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Posted By	Discussion Topic: More Details On WWF Buying WCW
Froy King Shit *board owner*	posted on 03-23-2001 @ 1:45 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01	The official announcement of the WWF purchase of WCW could come as early as today and the basic agreement was already agreed upon yesterday between both parties. There have been discussions within the WWF about how the purchase will be handled, and while nothing is completely official, the basic idea is to run it as a separate company for a year or so and then start working some cross promotional programs. It appears they plan on running a storyline that will put Shane McMahon in charge of WCW. The majority of the current WCW crew will be offered a position and there is a chance they will also add some ECW wrestlers that have yet to be introduced to the WCW roster. It is not expected that many of the bigger stars in WCW will be offered positions. WWF will be buying roughly two-dozen existing WCW contracts, all of which are said to be wrestlers that have 90-day cycles built into their deal. The idea is they will take them, and renegotiate the deals to fit into the terms and pay scale they want them at. In order to alleviate the idea that since the WCW labeled wrestlers will be working less dates than the WWF wrestlers, the pay scale on the WCW side has to be less than on the WWF side. There is no start date for a TNN show, but the working idea seems to be a show on the Network, which would likely be taped on Wednesday, but none of that is definite at this time. Of the contracts that are going to be purchased, none are high dollar deals, although many of the high dollar talent are being looked at to be the key players in this new WCW. The wrestlers who are not going to be brought in are wrestlers who either have had a previous problem with Vince McMahon or the WWF from the past. These wrestlers may be ones with bad dressing room reputations, since the WWF is desperately looking to clean up the WCW dressing room. If there is a major surprise, it is that they appear to be very cold toward acquiring Scott Steiner, for all the reasons one would imagine. The wrestlers, whose contracts are not being purchased, will have to be paid by Time Warner for the duration. Time Warner will likely cycle out some of the talent who have cycles in their deals, and that are not used. In the case of the bigger name stars that don't have cycles, they'll have to work out some form of a buy-out provision. There may be a case, in the case of some of the higher paid WCW talent such as Bill Goldberg, Booker T and DDP, who are believed to be very strong forces in a WWF owned WCW brand, where Time Warner would still pay a portion of their salary. While this is not the definite plan for the big buyout, the working idea is very strongly along the lines of presenting the product identical to that of WWF. This may be the plan as opposed to running it as a different identity with a higher workrate, more acrobatic based, more Southern style psychology, more realism based or more violent based or any other difference from WWF that they can dream up. There may be more of an emphasis on smaller men, if only because the most talented wrestlers in WCW and some of the more valuable wrestlers in ECW that haven't debuted all fit into that category. ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. Also providing total immunity to Fayth
back to you randy	posted on 03-23-2001 @ 3:20 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Feb. 01	sounds good to me maybe now we can have some cross promotional matches like booker t vs the rock that would be sweet Beware of my Dragon if u can ever see my damm sig pick
skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force Split Personality #1	posted on 03-23-2001 @ 3:41 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00	or an even better cross promotion match of Lance storm vs. (insert top notch worker's name here) Previously adopted by Joey Big Arms.
Francine Banger	posted on 03-23-2001 @ 5:51 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00	Will Steve Austin agree to work a program with Jeff Jarrett now, or is he still too good for him. If Austin worked with Regal, I think he would let the chosen one in this time.
PhantomBobo	posted on 03-23-2001 @ 6:37 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Mar. 01	Nah, More like Stone Cold vs. Goldberd. That would be nice. Sometimes I wish I could be just like everyone else, then I realize how much they all suck.

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