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This detailed tell-all of the demise of the former top pro wrestling company World Championship Wrestling explores the colorful personalities and flawed business decisions behind how WCW went from being the highest-rated show on cable television in 1997 to a laughable series that lost 95 percent of its paying audience by 2001. Behind-the-scenes exclusive interviews, rare p..more
Published November 1st 2004 by ECW Press
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Jun 29, 2017Gavin rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book turned out to be a whole lot of fun. The story basically chronicled the rise and then fall of World Championship Wrestling. At its peak WCW was the number one rated show on cable television in the USA and made millions of dollars. By its dying days WCW lost over $60 million in one year and had lost 95% of its audience. Authors Reynolds and Alvarez provide a mix of facts (TV ratings, profits and losses, and even talent contracts) and opinions (Their take on good or bad story-lines and i..more
The reviews for this book will be split most likely between fans who had saw the demise of WCW and read this with an interest in what caused it and those who saw the demise of WCW and have previously read articles, books, watched documentarys on it. The former will enjoy this book greatly, sadly I fall into the latter. RD Reynolds is by no stretch a literary great, nor does he claim to be. However it's glaringly obvious how this book was created. It's a story created off articles in Dirt Sheets,..more
Oct 03, 2014Brandon rated it really liked it · review of another edition
RD Reynolds and Bryan Alvarez’s critically acclaimed 2004 book “The Death of WCW” hit its tenth anniversary this year and to celebrate the duo released a new edition that is approximately forty percent larger. The two took on the task of diving deep into the history of the Ted Turner owned wrasslin’ organization to analyse just how a company that had been packing upwards of forty thousand people into giant stadiums in 1998 went to losing over $60 million in one calendar year in 2000.
How could th..more
How could th..more
This is the first book I finished on my iPad, using the Kindle app, while my wife was away in Las Vegas for a weekend.
In an age where corporate incompetence only seems to allow higher-ups to fail upwards into more money that furthers their greed, it's nice to see a story where morons who make poor decisions actually suffer the consequences of them. The story of WCW's rise to the top of the wrestling world and the subsequent fall that followed and led to its sale to rival Vince McMahon's then-WWF..more
In an age where corporate incompetence only seems to allow higher-ups to fail upwards into more money that furthers their greed, it's nice to see a story where morons who make poor decisions actually suffer the consequences of them. The story of WCW's rise to the top of the wrestling world and the subsequent fall that followed and led to its sale to rival Vince McMahon's then-WWF..more
If you are a fan of wrestling, The Death of WCW is a must-read.
It is co-written by a writer for the essential site WrestlingObserver.com and the creator of the excellent website WrestleCrap.
This is the story of how the hottest wrestling company of the mid-90s went out of business in about five years.
I would recommend it to non-wrestling fans, but it probably really is only for those fans of the squared circle. I could try to spin it as a book on business (and to a point it is, there's a lot of h..more
It is co-written by a writer for the essential site WrestlingObserver.com and the creator of the excellent website WrestleCrap.
This is the story of how the hottest wrestling company of the mid-90s went out of business in about five years.
I would recommend it to non-wrestling fans, but it probably really is only for those fans of the squared circle. I could try to spin it as a book on business (and to a point it is, there's a lot of h..more
Apr 17, 2016MacDara Conroy rated it did not like it · review of another edition
What a godawful book. Nothing to do with the subject matter, mind, as behind-the-curtain wrestling politics holds endless fascination for me. But it's so poorly written, poorly researched, poorly reasoned, poorly argued - poorly crafted in general. To a parodic degree, even; much of it reads like the worst examples of a cheeto-spitting, know-nothing know-it-all grapple nerd cliché. At some point I even started to read it in the voice of Comic Book Guy, which is decidedly not a compliment.
Feb 09, 2018Jen from Quebec :0) rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: aty-challenge, books-i-ve-been-putting-off, non-fiction, read-the-audio-book, books-read-in-2018, childhood-reads, disney-challenge, favorites, reading-challenge-books
Frigging awesome. If, like me, you are a wrestling 'mark' then this is REQUIRED READING. When the 'Monday Night Wars' for TV wrestling supremacy between WCW and WWF (now WWE) were happening, I chose brand allegiance and was loyal to WWF. Therefore, I NEVER watched WCW, the 'enemy brand'. However, just a few years after WCW was head to head competition, they folded, went bust and were bought by the McMahon family and incorporated into the WWF brand. Suddenly, my WWF Monday Night RAW program was f..more
Great insight into what actually happened behind the scenes at WCW, and why the company failed. The narrator was hilarious in his descriptions to the point is laughed out loud many times during the book. Everyone who has been a fan of wrestling should read this. It brought me back to my childhood.
