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[MUSIC]
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THROUGHOUT THE 1990s, MONDAY
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NIGHT SERVED AS A PRIMETIME
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BATTLEFIELD THAT TRANSFORMED
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PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING INTO
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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TED TURNER'S WCW TOOK ON VINCE
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MCMAHON'S WWE FOR RATING
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SUPREMACY AT THE RISK OF
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EXTINCTION AS INNOVATION AND
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EVOLUTION PAVED THE WAY FOR A
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KING TO BE CROWNED.
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BIG NAMES HAVE ALWAYS DEFINED
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT, BUT JUST
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BENEATH THE MARQUEE THE STARS OF
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THE UNDER CARD WERE STEALING THE
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SHOW AND AS WWE AND WCW WAGED
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WAR, EACH COMPANY WOULD NEED TO
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BUILD AN ARMY AND UTILIZE THEIR
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ENTIRE ROSTER IN ORDER TO EMERGE
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VICTORIOUS.
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THIS IS THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
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HULK HOGAN HAS BETRAYED WCW!
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WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE DOING
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HERE?
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MONDAY NIGHT RAW!
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MONDAY NITRO!
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AUSTIN 316 SAYS I JUST
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WHIPPED YOUR ASS.
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THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BROTHER.
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WE ARE AT WAR!
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THE IRRESISTIBLE FORCE
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MEETING THE IMMOVABLE OBJECT.
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WWE ROSE TO PROMINENCE DURING
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THE 1980s AS THE LEADER IN
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT.
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LOOK AT THIS!
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[CHEERS & APPLAUSE]
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I DON'T BELIEVE IT!
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THE COMPANY'S IMMENSE
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POPULARITY WAS SPURRED ON BY
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THEIR CENTERPIECE, HULK HOGAN.
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[CHEERS & APPLAUSE]
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BUT WWE WAS MORE THAN A
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ONE-MAN SHOW.
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THE COMPANY'S SUCCESS HAD MUCH
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TO DO WITH A DEEP AND TALENTED
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ROSTER TO SUPPORT THE MAIN
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EVENT.
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WRESTLEMANIA 3 WAS BASICALLY
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BUILT ON THE BACK ON HOGAN AND
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ANDRE, BUT TO ME THE MATCH THAT
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REALLY STANDS OUT TO THIS DAY,
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THE ONE THAT I REALLY WAS
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INTERESTED IN OBVIOUSLY WAS THE
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STEAMBOAT SAVAGE MATCH.
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MACHO MAN POISED IN HIS
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FAVORITE POSITION!
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BOMBS AWAY!
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HE GOT IT.
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HE NAILED HIM!
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ANDRE THE GIANT, HULK HOGAN
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WAS THE DRAW.
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UNDERSTANDING THIS, WE WANTED TO
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GO OUT THERE AND GIVE THEM
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REALLY SOMETHING TO FOLLOW.
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THE HEADLINES AFTER THE SHOW WAS
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HOGAN AND ANDRE DREW THE SHOW,
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BUT SAVAGE AND STEAMBOAT STOLE
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IT.
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A COMPLETE AND TALENTED
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ROSTER WOULD HELP CARRY VINCE
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MCMAHON'S COMPANY INTO THE NEXT
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WELCOME TO MONDAY NIGHT RAW!
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BY THE BEGINNING OF 1993,
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WWE'S UNDER CARD AND MAIN
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EVENTERS OF THE 1980s HAD BEEN
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REPLACED BY A FRESH CAVALCADE OF
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STARS FEATURED IN PRIMETIME,
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THANKS TO THE LAUNCH OF THE
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COMPANY'S NEW SHOW, MONDAY NIGHT
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RAW.
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YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT THE
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FUTURE.
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YOU CAN'T ALWAYS JUST RELY ON
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THE SAME GUYS OVER AND OVER AND
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OVER AGAIN.
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YOU HAVE TO BUILD YOUR TALENT
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AND GIVE OTHER GUYS A CHANCE TO
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DO SOMETHING.
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MEANWHILE, TED TURN'S WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WOULD
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UTILIZE THE SAME FORMULA BY
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BUILDING TALENTED ROSTER OF
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THEIR OWN.
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NEWLY APPOINTED EXECUTIVE
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PRODUCER, ERIC BISCHOFF, NOT
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ONLY REPLICATED VINCE MCMAHON'S
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SUCCESSFUL STRATEGY, HE WOULD
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ALSO GRAB HIS MOST RECOGNIZABLE
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TALENT.
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I THOUGHT IF WE WANTED TO BE
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COMPARED TO WWE, WE HAD TO
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CHANGE AS MANY THINGS POSSIBLE
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THAT CHARACTERIZED US AS A SMALL
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SOUTHERN PROMOTION SO I FELT WE
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NEEDED SOME FRESH BLOOD,
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SOMEBODY THAT FELT NEWER, AND
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DIDN'T HAVE THAT SOUTHERN
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ACCENT.
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WELCOME HULK HOGAN!
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THE BIGGEST NAME IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT HISTORY, HULK
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HOGAN, MADE HIS DEBUT FOR WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING IN JUNE
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OF 1984.
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HULK HOGAN WAS WWE.
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THERE'S NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
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IT WAS REALLY WCW SAYING OKAY
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GUYS, EVERYBODY'S FAIR GAME AND
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WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU.
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IT WAS REALLY THE BEGINNING OF
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THE WCW REVOLUTION.
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HULKAMANIA LIVES IN WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING!
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WITH THE INDUSTRY ICON NOW
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ATOP THEIR ROSTER, WORLD
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CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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CONTINUED TO MAKE HEADLINES.
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HULK HOGAN WOULD SOON BE JOINED
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IN WCW BY ANOTHER WWE STAPLE,
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MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE.
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RANDY WAS LOYAL TO THE WWE
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AND HE LOVED VINCE MCMAHON AND
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HE WOULD HAVE NEVER LEFT, BUT
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THEN HE STARTED GETTING BORED ON
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THE MICROPHONE.
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I'M GOING TO TELL YOU
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SOMETHING, MAN.
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IN FACT, I DON'T WANT TO TELL
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YOU.
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JUST READ MY EYES RIGHT NOW.
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IT'S HARD TO SIT IN THIS CHAIR.
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HE HAD AN IDEA, GET HIM OFF
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THE MICROPHONE AND BACK IN THE
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RING.
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THE WORD WAS THAT'S GREAT RANDY,
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BUT WE'RE HAVING A YOUTH
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MOVEMENT
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AT THIS TIME, OBVIOUSLY
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CONSPICUOUS BY HIS ABSENCE, THE
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MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE AND I'D
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LIKE TO ANNOUNCE UNFORTUNATELY
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THAT RANDY SAVAGE HAS BEEN
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UNABLE TO COME TO TERMS WITH THE
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WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION FOR A
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NEW CONTRACT.
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THANK YOU RANDY SAVAGE FOR ALL
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THE WONDERFUL MEMORIES FOR SO
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MANY YEARS HERE IN THE WORLD
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WRESTLING FEDERATION AND WE WISH
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YOU NOTHING BUT THE BEST.
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GOD SPEED AND GOOD LUCK.
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RANDY ENDED UP GIVING ME A
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CALL AND I TALKED TO RANDY A
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COUPLE OF TIMES AND WITHIN A
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MATTER OF THREE, FOUR WEEKS WE
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MADE A DEAL.
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WHEN BISCHOFF STARTED TO SIGN
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THE BIG NAMES -- AND TO ME, THE
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BIG NAMES AT THAT POINT IN TIME
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WERE ABSOLUTELY HOGAN AND
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SAVAGE.
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AND FOR HIM TO SIGN THOSE GUYS
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WITH ALL THAT LINEAGE, IT TOOK
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OUR PRODUCT TO ANOTHER LEVEL.
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THE MACHO MAN IS RIGHT HERE
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AND I'M HERE FOR ONLY ONE REASON
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AND THAT'S TO TAKE IT TO THE
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LIMIT, YEAH!
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BY BRINGING IN SPORTS
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ENTERTAINMENT'S TWO MOST ICONIC
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SUPERSTARS, ERIC BISCHOFF HAD
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RAISED THE NATIONAL PROFILE OF
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WCW.
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YOU KNOW SOMETHING, BROTHER.
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I GOT ONE THING TO SAY AND
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THAT'S OH YEAH, BROTHER!
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OH YEAH!
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IN ORDER TO CONTINUE THIS
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MOMENTUM, BISCHOFF WOULD ADD TO
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THE DEPTH OF HIS ROSTER BY WAY
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OF GUARANTEED CONTRACTS AND TED
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TURNER'S CHECKBOOK.
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WHAT TED TURNER DID WAS OFFER
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NINE CUT CONTRACTS TO EVERYBODY
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SO BOOM, HOGAN LEFT; BOOM, MACHO
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MAN LEFT; BEEFCAKE LEFT; NASTY
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BOYS LEFT; I LEFT BECAUSE THAT'S
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THE WAY WE FEED OUR FAMILIES,
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THIS IS OUR BUSINESS.
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WCW HAD BEGUN TO BUILD AND
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ARMY, LOOKING TO OVERTAKE WWE AS
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THE INDUSTRY LEADER.
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GUARANTEED CONTRACTS, I THINK
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WAS PART OF A BAIT AND SWITCH
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TACTIC TO GET THE GUYS TO COME
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OVER.
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YOU KNOW, TED SAID I WANT TO
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HAVE WHAT VINCE MCMAHON HAS AND
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NOT ONLY DO I WANT TO HAVE WHAT
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VINCE MCMAHON HAS, I WANT TO TRY
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TO BEAT VINCE AND HE HAD THE
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RESOURCES TO PLAY THE GAME.
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IN SEPTEMBER OF 1995, TED
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TURNER WOULD CAPITALIZE ON HIS
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NEWFOUND SUCCESS BY BRINGING
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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INTO PRIMETIME DIRECTLY OPPOSITE
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THE GREATEST COMPETITOR.
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WE WERE READY TO GO HEAD TO
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HEAD WITH VINCE.
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I THOUGHT IT WAS A GOOD IDEA.
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YOU CAN'T BEAT ANYBODY UNLESS
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YOU GET INTO THE RING WITH THEM.
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WELCOME TO WCW MONDAY NITRO
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HERE ON TNT!
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AIRING LIVE IN COMPETITION
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WITH MONDAY NIGHT RAW, WCW'S
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MONDAY NITRO FEATURED AN
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IMPRESSIVE BLEND OF MAIN EVENT
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SUPERSTARS, AS WELL AS TALENTED,
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DIVERSE UNDER CARD.
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WHAT KEPT ME WATCHING WAS THE
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DEPTH.
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DEAN MALENKOS, THE EDDIE
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GUERREROS, THOSE GUYS,
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UNDERNEATH.
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WCW NEEDED THAT DEPTH.
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EDDIE GUERRERO, ONE OF THE
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NEWEST EDITIONS TO THE LINEUP
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HERE IN WCW, WHERE THE NEWEST,
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MOST EXCITING YOUNG TALENT COME
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TO MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE WORLD
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AND WHERE THE BIGGEST NAMES IN
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OUR SPORT RESIDE.
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MONDAY NITRO DEBUTED WITH
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CONSIDERABLE SUCCESS, TRADING
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RATINGS VICTORIES WITH RAW
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THROUGH THROUGHOUT SEPTEMBER OF
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1995.
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IN ORDER TO COMPETE WITH WWE
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LONG-TERM, ERIC BISCHOFF WOULD
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NOT ONLY EXPAND HIS ROSTER, BUT
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WOULD BEGIN TO POSITION WCW'S
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UNDER CARD INTO MORE PROMINENT
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THE WCW WORLD DELIVERS THE
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CHAMPION, DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE!
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WHEN I WENT TO WCW I WAS A
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MID-CARD GUY.
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I WAS GETTING A LITTLE BIT OF
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MOMENTUM.
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BISCHOFF SAID YOU NIGHT JUST
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HAVE A SHOT AT DOING THIS.
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I DON'T THINK YOU'LL EVER BE A
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TOP GUY, BUT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE
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TO MAKE A LIVING DOING THIS.
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HE WORKED AS HARD AS ANYBODY
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I'VE EVER SEEN.
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DDP DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO
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GET BETTER.
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WCW REALIZED THEY HAVE TO
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START CREATING TALENT THEMSELVES
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INSTEAD OF JUST BRINGING IN
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OLDER GUYS.
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WE ARE GOING TO TURN UP THE
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HEAT ON MONDAY NITRO!
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THE HEAT WAS SO GOOD THAT
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BOOKER T WAS KIND OF THE
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DOMINANT PERSONALITY OF THE TWO
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BROTHERS.
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YOU KNEW THAT SOMETHING WAS
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GOING TO COME OUT OF THAT SOME
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DAY.
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THE PIECES WERE BEGINNING TO
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FORM AT THAT TIME.
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I STARTED AT THE BOTTOM OF WCW.
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ONCE THE PIECES CAME TOGETHER,
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OH MAN, IT WAS A HELL OF A RIDE.
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CAN'T NOBODY STOP US!
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ERIC BISCHOFF HAD THE
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WHEREWITHAL TO ELEVATE THOSE
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MID-CARD GUYS AND THAT IS KIND
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OF THE GLUE THAT HELD THE BIG
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MATCHES TOGETHER.
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HAVING BEGUN TO BUILD FOR THE
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FUTURE, WCW NEEDED A FRESH FACE
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TO GAIN THE UPPER HAND IN THE
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MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
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OH MY GOODNESS.
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OH, LOOK AT THE SIZE OF HIM!
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THE LARGEST MAN I'VE EVER SEEN!
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WHEN JOHN FIRST CAME IN DOWN
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THERE WE SAID LOOK, WE THINK WE
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GOT THE NEXT BIG THING IN
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WRESTLING, CHECK THIS GUY OUT.
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LOOK AT THE AGILITY!
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WAIT 'TIL HOGAN SEES THIS
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MAN.
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LOOK OUT, THE GIANT HAS HULK
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HOGAN!
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I WAS 23 YEARS OLD, 7 FOOT
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TALL, 400 POUNDS AND AN AMAZING
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ATHLETE.
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I COULD WATCH SOMEONE DO
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SOMETHING AND THEN COPY IT.
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THE GIANT, HE'S A REAL QUICK
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STUDY.
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THE MACHO MAN WITH ONE HAND!
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WE GET OUT THERE AND HE CAN
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DO ANYTHING.
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THEN THEY SAID, YOU KNOW
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WHAT, WE'RE FIXING TO PUT A
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ROCKET ON THIS GUY AND THAT'S
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HOW THE WHOLE THING REALLY TOOK
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PLACE.
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FANS WITNESSED AN HISTORIC
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MOMENT AT HALLOWEEN HAVOC, 1995.
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IN HIS INAUGURAL MATCH, THE
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GIANT SQUARED OFF AGAINST
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INDUSTRY ICON, HULK HOGAN,
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DEFEATING HIM FOR WCW'S WORLD
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HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.
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YOU ARE SEEING THE END OF
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HULK HOGAN!
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IT WAS A GOOD CAREER, YOU HAD A
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GREAT RUN, BUT IT'S OVER!
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IT WAS A VERY BIG MOMENT,
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ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SOMEBODY BEAT
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HULK HOGAN IN HIS FIRST NIGHT.
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THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ONCE IN
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A LIFETIME AND IT WAS THE GIANT
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THAT DID IT.
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THAT GAVE HIM A GREAT WIN
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OVER THE HULKSTER.
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IT GAVE THE GIANT CREDIBILITY.
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IT REALLY STARTED THE GIANT'S
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CAREER.
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IT GAVE HIM THAT BIG STEP.
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IT WAS SYMBOLIC OF WHERE THEY
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WANTED TO GO WITH THEIR COMPANY
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AND ALSO REALIZED THIS WOULD BE
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A GOOD BUSINESS MOVE TO MAKE AND
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CREATE SOMEBODY NEW.
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ENDING HULK HOGAN'S 15 MONTH
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TITLE REIGN, THE GIANT PROVIDED
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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
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WITH A NEW SUPERSTAR TO LEAD
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MONDAY NITRO IN THEIR WEEKLY
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RATINGS BATTLES WITH WWE.
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VINCE MCMAHON'S BEEN AT THE
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TOP OF HIS GAME AS LONG AS WWE'S
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BEEN AROUND SO FOR SOMEBODY ELSE
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TO COME IN AND GIVE VINCE
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MCMAHON A RUN FOR HIS MONEY IS
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HUGE.
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EVERYBODY SAID YOU'RE NUTS.
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YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO BE ABLE TO
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COMPETE, BUT I HAD A VISION, I
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KNEW IT COULD BE DONE, I
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BELIEVED IN MYSELF AND I WAS
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WILLING TO DO WHATEVER I HAD TO
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DO TO MAKE THAT VISION A
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REALITY.
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AND WE ARE COMING TO YOU WITH
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THE HOTTEST WRESTLING SHOW ON
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PLANET EARTH, NITRO COMING YOUR
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WAY TONIGHT!
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WCW PROVED THEY WERE MORE
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THAN CAPABLE OF ASSEMBLING AN
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ENTERTAINING ROSTER FROM TOP TO
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BOTTOM.
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BY JANUARY OF 1996 MONDAY NITRO
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WAS WINNING SEVERAL RATINGS
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BATTLES THANKS TO A STRONG AND
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DIVERSE TALENT POOL.
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IT WAS LITERALLY WEEK BY
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WEEK.
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ONE WEEK WWE WOULD HAVE THE
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BETTER SHOW, ONE WEEK I THOUGHT
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THE WCW HAD A BETTER SHOW.
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VINCE MCMAHON'S STRATEGY TO
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REGAIN SOLE POSSESSION OF THE
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SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT THRONE WAS
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TO PROMOTE A GROUP OF YOUNG
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STARS DUBBED THE NEW GENERATION
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TO THE MAIN EVENT LEVEL.
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AFTER HULK HOGAN AND THE
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MACHOMAN RANDY SAVAGE LEFT THE
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WWE AND WENT DOWN TO WCW YOU HAD
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TO CREATE NEW STARS.
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I THINK THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN
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VINCE MCMAHON'S FORTE.
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BRET THE HIT MAN HART AGAINST
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THE UNDERTAKER.
