Apr 21 2024 70 mins 3
What was behind the meteoric rise of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the mid-1990s? How did the Atlanta-based promotion best the WWF in the television ratings war for 83 consecutive weeks? What led to WCW's shocking buyout by its biggest competitor in 2001 - and how did WWE's lengthy monopoly on the industry impact the world of professional wrestling?
Guy Evans is the author of three great wrestling books: NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW, Grateful with Eric Bischoff, and Sitting Ringside: Volume 1 with David Penzer.
He joins Wrestling Life Online's Ben Veal on the #wrestlinglifepod to talk:
- His journey to writing NITRO with zero industry contacts at the time, and how that helped the creative process
- The untold stories that existed within Turner, and how telling these helps to contextualise WCW's rapid decline
- Working with Eric Bischoff on his second autobiography Grateful
- How professional wrestling is a cyclical business, and learnings that AEW should take away from the WCW story
- Developing brand new book Sitting Ringside: Volume 1 alongside David Penzer.
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