Apr 30, 2015C.T. Phipps rated it really liked it · review of another edition
The Death of WCW is a mean-spirited book. This is the biggest problem with it. It's informative, sometimes hilarious, but fundamentally filled with a contempt for the sequence of events which led to the fall of Turner Broadcasting's wrestling promotion. Admittedly, reading through the book, it's not hard to see why the authors felt this way.
Essentially, The Death of WCW is a book chronicling the rise and fall of World Championship Wrestling. Created by Ted Turner as an alternative to the World..more
Essentially, The Death of WCW is a book chronicling the rise and fall of World Championship Wrestling. Created by Ted Turner as an alternative to the World..more
Oct 30, 2013Restokes92 rated it it was amazing
For this book I feel that voice was highlighted extremely well in the book. The key component of voice that I felt was used the best by the author was that he knew his audience. I think voice was used very well because Brian Alverez knew that the audience that was going to pick up this book were going to be smart wrestling fans. Fans of wrestling who knew that the sport is nothing more than acting with wrestling put in it where the winners of matches are prearranged and wins and losses don’t rea..more
Apr 01, 2016Jason Schneeberger rated it really liked it
Ahh..the glory days of wrestling, the pinnacle moment in sports entertainment history: the Monday Night War. WWF vs WCW was the ULTIMATE feud in wrestling history, but WCW was doomed from the get go. You wouldn't think so when considering how dominating they were over the WWF in 1997, but WCW had zero leadership or a vision for the future and in the end, it damned the company. This book covers it all.
I have many fond memories of this period in history. I was always a WWF guy at heart, but I da..more
I have many fond memories of this period in history. I was always a WWF guy at heart, but I da..more
Nov 19, 2011Artiom Karsiuk rated it it was amazing
I was a huge WCW fan back in the day- so much so that I didn't even know that a rival company (WWF) existed. Of course, that was mostly because I was an ignorant 10-year old living in Lithuania, but I was a loyal fan. So it wasn't without pain that I read this book, but I do believe that this as objective of an evaluation as you can get. I loved the book for two distinct qualities:
1. It is written by a very witty writer in a manner that balances comedy (where appropriate - like the Hogan/Warrior..more
1. It is written by a very witty writer in a manner that balances comedy (where appropriate - like the Hogan/Warrior..more
Jul 10, 2011Anthony Brennan rated it really liked it
I nearly broke my neck from shaking my head at all the incompetence. Wrestling is a very individual-centred craft, but that's what makes it the ultimate team endeavour. But by thinking only of themselves, and not the greater good, Hogan, Hall , Nash, Bischoff and even Vince McMahon killed what could have been a strong brand for decades to come.
Before reading this, I wondered how it died. Now I'm shocked World Championship Wrestling lasted as long as it did. Every other page you're like 'no, sure..more
Before reading this, I wondered how it died. Now I'm shocked World Championship Wrestling lasted as long as it did. Every other page you're like 'no, sure..more
Dec 22, 2010Juan Ortiz rated it liked it
The Good: The book provide statistic about ratings and PPV buys that I did not know about. It's good to note that even at its worst time, WCW was doing very good rating numbers, so everyone's idea that the booking and bad ratings were the reason behind its demise is proven wrong.
The bad: The book is very opinionated, which wouldn't be as bad if said opinion was coming from somewhat with any successful entertainment or business background. These are the opinions of a fan; nothing more,
nothing les..more
The bad: The book is very opinionated, which wouldn't be as bad if said opinion was coming from somewhat with any successful entertainment or business background. These are the opinions of a fan; nothing more,
nothing les..more
Jan 25, 2013James rated it it was amazing
A good informative book about WCW. Being a wrestling fan in the 1990's was probably the best time to be one and this book does what it says on the tin and charts the WCW story. As I was more a WWF fan this was essential reading to find out what really went on with the rivals. The world of wrestling is like no other and if this was a story you wouldn't believe it. In my opinion a great read for fans and former fans of the 'sport' but I doubt would be interest to anyone else.
every wrestling fan MUST read this book.
The best wrestling-related book I've ever read.
Couldn't put this down. I could read this a thousand times and not get tired of it.
This could've been cut in half and still delivered all of the details, many stories were repeated and many of them out of order / out of context.
Jan 05, 2018Matt rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
4tb time i read it
Some grammar mistakes here and there and sometimes it gets to be too much with differing opinions. But if you love reading wrestling history, read this.
Some grammar mistakes here and there and sometimes it gets to be too much with differing opinions. But if you love reading wrestling history, read this.
Nov 18, 2017Tim Kretschmann rated it it was amazing
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if you are evenly casually interested or familiar b with the subject matter, this book fills in the holes and teaches what to avoid in a promotion. Excellent and real page turner.