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WE WEREN'T REALLY PROVEN YET
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BUT IT MADE US WORK HARD BECAUSE
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EVERYBODY WANTED TO BE THE GUY
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THAT TOOK US TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
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RAZOR RAMON HAD ONE OF THE
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GREAT MATCHES OF ALL TIME WITH
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SHAWN MICHAELS IN A LADDER
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MATCH.
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WE ARE MAKING HISTORY HERE.
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DIESEL WAS THE LONGEST
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RUNNING WWE CHAMPION OF THE
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1990s.
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THERE HE IS, LADIES AND
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GENTLEMEN, DIESEL, STILL THE
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WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION'S
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CHAMPION.
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THEY REALLY WERE THE ONES
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THAT STEERED THE SHIP THROUGH
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THOSE ROUGH WATERS FOR A FEW
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YEARS.
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VINCE MCMAHON'S PLAN WORKED.
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AS THE OBVIOUS TALENT OF HIS
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YOUNG STARS HELPED LIFT THEM
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INTO THE COMPANY'S TOP POSITIONS
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AND LED RAW INTO SEVERAL RATINGS
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VICTORIES OVER NITRO HEADING
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INTO THE SPRING OF 1996, BUT
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WHILE THE MAIN EVENT EVOLVED,
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WWE'S ROSTER STILL INCLUDED MANY
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ANTIQUATED OVER THE TOP
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CHARACTERS, NO LONGER SUITED FOR
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THE COMPANY'S MORE CONTEMPORARY
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PRIMETIME AUDIENCE.
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OTHER CHARACTERS THAT CAME
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ALONG DURING THAT TIME IN WWE,
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THE TL HOPPERS AND WHOEVER ELSE
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YOU WANT TO THROW INTO THAT MIX,
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ONCE THE BELL RANG THAT WAS IT.
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IT WAS THE END OF THE ILLUSION.
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WILL FAROOQ BE NAMED THE
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INTERCONTINENTAL CHAMPION?
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IS THAT RON SIMMONS?
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HE USED TO BE THE NWA CHAMPION.
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WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE SPARTACUS
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IN NEON?
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WHY AM I WATCHING THIS CARTOON
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GUY?
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KING WAS A DENTIST, YOU KNOW.
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GUYS WERE OCCUPATIONS.
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JERRY THE KING LAWLER, YOUR
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PERSONAL DENTIST ON HIS WAY TO
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THE RING.
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WE RULED THE ROOST FOR SO
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LONG AND WHAT HAPPENS, YOU TEND
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TO GET COMPLACENT AND I THINK
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OUR PRODUCT WAS SOFT.
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DESPITE A LACKLUSTER UNDER
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CARD, WWE'S MAIN EVENT
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SUPERSTARS WERE ENOUGH TO CARRY
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RAW TO RATINGS VICTORY.
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ERIC BISCHOFF TOOK NOTICE OF
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THEIR APPEAL.
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NITRO AT THE TIME WAS
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BEGINNING TO GET SOME TRACTION,
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THE NUMBERS WERE GROWING, THE
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COMPANY WAS GROWING AND I
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THOUGHT WHAT THE HELL, WE NEED
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MORE TALENT.
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FUELED BY TED TURNER'S
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CHECKBOOK AND THE DESIRE TO BE
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NUMBER ONE IN THE RATINGS,
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BISCHOFF SIGNED TWO OF THE
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BIGGEST ATTRACTIONS IN VINCE
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MCMAHON'S NEWEST GENERATION OF
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SUPERSTARS, DIESEL AND RAZOR
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RAMON AND WOULD POSITION THEM AS
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OUTSIDERS INVADING WCW.
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WE ARE AT WAR, WHETHER YOU
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LIKE IT OR NOT, WHETHER ANYBODY
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LIKES IT OR NOT, LOOK AT THIS
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RIGHT NOW!
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THOSE TWO MEN STANDING THERE
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MEAN BUSINESS!
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WE ARE AT WAR!
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USING REALITY TO DRIVE THE
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STORY LINE, SCOTT HALL AND KEVIN
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NASH DROPPED THEIR WWE CHARACTER
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NAMES, MAKING THEIR REAL LIFE
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DEFECTION MORE INTRIGUING FOR A
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GROWING NITRO AUDIENCE.
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WHEN THEY SHOWED UP AT WCW IT
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HURT US TREMENDOUSLY IN THE
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RATINGS, IT HURT US IN THE
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PERCEPTION ON WHO WAS NUMBER ONE
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IN PROMOTION.
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NOW WE HAD COMPETITION.
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YOU HAVE THIS WHOLE
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INITIATIVE AND YOU BUILD IT
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AROUND A CERTAIN CROP OF GUYS,
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ALL THE SUDDEN THEY'RE GOOD NOW
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IT'S LIKE WHERE DO YOU GO?
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YOU'RE LIKE, OH, THIS IS
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REAL.
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I WANT TO WATCH MORE OF THAT
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BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T REALLY FEEL
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LIKE YOU WERE WATCHING A
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CARTOON, YOU FELT LIKE YOU WERE
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WATCHING SOMETHING OUT OF REAL
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LIFE.
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WHAT IS HE DOING?
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OH MY GOD!
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IS HE THE THIRD MAN?
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HE'S THE THIRD MAN!
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00:17:47,876 --> 00:17:49,311
HULK HOGAN WOULD JOIN SCOTT
520
00:17:49,311 --> 00:17:51,547
HALL AND KEVIN NASH IN FORMING
521
00:17:51,547 --> 00:17:53,749
THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
522
00:17:53,749 --> 00:17:54,817
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
523
00:17:54,817 --> 00:17:57,052
OH MY GOD!
524
00:17:57,052 --> 00:17:59,855
THE REBELLIOUS GROUP
525
00:17:59,855 --> 00:18:01,590
INSTANTLY ADDED COMPELLING MAIN
526
00:18:01,590 --> 00:18:04,059
EVENT STORY LINES TO WCW'S
527
00:18:04,059 --> 00:18:04,660
PROGRAMMING.
528
00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:08,530
WHEN HOGAN SWITCHES, GOES TO
529
00:18:08,530 --> 00:18:10,065
THE DARK SIDE IT DEFINITELY
530
00:18:10,065 --> 00:18:11,100
CHANGED THE FACE OF SPORTS
531
00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:11,433
ENTERTAINMENT.
532
00:18:11,433 --> 00:18:13,335
THAT MINUTE HOGAN CAME OUT, I
533
00:18:13,335 --> 00:18:15,404
KNEW THE COMPANY WAS DEAD IN THE
534
00:18:15,404 --> 00:18:17,473
WATER BECAUSE THE PRODUCTS WERE
535
00:18:17,473 --> 00:18:19,541
IN TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS.
536
00:18:19,541 --> 00:18:21,610
I MEAN, ONE WAS HIP, ONE WAS
537
00:18:21,610 --> 00:18:22,845
COOL, ONE WAS CUTTING EDGE, THE
538
00:18:22,845 --> 00:18:23,979
OTHER PRODUCT JUST WASN'T
539
00:18:23,979 --> 00:18:26,915
GETTING IT.
540
00:18:26,915 --> 00:18:28,917
THE OUTSIDERS ARE HERE!
541
00:18:28,917 --> 00:18:33,455
THE OUTSIDERS ARE HERE!
542
00:18:33,455 --> 00:18:35,524
THERE'S HOGAN!
543
00:18:35,524 --> 00:18:36,759
HOGAN IS HERE!
544
00:18:36,759 --> 00:18:38,093
HE IS IN THE BUILDING.
545
00:18:38,093 --> 00:18:41,096
THE NEW WORLD ORDER QUICKLY
546
00:18:41,096 --> 00:18:41,730
BECAME THE FOCAL POINT OF MONDAY
547
00:18:41,730 --> 00:18:44,032
NITRO.
548
00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:44,533
BRAND THAT WAS ACTUALLY HIPPER
549
00:18:44,533 --> 00:18:48,070
THAN EITHER WWE OR WCW.
550
00:18:48,070 --> 00:18:50,305
WITH RATINGS RISING IN
551
00:18:50,305 --> 00:18:53,675
SEPTEMBER OF 1996, WCW PAIRED
552
00:18:53,675 --> 00:18:56,178
THEIR HOTTEST TRIO WITH THE
553
00:18:56,178 --> 00:18:58,947
COMPANY'S BIGGEST RISING STAR.
554
00:18:58,947 --> 00:19:00,649
HERE COMES THE GIANT!
555
00:19:00,649 --> 00:19:04,986
LOOK OUT NWO!
556
00:19:04,986 --> 00:19:06,155
THEY WANTED TO GROW IT AND
557
00:19:06,155 --> 00:19:09,191
THE FIRST PERSON YOU WOULD WANT
558
00:19:09,191 --> 00:19:11,160
WOULD BE THE GIANT.
559
00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:15,497
YOU TAKE THE BIGGEST GUY.
560
00:19:15,497 --> 00:19:17,366
THE GIANT IS IN THE BUILDING!
561
00:19:17,366 --> 00:19:19,201
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA,
562
00:19:19,201 --> 00:19:22,471
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA!
563
00:19:22,471 --> 00:19:24,673
THE GIANT!
564
00:19:24,673 --> 00:19:27,276
NO!
565
00:19:27,276 --> 00:19:28,577
EITHER I WAS GOING TO JOIN
566
00:19:28,577 --> 00:19:31,346
THE NWO OR I WAS SINGLE HANDEDLY
567
00:19:31,346 --> 00:19:34,783
GOING TO TAKE OUT THE NWO.
568
00:19:34,783 --> 00:19:36,218
THAT WAS A SMART POLITICAL MOVE
569
00:19:36,218 --> 00:19:38,220
ON THEIR PART, RATHER THAN
570
00:19:38,220 --> 00:19:39,621
FEEDING A GUY, BRING HIM INTO
571
00:19:39,621 --> 00:19:40,689
THE GROUP.
572
00:19:40,689 --> 00:19:42,958
WCW'S MOMENTUM SEEMED
573
00:19:42,958 --> 00:19:45,327
UNSTOPPABLE AS MONDAY NITRO
574
00:19:45,327 --> 00:19:47,729
CONTINUED ITS RATINGS DOMINANCE
575
00:19:47,729 --> 00:19:50,732
OVER MONDAY NIGHT RAW THROUGHOUT
576
00:19:50,732 --> 00:19:51,567
1996.
577
00:19:51,567 --> 00:19:54,136
WE LIVED AND BREATHED AND
578
00:19:54,136 --> 00:19:55,704
DIED BY THE RATINGS BACK THEN.
579
00:19:55,704 --> 00:19:57,973
I REMEMBER WEEKS IN A ROW AT WCW
580
00:19:57,973 --> 00:19:59,942
WHERE WE CHECKED EVERY WEEK IF
581
00:19:59,942 --> 00:20:01,877
WE BEAT WWE.
582
00:20:01,877 --> 00:20:02,511
THEY WERE THE TOP ECHELON TO GO
583
00:20:02,511 --> 00:20:03,145
AFTER AND THE FACT THAT WE WERE
584
00:20:03,145 --> 00:20:03,712
BEATING THEM IN THE RATINGS
585
00:20:03,712 --> 00:20:04,880
FUELED EVERYONE TO WORK HARDER.
586
00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:07,116
IS THERE ANY QUESTION NOW,
587
00:20:07,116 --> 00:20:11,053
WHAT A POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN
588
00:20:11,053 --> 00:20:12,154
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING?
589
00:20:12,154 --> 00:20:14,156
EVERYBODY WAS WELL AWARE OF
590
00:20:14,156 --> 00:20:16,658
WHAT THE RATINGS WERE AND HOW WE
591
00:20:16,658 --> 00:20:20,429
WERE GETTING OUR ASSES HANDED TO
592
00:20:20,429 --> 00:20:21,029
US.
593
00:20:21,029 --> 00:20:22,931
SHOW TIME FOR THE MASSES!
594
00:20:22,931 --> 00:20:24,700
SHOW TIME!
595
00:20:24,700 --> 00:20:26,502
IT WAS ERIC BISCHOFF'S DREAM
596
00:20:26,502 --> 00:20:28,971
TO BEAT THE WWE AND AT THAT
597
00:20:28,971 --> 00:20:30,239
POINT IN TIME HE WAS GETTING A
598
00:20:30,239 --> 00:20:31,974
BIG TASTE OF IT.
599
00:20:31,974 --> 00:20:33,775
WCW DID A GREAT JOB OF
600
00:20:33,775 --> 00:20:35,677
BUILDING THAT WHOLE STORY LINE.
601
00:20:35,677 --> 00:20:37,212
IT WAS COOL TO ACTUALLY SEE
602
00:20:37,212 --> 00:20:40,115
THAT AND WITNESS HOW POWERFUL
603
00:20:40,115 --> 00:20:41,316
ONE GROUP COULD BE.
604
00:20:41,316 --> 00:20:43,886
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, WE ARE
605
00:20:43,886 --> 00:20:47,289
THE CHAMPIONS!
606
00:20:47,289 --> 00:20:48,757
WITH THE SPOTLIGHT GROWING
607
00:20:48,757 --> 00:20:51,927
AROUND THE NWO, AN OPPORTUNITY
608
00:20:51,927 --> 00:20:53,595
PRESENTED ITSELF TO BUILD UP
609
00:20:53,595 --> 00:20:55,797
MORE TALENT BY PLACING THEM
610
00:20:55,797 --> 00:20:57,666
UNDER THE BLACK AND WHITE
611
00:20:57,666 --> 00:20:58,200
BANNER.
612
00:20:58,200 --> 00:20:59,935
MARC BAGWELL, OFFICIALLY I
613
00:20:59,935 --> 00:21:01,537
GUESS, A MEMBER OF THE NEW WORLD
614
00:21:01,537 --> 00:21:01,970
ORDER!
615
00:21:01,970 --> 00:21:04,540
WHEN GUYS LIKE MARC BAGWELL
616
00:21:04,540 --> 00:21:06,742
STARTED GETTING THE CHANCE IN
617
00:21:06,742 --> 00:21:07,609
WWE RIGHT, AWAY IT SOLIDIFIED
618
00:21:07,609 --> 00:21:08,477
THEM AS LIKE, OH, IF THE NWO
619
00:21:08,477 --> 00:21:09,378
PUTS THIS MUCH EQUITY INTO THEM,
620
00:21:09,378 --> 00:21:11,313
THESE GUYS ARE GOOD.
621
00:21:11,313 --> 00:21:13,849
REALLY ANYONE COULD JOIN THE
622
00:21:13,849 --> 00:21:14,283
NWO.
623
00:21:14,283 --> 00:21:17,452
ANY SUPERSTAR AND IT WOULD
624
00:21:17,452 --> 00:21:18,554
INSTANTANEOUSLY BRING THEM UP A
625
00:21:18,554 --> 00:21:20,155
LEVEL.
626
00:21:20,155 --> 00:21:25,460
ODELE!
627
00:21:25,460 --> 00:21:27,663
WHILE SOME SUPERSTARS WERE
628
00:21:27,663 --> 00:21:29,331
ALIGNED WITH THE NWO, OTHERS
629
00:21:29,331 --> 00:21:31,533
WERE POSITIONED AS OPPONENTS IN
630
00:21:31,533 --> 00:21:33,435
ORDER TO BREAK OUT ON THEIR OWN.
631
00:21:33,435 --> 00:21:35,571
I REALIZED THAT IN ORDER TO
632
00:21:35,571 --> 00:21:38,040
HAVE SOME REALLY STRONG GOOD GUY
633
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:39,474
CHARACTERS, I HAD TO HAVE A LOT
634
00:21:39,474 --> 00:21:41,176
OF REALLY STRONG BAD GUYS FOR
635
00:21:41,176 --> 00:21:43,011
THEM TO BE IN A STORY LINE WITH.
636
00:21:43,011 --> 00:21:44,680
THIS IS IT, THIS IS WHAT IT'S
637
00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,914
ALL ABOUT.
638
00:21:45,914 --> 00:21:47,382
NWO, BROTHER!
639
00:21:47,382 --> 00:21:48,917
VIEWERS FLOCKED TO NITRO TO
640
00:21:48,917 --> 00:21:51,353
WITNESS WHICH SUPERSTAR WOULD BE
641
00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:56,525
TO JOIN THE NWO OR STAND AGAINST
642
00:21:56,525 --> 00:21:57,893
THEM.
643
00:21:57,893 --> 00:21:59,728
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE WOULD NOT
644
00:21:59,728 --> 00:22:02,231
BE A BAD CHOICE TO TRY TO
645
00:22:02,231 --> 00:22:03,966
RECRUIT!
646
00:22:03,966 --> 00:22:07,169
WHENEVER YOU HAVE A STRONG
647
00:22:07,169 --> 00:22:08,870
FACTION OF BAD GUYS, YOU'RE
648
00:22:08,870 --> 00:22:10,939
GOING TO NEED GOOD GUYS TO FIGHT
649
00:22:10,939 --> 00:22:11,873
THEM.
650
00:22:11,873 --> 00:22:13,275
YOU'RE GOING TO NEED PEOPLE THAT
651
00:22:13,275 --> 00:22:15,110
THE PEOPLE CAN GET BEHIND TO
652
00:22:15,110 --> 00:22:16,011
FIGHT THEM.
653
00:22:16,011 --> 00:22:17,446
PEOPLE WERE REALLY INTO
654
00:22:17,446 --> 00:22:20,449
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE.
655
00:22:20,449 --> 00:22:22,084
IT WAS REALLY A RIGHT PLACE,
656
00:22:22,084 --> 00:22:24,786
RIGHT TIME, RIGHT CHARACTER.
657
00:22:24,786 --> 00:22:26,421
THE WELCOME WAGON, IF YOU
658
00:22:26,421 --> 00:22:26,955
WILL.
659
00:22:26,955 --> 00:22:28,257
GOING OUT TO OFFICIALLY
660
00:22:28,257 --> 00:22:32,461
WELCOME DDP ABOARD.
661
00:22:32,461 --> 00:22:33,295
YES!
662
00:22:33,295 --> 00:22:34,162
THERE WE GO.
663
00:22:34,162 --> 00:22:34,763
GREAT.
664
00:22:34,763 --> 00:22:37,566
WE LOVE YOU, PAGE!
