What should vince do with the wcw name?

[Guest Risk]

Vince should really make use of the WCW name, since he isn't even going to use the tape library now.  Here are some ideas I had(feel free to add your own):

 

Sell it to someone(like Turner) for ten times what it was bought for.  

 

Make it one of the shows in the split.

 

Any ideas?

[Guest mastermind]

Vince isn't going to create any kind of competition for himself. WCW is dead.

[Guest]

Vince should at least let different company's buy/Rent the Footage. i.e. RFVideo.

[Guest Risk]

This thread is what he should DO with the WCW name, intending he DOES do something with it.  Selling it for ten times what it is worth would give Vince some cash that he lost through the XFL.

[Guest Hogan Made Wrestling]

Someone would have to be insane to pay 20 million dollars for WCW's name. It has absolutely no value. He should just leave it on the shelf.

[Guest mastermind]

What he should DO. I don't think any sane person will buy anything of wcw. Actually, the wwf has done what they said they wouldn't do. They merged wcw into the wwf. Don't forget the world, tag, i-c/us, and cw *suddenly wwf's own title out of the sky*. The wwf just doesn't acknowledge it too much since they feel wcw might bring down the wwf. I agree the wcw has no value at this point. 1999, 2000, and 2001 were just too much to swallow. The fans know it isn't wcw of 1996-1998.

[Guest]

A Few of the smaller Indy Feds like NWA, WWA, and even the Jarrett's and Jimmy Hart should try to merge together, buy the WcW name and start up a whole new promotion.

[Guest HartFan86]

Vince should open a video library with WCW PPVS that were never realeased and charge half of what WCW charged for  their tapes or what you could buy on Amazon.com for 60 dollars.

[Guest Brian]

Here's a simple idea: Video Biographies. Whatever stake he has in ECW included, he could easily put together a Stone Cold compilation to say the least and make mucho dinero off some of that. He has a goldmine.

[Guest Tony149]

Vince should at least use the WCW video library. The stuff he could do with it is amazing. Hopefully he does do something with the WCW collection.

[Guest Risk]

But "From The Vault" has been taken off Crapcess, he is wasting the name.  He should sell the name, but not the tape library, and let some merged promotions make their own company with the name(and maybe the big gold belt).

[Guest RickyB]

He should definatly use the tape libery and release some, if not all of the WCW Pay-Per-Views.  He could make insane amounts of money from WCW Pay-Per-Views.  Die-hard WCW fans would love to get their hands on some of the smaller Pay-Per-Views and WWF fans would be curous to see Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Tripple H, Steve Austin, Ric Flair and even Hollywood Hogan during their WCW runs.  I'm suprised he hasn't used it already.

 

What he probably will do is shelf the name for the moment and use WCW footage for the entrance videos (which as far as I know they are doing now), for the "Desire" videos and for this rumoured Wrestling channel.  Supposedly they are planning on releasing WCW videos in the near future.  They released the WCW best of the 90's video (some WCW Magazine special) which I brought.  It had some decent (brutally) clipped matches on it and was worth the £2.99 I payed for it.  The fact is that if they released any WCW videos they would sell like crazy.  I would buy (almost) any WCW videos they released since they never showed any Pay-Per-Views over here.  So i'd buy any - especially ones with Hulk Hogan on, especially during his original nWo run.  I mean if they released Bash At The Beach 96 it would sell like crazy.  If they used the tape libary to release a "Best Of nWo" or "Best of Hulk Hogan in WCW" video then they would make millions off it.

 

The main reason he probably isn't using it is because to do so he would end up putting over Wrestlers who he has no interest in signing (Jarrett for example) or who won't sign with him (Bret Hart, Bill Goldberg (for now anyway), Sting).  Although I don't see the problem with this since no company can compete with them at the moment and they'd be making all of the money off those videos.

[Guest Tony149]

I'm sure Vince would have to work out another deal with Jesse "The Body" Ventura, if he ever released WCW footage from 1992-1993.

 

 

Man, just thinking about owning some WCW DVD's is awesome. Just do it Vince!

[Guest caboose]

geez, i'd hate to be blunt, but this vince.

he isn't going to sell wcw to anyone anytime soon.

you'll have to pry it out of his cold dead hands.

in fact, i bet he has the gold belt over his mantlepiece with his name on it.

he probably watches that simulcast everyday before he goes to work, just to maintain the size of his ego.

[Guest humongous2002]

Vince should make EXCESS a best of classic WWF/WCW footage.It'll be great if he comes out with a 24 hour wrestling channel, I can dream ,can I?But right now he should start with Excess b/c the only good thing from the show it's that segment called from the vault. Instead of giving us clipped matches, we should get full matches.Imagine every saturday they could have 2 hours of best of Sting/Flair/Road Warriors/classic feuds with Steamboat and Flair/NWO etc.I'll be using my TIVO every saturday.