Jan 23, 2019Jon Peder Opsahl rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I knew alot of the history of WCW and it's demise before reading this book through the many documentaries on the subject. The book was still really enjoyable, and provided new details I was not aware of. It is also nice to get an outside WWE perspective on the Monday Night War. If you are a wrestling fan I think you will enjoy this book.
Jul 01, 2018Luke Koran rated it it was amazing
Coupled along with my watching of the WWE documentary “The Rise and Fall of WCW” and reading of Eric Bischoff’s autobiography “Controversy Creates Cash”, the detail-rich book “The Death of WCW” covers everything stemming from the history and legacy of WCW in enough capacities to satisfy even the most die-hard WCW fan, let alone the casual modern-day WWE fan such as myself. Sometimes on a week-by-week basis, the authors explore exactly what WCW did during it’s prime run in the mid-to-late 1990s,..more
Jun 17, 2018Michael rated it really liked it · review of another edition
4.5 stars. Loved it, very informative and lots of fun to relive the whole disastrous affair. But another run through by a copy editor would make for a better experience.
A great story told poorly. In the mid-1990s, professional wrestling was slumping badly in the face of poor products at both WCW and the WWF/WWE. When two of WWF's top stars, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, left for WCW, the head writer Eric Bischoff hatched a plan to make it look like an invasion from the enemy company. It spun into a counter-cultural storyline that kickstarted the biggest boom in pro wrestling history, and made WCW the biggest show on cable television. But in a few years, those same..more
Oct 04, 2017Josh rated it it was ok · review of another edition
If you enjoy reading a redundant book that tells you over and over and over and over how stupid and incompetent WCW was, than this is the book for you.
Parts of the book were confusing. Did Dusty Rhodes have a great two-year booking run, or was he clueless about how to run a national company? Was Rhodes successful booking for regional promotions, or did every place he ever booked go 'broke'? Why do the authors chastise WCW for not commemorating the one-year anniversary of Goldberg's win streak du..more
Parts of the book were confusing. Did Dusty Rhodes have a great two-year booking run, or was he clueless about how to run a national company? Was Rhodes successful booking for regional promotions, or did every place he ever booked go 'broke'? Why do the authors chastise WCW for not commemorating the one-year anniversary of Goldberg's win streak du..more
Feb 28, 2016Jake Cole rated it liked it · review of another edition
Bryan Alvarez is a fun talker on his various radio shows for Wrestling Observer: hyperbolic, sardonic, and just egotistical enough that his notions of what would improve wrestling come off as benign and at least partially insightful instead of grating armchair quaterbacking. Though this book was co-authored, it sounds most written in Alvarez's voice, which has some drawbacks in print. The book reads too conversational, and too many times it falls back on adding a 'REALLY, this happened. No, REAL..more
Jan 21, 2016Armando Negron rated it liked it · review of another edition
The good thing about this book: It is very detailed
The bad thing about this book: It is very detailed
I grew up watching when WWF, and did not pay much attention to WCW until its downfall. Once it became part of the WWE brand, I started watching old events on the WWE 24/7 On-Demand channel, including also the WWE-produced documentaries of the 'Rise and Fall of WCW.'
This book helped me get some context on the images I have previously seen. Not only did the author give the onstage drama, but the ba..more
The bad thing about this book: It is very detailed
I grew up watching when WWF, and did not pay much attention to WCW until its downfall. Once it became part of the WWE brand, I started watching old events on the WWE 24/7 On-Demand channel, including also the WWE-produced documentaries of the 'Rise and Fall of WCW.'
This book helped me get some context on the images I have previously seen. Not only did the author give the onstage drama, but the ba..more
To anyone like me who was a wrestling fan during the 'Monday Night Wars' this book was great. It was funny and answered a lot of questions to all us wrestling fans who watch WCW wondering 'what the hell just happened?' It was also funny being reminded of the the stupid crap WCW came up with. Very often though this book I was sitting there laughing and saying to myself 'Yeah I remember that.' And 'Oh holy crap I forgot about that.' Maybe I'm little biased against WCW because I was always a WWF fa..more
Aug 25, 2009Laurie V rated it liked it
I've been meaning to read this book for years. I started following U.S. pro wrestling closely around the same time WCW went under, so there were a lot of events in the book that I'd heard of but never really understood. Not that there's much to understand about the dumb decisions WCW management made over the years. Jesus..
Overall this was a fun and informative read. I'm a patron of Bryan Alvarez's newsletter and audio shows, and it's possible to actually hear him saying a lot of what I was read..more
Overall this was a fun and informative read. I'm a patron of Bryan Alvarez's newsletter and audio shows, and it's possible to actually hear him saying a lot of what I was read..more
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