665
00:22:37,566 --> 00:22:39,434
WHEN THEY FINALLY CAME TO THE
666
00:22:39,434 --> 00:22:42,204
RING AND I PUT THAT NWO SHIRT
667
00:22:42,204 --> 00:22:44,239
ON, I MEAN, YOU COULD HEAR
668
00:22:44,239 --> 00:22:46,642
PEOPLE CHEER, BUT YOU COULD ALSO
669
00:22:46,642 --> 00:22:50,445
HEAR PEOPLE GO, OH, NOT HIM TOO.
670
00:22:50,445 --> 00:22:52,414
WHO'S GOING TO FIGHT THESE GUYS?
671
00:22:52,414 --> 00:22:53,582
YES!
672
00:22:53,582 --> 00:22:55,450
OH YES, THAT LOOKS GREAT.
673
00:22:55,450 --> 00:22:56,285
YES!
674
00:22:56,285 --> 00:23:02,524
HEY!
675
00:23:02,524 --> 00:23:06,027
SHOOK HIS HAND, HE WENT TO
676
00:23:06,027 --> 00:23:06,128
LEAVE, BANG!
677
00:23:06,128 --> 00:23:08,930
AND THE BUILDING BLEW.
678
00:23:08,930 --> 00:23:11,400
IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
679
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,869
HE IS NUMBER ONE ON THE MOST
680
00:23:13,869 --> 00:23:20,208
WANTED LIST.
681
00:23:20,208 --> 00:23:21,510
FOR HIM TO BE THE FIRST GUY
682
00:23:21,510 --> 00:23:23,145
TO DROP THEM WAS THE ROCKET THAT
683
00:23:23,145 --> 00:23:27,115
THEY LIT THAT WAS TAKING MY
684
00:23:27,115 --> 00:23:28,950
CAREER TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
685
00:23:28,950 --> 00:23:31,453
DDP WAS A BIG DEAL BECAUSE HE
686
00:23:31,453 --> 00:23:33,021
NEVER SOLD OUT, NEVER WENT TO
687
00:23:33,021 --> 00:23:36,191
THE NWO AND HE ADDED A VERY
688
00:23:36,191 --> 00:23:37,759
EXPLOSIVE ELEMENT INTO THE SCENE
689
00:23:37,759 --> 00:23:40,495
OF WCW AT ANY TIME BECAUSE
690
00:23:40,495 --> 00:23:41,129
ANYBODY COULD GO ANY DIRECTION.
691
00:23:41,129 --> 00:23:41,663
AND IT MADE IT EASY FOR
692
00:23:41,663 --> 00:23:42,531
PEOPLE TO GET BEHIND HIM.
693
00:23:42,531 --> 00:23:45,133
BY THE SUMMER OF 1997 A BLEND
694
00:23:45,133 --> 00:23:48,136
OF RISING WCW STARS AND FORMER
695
00:23:48,136 --> 00:23:52,307
WWE MAIN EVENTERS CONTRIBUTED TO
696
00:23:52,307 --> 00:23:54,810
OVER A YEAR OF RATINGS VICTORIES
697
00:23:54,810 --> 00:23:57,279
FOR MONDAY NITRO.
698
00:23:57,279 --> 00:23:59,514
FUELED IN LARGE PART BY NWO
699
00:23:59,514 --> 00:24:02,851
CENTRIC STORY LINES.
700
00:24:02,851 --> 00:24:04,186
VINCE MCMAHON WOULD DEVELOP HIS
701
00:24:04,186 --> 00:24:07,289
OWN SIMILAR STRATEGY BY
702
00:24:07,289 --> 00:24:08,523
RECOGNIZING STRENGTH IN NUMBERS
703
00:24:08,523 --> 00:24:11,059
IN ORDER TO REBUILD HIS ARMY.
704
00:24:11,059 --> 00:24:12,761
WHEN YOU HAVE CREATED MANY
705
00:24:12,761 --> 00:24:14,363
CHARACTERS AND ALL THE SUDDEN
706
00:24:14,363 --> 00:24:16,164
THEY'RE BEING SIGNED AWAY YOU
707
00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:17,632
HAVE TO SAY WHO DO WE HAVE LEFT
708
00:24:17,632 --> 00:24:20,001
OR WHO CAN WE BRING IN AND
709
00:24:20,001 --> 00:24:21,903
DEVELOP THEM IN A WAY THEY CAN
710
00:24:21,903 --> 00:24:24,373
BE BETTER THAN THE CHARACTERS
711
00:24:24,373 --> 00:24:26,040
YOU HAD BEFORE?
712
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,143
AND THAT'S WHAT WE DID.
713
00:24:28,143 --> 00:24:28,744
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THEY
714
00:24:28,744 --> 00:24:30,512
ARE ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL
715
00:24:30,512 --> 00:24:32,347
FORCES ON EARTH, WOULD YOU
716
00:24:32,347 --> 00:24:34,950
PLEASE WELCOME THE NATION OF
717
00:24:34,950 --> 00:24:39,221
DOMINATION!
718
00:24:39,221 --> 00:24:39,955
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S ANSWER TO
719
00:24:39,955 --> 00:24:43,492
WCW'S MOMENTUM CAME IN DIVIDING
720
00:24:43,492 --> 00:24:46,194
WWE'S UNDER CARD INTO SEVERAL
721
00:24:46,194 --> 00:24:46,762
GROUPS IN HOPES OF CREATING
722
00:24:46,762 --> 00:24:52,067
COMPELLING TELEVISION AND NEW
723
00:24:52,067 --> 00:24:52,534
MAIN EVENT SUPERSTARS.
724
00:24:52,534 --> 00:24:53,135
YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO GET
725
00:24:53,135 --> 00:24:54,669
AS MANY AS TALENTS ON TV AS
726
00:24:54,669 --> 00:24:55,837
POSSIBLE SO YOU START GROUPING
727
00:24:55,837 --> 00:24:56,405
THEM TOGETHER.
728
00:24:56,405 --> 00:24:58,640
YOU GOT PEANUT BUTTER?
729
00:24:58,640 --> 00:24:59,908
WELL, I GOT JELLY.
730
00:24:59,908 --> 00:25:01,743
WELL, I GOT BREAD.
731
00:25:01,743 --> 00:25:04,146
WELL, YOU GUYS WANT TO SIT HERE
732
00:25:04,146 --> 00:25:06,548
ALL DAY OR YOU WANT TO MAKE SOME
733
00:25:06,548 --> 00:25:06,848
SANDWICHES.
734
00:25:06,848 --> 00:25:09,518
IT'S A THREE-ON-ONE ATTACK!
735
00:25:09,518 --> 00:25:11,386
WWE HAD THE HART FOUNDATION
736
00:25:11,386 --> 00:25:12,921
AND THE GENERATION X AND ALL
737
00:25:12,921 --> 00:25:14,656
THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND
738
00:25:14,656 --> 00:25:15,390
FACTIONS.
739
00:25:15,390 --> 00:25:16,258
COME ON!
740
00:25:16,258 --> 00:25:18,693
THE NATION OF DOMINATION TRYING
741
00:25:18,693 --> 00:25:20,662
TO FINISH OFF AHMED JOHNSON!
742
00:25:20,662 --> 00:25:22,931
BY BEING IN A GROUP YOU'RE
743
00:25:22,931 --> 00:25:24,933
GOING TO GET NOTICED.
744
00:25:24,933 --> 00:25:26,435
IT WORKED.
745
00:25:26,435 --> 00:25:28,336
WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, THE
746
00:25:28,336 --> 00:25:29,805
CHAMP IS TALKING.
747
00:25:29,805 --> 00:25:32,107
IT ALLOWS YOU TO NOT PUT ALL
748
00:25:32,107 --> 00:25:33,875
YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET.
749
00:25:33,875 --> 00:25:35,844
WE WERE HOPING THAT WE'D GO TWO
750
00:25:35,844 --> 00:25:38,079
OR THREE GUYS THAT WOULD SPIN
751
00:25:38,079 --> 00:25:40,449
OUT OF THAT ENSEMBLE TO BE
752
00:25:40,449 --> 00:25:40,882
STARS.
753
00:25:40,882 --> 00:25:41,483
WITH THE MONDAY NIGHT WARS
754
00:25:41,483 --> 00:25:41,950
GOING ON YOU WOULD BE
755
00:25:41,950 --> 00:25:42,584
REINVENTING YOUR BUSINESS EVERY
756
00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:46,588
WEEK.
757
00:25:46,588 --> 00:25:48,790
IN TWO HOURS YOU TRIED 20 THINGS
758
00:25:48,790 --> 00:25:51,126
AND MAYBE ONE OF THEM WORKED.
759
00:25:51,126 --> 00:25:54,930
THERE GOES ROCKY!
760
00:25:54,930 --> 00:25:56,498
ROCKY!
761
00:25:56,498 --> 00:25:56,965
STONE COLD STONER!
762
00:25:56,965 --> 00:25:57,933
HE GOT HIM!
763
00:25:57,933 --> 00:25:59,501
WITH AN EYE ON RETAKING THE
764
00:25:59,501 --> 00:26:02,571
RATINGS THRONE, WWE'S EVOLVING
765
00:26:02,571 --> 00:26:04,339
BANDS OF SUPERSTARS BEGAN TO
766
00:26:04,339 --> 00:26:07,175
ADAPT TO THE CHANGING CLIMATE OF
767
00:26:07,175 --> 00:26:09,377
MORE CONTEMPORARY PROGRAMMING
768
00:26:09,377 --> 00:26:10,812
AND WOULD HELP THE COMPANY USHER
769
00:26:10,812 --> 00:26:12,914
IN A NEW ATTITUDE.
770
00:26:12,914 --> 00:26:14,416
WHEN SHAWN AND I FIRST
771
00:26:14,416 --> 00:26:18,018
STARTED DX WE JUST WOULD DO
772
00:26:18,018 --> 00:26:18,753
WHATEVER THE CRAZIEST THING WE
773
00:26:18,753 --> 00:26:21,056
COULD THINK OF AND ON A WEEKLY
774
00:26:21,056 --> 00:26:23,758
BASIS WE WERE JUST GETTING
775
00:26:23,758 --> 00:26:26,127
SCREAMED AT UNMERCIFULLY BY
776
00:26:26,127 --> 00:26:26,361
VINCE.
777
00:26:26,361 --> 00:26:28,864
X MARKS THE SPOT, MCMAHON.
778
00:26:28,864 --> 00:26:30,765
X MARKS THE SPOT.
779
00:26:30,765 --> 00:26:32,100
SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS
780
00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:35,170
COOL, SOME PEOPLE THOUGHT IT WAS
781
00:26:35,170 --> 00:26:36,538
TERRIBLE, EVERYBODY WAS TALKING
782
00:26:36,538 --> 00:26:38,073
ABOUT IT SO WE DIDN'T CARE.
783
00:26:38,073 --> 00:26:38,607
THE NEW AGE OUTLAWS ARE
784
00:26:38,607 --> 00:26:39,341
SHAVING HAWK'S MOHAWK!
785
00:26:39,341 --> 00:26:41,776
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY UNHEARD OF!
786
00:26:41,776 --> 00:26:44,045
WE JUST STARTED CAUSING
787
00:26:44,045 --> 00:26:45,347
TROUBLE AND IT CAUGHT ON WITH
788
00:26:45,347 --> 00:26:46,248
THE FANS.
789
00:26:46,248 --> 00:26:48,350
WE LIKED ROAD DOG AND BILLY
790
00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:49,751
GUN AND THE WHOLE IDEA WAS TO
791
00:26:49,751 --> 00:26:52,354
PUT THEM WITH US BUT THEN THEY
792
00:26:52,354 --> 00:26:53,755
STARTED TO GET HOT ENOUGH TO
793
00:26:53,755 --> 00:26:55,190
WHERE THEY DIDN'T NEED US SO
794
00:26:55,190 --> 00:26:56,958
WE'RE LIKE, WE'LL JUST LET THEM
795
00:26:56,958 --> 00:26:58,193
DO THEIR OWN THING RIGHT NOW
796
00:26:58,193 --> 00:26:59,895
BECAUSE IT'S WORKING FOR THEM.
797
00:26:59,895 --> 00:27:04,599
THERE'S PEOPLE IN THERE!
798
00:27:04,599 --> 00:27:06,334
I JUST THINK IT WAS TIME.
799
00:27:06,334 --> 00:27:08,403
THERE WAS CHANGE IN THE AIR.
800
00:27:08,403 --> 00:27:10,438
PSYCHOLOGICAL TACTICS BEING
801
00:27:10,438 --> 00:27:12,140
EMPLOYED BY GOLDUST.
802
00:27:12,140 --> 00:27:13,508
VINCE WAS ALWAYS HANDS ON
803
00:27:13,508 --> 00:27:16,177
WITH ME AND MY CHARACTER.
804
00:27:16,177 --> 00:27:17,112
I'M GOING TO ANSWER THE
805
00:27:17,112 --> 00:27:19,147
QUESTION ANY WAY I WANT TO
806
00:27:19,147 --> 00:27:19,681
ANSWER.
807
00:27:19,681 --> 00:27:21,283
I'M GOING TO SAY ANYTHING, I'M
808
00:27:21,283 --> 00:27:23,585
GOING TO GO IN ANY DIRECTION.
809
00:27:23,585 --> 00:27:24,219
HE WAS VERY CHARACTER DRIVEN.
810
00:27:24,219 --> 00:27:25,587
THE CHARACTERS HE'S HAD OVER THE
811
00:27:25,587 --> 00:27:26,221
YEARS, MAN, IT WAS A COOL TIME
812
00:27:26,221 --> 00:27:27,622
TO BE A PART OF THAT.
813
00:27:27,622 --> 00:27:29,624
ONCE NEARLY LEFT FOR DEAD,
814
00:27:29,624 --> 00:27:32,227
WWE AND ITS ROSTER WERE BOTH
815
00:27:32,227 --> 00:27:36,264
GAINING MOMENTUM AMONGST A
816
00:27:36,264 --> 00:27:37,465
GROWING FAN BASE.
817
00:27:37,465 --> 00:27:39,134
SLOWLY BUT SURELY, WEEK BY
818
00:27:39,134 --> 00:27:40,835
WEEK BY WEEK WE WERE SEEING
819
00:27:40,835 --> 00:27:41,269
RESULTS.
820
00:27:41,269 --> 00:27:42,737
THAT WAS THE KEY, STAYING THE
821
00:27:42,737 --> 00:27:46,474
COURSE.
822
00:27:46,474 --> 00:27:48,543
HAVING DEVELOPED YOUNG TALENT
823
00:27:48,543 --> 00:27:50,245
AND EMBRACING A NEW DIRECTION,
824
00:27:50,245 --> 00:27:52,814
WWE WAS READY TO OVERTAKE WCW IN
825
00:27:52,814 --> 00:27:55,350
THE MONDAY NIGHT RATINGS.
826
00:27:55,350 --> 00:27:56,718
I KNOW THE GUY I WORK FOR.
827
00:27:56,718 --> 00:27:58,153
THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NO WAY HE
828
00:27:58,153 --> 00:28:00,655
WAS NOT GOING TO BE THE LAST MAN
829
00:28:00,655 --> 00:28:01,256
STANDING.
830
00:28:01,256 --> 00:28:07,929
YOU WANT TO RAISE THE BAR?
831
00:28:07,929 --> 00:28:10,198
BRET, THE HIT MAN HART HAS
832
00:28:10,198 --> 00:28:13,335
ARRIVED TO NITRO!
833
00:28:13,335 --> 00:28:15,236
HE IS HERE IN CHARLOTTE,
834
00:28:15,236 --> 00:28:19,841
LIVE!
835
00:28:19,841 --> 00:28:21,943
NEARING THE END OF 1997, ERIC
836
00:28:21,943 --> 00:28:23,345
BISCHOFF CONTINUED HIS TRADITION
837
00:28:23,345 --> 00:28:25,280
OF SIGNING BIG NAME TALENTS AWAY
838
00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:26,715
FROM WWE.
839
00:28:26,715 --> 00:28:28,283
IT WAS SOME KIND OF BADGE OF
840
00:28:28,283 --> 00:28:30,919
HONOR IF SOMEONE IN WCW SAID
841
00:28:30,919 --> 00:28:38,025
HEY, WE GOT A GUY FROM VINCE!
842
00:28:38,025 --> 00:28:38,493
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
843
00:28:38,493 --> 00:28:41,162
CONTINUED TO ADD ESTABLISHED
844
00:28:41,162 --> 00:28:44,065
MAIN EVENT SUPERSTARS.
845
00:28:44,065 --> 00:28:47,602
BUT SEVERAL OTHER WCW TALENTS
846
00:28:47,602 --> 00:28:50,037
HAD BEGUN TO MOVE UP THE CARD
847
00:28:50,037 --> 00:28:52,641
WITH THE HELP OF NITRO'S GROWING
848
00:28:52,641 --> 00:28:53,341
POPULARITY.
849
00:28:53,341 --> 00:28:55,143
BOOKER WANTED TO DO IT ON HIS
850
00:28:55,143 --> 00:28:57,412
OWN AND HE BECAME A BREAKOUT
851
00:28:57,412 --> 00:29:00,482
STAR AS A SINGLES GUY AND BONA
852
00:29:00,482 --> 00:29:02,450
FIDE CHAMPION.
853
00:29:02,450 --> 00:29:05,086
BOOKER T COVERS, ONE -- WE'VE
854
00:29:05,086 --> 00:29:07,088
GOT A NEW CHAMP!
855
00:29:07,088 --> 00:29:09,691
ANOTHER TITLE CHANGE!
856
00:29:09,691 --> 00:29:10,892
HOW ABOUT THAT ONE?
857
00:29:10,892 --> 00:29:16,398
I TOLD YOU, WE ALL SAID IT,
858
00:29:16,398 --> 00:29:18,333
WRESTLING'S GOING TO CHANGE
859
00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:19,934
RIGHT HERE AT WCW!
860
00:29:19,934 --> 00:29:21,569
THIS IS FOR YOU BABY.
861
00:29:21,569 --> 00:29:23,371
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DADDY'S COMING
862
00:29:23,371 --> 00:29:23,838
HOME!
