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Originally Posted by Demolition Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_C...ing_Federation An brief cliff notes version of the buyout of WCW. I've read far more stuff in publications such as the Pro Wrestling Torch that went into far greater detail on what happened but this pretty much nails down the basics of it in a few sentences.

This is the part that amazes me most. It's from the legacy section of that Wikipedia article.

Repetitive story lines, questionable booking issues, and corporate restrictions eventually led the promotion to begin losing large amounts of money, leading to parent company AOL Time Warner selling the name copyrights to the WWF for $2.5 million in 2001. Shortly after the purchase, Vince McMahon purchased the entire tape library for an additional $1.7 million, bringing the final tally of World Championship Wrestling's sale to $4.2 million.

They paid more for the copyrights to the names than they paid for the video library.

I need some help. I bought wrestlemania 25 on blu-ray today and I go to pop it in to play it. It plays through the advertisements and the please don't try this at home thing, but then it freezes and restarts my player. My blu-ray player is updated to the most recent firmware. The model is a LG BD610.

Originally Posted by The Lord of Awesome I feel so sorry for you having to see my boi D-Bry get buried live. Was the people around you majorly pissed? Cause on TV the crowd was hostile.

I got in during the kane-orton match. Didn't think they would start off with that & above all end it in like 20 secs. Anyway, I was surrounded by super enthusiastic kids which was fun initally but got annoying pretty fast...lol

Originally Posted by arsenal_fan I got in during the kane-orton match. Didn't think they would start off with that & above all end it in like 20 secs. Anyway, I was surrounded by super enthusiastic kids which was fun initally but got annoying pretty fast...lol

Hopefully it was worth it if they got upset The Rock won.

"My childhood hero beat your childhood hero!"

Originally Posted by Calipso People still watch wrestling?

people still play games

Originally Posted by rerun A lot of these (the non-event DVDs) are on Netflix Instant if anyone is interested as well.

Edge: A Decade of Decadance
Undertaker 15-0
and another one (I think The Stone Cold Truth) possibly more too.


are all $5 flat at K-Mart also for anyone that's interested. Picked up a Decade of Decadance a while back as that was the only one that interested me.

Only other one I really want to get is WWE Ladder Match 2: Crash and Burn. It has the Edge & Christian vs Hardyz ladder match from the Raw I went to in State College.