Bruce Prichard On Vince McMahon Asking Paul Heyman’s Opinion About WCW Sale, Heyman’s Reaction, More

Source: Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard

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.  

“The interest, just so it’s clear, what we were interested in was if there was a possibility that it could remain on TNT. The time slot was interesting. Being on another network was interesting. Being able to take the brand and expand it on an already established time slot, on an already established network. So that was attractive at that time. When we found out that wasn’t really going to be a possibility, it changed to the library.”

Prichard stated that the idea was to run WCW as a completely separate brand from …

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