863
00:29:23,838 --> 00:29:27,007
IT WAS MY CHANCE TO ACTUALLY GO
864
00:29:27,007 --> 00:29:28,777
OUT THERE AND PROVE HOW GOOD I
865
00:29:28,777 --> 00:29:30,412
REALLY WAS WITH THE
866
00:29:30,412 --> 00:29:31,680
CHAMPIONSHIP, SO I MADE A BOLD
867
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,681
STATEMENT WINNING THE
868
00:29:32,681 --> 00:29:33,882
CHAMPIONSHIP, I SAID I WAS GOING
869
00:29:33,882 --> 00:29:35,550
TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND
870
00:29:35,550 --> 00:29:38,586
THE TELEVISION CHAMPIONSHIP WAS
871
00:29:38,586 --> 00:29:39,988
THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING THAT
872
00:29:39,988 --> 00:29:40,388
WAS TO BECOME BIG.
873
00:29:40,388 --> 00:29:40,989
THE BEST GIMMICKS ARE YOUR
874
00:29:40,989 --> 00:29:42,824
REAL PERSONALITY TURNED UP TO 11
875
00:29:42,824 --> 00:29:44,426
AND THAT'S BOOKER, MAN.
876
00:29:44,426 --> 00:29:46,194
HE IS THAT GUY.
877
00:29:46,194 --> 00:29:48,863
THIS IS ON LIKE NECK BONE
878
00:29:48,863 --> 00:29:50,865
'CAUSE HERE IT IS RIGHT HERE,
879
00:29:50,865 --> 00:29:52,267
COOKING, BABY!
880
00:29:52,267 --> 00:29:53,735
IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE A NEW
881
00:29:53,735 --> 00:29:55,804
TALENT BECAUSE ONCE SOMETHING
882
00:29:55,804 --> 00:29:57,305
GETS OLD YOU NEED TO HAVE
883
00:29:57,305 --> 00:30:00,375
SOMETHING NEW TO REPLACE IT AND
884
00:30:00,375 --> 00:30:02,577
FOR BOOKER TO BREAK OUT IT WAS
885
00:30:02,577 --> 00:30:04,179
OUTSTANDING FOR HIM JUST ABOUT
886
00:30:04,179 --> 00:30:05,947
AT THE RIGHT TIME.
887
00:30:05,947 --> 00:30:09,050
WITH A GROWING NUMBER OF
888
00:30:09,050 --> 00:30:10,852
TALENTED SUPERSTARS, AS WELL AS
889
00:30:10,852 --> 00:30:13,922
GROWING TELEVISION RATINGS, WCW
890
00:30:13,922 --> 00:30:15,857
LAUNCHED ANOTHER WEEKLY
891
00:30:15,857 --> 00:30:17,258
PRIMETIME SHOW ON THURSDAY
892
00:30:17,258 --> 00:30:17,826
NIGHTS.
893
00:30:17,826 --> 00:30:19,961
FOR OVER 25 YEARS,
894
00:30:19,961 --> 00:30:22,363
PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING AT TBS
895
00:30:22,363 --> 00:30:24,165
HAVE COMBINED TO BRING YOU THE
896
00:30:24,165 --> 00:30:26,634
ABSOLUTE BEST IN SPORTS
897
00:30:26,634 --> 00:30:26,968
ENTERTAINMENT!
898
00:30:26,968 --> 00:30:28,403
TONIGHT WE WELCOME YOU TO
899
00:30:28,403 --> 00:30:29,337
THUNDER!
900
00:30:29,337 --> 00:30:30,672
THE PROGRAM WAS WORKING SO
901
00:30:30,672 --> 00:30:35,143
WELL ON MONDAY NIGHT AND THAT
902
00:30:35,143 --> 00:30:37,979
SHOW WAS ON TNT AND I WANTED TO
903
00:30:37,979 --> 00:30:42,550
GET TBS's RATINGS.
904
00:30:42,550 --> 00:30:45,086
IT WAS STRICTLY A RATINGS DRIVEN
905
00:30:45,086 --> 00:30:45,787
MOVE.
906
00:30:45,787 --> 00:30:46,654
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THUNDER
907
00:30:46,654 --> 00:30:48,456
IS ON THE AIR!
908
00:30:48,456 --> 00:30:50,759
IN ORDER TO SUPPORT THAT NEW
909
00:30:50,759 --> 00:30:54,028
SHOW ON TBS, TALENT WAS NOW ALL
910
00:30:54,028 --> 00:30:56,331
THE SUDDEN BEING SPREAD REAL
911
00:30:56,331 --> 00:30:56,664
THIN.
912
00:30:56,664 --> 00:30:58,333
A LOT OF THE GUYS WHO HAD COME
913
00:30:58,333 --> 00:30:58,900
TO WCW BECAUSE THEY WANTED A
914
00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:00,602
LIGHTER SCHEDULE WERE NOW
915
00:31:00,602 --> 00:31:01,202
LOOKING AT A SCHEDULE THAT WAS
916
00:31:01,202 --> 00:31:01,803
JUST AS BUSY AS WHAT THEY HAD
917
00:31:01,803 --> 00:31:03,404
LEFT.
918
00:31:03,404 --> 00:31:06,107
HAVING A FIXED NUMBER OF
919
00:31:06,107 --> 00:31:07,742
APPEARANCES ALREADY WRITTEN INTO
920
00:31:07,742 --> 00:31:08,877
THEIR GUARANTEE D CONTRACTS,
921
00:31:08,877 --> 00:31:11,746
WCW'S MOST POPULAR SUPERSTARS
922
00:31:11,746 --> 00:31:14,048
WERE NOT OBLIGATED TO APPEAR ON
923
00:31:14,048 --> 00:31:14,849
THUNDER.
924
00:31:14,849 --> 00:31:17,919
JOHNNY GRUNGE, ONE HAND OF
925
00:31:17,919 --> 00:31:19,254
PUBLIC ENEMY MAKES HIS WAY OUT
926
00:31:19,254 --> 00:31:20,588
WITH TABLE IN TOW HERE.
927
00:31:20,588 --> 00:31:22,157
WITH A LACK OF MAIN EVENT
928
00:31:22,157 --> 00:31:24,259
TALENT, THUNDER WAS SEEN AS A
929
00:31:24,259 --> 00:31:26,461
SECOND RATE SHOW.
930
00:31:26,461 --> 00:31:28,062
THUNDER CAME ALONG AND
931
00:31:28,062 --> 00:31:30,365
EVERYONE WHO DIDN'T MATTER WAS
932
00:31:30,365 --> 00:31:33,902
MOVED TO THUNDER.
933
00:31:33,902 --> 00:31:35,970
NOW YOU HAD A LEGITIMATE A
934
00:31:35,970 --> 00:31:39,107
SQUAD, NITRO; B SQUAD, THUNDER.
935
00:31:39,107 --> 00:31:40,275
[FANS CHANTING]
936
00:31:40,275 --> 00:31:44,979
BORIS RUNS RIGHT THROUGH EVAN
937
00:31:44,979 --> 00:31:45,780
COURAGEOUS HERE.
938
00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:48,550
WHEN YOU HAD GUARANTEED
939
00:31:48,550 --> 00:31:49,918
MONEY, YOU START TO NOT CARE AS
940
00:31:49,918 --> 00:31:50,518
MUCH.
941
00:31:50,518 --> 00:31:52,954
THAT WAS, LIKE,áTHE KISS OF
942
00:31:52,954 --> 00:31:53,288
DEATH.
943
00:31:53,288 --> 00:31:54,856
IF YOU WERE ON THUNDER IT WAS
944
00:31:54,856 --> 00:31:56,058
JUST LIKE, OH, I HURT MY KNEE
945
00:31:56,058 --> 00:31:57,725
MONDAY.
946
00:31:57,725 --> 00:32:00,261
NONE OF THE TOP GUYS WANTED TO
947
00:32:00,261 --> 00:32:01,129
BE ON THAT SHOW.
948
00:32:01,129 --> 00:32:02,230
THEY KNEW IT WAS MISERABLE.
949
00:32:02,230 --> 00:32:02,997
A LOT OF THESE GUYS THEY HAD
950
00:32:02,997 --> 00:32:03,731
SO BIG OF EGOS, THESE WRESTLERS
951
00:32:03,731 --> 00:32:04,465
TELLING THE PRODUCERS I CAN'T DO
952
00:32:04,465 --> 00:32:05,600
THAT SHOW BECAUSE IT'S NOT BIG
953
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:06,134
ENOUGH.
954
00:32:06,134 --> 00:32:06,734
I'M LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING
955
00:32:06,734 --> 00:32:07,969
ABOUT?
956
00:32:07,969 --> 00:32:10,004
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EXPOSURE I
957
00:32:10,004 --> 00:32:11,406
WAS GETTING FOR THAT?
958
00:32:11,406 --> 00:32:14,542
YOU KNOW, WE CAME TO PARTY
959
00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:17,245
ALL NIGHT LONG ON THUNDER!
960
00:32:17,245 --> 00:32:19,113
WE'RE GOING TO ROCK!
961
00:32:19,113 --> 00:32:20,815
DESPITE THEIR LOCKER ROOM
962
00:32:20,815 --> 00:32:23,117
SHOWING SIGNS OF DISSENSION, WCW
963
00:32:23,117 --> 00:32:25,086
THUNDER BECAME A STAGE TO
964
00:32:25,086 --> 00:32:26,521
SHOWCASE MORE UP AND COMING
965
00:32:26,521 --> 00:32:28,823
TALENT.
966
00:32:28,823 --> 00:32:33,494
MEANWHILE WWE HAD SUCCESSFULLY
967
00:32:33,494 --> 00:32:35,496
RALLIED THE TROOPS.
968
00:32:35,496 --> 00:32:36,965
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S CHARACTERS
969
00:32:36,965 --> 00:32:38,800
AND STORY LINES REFLECTED VINCE
970
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,469
MCMAHON'S NEW ATTITUDE ERA
971
00:32:41,469 --> 00:32:43,538
INITIATIVE AND IN APRIL OF 1998,
972
00:32:43,538 --> 00:32:45,373
RAW DEFEATED NITRO IN THE
973
00:32:45,373 --> 00:32:47,775
RATINGS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
974
00:32:47,775 --> 00:32:48,810
NEARLY TWO YEARS.
975
00:32:48,810 --> 00:32:51,379
VINCE LOST A LOT OF TALENT
976
00:32:51,379 --> 00:32:52,747
REAL FAST AND HE HAD TO BUILD
977
00:32:52,747 --> 00:32:54,949
FROM THE BOTTOM AND IT WAS JUST
978
00:32:54,949 --> 00:32:57,285
A MATTER OF TIME.
979
00:32:57,285 --> 00:32:59,787
WWE WAS AND STILL IS TODAY A
980
00:32:59,787 --> 00:33:02,924
HUGE FAMILY AND EVERYBODY HAS
981
00:33:02,924 --> 00:33:04,125
ALWAYS RESPECTED VINCE.
982
00:33:04,125 --> 00:33:05,727
AND WHEN THEY SAW WHAT HE WAS
983
00:33:05,727 --> 00:33:07,462
DOING TO MAKE THIS COMPANY
984
00:33:07,462 --> 00:33:10,531
SURVIVE, EVERYONE TO A T,
985
00:33:10,531 --> 00:33:11,499
RALLIED BEHIND HIM.
986
00:33:11,499 --> 00:33:13,668
YOU SAW HIM SLOWLY BUILDING
987
00:33:13,668 --> 00:33:16,671
HIS OWN STARS, NOT PANICKING,
988
00:33:16,671 --> 00:33:18,907
AND IT WAS ALL COMING TOGETHER
989
00:33:18,907 --> 00:33:20,875
AND WAS THE PERFECT STORM.
990
00:33:20,875 --> 00:33:23,244
FANS, YOU MAKE THE DECISION.
991
00:33:23,244 --> 00:33:24,679
YOU CAN WATCH THEIR SHOW AND
992
00:33:24,679 --> 00:33:26,281
HAVE A BUNCH OF HIGH PAID
993
00:33:26,281 --> 00:33:28,249
SUPERSTARS SHOVED DOWN YOUR
994
00:33:28,249 --> 00:33:31,686
THROAT OR YOU CAN WATCH US YOUNG
995
00:33:31,686 --> 00:33:33,855
BUCKS HAVING A BLAST AND YOU'RE
996
00:33:33,855 --> 00:33:35,757
WELCOME TO COME ABOARD.
997
00:33:35,757 --> 00:33:37,358
EVERYBODY'S THAT'S NOT DOWN
998
00:33:37,358 --> 00:33:38,993
WITH THAT, WE GOT TWO WORDS FOR
999
00:33:38,993 --> 00:33:41,262
YOU, SUCK IT!
1000
00:33:41,262 --> 00:33:43,531
NO LONGER NUMBER ONE IN THE
1001
00:33:43,531 --> 00:33:44,365
INDUSTRY.
1002
00:33:44,365 --> 00:33:46,768
WCW REACTED BY PUTTING
1003
00:33:46,768 --> 00:33:48,670
ADDITIONAL FOCUS ON WHAT HAD
1004
00:33:48,670 --> 00:33:50,305
PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT THEM TO THE
1005
00:33:50,305 --> 00:33:51,906
TOP, THE MAIN EVENT TALENTS IN
1006
00:33:51,906 --> 00:33:54,976
THE NEW WORLD ORDER, BUT THE
1007
00:33:54,976 --> 00:33:56,811
CONTINUED RELIANCE ON THE SAME
1008
00:33:56,811 --> 00:33:59,747
GROUP OF CHARACTERS WAS ABOUT TO
1009
00:33:59,747 --> 00:34:02,050
CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS FOR WCW.
1010
00:34:02,050 --> 00:34:02,684
WCW'S BRAND IDENTITY WAS LOOK
1011
00:34:02,684 --> 00:34:04,652
AT ALL THESE WWE SUPERSTARS THAT
1012
00:34:04,652 --> 00:34:07,221
ARE NOW ON OUR ROSTER.
1013
00:34:07,221 --> 00:34:09,223
WCW NEVER HAD ITS OWN FORMULA.
1014
00:34:09,223 --> 00:34:11,826
AT FIRST IT WAS LIKE, THOSE
1015
00:34:11,826 --> 00:34:13,728
THREE GUYS ARE THE NEW WORLD
1016
00:34:13,728 --> 00:34:15,430
ORDER AND THEN IT STARTED
1017
00:34:15,430 --> 00:34:17,131
BECOMING THOSE 20 GUYS ARE THE
1018
00:34:17,131 --> 00:34:19,300
NEW WORLD ORDER AND THEN THERE
1019
00:34:19,300 --> 00:34:24,472
WAS NWO WOLFPAC AND NWO B TEAM
1020
00:34:24,472 --> 00:34:25,773
OR WHATEVER AND IT JUST BECAME
1021
00:34:25,773 --> 00:34:26,574
TOO MUCH.
1022
00:34:26,574 --> 00:34:29,744
THEY TRIED TO RECREATE THE
1023
00:34:29,744 --> 00:34:31,446
ORIGINAL NWO AND IT WAS JUST NOT
1024
00:34:31,446 --> 00:34:32,146
AS COOL.
1025
00:34:32,146 --> 00:34:33,915
THE CHAOS AND LACK ON
1026
00:34:33,915 --> 00:34:37,318
DIRECTION AT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1027
00:34:37,318 --> 00:34:39,420
WRESTLING CAME TO A HEAD IN
1028
00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:42,490
OCTOBER OF 1998 AT THE HALLOWEEN
1029
00:34:42,490 --> 00:34:45,059
HAVOC ON PAY-PER-VIEW.
1030
00:34:45,059 --> 00:34:45,693
IF YOU HAVE NINE GUYS ON YOUR
1031
00:34:45,693 --> 00:34:46,227
ROSTER THAT HAVE CREATIVE
1032
00:34:46,227 --> 00:34:46,794
CONTROL, HOW DO YOU POSSIBLY
1033
00:34:46,794 --> 00:34:48,129
BOOK A TELEVISION SHOW?
1034
00:34:48,129 --> 00:34:50,865
FOUR GUYS COME IN AT 7 O'CLOCK,
1035
00:34:50,865 --> 00:34:53,801
ESPECIALLY ONE OF THEM GOING,
1036
00:34:53,801 --> 00:34:55,103
DOESN'T WORK FOR ME, BROTHER.
1037
00:34:55,103 --> 00:34:56,471
YOU HAVE TO DO THIS THING CALLED
1038
00:34:56,471 --> 00:34:57,805
TIME A SHOW.
1039
00:34:57,805 --> 00:34:59,173
IT KIND OF HAS TO WORK FOR YOU
1040
00:34:59,173 --> 00:35:00,475
BECAUSE IF NOT WE'RE GOING TO
1041
00:35:00,475 --> 00:35:02,443
HAVE TO REWRITE THIS THING AND
1042
00:35:02,443 --> 00:35:04,212
IT'S GOING TO BE A TORPEDO RUN
1043
00:35:04,212 --> 00:35:07,014
HERE IN ABOUT 30 MINUTES AND --
1044
00:35:07,014 --> 00:35:07,782
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE HAD
1045
00:35:07,782 --> 00:35:09,584
EARNED A SPOT HEADLINING THE
1046
00:35:09,584 --> 00:35:11,786
SHOW AGAINST GOLDBERG, WCW'S
1047
00:35:11,786 --> 00:35:14,088
UNDEFEATED CHAMPION.
1048
00:35:14,088 --> 00:35:15,990
BUT PRIOR TO THE MAIN EVENT,
1049
00:35:15,990 --> 00:35:17,859
HULK HOGAN FACED OFF AGAINST THE
1050
00:35:17,859 --> 00:35:20,061
RECENTLY SIGNED WARRIOR IN A
1051
00:35:20,061 --> 00:35:23,097
REMATCH OF THEIR 1990
1052
00:35:23,097 --> 00:35:26,334
WRESTLEMANIA BOUT IN WWE.
1053
00:35:26,334 --> 00:35:27,935
IT WAS A MATCH FILLED WITH
1054
00:35:27,935 --> 00:35:31,072
MISTAKES AND MISCUES, GOING
1055
00:35:31,072 --> 00:35:33,608
LONGER THAN ITS ALLOTTED TIME.
1056
00:35:33,608 --> 00:35:38,212
I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THAT IS.
