my heart!!! I think he knows this was his biggest mistake ever!!! If he still had WCW, the wrestling would be better to this day. WWE is just shit now!!!
WCW 4 LIFE
Ted Turner's biggest regret: "I let Vince win"
Bring back WCW!
He hasn't seen his biggest regret yet. He will when he crosses to Afterlife to collect his karmic reward, depopulation and all.
The only thing I give him great credit for is the movie Gettysburg! One of my favorite movies of all time! Time magazine kept a lot people working for many years so I’ll give him that too! Wonder how he feels about how CNN turned out after he lost control, it actually used to be a real news, not propaganda!
There was no need to do this merger.
I don’t think Warner will learn that lesson
AOL was a boondoggle. What a nothing. It was not much more than a dialup ISP.
Take a shot everytime Ted says "AWW/AHH" between his sentences
It's amazing that 17 years later, people are still mourning the loss of WCW, myself included. WWE is not for us, it's for fucking teenagers. WCW was real wrestling for men. I miss WCW..
WCW was trash, where is it now, if you look at the age demographic, it’s not even teens mostly watching, so you’re comment is pointless with no facts🤣🤣
Well if Ted Turner's name appeared. Of course WCW will be mentioned.
Miss WCW
Mr Turner is exactly right. Getting rid of ink was dumb. How usage of media nowadays will diverge it seems a safe bet to have paper magazine. Here in Gothenburg some ten yrs ago we had the telly and papers and emerging internet. everyone put all their money into the last one. then suddenly someone started Metro International.
if anyone doesnt know this by now let me tell you, first of all, WWF/WWE bought wcw 17 years ago. Ted didnt own WCW at the time they were bought. same with ECW wwe was giving ECW money, yet they still managed to go bankrupt, than wwe bought out all its talent, with the exceptions of The Sandman. Now lets look at this now,CZW is now ECW, TNA, ROH, NJPW and a bunch of others have taken WCWs place, and if the rumors are true, than in 2020 NJPW will be the "Top Brand" yet there still getting better ratings than WWE, mostly because they have the strongest group in Wrestling history, the "Bullet Club". NOW LISTEN im gonna list down ALL the famous names in Bullet Club, if your not interested scroll down now. Kenny Omega (Kicked) Chody Rhodes (Leader) Luck Gallows (EX-leader) The young bucks, Finn balor/Prince Devit Adam Cole Aj styles (EX-leader) Shinsuke Nakamura Karl Anderson. if you were too combine every championship these people had, you'd have well over 30 championships, that includes 2 WWE championships and 1 Universal championship, not too mention like 9 IGPW world championships
Good thing we have AEW.
AEW is awful. WCW was great.
Your biggest mistake was selling the the braves
The high voice of this woman pisses me off!!
Flintstones, Scooby Doo, PowerPuff Girls, Dexter's Lab and Yogi Bear are all our childhoods.
I miss WCW. Let’s not forget the Atlanta Braves were the hottest thing ever.
I knew WCW was done as early as January 1998. When Austin & Tyson had that segment on Raw, WCW was over, because no one was touching Austin/Tyson. Ted was forced out, because that's what happens when company's are sold, it's always "out with the old, in with the new" Ironically, Vince K McMahon is about to be forced out altogether from WWE/endeavor, Because Vince sold WWE for $9 billion & now they forced Vince out creatively & soon enough, Vince McMahon will be forced out completely, Just as Ted Turner was with his company.
Nope nope WCW was still hot. But after that finger poke of Doom there was insiders inside that company the new that s*** was about to hit the fan in the near future
folks ted turner can not buy back wcw because the naming rights was sold too wwe, and ted turner himself is getting too up there in age too run another business he's retired where he belongs. and also television is too small for two big wrestling shows too air, so one day one had too loose and go and that was wcw. the 90's were the best i was more of a fan of the wwf.
His biggest regret should be letting Kellner selling WCW to the WWF.
The wrestling marks cant ubderstand that Bischoff, Russo or the fingerpoke didnt kill WCW. The merger did. It never stood a chance.
Dude everything killed wcw
Ted Turner is a great man.