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Between its introduction in 2002 until present, has WWE ever made offers to TNA to buy out the company? I've also wondered back when Raw was struggling against Nitro, did WCW make offers to buy WWF?
There have been no offers that I have heard of. Vince McMahon tends to wait for companies to go out of business and then buys the assets for pennies on the dollar. WCW was owned by Time Warner and they were first and foremost an entertainment company. Their primary reason for owning WCW was to provide content on their networks. WWE was contracted to The USA Network, so even if TW wanted to buy WWE, they couldn't have aired the programming until the deal expired. With that said, I never heard of anyone in TW that made any kind of overture to try and buy WWE. I highly doubt Vince McMahon would have listened if they did.
Love your site sir. Here's one for you, wrestling will not catch on fire again until they find the so called "lightning in the bottle" wrestler or program. Now I know your not a mind reader but you're probably as swift as anyone when it comes to the wrestling business. Who do you think has the potential to become the next "I watch wrestling just to see this" guy? Stone Cold and the Rock were in the business for years before they found their niche, who is everyone overlooking or have we not seem him yet. Maybe it’s a click idea that we haven't seen a million times, or some kind of who done it, take a guess.
It's funny, sometimes you can see the talent coming, as was the case with The Rock or Hulk Hogan, but some of the time it comes out of nowhere. Take Austin. He was a really good mid-card talent in WCW (in part because the guys on top held him down, brother). He came to WWE as The Ringmaster, a truly awful gimmick. Then, he found Stone Cold and the rest is history. The same goes for HHH, he didn't debut as a sure fire Hall of Famer. Opportunity and circumstances often make the top guy. Now, it's a little hard to say who will break through because there are guys in both companies that are controlling the top of the card and retarding the growth of men who may just be able to break through. It makes it very hard for me to see who could be that guy since I don't get to see him show me what he has.
Do you think at WM 27 it will be The Rock vs. John Cena? It would be epic match to see.
Yes, it sure would be. And, no I don't. Rock has said he will not return to the ring and, at least for now, I believe him.
Love the site, the audio shows are my favorite!! I often wonder, while listening, what is the pecking order (so to speak) at the site? Who is in charge? Sometimes it sounds like Dave, sometimes it sounds like Mike. I get confused. Who is in charge? Who is on the same level? Who gets to lay the Smackdown to whom if they get out of line?
I own the site so the buck stops with me. As for levels, titles and things like that, I always found them silly and masturbatory. Do I really need to put "Owner" or "Publisher" or "Editor" or something else next to my name? I don't think so. I feel that one's work should say what matters about, not a title. We are all on the same level here. We all work hard and provide the best content that we can.
I remember reading the site when it was 1wrestling but I can't honestly remember when it switched over to pwinsider. Could you give a short "history of" on the site and where it came from and how to progressed to where it is now. How did specific people joining as reporters influence its growth? Who has been the backbone of the site?
We debuted on January 27, 2004. Bob Ryder started 1Wrestling.com in August 1997 and asked me to come on board. His concept was to sell subscriptions and I was to provide content with my weekly print newsletter, The Wrestling Lariat (which I started in 1995), and audio updates from my 900 line. Mike Johnson worked at the Lariat with me and eventually came over to 1Wrestling, reporting on Japanese and independent promotions. When the ad boom took off on the net, we switched 1Wrestling over to an all free format. I began doing a once-a-day news column called The Daily Lariat. I realized that given the immediacy of the web, there was no reason to wait and post stories once a day and started doing them in real time. The site took off and my workload got insane since I was doing the vast majority of the posting. Bob Ryder and Joey Styles, who had bought into 1Wrestling, decided to hire a second person to help out on the site. They brought in Buck Woodward on my recommendation. In early 2004, we had gotten to the point where I knew I would be leaving when my contract expired in May. I spoke with Bob and Joey and negotiated an early release and started PWInsider.com as I wanted to have the new site up and running by the time WrestleMania came around. Obviously, Mike and Buck always had a home with me if they wanted it and they chose to come with me when I started the site. We have added some great people since we started and all of them have added to what we do here. I think we are the sum of the people who provide the content here and I am very proud of what we do. As to who is/are the backbone(s) of the site, that is up to the person doing the evaluating.
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