1057
00:35:38,212 --> 00:35:40,014
WAS THAT, LIKE,áA FIREBALL OR
1058
00:35:40,014 --> 00:35:41,716
SOMETHING THAT HE ATTEMPTED TO
1059
00:35:41,716 --> 00:35:43,017
THROW AT THE WARRIOR.
1060
00:35:43,017 --> 00:35:44,752
SOMEBODY MISTIMED THE SHOW SO
1061
00:35:44,752 --> 00:35:48,322
NOW THEY'RE 12 MINUTES OVER.
1062
00:35:48,322 --> 00:35:49,223
THE RESULT WAS THE
1063
00:35:49,223 --> 00:35:51,059
PAY-PER-VIEW GOING OFF THE AIR
1064
00:35:51,059 --> 00:35:52,994
IN MANY TELEVISION MARKETS WHILE
1065
00:35:52,994 --> 00:35:54,729
THE MAIN EVENT WAS STILL IN
1066
00:35:54,729 --> 00:35:55,663
PROGRESS.
1067
00:35:55,663 --> 00:35:57,799
THE MAIN EVENT, ESPECIALLY
1068
00:35:57,799 --> 00:35:59,033
FOR THE PAY-PER-VIEW, THAT'S
1069
00:35:59,033 --> 00:36:01,436
WHAT PEOPLE SHOW UP FOR, THAT'S
1070
00:36:01,436 --> 00:36:02,070
WHAT PEOPLE PAY THEIR MONEY FOR
1071
00:36:02,070 --> 00:36:02,703
AND OBVIOUSLY IT'S A BIG MOMENT
1072
00:36:02,703 --> 00:36:04,739
FOR TWO BIG STARS, DDP AND
1073
00:36:04,739 --> 00:36:06,006
GOLDBERG.
1074
00:36:06,006 --> 00:36:08,008
DDP, THE PEOPLES' CHAMPION IS
1075
00:36:08,008 --> 00:36:09,844
BECAUSE THAT HE IS A MAN THAT
1076
00:36:09,844 --> 00:36:17,919
CAME --
1077
00:36:17,919 --> 00:36:20,054
I ASSUMED WE WERE LYE.
1078
00:36:20,054 --> 00:36:22,790
I DIDN'T KNOW THEY ACTUALLY CUT
1079
00:36:22,790 --> 00:36:23,591
THE PROGRAM OFF.
1080
00:36:23,591 --> 00:36:25,860
WHEN PEOPLE WERE WATCHING IT
1081
00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:26,561
BOOM, IT GOES TO THEIR NEXT
1082
00:36:26,561 --> 00:36:27,261
CHANNEL, THEY'RE PRETTY PISSED
1083
00:36:27,261 --> 00:36:27,962
OF, THEY WANT THEIR MONEY BACK,
1084
00:36:27,962 --> 00:36:28,696
ESPECIALLY IF THAT'S THE MATCH
1085
00:36:28,696 --> 00:36:30,131
THE PAID FOR AND A LOT OF PEOPLE
1086
00:36:30,131 --> 00:36:30,531
DID.
1087
00:36:30,531 --> 00:36:34,034
THE MISTAKE COST WORLD
1088
00:36:34,034 --> 00:36:35,236
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING MILLIONS
1089
00:36:35,236 --> 00:36:37,939
OF DOLLARS AND FURTHER WEAKENED
1090
00:36:37,939 --> 00:36:41,642
THE PERCEPTION OF THE
1091
00:36:41,642 --> 00:36:42,110
ORGANIZATION.
1092
00:36:42,110 --> 00:36:43,711
I WASTED 40 BUCKS.
1093
00:36:43,711 --> 00:36:46,747
WHO AM I GOING TO BLAME?
1094
00:36:46,747 --> 00:36:49,817
I'M BLAMING WCW BECAUSE THEY
1095
00:36:49,817 --> 00:36:50,918
PROMISED ME A BIG MAIN EVENT AND
1096
00:36:50,918 --> 00:36:53,187
THEY DID NOT DELIVER.
1097
00:36:53,187 --> 00:36:55,456
THERE WAS NO MANAGEMENT IN
1098
00:36:55,456 --> 00:36:55,890
WCW.
1099
00:36:55,890 --> 00:36:56,524
IT WAS PURE ANARCHY SO WHY WOULD
1100
00:36:56,524 --> 00:36:57,158
ANYBODY BACK THEN OR EVEN TODAY
1101
00:36:57,158 --> 00:36:57,792
IN HINDSIGHT BE SURPRISED THAT
1102
00:36:57,792 --> 00:36:59,794
THE PAY-PER-VIEW WENT OFF THE
1103
00:36:59,794 --> 00:37:01,596
AIR WITHOUT THE MAIN EVENT
1104
00:37:01,596 --> 00:37:02,897
ACTUALLY BEING PRESENTED TO THE
1105
00:37:02,897 --> 00:37:04,332
PEOPLE THAT PAID TO SEE IT.
1106
00:37:04,332 --> 00:37:07,000
LAST NIGHT AN INSTANCE
1107
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:08,034
OCCURRED THAT WAS OUT OF THE
1108
00:37:08,034 --> 00:37:08,803
CONTROL OF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1109
00:37:08,803 --> 00:37:09,203
WRESTLING.
1110
00:37:09,203 --> 00:37:11,739
SOME OF THE SYSTEMS WENT DOWN
1111
00:37:11,739 --> 00:37:12,373
PREMATURELY.
1112
00:37:12,373 --> 00:37:15,209
WE HAVE DECIDED TONIGHT ON THIS
1113
00:37:15,209 --> 00:37:17,345
PROGRAM AFTER THE FIRST HOUR
1114
00:37:17,345 --> 00:37:19,080
AROUND THE 9 O'CLOCK HOUR THAT
1115
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:24,452
WE WILL BRING YOU THE MATCH
1116
00:37:24,452 --> 00:37:26,019
BETWEEN GOLDBERG AND DIAMOND
1117
00:37:25,887 --> 00:37:26,420
OUR COMPETITION WOULD MAKE
1118
00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:27,722
PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT THIS HAS
1119
00:37:27,722 --> 00:37:29,390
BEEN A RATINGS PLOY, THAT WE
1120
00:37:29,390 --> 00:37:31,125
WENT OFF THE AIR ON PURPOSE LAST
1121
00:37:31,125 --> 00:37:33,961
NIGHT TO BRING YOU TO THE MATCH
1122
00:37:33,961 --> 00:37:37,030
LATER ON DOWN THE LINE AS A
1123
00:37:37,030 --> 00:37:37,231
RATINGS PLOY.
1124
00:37:37,231 --> 00:37:38,833
THAT IS NOT THE CASE, THAT IS
1125
00:37:38,833 --> 00:37:40,535
NOT TRUE.
1126
00:37:40,535 --> 00:37:41,169
AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE ARE GOING
1127
00:37:41,169 --> 00:37:41,802
TO GIVE YOU THIS, NOT AT THE END
1128
00:37:41,802 --> 00:37:42,403
OF THE PROGRAM, WE'RE GOING TO
1129
00:37:42,403 --> 00:37:42,937
GIVE YOU THIS AT 9 O'CLOCK
1130
00:37:42,937 --> 00:37:43,171
TONIGHT.
1131
00:37:43,171 --> 00:37:45,339
I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF
1132
00:37:45,339 --> 00:37:47,175
A SLAP IN THE FACE IF YOU PAID X
1133
00:37:47,175 --> 00:37:48,609
AMOUNT AND THEN THE FOLLOWING
1134
00:37:48,609 --> 00:37:50,845
NIGHT IT'S ON FREE TELEVISION
1135
00:37:50,845 --> 00:37:51,612
RIGHT AWAY.
1136
00:37:51,612 --> 00:37:53,981
I KNOW THEY WERE TRYING TO MAKE
1137
00:37:53,981 --> 00:37:55,650
GOOD ON THE ISSUES THEY HAD THE
1138
00:37:55,650 --> 00:37:57,185
NIGHT BEFORE, BUT IT'S KIND OF
1139
00:37:57,185 --> 00:37:59,921
JUST WCW FOR YOU.
1140
00:37:59,921 --> 00:38:02,989
HERE COMES FOR OUR GREAT FAN
1141
00:38:02,989 --> 00:38:04,292
THAT SUPPORTED US LAST NIGHT,
1142
00:38:04,292 --> 00:38:06,060
DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE AND GOLDBERG
1143
00:38:06,060 --> 00:38:08,429
FOR THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE
1144
00:38:08,429 --> 00:38:10,831
AS IT WENT DOWN ON HALLOWEEN
1145
00:38:10,831 --> 00:38:15,303
HAVOC.
1146
00:38:15,303 --> 00:38:15,803
PAGE --
1147
00:38:15,803 --> 00:38:16,337
OH!
1148
00:38:16,337 --> 00:38:17,972
OH MY GOODNESS.
1149
00:38:17,972 --> 00:38:21,108
IN RETROSPECT, I'M NOT HAPPY
1150
00:38:21,108 --> 00:38:22,143
IT HAPPENED BECAUSE THE COMPANY
1151
00:38:22,143 --> 00:38:24,312
TOOK A BIG BOOM, BUT IT'S ONE OF
1152
00:38:24,312 --> 00:38:26,447
MY FAVORITE MATCHES.
1153
00:38:26,447 --> 00:38:27,815
MOTIONS TO THE CROWD FOR THE
1154
00:38:27,815 --> 00:38:28,950
DIAMOND CUTTER.
1155
00:38:28,950 --> 00:38:29,951
DID HE GET IT?
1156
00:38:29,951 --> 00:38:31,752
NO, HE GOT SPEARED!
1157
00:38:31,752 --> 00:38:33,421
HE GOT SPEARED.
1158
00:38:33,421 --> 00:38:35,423
FOR ME PERSONALLY, AND BILL,
1159
00:38:35,423 --> 00:38:37,458
I THINK IT WAS REALLY GOOD FOR
1160
00:38:37,458 --> 00:38:38,659
OUR CAREERS BECAUSE EVERYONE
1161
00:38:38,659 --> 00:38:40,595
WENT WOW.
1162
00:38:40,595 --> 00:38:41,229
EVEN AMIDST THE PAY-PER-VIEW
1163
00:38:41,229 --> 00:38:45,933
BLUNDER, DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE
1164
00:38:45,933 --> 00:38:47,802
EXEMPLIFIED THE ABILITY OF WCW'S
1165
00:38:47,802 --> 00:38:49,737
MID-CARD TALENT TO GROW AND HELP
1166
00:38:49,737 --> 00:38:54,909
DRAW FANS AT A MAIN EVENT LEVEL.
1167
00:38:54,909 --> 00:38:57,345
AND ON THAT NIGHT WORLD
1168
00:38:57,345 --> 00:38:59,814
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING SCORED A
1169
00:38:59,814 --> 00:39:02,983
RATINGS VICTORY OVER WWE, BUT IT
1170
00:39:02,983 --> 00:39:04,919
WAS THE LAST TIME AN EPISODE OF
1171
00:39:04,919 --> 00:39:07,988
NITRO WOULD EVER DEFEAT RAW IN
1172
00:39:07,988 --> 00:39:08,889
THE HEAD-TO-HEAD RATINGS.
1173
00:39:08,889 --> 00:39:10,424
THE THING THAT'S GOING TO
1174
00:39:10,424 --> 00:39:13,060
DRIVE RATINGS, THE THING THAT'S
1175
00:39:13,060 --> 00:39:15,263
GOING TO DRIVE FANS BACK TO THE
1176
00:39:15,263 --> 00:39:17,198
ARENA, IT'S NOT THE SHOCK VALUE
1177
00:39:17,198 --> 00:39:19,333
OF THINGS YOU SEE ON TV ANYMORE,
1178
00:39:19,333 --> 00:39:20,835
IT'S GREAT COMPETITION.
1179
00:39:20,835 --> 00:39:21,369
YOU SAW IT THERE FIRST AND
1180
00:39:21,369 --> 00:39:24,105
FOREMOST THERE LAST NIGHT.
1181
00:39:24,105 --> 00:39:24,739
WE'LL BE BACK WITH MORE, LIVE ON
1182
00:39:24,739 --> 00:39:28,876
TNT.
1183
00:39:28,876 --> 00:39:31,545
WWE'S ATTITUDE ERA HAD INSPIRED
1184
00:39:31,545 --> 00:39:33,881
MORE ARTISTIC FREEDOM AND WHILE
1185
00:39:33,881 --> 00:39:36,083
WCW WAS SUFFERING FROM A LACK OF
1186
00:39:36,083 --> 00:39:41,021
DIRECTION, MONDAY NIGHT RAW WAS
1187
00:39:41,021 --> 00:39:41,389
CREATING NEW CHARACTERS AND
1188
00:39:41,389 --> 00:39:43,424
STORY LINES, GIVING WAY TO A
1189
00:39:43,424 --> 00:39:45,526
UNIFIED ROSTER AND A SUCCESSFUL
1190
00:39:45,526 --> 00:39:46,827
VISION FOR THE FUTURE.
1191
00:39:46,827 --> 00:39:49,096
AS THE ATTITUDE ERA STARTED
1192
00:39:49,096 --> 00:39:51,265
TO EXPAND, SO DID OUR CHARACTERS
1193
00:39:51,265 --> 00:39:52,533
AND THE MANY DIFFERENT
1194
00:39:52,533 --> 00:39:53,634
DIRECTIONS THEY COULD FORM A
1195
00:39:53,634 --> 00:39:57,772
BOND WITH THE AUDIENCE.
1196
00:39:57,772 --> 00:39:59,173
HAVING THE CREATIVE FREEDOM
1197
00:39:59,173 --> 00:40:02,042
TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE
1198
00:40:02,042 --> 00:40:02,710
WERE ABLE TO DO THAT MADE
1199
00:40:02,710 --> 00:40:04,879
EVERYBODY BETTER BECAUSE IT GAVE
1200
00:40:04,879 --> 00:40:07,315
EVERYBODY AN EMOTIONAL -- IT
1201
00:40:07,315 --> 00:40:09,083
GAVE THEM OWNERSHIP OVER THEIR
1202
00:40:09,083 --> 00:40:11,052
OWN PRODUCT, OVER THEIR OWN
1203
00:40:11,052 --> 00:40:11,519
BRAND.
1204
00:40:11,519 --> 00:40:14,455
IT REALLY ENCOURAGES YOU TO GO
1205
00:40:14,455 --> 00:40:15,890
OUT AND PUT YOUR EVERYTHING INTO
1206
00:40:15,890 --> 00:40:20,761
THE PERFORMANCE.
1207
00:40:20,761 --> 00:40:23,431
AS 1999 BEGAN, THE COMPANY'S
1208
00:40:23,431 --> 00:40:25,232
TRADITIONAL METHODS OF BUILDING
1209
00:40:25,232 --> 00:40:26,567
STARS FROM THE GROUND UP,
1210
00:40:26,567 --> 00:40:29,437
COMBINED WITH THE INNOVATIVE
1211
00:40:29,437 --> 00:40:32,206
CREATIVITY OF THE ATTITUDE ERA,
1212
00:40:32,206 --> 00:40:34,542
HELPED WWE DISTANCE THEMSELVES
1213
00:40:34,542 --> 00:40:37,211
FROM THE WCW IN THE RATINGS AND
1214
00:40:37,211 --> 00:40:39,613
MORE MID-CARD TALENTS WERE
1215
00:40:39,613 --> 00:40:41,382
FEATURED IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF
1216
00:40:41,382 --> 00:40:41,782
MONDAY NIGHT RAW.
1217
00:40:41,782 --> 00:40:43,184
IF YOUR NAME IS ON THIS
1218
00:40:43,184 --> 00:40:48,589
ROSTER YOU DESERVE TO BE THERE.
1219
00:40:48,589 --> 00:40:50,791
SO THAT'S WHY I WOULD LOOK AT
1220
00:40:50,791 --> 00:40:53,094
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN MUCH THE
1221
00:40:53,094 --> 00:40:55,029
SAME WAY I WOULD LOOK AT D LO
1222
00:40:55,029 --> 00:40:55,563
BROWN.
1223
00:40:55,563 --> 00:40:57,598
THESE WERE PROS THAT WERE
1224
00:40:57,598 --> 00:40:59,100
DEPENDING ON CREATIVE TO COME UP
1225
00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:02,035
WITH A CHARACTER AND A STORY
1226
00:41:02,035 --> 00:41:03,137
LINE THAT WE COULD PUT ON
1227
00:41:03,137 --> 00:41:05,573
TELEVISION EVERYWHERE WEEK AND
1228
00:41:05,573 --> 00:41:09,643
DRAW A RATING.
1229
00:41:09,643 --> 00:41:11,112
EVERYBODY WAS A PLAYER AND
1230
00:41:11,112 --> 00:41:12,413
EVERYBODY HAD TO CARRY THE BALL
1231
00:41:12,413 --> 00:41:13,447
IN THEIR SEGMENT.
1232
00:41:13,447 --> 00:41:15,249
THAT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU'RE GOING
1233
00:41:15,249 --> 00:41:15,816
TO DO THOSE KIND OF NUMBERS.
1234
00:41:15,816 --> 00:41:21,288
HELLO LADIES!
1235
00:41:21,288 --> 00:41:22,556
EVERYBODY HAS A STORY,
1236
00:41:22,556 --> 00:41:23,758
EVERYONE HAS A CHARACTER,
1237
00:41:23,758 --> 00:41:25,459
THERE'S NO MISCONCEPTIONS.
1238
00:41:25,459 --> 00:41:26,961
YOU GET A CHANCE TO MAKE IT OR
1239
00:41:26,961 --> 00:41:27,795
BREAK IT.
1240
00:41:27,795 --> 00:41:29,497
IN WCW IT WASN'T REALLY LIKE
1241
00:41:29,497 --> 00:41:30,064
THAT.
1242
00:41:30,064 --> 00:41:31,465
THEY SPENT SO MUCH TIME AND
1243
00:41:31,465 --> 00:41:34,602
EFFORT ON THE TOP TIER GUYS THAT
1244
00:41:34,602 --> 00:41:37,505
EVERYBODY UNDERNEATH GOT NO
1245
00:41:37,505 --> 00:41:38,439
ATTENTION.