[Guest DARRYLXWF]

i bet he has the gold belt over his mantlepiece with his name on it.

 

lol...it's true!

 

We can all talk about Vince releasing WCW ppv's. We can all talk about Vince forgetting WCW altogether, and we can talk about the gold belt, the video library, yadda yadda yadda.

 

If Vince does ANYTHING, he won't just sell WCW Bash at the Beach 96, Starrcade 97, Fall Brawl 98 and all that crap. There's no point! What he can do and might, is sell 'The Best of Ric Flair' with the majority of footage being WCW.

 

In the end, I think it's up to non-WWF employees to bring in some competition. We just can't let Vince MAKE is competition...and that is the very reason why there won't BE competition for a long, long time.

[Guest]

Here's a simple idea: Video Biographies. Whatever stake he has in ECW included, he could easily put together a Stone Cold compilation to say the least and make mucho dinero off some of that. He has a goldmine.

Yeah, something like this would work well. he does have a *goldmine* in the WCW video library. If his production team's up to snuff, they have endless possibilities for tapes/DVDs....for example, a "best of Wrestlemania/Starrcade" contimplation would see rather well, i think.

Joe P.

[Guest RickyB]

I doubt Starrcade and Wrestlemania deserve to be in the same sentance of each other.  I was a very big WCW fan but WCW Starrcade was never anywhere near the level of WWF Wrestlemania, unfortunatly.

 

Vince should just release WCW PPV's or "Best Of Nitro's" and he could make a hell of a lot of money.  If WCW Tapes were advertised on WWF TV advertising big names on the tape like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit then fans would think "WCW, I haven't seen much of that.  I should buy one of those taps" or if they are WCW fans anyway then they'd think "Hey, Best Of WCW Nitro?  I should get this!".  If Vince McMahon blows the chance he's got with this tape collection then he truely is going crazy.

[Guest swan]

Makes you wonder if jarret made an offer on the WCW name but settled for NWA.

[Guest]

I doubt Starrcade and Wrestlemania deserve to be in the same sentance of each other.  I was a very big WCW fan but WCW Starrcade was never anywhere near the level of WWF Wrestlemania, unfortunatly.

 

Vince should just release WCW PPV's or "Best Of Nitro's" and he could make a hell of a lot of money.  If WCW Tapes were advertised on WWF TV advertising big names on the tape like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit then fans would think "WCW, I haven't seen much of that.  I should buy one of those taps" or if they are WCW fans anyway then they'd think "Hey, Best Of WCW Nitro?  I should get this!".  If Vince McMahon blows the chance he's got with this tape collection then he truely is going crazy.

Yeah I see your point (and agree with it); i was just trying to say "Wrestlemania/Starrcade" for effect, maybe just as an example of some of the possibilities. A best of Nitro would definately sell, as well as some of the hard-to-find PPVs that never got released (especially some of eary '90's stuff, like Cactus/Vader and Farooq as WCW Champion. Good way to incorporate the old with the new.)

Joe P.

[Guest Tony149]

Don't forget Vince can also do "The History of the Monday Night Wars" video. Showing footage of Bischoff giving away Raw results, JR saying "This isn't the seniors tour." (It's somewhat happening in the WWF now) The only bad thing that could happen with something like that is making the WWF look like Gods, while WCW looks like they got lucky.

[Guest notJames]

The only bad thing that could happen with something like that is making the WWF look like Gods, while WCW looks like they got lucky.

Considering who's left standing, I don't think we need a video compilation  to get us to that conclusion.

[Guest swan]

Here's a simple idea: Video Biographies. Whatever stake he has in ECW included, he could easily put together a Stone Cold compilation to say the least and make mucho dinero off some of that. He has a goldmine.

The ECW library is stuck in the courts right now. Its part of the assests of the company and they are trying to figure out who has rights to what etc. etc. Right now it seems as though Pioneer has some sort of stake in it since they have continued to release ECW DVD's since the bankruptcy filing.

[Guest]

He should release a comprehensive "history of wrestling" tape. The most valuable part of his purchase of WCW was not the name itself, but the tape library. Don't believe me? Just think back to how you felt the first time they showed the "Desire" history video.

[Guest]

He should release a comprehensive "history of wrestling" tape. The most valuable part of his purchase of WCW was not the name itself, but the tape library. Don't believe me? Just think back to how you felt the first time they showed the "Desire" history video.

Yeah, i doubt anyone here will disagree with you. I hope Vince really saw the response to that video montage...shows you the $$$ that can really be made off this venture.

Joe P.