1246
00:41:38,439 --> 00:41:39,607
NITRO CONTINUED TO SHOWCASE
1247
00:41:39,607 --> 00:41:41,308
THE STARS AND STORY LINES FROM
1248
00:41:41,308 --> 00:41:42,343
YEARS PAST.
1249
00:41:42,343 --> 00:41:44,845
ADDITIONALLY SEVERAL OF WCW'S
1250
00:41:44,845 --> 00:41:48,516
MAIN EVENT TALENTS HAD
1251
00:41:48,516 --> 00:41:49,183
NEGOTIATED A CREATIVE CONTROL
1252
00:41:49,183 --> 00:41:52,019
CLAUSE INTO THEIR CONTRACTS,
1253
00:41:52,019 --> 00:41:52,620
CONTRIBUTING TO THE LACK OF
1254
00:41:52,620 --> 00:41:53,220
DIRECTION THAT PLAGUED WCW'S
1255
00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:53,821
CREATIVE TEAM.
1256
00:41:53,821 --> 00:41:55,523
YOU KNOW WHAT, INSTEAD OF
1257
00:41:55,523 --> 00:41:57,358
USING ESTABLISHED TALENT TO
1258
00:41:57,358 --> 00:41:59,693
ELEVATE NEW GUYS, IT WAS LIKE A
1259
00:41:59,693 --> 00:42:01,228
FIGHT EVERY WEEK.
1260
00:42:01,228 --> 00:42:02,730
IF YOU ASK ME TO DO SOMETHING
1261
00:42:02,730 --> 00:42:06,834
THAT I THINK IS GOING TO BE
1262
00:42:06,834 --> 00:42:07,902
DETRIMENTAL TO MY CAREER THEN I
1263
00:42:07,902 --> 00:42:08,836
HAVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE TO DO
1264
00:42:08,836 --> 00:42:09,103
IT.
1265
00:42:09,103 --> 00:42:10,504
HOW DO YOU RUN A COMPANY LIKE
1266
00:42:10,504 --> 00:42:10,871
THAT?
1267
00:42:10,871 --> 00:42:11,472
WE'D SIT THERE FOR A WHOLE
1268
00:42:11,472 --> 00:42:12,106
WEEK AND PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER.
1269
00:42:12,106 --> 00:42:12,740
THAT NIGHT ERIC WOULD GO TO THE
1270
00:42:12,740 --> 00:42:13,207
DIFFERENT SUPERSTARS.
1271
00:42:13,207 --> 00:42:15,142
HE'D GO TO STING, STING, DA, DA,
1272
00:42:15,142 --> 00:42:15,443
DA.
1273
00:42:15,443 --> 00:42:17,578
IF STING DIDN'T LIKE IT, HE'D GO
1274
00:42:17,578 --> 00:42:19,547
OH, CAN WE CHANGE IT HERE?
1275
00:42:19,547 --> 00:42:21,081
THEN HE'D GO TO HULK.
1276
00:42:21,081 --> 00:42:22,383
HULK, THIS IS WHAT WE PLAN ON
1277
00:42:22,383 --> 00:42:22,850
DOING.
1278
00:42:22,850 --> 00:42:24,485
IT MIGHT BE BETTER IF WE DO
1279
00:42:24,485 --> 00:42:24,852
THIS.
1280
00:42:24,852 --> 00:42:27,221
SO THEN THAT MATCH WAS CHANGED.
1281
00:42:27,221 --> 00:42:28,456
GOLDBERG, THE SAME THING.
1282
00:42:28,456 --> 00:42:29,857
IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYBODY HAD
1283
00:42:29,857 --> 00:42:31,091
CREATIVE CONTROL BUT THE PEOPLE
1284
00:42:31,091 --> 00:42:32,526
PUTTING THE SHOW TOGETHER.
1285
00:42:32,526 --> 00:42:34,061
THERE WERE SO MANY GUYS BACK
1286
00:42:34,061 --> 00:42:34,662
THEN REALLY PULLING THE WAGON,
1287
00:42:34,662 --> 00:42:35,629
DOING ALL THE WORK EVERY NIGHT,
1288
00:42:35,629 --> 00:42:37,965
WORKING THE HOUSE SHOWS AND IT'S
1289
00:42:37,965 --> 00:42:40,901
JUST A SHAME.
1290
00:42:40,901 --> 00:42:42,770
WCW, THEY LET A LOT OF WRESTLERS
1291
00:42:42,770 --> 00:42:44,104
DOWN AND ERIC BISCHOFF KILLED
1292
00:42:44,104 --> 00:42:46,307
THE GOOSE THAT WAS LAYING THE
1293
00:42:46,307 --> 00:42:47,608
GOLDEN EGGS FOR EVERYBODY.
1294
00:42:47,608 --> 00:42:51,011
WCW'S POLITICS WERE TAKING
1295
00:42:51,011 --> 00:42:51,612
THEIR TOLL ON NITRO'S RATINGS
1296
00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:54,248
AND THE COMPANY'S YOUNG TALENT,
1297
00:42:54,248 --> 00:42:56,083
ONE OF WHOM FINALLY HAD ENOUGH.
1298
00:42:56,083 --> 00:42:57,384
I WAS WORKING MAIN EVENTS
1299
00:42:57,384 --> 00:42:58,953
PRETTY MUCH ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
1300
00:42:58,953 --> 00:43:01,388
FOR WCW AND I WAS MAKING
1301
00:43:01,388 --> 00:43:05,226
PROBABLY ONE SIXTH OR ONE
1302
00:43:05,226 --> 00:43:06,861
SEVENTH OF ALL THE GUY I WAS
1303
00:43:06,861 --> 00:43:07,294
WORKING WITH.
1304
00:43:07,294 --> 00:43:09,830
I WENT TO ERIC BISCHOFF AND SAID
1305
00:43:09,830 --> 00:43:11,365
HEY, CAN I GET A RAISE?
1306
00:43:11,365 --> 00:43:14,201
AND ERIC WAS LIKE, WHY THE HELL
1307
00:43:14,201 --> 00:43:16,303
WOULD I NEGOTIATE WITH YOU WHEN
1308
00:43:16,303 --> 00:43:18,806
I STILL GOT YOU UNDER CONTRACT
1309
00:43:18,806 --> 00:43:20,441
FOR ANOTHER YEAR?
1310
00:43:20,441 --> 00:43:22,676
THE GIANT IS NOT A HAPPY MAN
1311
00:43:22,676 --> 00:43:23,377
RIGHT NOW AND FOR GOOD REASON.
1312
00:43:23,377 --> 00:43:24,044
WHO KNOWS, FUTURE WOULD HAVE
1313
00:43:24,044 --> 00:43:24,745
BEEN DIFFERENT HAD ERIC TAKEN
1314
00:43:24,745 --> 00:43:25,412
CARE OF ME AND PUT ME IN THE
1315
00:43:25,412 --> 00:43:26,113
SAME PAY RATE WITH THE OTHER
1316
00:43:26,113 --> 00:43:27,047
GUYS THAT I WAS WORKING WITH, I
1317
00:43:27,047 --> 00:43:28,382
PROBABLY NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE
1318
00:43:28,382 --> 00:43:29,650
THE JUMP.
1319
00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:32,319
HE INSULTED ME SO FRIGGIN' BAD
1320
00:43:32,319 --> 00:43:34,054
THAT HE COULD KISS MY ASS.
1321
00:43:34,054 --> 00:43:35,656
IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT HE
1322
00:43:35,656 --> 00:43:37,291
OFFERED, I DIDN'T WANT ANYTHING
1323
00:43:37,291 --> 00:43:38,392
TO DO WITH HIM.
1324
00:43:38,392 --> 00:43:40,794
HE'S DISMANTLING THE SET.
1325
00:43:40,794 --> 00:43:43,330
MISUSED AND MISTREATED, THE
1326
00:43:43,330 --> 00:43:46,133
GIANT MADE GOOD ON HIS WORD,
1327
00:43:46,133 --> 00:43:47,601
CROSSING ENEMY LINES TO SIGN
1328
00:43:47,601 --> 00:43:50,204
WITH WWE.
1329
00:43:50,204 --> 00:43:51,505
STONE COLD TELLING MCMAHON
1330
00:43:51,505 --> 00:43:54,441
HE'S GOING TO WRESTLEMANIA!
1331
00:43:54,441 --> 00:43:55,976
WAIT A MINUTE!
1332
00:43:55,976 --> 00:43:57,778
MY GOD, KING!
1333
00:43:57,778 --> 00:43:58,779
MY GOD!
1334
00:43:58,779 --> 00:44:00,614
KING, THAT'S PAUL WHITE!
1335
00:44:00,614 --> 00:44:01,982
YES!
1336
00:44:01,982 --> 00:44:03,617
THAT'S PAUL WHITE!
1337
00:44:03,617 --> 00:44:05,085
WHEN THE BIG SHOW DEFECTED
1338
00:44:05,085 --> 00:44:07,988
AND HE MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE
1339
00:44:07,988 --> 00:44:09,623
COMING UP THROUGH THE RING IT
1340
00:44:09,623 --> 00:44:11,125
WAS SHOCKING TO SAY THE LEAST.
1341
00:44:11,125 --> 00:44:12,192
WHAT AN ENTRANCE.
1342
00:44:12,192 --> 00:44:13,627
YOU HAVE VINCE AND AUSTIN IN A
1343
00:44:13,627 --> 00:44:15,930
CAGE, THE GIANT NAMED PAUL WHITE
1344
00:44:15,930 --> 00:44:17,865
COMING THROUGH THE GROUND,
1345
00:44:17,865 --> 00:44:19,433
THROWING AUSTIN THROUGH THE
1346
00:44:19,433 --> 00:44:20,000
CAGE.
1347
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,468
IT DOESN'T GET MUCH MORE
1348
00:44:21,468 --> 00:44:22,336
EXCITING THAN THAT.
1349
00:44:22,336 --> 00:44:24,138
THE CAGE GAVE WAY!
1350
00:44:24,138 --> 00:44:25,706
AUSTIN'S DOWN.
1351
00:44:25,706 --> 00:44:27,107
AUSTIN'S OUT OF THE CAGE.
1352
00:44:27,107 --> 00:44:29,510
BIG SHOW IS INCREDIBLY GIFTED
1353
00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:33,047
AND TALENTED, MOUNTAIN OF A MAN
1354
00:44:33,047 --> 00:44:35,082
WHO WAS BIG BUSINESS IN THE WCW
1355
00:44:35,082 --> 00:44:37,751
SO FOR US TO ACQUIRE THE BIG
1356
00:44:37,751 --> 00:44:39,453
SHOW WAS A BIG DEAL FOR OUR
1357
00:44:39,453 --> 00:44:40,821
COMPANY AND BIG DEAL FOR THE
1358
00:44:40,821 --> 00:44:43,991
BUSINESS.
1359
00:44:43,991 --> 00:44:45,526
ADDING TO WHAT WAS BECOMING A
1360
00:44:45,526 --> 00:44:48,095
STAR STUDDED ROSTER, WWE HAD
1361
00:44:48,095 --> 00:44:51,532
GAINED A VALUABLE ASSET IN WCW'S
1362
00:44:51,532 --> 00:44:57,304
FORMER GIANT, THE BIG SHOW.
1363
00:44:57,304 --> 00:44:59,807
IT WAS A BIG SHOT IN MONDAY
1364
00:44:59,807 --> 00:45:00,074
NIGHT RAW.
1365
00:45:00,074 --> 00:45:05,346
I THINK EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD THE
1366
00:45:05,346 --> 00:45:06,847
SIGNIFICANCE OF BIG SHOW COMING
1367
00:45:06,847 --> 00:45:08,582
TO WWE BECAUSE HE WAS SO CLEARLY
1368
00:45:08,582 --> 00:45:10,784
GOING TO BE A PART OF WCW'S
1369
00:45:10,784 --> 00:45:11,285
FUTURE.
1370
00:45:11,285 --> 00:45:13,520
THIS WAS MAJOR, MAJOR LOSS FOR
1371
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,789
WCW, A MAJOR, MAJOR GAIN FOR
1372
00:45:15,789 --> 00:45:17,858
WWE.
1373
00:45:17,858 --> 00:45:19,693
AFTER YEARS IN THE SHADOWS OF
1374
00:45:19,693 --> 00:45:22,630
WCW'S MAIN EVENT TALENTS, THE
1375
00:45:22,630 --> 00:45:25,833
BIG SHOW WAS THRUST INTO WWE'S
1376
00:45:25,833 --> 00:45:28,235
TOP STORY LINE.
1377
00:45:28,235 --> 00:45:30,237
I CAME IN ONE OF THE FIST
1378
00:45:30,237 --> 00:45:31,138
ONES TO COME OVER.
1379
00:45:31,138 --> 00:45:32,940
IT WAS KIND OF A BIG DEAL.
1380
00:45:32,940 --> 00:45:34,541
I WAS THROWN IN THE MAIN EVENT
1381
00:45:34,541 --> 00:45:36,510
SITUATION WITH STONE COLD AND WE
1382
00:45:36,510 --> 00:45:38,078
WERE OFF AND RUNNING.
1383
00:45:38,078 --> 00:45:40,614
TALENT IS EVERYTHING.
1384
00:45:40,614 --> 00:45:43,417
IF WE HAVE GOOD STORY LINES YOU
1385
00:45:43,417 --> 00:45:44,918
HAVE TO HAVE GOOD CHARACTERS.
1386
00:45:44,918 --> 00:45:45,552
IT'S ALL ABOUT GETTING THE RIGHT
1387
00:45:45,552 --> 00:45:46,186
ENVIRONMENT FOR THOSE TALENTS TO
1388
00:45:46,186 --> 00:45:46,787
GROW AND FOSTERED AND NURTURED
1389
00:45:46,787 --> 00:45:50,290
AS MUCH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN.
1390
00:45:50,290 --> 00:45:52,893
WITH A DEEP ROSTER AND FANS
1391
00:45:52,893 --> 00:45:54,862
CLAMBERING FOR MORE WWE
1392
00:45:54,862 --> 00:45:56,497
PROGRAMMING, THE COMPANY
1393
00:45:56,497 --> 00:45:58,198
EXPANDED TO THURSDAY NIGHTS WITH
1394
00:45:58,198 --> 00:46:01,835
THE LAUNCH OF SMACKDOWN IN
1395
00:46:01,835 --> 00:46:05,139
DIRECT COMPETITION AGAINST WCW'S
1396
00:46:05,139 --> 00:46:06,807
THUNDER.
1397
00:46:06,807 --> 00:46:10,411
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED ON
1398
00:46:10,411 --> 00:46:11,145
THUNDER!
1399
00:46:11,145 --> 00:46:13,847
THURSDAY NIGHT THUNDER WAS A
1400
00:46:13,847 --> 00:46:14,181
JOKE.
1401
00:46:14,181 --> 00:46:15,816
NOBODY WANTED TO BE ON IT IN
1402
00:46:15,816 --> 00:46:16,517
WCW.
1403
00:46:16,517 --> 00:46:19,153
IT WAS A THROWAWAY.
1404
00:46:19,153 --> 00:46:20,554
SMACKDOWN WAS SOMETHING FRESH
1405
00:46:20,554 --> 00:46:23,724
AND NEW AND HAD THE FIRST TEAM
1406
00:46:23,724 --> 00:46:24,525
GUYS ON IT.
1407
00:46:24,525 --> 00:46:26,694
IT WAS ON NETWORK TELEVISION,
1408
00:46:26,694 --> 00:46:27,728
NOT CABLE.
1409
00:46:27,728 --> 00:46:29,630
BUT WE BROUGHT THE WHOLE ROSTER.
1410
00:46:29,630 --> 00:46:31,231
WE HAD SO MUCH TALENT AT THE
1411
00:46:31,231 --> 00:46:31,565
TIME.
1412
00:46:31,565 --> 00:46:33,867
I REMEMBER THAT THEY INTRODUCED
1413
00:46:33,867 --> 00:46:34,902
SMACKDOWN, WE WERE EXCITED
1414
00:46:34,902 --> 00:46:36,837
BECAUSE YOUNG GUYS LIKE MYSELF
1415
00:46:36,837 --> 00:46:39,640
THAT WEREN'T GETTING A TON OF TV
1416
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,742
TIME AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE
1417
00:46:41,742 --> 00:46:42,476
ON A SHOW AND TO GET THE CHANCE
1418
00:46:42,476 --> 00:46:44,078
TO GO OUT THERE AND SHINE.
1419
00:46:44,078 --> 00:46:46,113
SMACKDOWN DOMINATED THUNDER
1420
00:46:46,113 --> 00:46:48,816
IN THE RATINGS FROM THE GET GO
1421
00:46:48,816 --> 00:46:51,118
AND WITH TWO MORE HOURS OF
1422
00:46:51,118 --> 00:46:53,253
PROGRAMMING TO FILL, A FORGOTTEN
1423
00:46:53,253 --> 00:46:54,021
ASPECT OF SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT
1424
00:46:54,021 --> 00:46:55,856
WAS READY TO MAKE A RENAISSANCE.
1425
00:46:55,856 --> 00:46:59,159
TAG TEAM WRESTLING HADN'T
1426
00:46:59,159 --> 00:47:01,161
REALLY HAD THE SPOTLIGHT PUT ON
1427
00:47:01,161 --> 00:47:03,163
IT FOR A WHILE UNTIL THEN AND WE
1428
00:47:03,163 --> 00:47:04,732
DECIDED WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THIS
1429
00:47:04,732 --> 00:47:07,534
INTERESTING AGAIN.
1430
00:47:07,534 --> 00:47:09,503
WE HAD A LOT OF REALLY GOOD
1431
00:47:09,503 --> 00:47:10,204
TALENTS.
1432
00:47:10,204 --> 00:47:10,771
TAG TEAMS SCENE BACK IN THE
1433
00:47:10,771 --> 00:47:11,505
ATTITUDE ERA WERE TRYING TO
1434
00:47:11,505 --> 00:47:12,072
SQUEEZE AND ELBOW AND SQUIRM
1435
00:47:12,072 --> 00:47:15,309
THEIR WAY TO NOTORIETY ON A STAR
1436
00:47:15,309 --> 00:47:17,511
STUDDED ROSTER OF SINGLE
1437
00:47:17,511 --> 00:47:17,911
COMPETITORS.
1438
00:47:17,911 --> 00:47:20,180
THEY ALL HAD TO BE REALLY
1439
00:47:20,180 --> 00:47:21,882
UNIQUE, REALLY, REALLY GOOD AND
1440
00:47:21,882 --> 00:47:25,017
THEY WERE.
1441
00:47:25,017 --> 00:47:25,452
THERE WAS A LOT OF GREAT TAG
1442
00:47:25,452 --> 00:47:26,353
TEAMS.
1443
00:47:26,353 --> 00:47:28,455
THERE WERE THE HARDYS, THERE
1444
00:47:28,455 --> 00:47:29,923
WERE EDGE AND CHRISTIAN, THERE
1445
00:47:29,923 --> 00:47:31,692
WERE THE DUDLEY BOYZ, THERE WERE
1446
00:47:31,692 --> 00:47:32,626
THE APA.
1447
00:47:32,626 --> 00:47:34,828
ALL THE TAG TEAMS WERE SO
1448
00:47:34,828 --> 00:47:36,063
ENTERTAINING AND ALL HAD THEIR
1449
00:47:36,063 --> 00:47:37,264
OWN DIFFERENT STYLE.
1450
00:47:37,264 --> 00:47:38,499
EVERYBODY WAS GREAT AND
1451
00:47:38,499 --> 00:47:39,666
EVERYBODY HAD A CHANCE TO SHOW
1452
00:47:39,666 --> 00:47:41,235
THEIR STRENGTHS AND ONCE YOU PUT
1453
00:47:41,235 --> 00:47:43,570
THEM ALL IN THE MIX IT WAS JUST
1454
00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:44,271
MAGIC.
1455
00:47:44,271 --> 00:47:45,239
PEOPLE JUST REALLY WANTED TO
1456
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,007
SEE TAG TEAM ACTION FOR THE
1457
00:47:47,007 --> 00:47:48,475
FIRST TIME IN A REALLY LONG
1458
00:47:48,475 --> 00:47:49,076
TIME.
1459
00:47:49,076 --> 00:47:50,344
IT WAS REALLY BIG BUSINESS.
1460
00:47:50,344 --> 00:47:52,346
THE TAG TEAM DIVISION WAS REALLY
1461
00:47:52,346 --> 00:47:55,482
HOT.
1462
00:47:55,482 --> 00:47:57,217
AS THE ATTITUDE ERA WAS
1463
00:47:57,217 --> 00:47:57,818
PROGRESSING, STARS WERE BEING
1464
00:47:57,818 --> 00:47:58,452
BORN ON A DAILY BASIS AND THESE
1465
00:47:58,452 --> 00:47:59,019
YOUNG GUYS WANTED TO GO OUT
1466
00:47:59,019 --> 00:47:59,920
THERE AND THEY WANTED TO BE THE
1467
00:47:59,920 --> 00:48:00,287
STARS.
1468
00:48:00,287 --> 00:48:04,091
THEY WANTED TO FIND A WAY TO
1469
00:48:04,091 --> 00:48:06,326
STEAL THE SHOW.
1470
00:48:06,326 --> 00:48:08,362
19,776 FANS HAVE SOLD OUT THE
1471
00:48:08,362 --> 00:48:13,667
ARROWHEAD POND FOR WRESTLEMANIA!
1472
00:48:13,667 --> 00:48:16,937
WWE'S DEEP TALENT POOL AND A
1473
00:48:16,937 --> 00:48:18,705
REVIVED TAG TEAM DIVISION WOULD
1474
00:48:18,705 --> 00:48:20,107
REESTABLISH THE COMPANY'S
1475
00:48:20,107 --> 00:48:22,676
SUCCESSFUL FORMULA OF THE PAST.
1476
00:48:22,676 --> 00:48:26,046
AND AT WRESTLEMANIA 2000 THE
1477
00:48:26,046 --> 00:48:27,347
ENTERTAINING UNDER CARD WOULD
1478
00:48:27,347 --> 00:48:29,917
NOT ONLY SUPPORT A HIGH PROFILE
1479
00:48:29,917 --> 00:48:31,618
MAIN EVENT, BUT SET OUT TO MAKE
1480
00:48:31,618 --> 00:48:33,787
A NAME FOR THEMSELVES AS THREE
1481
00:48:33,787 --> 00:48:35,956
TAG TEAMS WOULD GO ON TO STEAL
1482
00:48:35,956 --> 00:48:40,761
THE SHOW.
1483
00:48:40,761 --> 00:48:43,997
THESE YOUNG MEN PUTTING THEIR
1484
00:48:43,997 --> 00:48:45,098
BODIES, THEY CAREERS ON THE LINE
1485
00:48:45,098 --> 00:48:45,732
IN THIS TRIANGLE LADDER MATCH, A
1486
00:48:45,732 --> 00:48:47,534
FIRST FOR WRESTLEMANIA.
1487
00:48:47,534 --> 00:48:49,035
WE KNEW WE HAD TO DO
1488
00:48:48,635 --> 00:48:49,236
TO PUT OUR BODIES ON THE LINE
1489
00:48:49,236 --> 00:48:49,870
AND DO IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY AND
1490
00:48:49,870 --> 00:48:51,205
WE HAD TO REALLY GO OUT THERE
1491
00:48:51,205 --> 00:48:53,207
AND HIT A HOME RUN WITH IT.
1492
00:48:53,207 --> 00:48:54,341
WHERE EDGE AND CHRISTIAN AND
1493
00:48:54,341 --> 00:48:57,611
THE HARDY BOYS HAD MORE FINESSE,
1494
00:48:57,611 --> 00:48:58,312
THEY WERE MORE HIGH FLYERS, THE
1495
00:48:58,312 --> 00:48:59,580
DUDLEY BOYZ WERE GROUND AND
1496
00:48:59,580 --> 00:49:00,814
POUND SO IT WAS THIS REALLY
1497
00:49:00,814 --> 00:49:04,384
PERFECT STORM OF CHARISMA AND
1498
00:49:04,384 --> 00:49:05,619
ATHLETICISM AND HIGH FLYING
1499
00:49:05,619 --> 00:49:07,154
ABILITY AND THEN YOU HAD THE TWO
1500
00:49:07,154 --> 00:49:09,021
TANKS.
1501
00:49:08,555 --> 00:49:10,624
LOOK OUT!
1502
00:49:10,624 --> 00:49:12,659
WRESTLEMANIA, WE WOULD GO OUT
1503
00:49:12,659 --> 00:49:14,695
THERE AND JUST TURN IT OUT.
1504
00:49:14,695 --> 00:49:16,864
WE HAD SOME REALLY CREATIVE
1505
00:49:16,864 --> 00:49:19,566
SPOTS, REALLY ORIGINAL IN WHAT
1506
00:49:19,566 --> 00:49:20,400
WE DID.
1507
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,437
LOOK OUT!
1508
00:49:23,437 --> 00:49:25,873
I THINK EVERY SINGLE PERSON
1509
00:49:25,873 --> 00:49:27,608
WENT THROUGH THE TABLE IN SOME
1510
00:49:27,608 --> 00:49:29,843
WAY, SHAPE OR FORM.
1511
00:49:29,843 --> 00:49:31,578
SO MANY THINGS IN THAT MATCH
1512
00:49:31,578 --> 00:49:33,947
THAT WERE UNIQUE, NEVER BEEN
1513
00:49:33,947 --> 00:49:34,681
SEEN BEFORE.
1514
00:49:34,681 --> 00:49:37,384
JEFF HARDY DELIVERED THE 20
1515
00:49:37,384 --> 00:49:38,986
FOOT LADDER.
1516
00:49:38,986 --> 00:49:42,956
HE WON'T DO THIS!
1517
00:49:42,956 --> 00:49:44,992
TOP OF THE LADDER!
1518
00:49:44,992 --> 00:49:46,393
TO THE FLOOR!
1519
00:49:46,393 --> 00:49:47,394
THROUGH THE TABLE!
1520
00:49:47,394 --> 00:49:50,397
GOOD NIGHT BUBBA RAY DUDLEY!
1521
00:49:50,397 --> 00:49:53,400
I HADN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE
1522
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,235
THAT AND I HAD BEEN ALL OVER THE
1523
00:49:55,235 --> 00:49:55,636
WORLD.
1524
00:49:55,636 --> 00:49:58,538
THAT WAS UNBELIEVABLE WHAT THE
1525
00:49:58,538 --> 00:49:59,840
DUDLEYS AND EDGE AND CHRISTIAN
1526
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:02,843
AND THE HARDYS DID.
1527
00:50:02,843 --> 00:50:04,378
EDGE AND CHRISTIAN HAVE WON
1528
00:50:04,378 --> 00:50:05,012
IT!
1529
00:50:05,012 --> 00:50:07,114
THAT PUT US ON THE RADAR.
1530
00:50:07,114 --> 00:50:08,749
WAIT, THERE'S THIS COOL TAG TEAM
1531
00:50:08,749 --> 00:50:09,549
THING GOING ON.
1532
00:50:09,549 --> 00:50:11,084
THESE GUYS ARE YOUNG, PRETTY
1533
00:50:11,084 --> 00:50:12,252
MUCH INSANE.
1534
00:50:12,252 --> 00:50:13,987
WITH THE WHOLE ATTITUDE ERA WE
1535
00:50:13,987 --> 00:50:15,856
HAD OUR FINGER ON THE PULSE OF
1536
00:50:15,856 --> 00:50:16,690
WHAT WAS GOING ON.
1537
00:50:16,690 --> 00:50:18,225
WE HAD THIS CHEMISTRY, WE
1538
00:50:18,225 --> 00:50:21,595
KIND OF ALL MADE EACH OTHER.
1539
00:50:21,595 --> 00:50:22,763
WE ALL KIND OF WENT FROM BEING
1540
00:50:22,763 --> 00:50:25,198
WWE WRESTLERS TO WWE SUPERSTARS.
1541
00:50:25,198 --> 00:50:26,533
AT THE MAIN EVENT THERE WERE
1542
00:50:26,533 --> 00:50:28,602
SOME PRETTY AMAZING MATCHES AND
1543
00:50:28,602 --> 00:50:30,170
THEY'LL STILL BE HARD TO TOP.
1544
00:50:30,170 --> 00:50:35,475
THE INNOVATIONS OF WWE'S
1545
00:50:35,475 --> 00:50:36,944
BOLSTERED TAG TEAM DIVISION
1546
00:50:36,944 --> 00:50:37,511
HELPED RAW'S RATINGS DOUBLE
1547
00:50:37,511 --> 00:50:38,111
THOSE OF THEIR COMPETITION BY
1548
00:50:38,111 --> 00:50:41,248
THE SPRING OF 2000.
1549
00:50:41,248 --> 00:50:45,485
WHILE RAW THRIVED, MONDAY NITRO
1550
00:50:45,485 --> 00:50:46,353
FLOUNDERED.
1551
00:50:46,353 --> 00:50:48,689
WCW'S OLD GUARD WAS LOSING THEIR
1552
00:50:48,689 --> 00:50:50,190
APPEAL AND THE COMPANY'S FAILURE
1553
00:50:50,190 --> 00:50:52,060
TO PROPERLY POSITION MID-CARD
1554
00:50:52,060 --> 00:50:54,261
TALENT FOR THE MAIN EVENT
1555
00:50:54,261 --> 00:50:56,096
SPOTLIGHT RESULTED IN A
1556
00:50:56,096 --> 00:50:58,398
CONTINUED DECLINE IN THEIR
1557
00:50:58,398 --> 00:50:59,533
PROGRAMMING.
1558
00:50:59,533 --> 00:51:01,468
THIS IS NOT AN INDUSTRY BUILT
1559
00:51:01,468 --> 00:51:02,769
ON COMFORT LEVEL.
1560
00:51:02,769 --> 00:51:05,205
THIS IS AN INDUSTRY THAT IS
1561
00:51:05,205 --> 00:51:07,474
BUILT ON SOMETHING NEW,
1562
00:51:07,474 --> 00:51:09,743
SOMETHING DIFFERENT, SOMETHING I
1563
00:51:09,743 --> 00:51:10,911
HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
1564
00:51:10,911 --> 00:51:13,046
SO ONCE YOU SEE HOGAN VERSUS
1565
00:51:13,046 --> 00:51:15,782
NASH OR NASH VERSUS HALL OR HALL
1566
00:51:15,782 --> 00:51:18,085
VERSUS HOGAN, WELL, NOW, I'VE
1567
00:51:18,085 --> 00:51:20,354
SEEN THE MIX OF THESE THREE.
1568
00:51:20,354 --> 00:51:22,589
WHAT ABOUT ADDING SOMEONE ELSE
1569
00:51:22,589 --> 00:51:23,090
TO THE MIX?
1570
00:51:23,090 --> 00:51:24,925
AND IF YOU KEEP IT A CLOSED DOOR
1571
00:51:24,925 --> 00:51:26,259
SOCIETY THEN YOU'RE NOT LETTING
1572
00:51:26,259 --> 00:51:28,195
THE FANS IN EITHER.
1573
00:51:28,195 --> 00:51:30,964
WCW NEEDED A MAJOR OVERALL
1574
00:51:30,964 --> 00:51:34,267
AND HIRED WWE HEAD WRITER, VINCE
1575
00:51:34,267 --> 00:51:37,704
RUSSO IN HOPES OF DUPLICATING
1576
00:51:37,704 --> 00:51:39,773
MONDAY NIGHT RAW'S A SUCCESS.
1577
00:51:39,773 --> 00:51:41,274
I'M SITTING THERE AT WCW.
1578
00:51:41,274 --> 00:51:42,743
I'M LIKE, OKAY, THIS THING IS
1579
00:51:42,743 --> 00:51:44,444
DEAD, WE NEED TO REBUILD THIS.
1580
00:51:44,444 --> 00:51:46,646
WE NEED TO REBUILD THIS WITH THE
1581
00:51:46,646 --> 00:51:48,548
UNDERUTILIZED GUY.
1582
00:51:48,548 --> 00:51:49,716
IT WAS A GOOD THING FROM A
1583
00:51:49,716 --> 00:51:51,451
BUSINESS ASPECT TO TRY TO START
1584
00:51:51,451 --> 00:51:53,153
MOVING THE YOUNG GUYS AROUND AND
1585
00:51:53,153 --> 00:51:54,388
TRY TO DO A WHOLE LOT MORE WITH
1586
00:51:54,388 --> 00:51:55,989
THEM, AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT
1587
00:51:55,989 --> 00:51:57,391
HAPPENED WHEN VINCE RUSSO CAME
1588
00:51:57,391 --> 00:51:57,691
IN.
1589
00:51:57,691 --> 00:52:00,260
AND LOOK, IN THE MOUTH OF
1590
00:52:00,260 --> 00:52:00,794
HULK HOGAN!
1591
00:52:00,794 --> 00:52:03,096
HE'S KNOCKED HIM OFF HIS FEET!
1592
00:52:03,096 --> 00:52:04,231
THERE WAS ONE SHOW IN
1593
00:52:04,231 --> 00:52:05,298
PARTICULAR THAT HULK HOGAN
1594
00:52:05,298 --> 00:52:08,468
WORKED A PROGRAM WITH KIDMAN.
1595
00:52:08,468 --> 00:52:09,736
THIS IS KIDMAN'S DAY!
1596
00:52:09,736 --> 00:52:11,605
IT WAS SO REFRESHING BECAUSE
1597
00:52:11,605 --> 00:52:13,440
UP UNTIL THAT POINT IT WAS
1598
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,976
ALWAYS THE SAME 10, 12 GUYS
1599
00:52:15,976 --> 00:52:17,411
WORKING WITH EACH OTHER IN THE
1600
00:52:17,411 --> 00:52:18,345
SEMI AND THE MAIN EVENT EVERY
1601
00:52:18,345 --> 00:52:19,146
SINGLE NIGHT.
1602
00:52:19,146 --> 00:52:21,782
SEVERAL OF WCW'S HOMEGROWN
1603
00:52:21,782 --> 00:52:23,583
TALENTS WERE MOVING UP THE CARD,
1604
00:52:23,583 --> 00:52:24,751
GETTING THEIR CHANCE TO SHINE IN
1605
00:52:24,751 --> 00:52:26,086
THE MAIN EVENT SPOTLIGHT.
1606
00:52:26,086 --> 00:52:28,789
BUT IT WAS ONE IN PARTICULAR WHO
1607
00:52:28,789 --> 00:52:32,626
BENEFITTED MOST FROM VINCE
1608
00:52:32,626 --> 00:52:35,028
RUSSO'S VISION.
1609
00:52:35,028 --> 00:52:36,897
THERE WERE FINALLY GIVING
1610
00:52:36,897 --> 00:52:37,631
BOOK THE CHANCE TO STEP AND
1611
00:52:37,631 --> 00:52:38,031
COULD HE DELIVER.
1612
00:52:38,031 --> 00:52:41,134
THE GUY CUTS AN AWESOME PROMO,
1613
00:52:41,134 --> 00:52:41,768
HE'S A BELIEVABLE BAD ASS AND HE
1614
00:52:41,768 --> 00:52:42,736
CAN WORK.
1615
00:52:42,736 --> 00:52:43,336
SCISSOR KICK HERE BY BOOKER
1616
00:52:43,336 --> 00:52:45,372
T!
1617
00:52:45,372 --> 00:52:46,907
HERE WE GO, GUYS!
1618
00:52:46,907 --> 00:52:49,209
BOOKER T GOING TO DO IT!
1619
00:52:49,209 --> 00:52:51,244
WCW WAS SHIFTING FOCUS TO
1620
00:52:51,244 --> 00:52:52,979
ELEVATE NEW STARS, BUT THE MAIN
1621
00:52:52,979 --> 00:52:54,881
EVENT HOLDOVERS WERE NOT WILLING
1622
00:52:54,881 --> 00:52:56,917
TO LET GO OF THEIR SPOT SO
1623
00:52:56,917 --> 00:52:57,551
EASILY.
1624
00:52:57,551 --> 00:52:59,252
SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT
1625
00:52:59,252 --> 00:53:01,221
ANYBODY ELSE GOING ANYWHERE
1626
00:53:01,221 --> 00:53:04,524
EXCEPT ABOUT FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE.
1627
00:53:04,524 --> 00:53:06,493
YOU'RE PART OF THE SHOW, BUT
1628
00:53:06,493 --> 00:53:08,595
DON'T EVER GET BIGGER THAN ME.
1629
00:53:08,595 --> 00:53:10,097
WCW AT THAT TIME STILL HAD
1630
00:53:10,097 --> 00:53:12,833
THAT GOOD OLD BOY MENTALITY,
1631
00:53:12,833 --> 00:53:14,801
ONLY A FEW CHOSEN PIECES GOT A
1632
00:53:14,801 --> 00:53:16,470
CHANCE TO MOVE AROUND ON THE
1633
00:53:16,470 --> 00:53:17,804
BOARD, EVERYBODY ELSE HAD TO
1634
00:53:17,804 --> 00:53:21,808
STAY IN PLACE AND PLAY THEIR
1635
00:53:21,808 --> 00:53:22,342
ROLE.
1636
00:53:22,342 --> 00:53:23,543
WHEN YOU'VE GOT THESE
1637
00:53:23,543 --> 00:53:25,312
MULTIMILLION BILLIONAIRES MAKING
1638
00:53:25,312 --> 00:53:27,447
ALL THIS MONEY AND ALL THE
1639
00:53:27,447 --> 00:53:29,049
SUDDEN THE SHOW DOESN'T REVOLVE
1640
00:53:29,049 --> 00:53:30,884
AROUND THEM ANYMORE, NOW THE
1641
00:53:30,884 --> 00:53:32,519
DAGGERS COME OUT.
1642
00:53:32,519 --> 00:53:36,223
DAYTONA BEACH AND THE OCEAN
1643
00:53:36,223 --> 00:53:37,991
CENTER WELCOME WORLD
1644
00:53:37,991 --> 00:53:42,496
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING, BASH AT
1645
00:53:42,496 --> 00:53:43,830
THE BEACH.
1646
00:53:43,830 --> 00:53:45,165
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE OLD
1647
00:53:45,165 --> 00:53:47,834
AND THE NEW CAME TO A HEAD IN
1648
00:53:47,834 --> 00:53:48,468
JULY'S BASH AT THE BEACH EVENT.
1649
00:53:48,468 --> 00:53:52,105
A CLASH OF PHILOSOPHIES AS TO
1650
00:53:52,105 --> 00:53:52,739
THE DIRECTION OF WCW RESULTED IN
1651
00:53:52,739 --> 00:53:54,141
HULK HOGAN LEAVING THE COMPANY,
1652
00:53:54,141 --> 00:53:57,077
BUT A NEW CHAMPION WOULD EMERGE.
1653
00:53:57,077 --> 00:53:59,613
OPPORTUNITY HAS KNOCKED AND I
1654
00:53:59,613 --> 00:54:01,181
WILL BE DAMNED IF I DON'T ANSWER
1655
00:54:01,181 --> 00:54:02,082
THAT DOOR.
1656
00:54:02,082 --> 00:54:03,583
I AM GOING TO DO WHAT I HAVE TO
1657
00:54:03,583 --> 00:54:05,118
DO TONIGHT TO TAKE THAT GOAL
1658
00:54:05,118 --> 00:54:06,753
HOME, TAKE IT AROUND MY WAIST
1659
00:54:06,753 --> 00:54:09,723
AND TAKE IT INTO THE NEXT
1660
00:54:09,723 --> 00:54:13,093
MILLENNIUM.
1661
00:54:13,093 --> 00:54:13,660
NOW, CAN YOU DIG THAT, GENE?
1662
00:54:13,660 --> 00:54:15,027
I CAN.
1663
00:54:14,494 --> 00:54:14,961
INTO THE GUT!
1664
00:54:14,961 --> 00:54:15,595
IT COULD BE IT, HE CALLS FOR IT
1665
00:54:15,595 --> 00:54:17,664
AND HE GOT IT!
1666
00:54:17,664 --> 00:54:19,432
SINCE THE BELL RANG, JUST
1667
00:54:19,432 --> 00:54:21,401
READY TO GO OUT AND GIVE THE
1668
00:54:21,401 --> 00:54:23,370
FANS A GREAT SHOW.
1669
00:54:23,370 --> 00:54:24,571
BOOKER DOESN'T SEE --
1670
00:54:24,571 --> 00:54:26,206
GOT HIM!
1671
00:54:26,206 --> 00:54:27,374
BOOKEND!
1672
00:54:27,374 --> 00:54:27,807
BOOKEND!
1673
00:54:27,807 --> 00:54:30,210
THERE'S A REFEREE AT TWO, THREE!
1674
00:54:30,210 --> 00:54:31,811
YES, YES, YES!
1675
00:54:31,811 --> 00:54:33,813
WE'VE GOT A NEW CHAMPION!
1676
00:54:33,813 --> 00:54:35,815
OH MY GOD, BOOKER T'S THE WORLD
1677
00:54:35,815 --> 00:54:39,152
CHAMPION!
1678
00:54:39,152 --> 00:54:40,253
IT WAS A DREAM THAT CAME
1679
00:54:40,253 --> 00:54:41,488
TRUE.
1680
00:54:41,488 --> 00:54:42,789
EMOTIONS WERE VERY, VERY HIGH
1681
00:54:42,789 --> 00:54:43,657
THAT NIGHT.
1682
00:54:43,657 --> 00:54:45,959
LOOK AT THE FANS STANDING AND
1683
00:54:45,959 --> 00:54:48,261
THEY'RE RAISING THE ROOF WITH
1684
00:54:48,261 --> 00:54:53,767
BOOKER T, THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT
1685
00:54:53,767 --> 00:54:54,034
CHAMPION!
1686
00:54:54,034 --> 00:54:55,602
WHAT A MOMENT IN WCW HISTORY
1687
00:54:55,602 --> 00:54:56,636
THIS IS!
1688
00:54:56,636 --> 00:54:57,771
WE WERE WATCHING,
1689
00:54:57,771 --> 00:54:59,239
LIKE,áFINALLY.
1690
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:00,574
IT FINALLY HAPPENED.
1691
00:55:00,574 --> 00:55:02,108
ONE OF THE GUYS WE SAW EVERY
1692
00:55:02,108 --> 00:55:04,177
WEEK ON TV HAVING GREAT MATCHES,
1693
00:55:04,177 --> 00:55:05,212
WORKING REALLY HARD.
1694
00:55:05,212 --> 00:55:06,780
IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE FEEL
1695
00:55:06,780 --> 00:55:09,216
GOOD MOMENTS.
1696
00:55:09,216 --> 00:55:10,750
THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD WAS
1697
00:55:10,750 --> 00:55:14,487
COMPLETE, BUT AS THE YEAR 2000
1698
00:55:14,487 --> 00:55:16,523
CAME TO A CLOSE, THE NEW CROP OF
1699
00:55:16,523 --> 00:55:17,857
WCW MAIN EVENTERS WERE NOT
1700
00:55:17,857 --> 00:55:19,659
ENOUGH TO SHIFT THE POWER IN THE
1701
00:55:19,659 --> 00:55:23,028
MONDAY NIGHT RATINGS. MANY OF
1702
00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:25,030
WCW'S NEW HEADLINERS COULD NOT
1703
00:55:25,030 --> 00:55:27,367
OVERCOME THE YEARS OF BEING
1704
00:55:27,367 --> 00:55:29,402
REGARDED AS SECOND TIER
1705
00:55:29,402 --> 00:55:29,736
SUPERSTARS.
1706
00:55:29,736 --> 00:55:33,038
IF YOU'VE DONE IT FROM THE
1707
00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:34,174
BEGINNING LIKE EVERYBODY TOLD
1708
00:55:34,174 --> 00:55:34,808
YOU TO DO, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE RAN
1709
00:55:34,808 --> 00:55:35,442
INTO THOSE BIG PROBLEMS IN 2000
1710
00:55:35,442 --> 00:55:36,009
BECAUSE GUYS WOULD HAVE BEEN
1711
00:55:36,009 --> 00:55:36,343
THERE ALREADY.
1712
00:55:36,343 --> 00:55:36,977
YOU CAN'T KEEP ME HERE, HERE AND
1713
00:55:36,977 --> 00:55:38,044
THEN ALL THE SUDDEN ONE DAY,
1714
00:55:38,044 --> 00:55:39,312
OKAY, WE'RE HERE NOW.
1715
00:55:39,312 --> 00:55:42,716
WE'RE TO BE TAKEN EQUAL.
1716
00:55:42,716 --> 00:55:43,350
DOESN'T WORK.
1717
00:55:43,350 --> 00:55:44,017
BY THE TIME THEY HAD REALIZED
1718
00:55:44,017 --> 00:55:44,684
WE NEED TO CREATE SOME STARS IT
1719
00:55:44,684 --> 00:55:45,352
WAS JUST TOO LATE.
1720
00:55:45,352 --> 00:55:46,486
THEY TRIED TO BRING SOME GUYS
1721
00:55:46,486 --> 00:55:49,122
UP, BUT WCW WAS ALREADY OVER.
1722
00:55:49,122 --> 00:55:51,157
IF THEY TRIED FIVE YEARS EARLIER
1723
00:55:51,157 --> 00:55:53,960
THERE MAY STILL BE A WCW RIGHT
1724
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:54,361
NOW.
1725
00:55:54,361 --> 00:55:56,196
FAILURE TO DEVELOP AND
1726
00:55:56,196 --> 00:56:00,734
PROPERLY UTILIZE THEIR
1727
00:56:00,734 --> 00:56:03,737
SUPPORTING CAST HELP SEAL WCW'S
1728
00:56:03,737 --> 00:56:06,373
FATE AS VINCE MCMAHON PURCHASED
1729
00:56:06,373 --> 00:56:07,107
THE COMPANY IN MARCH OF 2001.
1730
00:56:07,107 --> 00:56:07,807
WHEN YOU BRING SOME OTHER
1731
00:56:07,807 --> 00:56:08,541
GUYS UP TO THAT LEVEL, IT'S JUST
1732
00:56:08,541 --> 00:56:09,276
THE MORE THE MERRIER, I'D SAY.
1733
00:56:09,276 --> 00:56:11,044
YOU TURN A CROWD INTO A PARTY.
1734
00:56:11,044 --> 00:56:12,412
YOU CAN ONLY HAVE SO MUCH FUN
1735
00:56:12,412 --> 00:56:14,180
WITH THREE PEOPLE, BUT THEN ALL
1736
00:56:14,180 --> 00:56:16,216
THE SUDDEN YOU HAVE, LIKE,áEIGHT
1737
00:56:16,216 --> 00:56:18,418
PEOPLE AND IT'S A GOOD TIME.
1738
00:56:18,418 --> 00:56:20,186
WE HAD BETTER ENTERTAINERS
1739
00:56:20,186 --> 00:56:21,955
AND BETTER ATHLETES THAN THEY
1740
00:56:21,955 --> 00:56:22,622
HAD THERE.
1741
00:56:22,622 --> 00:56:24,524
YOU COULD HAVE RAN THREE SHOWS
1742
00:56:24,524 --> 00:56:25,158
WITH THREE DIFFERENT MAIN EVENTS
1743
00:56:25,158 --> 00:56:25,792
WE HAD SO MUCH TALENT BACK THEN.
1744
00:56:25,792 --> 00:56:26,760
WHOEVER WAS ON TOP AT THE
1745
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:29,362
TIME, THE BOTTOM GUY, THE
1746
00:56:29,362 --> 00:56:30,764
MID-CARD GUY, WE'D ALL WORK
1747
00:56:30,764 --> 00:56:32,031
TOGETHER.
1748
00:56:32,031 --> 00:56:32,432
SO WE WERE ALWAYS, LIKE,áA REAL
1749
00:56:32,432 --> 00:56:37,137
TEAM BACK THERE AND A FAMILY.
1750
00:56:37,137 --> 00:56:38,405
THE COMPETITION BETWEEN WWE
1751
00:56:38,405 --> 00:56:41,808
AND WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
1752
00:56:41,808 --> 00:56:43,743
HAD PROVIDED THE ULTIMATE STAGE
1753
00:56:43,743 --> 00:56:45,378
FOR SUPERSTARS IN BOTH COMPANIES
1754
00:56:45,378 --> 00:56:47,981
TO SHOWCASE THEIR TALENTS, AND
1755
00:56:47,981 --> 00:56:50,216
ALTHOUGH WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
1756
00:56:50,216 --> 00:56:51,051
WRESTLING ULTIMATELY FALTERED IN
1757
00:56:51,051 --> 00:56:51,885
EMBRACING THE ABILITIES OF THEIR
1758
00:56:51,885 --> 00:56:52,752
UNDER CARD.
1759
00:56:52,752 --> 00:56:53,353
THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR PAVED THE
1760
00:56:53,353 --> 00:56:54,387
WAY FOR SUPERSTARS FROM TOP TO
1761
00:56:54,387 --> 00:56:56,389
BOTTOM TO EMERGE AS HOUSEHOLD
1762
00:56:56,389 --> 00:57:01,961
NAMES DURING SPORTS
1763
00:57:01,961 --> 00:57:05,565
ENTERTAINMENT'S GREATEST ERA.
1764
00:57:05,565 --> 00:57:08,835
IF YOU WERE ON MONDAY NIGHT
1765
00:57:08,835 --> 00:57:09,469
WARS YOU WERE A STAR.
1766
00:57:09,469 --> 00:57:10,103
IT WAS JUST AN ALL STAR CAST
1767
00:57:10,103 --> 00:57:10,704
OF CHARACTERS AND EVERYONE WAS
1768
00:57:10,704 --> 00:57:12,004
STEPPING UP.
1769
00:57:11,538 --> 00:57:13,005
SAYING I CAN DO THAT.
1770
00:57:13,005 --> 00:57:14,207
IT WAS JUST EVERY MONDAY DUNK
1771
00:57:14,207 --> 00:57:16,209
AFTER DUNK, HOME RUN AFTER HOME
1772
00:57:16,209 --> 00:57:16,676
RUN.
1773
00:57:16,676 --> 00:57:18,511
IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.
1774
00:57:18,511 --> 00:57:20,313
DEPTH OF BOTH COMPANY'S
1775
00:57:20,313 --> 00:57:23,015
ROSTERS, WWE AND WCW WERE
1776
00:57:23,015 --> 00:57:24,384
INTEGRAL PARTS TO THE SUCCESS OF
1777
00:57:24,384 --> 00:57:25,151
MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
1778
00:57:25,151 --> 00:57:26,119
AFTER YOUR MAIN EVENT OR YOUR
1779
00:57:26,119 --> 00:57:28,421
STAR PLAYS, YOU WANT DEPTH.
1780
00:57:28,421 --> 00:57:29,923
YOU NEED THAT SIXTH GUY TO COME
1781
00:57:29,923 --> 00:57:33,059
OFF THE BENCH IN BASKETBALL.
1782
00:57:33,059 --> 00:57:35,729
THE DEPTH OF THE ROSTER, REALLY
1783
00:57:35,729 --> 00:57:38,665
ONE OF THE UNSUNG HEROS IN THE
1784
00:57:38,665 --> 00:57:39,666
MONDAY NIGHT WARS.
1785
00:57:39,666 --> 00:57:41,701
THE BATTLE FOR SPORTS
1786
00:57:41,701 --> 00:57:42,502
ENTERTAINMENT SUPREMACY PROVED
1787
00:57:42,502 --> 00:57:44,738
THAT IT TAKES A ARMY TO WIN A
1788
00:57:44,738 --> 00:57:45,338
WAR.
1789
00:57:45,338 --> 00:57:50,377
AS IN ANY WAR, SOLDIERS WIN A
1790
00:57:50,377 --> 00:57:52,579
WAR SO YOU WANT THE BEST
1791
00:57:52,579 --> 00:57:53,179
SOLDIERS BECAUSE ON THE GROUND
1792
00:57:53,179 --> 00:57:53,747
SOMEONE CAN OPERATE A TANK,
1793
00:57:53,747 --> 00:57:54,247
SOMEONE CAN FLY A PLANE
1794
00:57:54,247 --> 00:57:55,448
YOU NEED ALL THE DIFFERENT
1795
00:57:55,448 --> 00:57:56,649
ASPECTS TO WIN A WAR.
1796
00:57:56,649 --> 00:57:59,586
BUT THE DEEP ROSTER AND
1797
00:57:59,586 --> 00:58:00,687
INNOVATIVE STORY LINES WOULD
1798
00:58:00,687 --> 00:58:03,989
NEED A STRONG LEADER IN ORDER TO
1799
00:58:03,989 --> 00:58:05,358
CREATE AN UNPRECEDENTED LEVEL OF
1800
00:58:05,358 --> 00:58:07,060
SUCCESS AND EMERGE VICTORIOUS IN
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00:58:07,060 --> 00:58:09,896
THE MONDAY NIGHT WAR.
1802
00:58:09,896 --> 00:58:11,398
VINCE IS LIKE OUR COMMANDER
1803
00:58:11,398 --> 00:58:13,466
AND CHIEF, HE'S LIKE OUR
1804
00:58:13,466 --> 00:58:13,700
GENERAL.
1805
00:58:13,700 --> 00:58:15,033
HE HAS A PLAN.
1806
00:58:14,667 --> 00:58:15,502
EXECUTE AND WHEN IT COMES
1807
00:58:15,502 --> 00:58:16,836
TOGETHER IT'S A GREAT BATTLE
1808
00:58:16,836 --> 00:58:17,237
PLAN.
1809
00:58:17,237 --> 00:58:18,805
IT WAS SO IMPORTANT WE HAD
1810
00:58:18,805 --> 00:58:20,373
ONE VOICE, AND THAT'S AGAIN, ONE
1811
00:58:20,373 --> 00:58:23,008
OF THE REASONS WE WON THE MONDAY
1812
00:58:22,609 --> 00:58:24,677
WE HAD ONE VISION, WE HAD THE
1813
00:58:24,677 --> 00:58:27,080
VISION OF ONE MAN AND THAT'S
1814
00:58:27,080 --> 00:58:27,881
VINCE MCMAHON.
1815
00:58:27,881 --> 00:58:30,083
WHEN A MAN HAS THOSE BELIEFS
1816
00:58:30,083 --> 00:58:32,152
AND THEY'RE THAT STRONG, YOU
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00:58:32,152 --> 00:58:34,087
CAN'T HELP BUT FOLLOW.
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