Many of WCW's top wrestlers had contracts with AOL Time Warner, WCW's parent company, and were willing to sit at home rather than wrestle for less money; Booker T, the reigning WCW Champion at the time of WWF's purchase, was a notable exception, agreeing to a buyout of the remainder of his contract with AOL Time Warner in order to wrestle for Greed replaced the promotion's March PPV event Uncensored which was held from 1995 to 2000. The pay-per-view event took place three days before the final episode of Thunder and eight days before the final episode of Monday Nitro, and was the final WCW pay-per-view. PENDERGAST: 20 Ridiculous Contracts That Put WCW Out Of Business In 2001. Time Warner, at that point) to fulfill. here is your roll call of all the guaranteed annual millionaires on the

CNN founder Ted Turner talks to Fortune's Pattie Sellers about his regrets from how the AOL Time Warner merger occurred. Watch for the full interview on Fortune.com on 11/19. In the meantime, the World Wrestling Federation founded W. Acquisition Company in late-2000 and began speaking to the new AOL-Time Warner about acquiring the WCW brand. Jamie Kellner was handed control over the Turner Broadcasting division, and deemed WCW, along with Turner Sports as a whole, to be out of line with its image. WCW isn’t the only Turner operation facing changes under the AOL Time Warner corporate structure, with hundreds of layoffs rumored to be coming at CNN as early as next week. WCW wrestlers wear all under Time Warner contracts that carried over. WWE didn't haft to pay them a dime to wrestle on their programming until their contracts expired. Those who McMahon saw value Once he sold all of his assets, the more corporate structure of AOL Time Warner saw nothing but a wrestling company that was suffering financial losses. There was no love, passion or knowledge for the business and therefore was an easy decision to cut its losses and sell WCW to Vince McMahon.

When Austin feuded with Bret Hart, WWF's top babyface at the time, fans started He even feuded with top WCW talent following WWF owner Vince McMahon's did fizzle, McMahon signed those who sat on their AOL-Time Warner contracts.

19 Mar 2001 The Turner Broadcasting System, a division of AOL Time Warner, will stop With high production costs and expensive contracts for wrestlers, World TBS shows a two-hour W.C.W. program, ''Thunder,'' on Wednesday  When Austin feuded with Bret Hart, WWF's top babyface at the time, fans started He even feuded with top WCW talent following WWF owner Vince McMahon's did fizzle, McMahon signed those who sat on their AOL-Time Warner contracts. 1 Oct 2015 ones were left behind for Turner (well, Time Warner, at that point) to fulfill. That said, thanks to a WCW Contract Summary document that  The storyline began shortly after the WWF's acquisitions of WCW and ECW in Many of WCW's top wrestlers had contracts with AOL Time Warner, WCW's  6 Sep 2017 2 October 1996: The Time Warner-AOL merger is dead in the water. 1) their contracts, WCW wanted to get rid of some of the bigger contracts,  26 Jun 2017 Tony Schiavone On What Killed WCW, Vince Russo Being Blamed, when WCW, under the ownership was AOL Time Warner, was sold to  scenarios in wrestling surrounds the demise of WCW and the advertised May Around the time of the AOL/TimeWarner merger, Bischoff and Fusient Media a WCW representative is standing by to make sure that the contracts are executed.

6 Sep 2017 2 October 1996: The Time Warner-AOL merger is dead in the water. 1) their contracts, WCW wanted to get rid of some of the bigger contracts, 

Once he sold all of his assets, the more corporate structure of AOL Time Warner saw nothing but a wrestling company that was suffering financial losses. There was no love, passion or knowledge for the business and therefore was an easy decision to cut its losses and sell WCW to Vince McMahon. In fact, because AOL basically shut down WCW, the wrestlers and their contracts were done. So, because many had made deals with Time Warner instead of WCW, they had to be paid.

When Austin feuded with Bret Hart, WWF's top babyface at the time, fans started He even feuded with top WCW talent following WWF owner Vince McMahon's did fizzle, McMahon signed those who sat on their AOL-Time Warner contracts.

26 Jun 2017 Tony Schiavone On What Killed WCW, Vince Russo Being Blamed, when WCW, under the ownership was AOL Time Warner, was sold to  scenarios in wrestling surrounds the demise of WCW and the advertised May Around the time of the AOL/TimeWarner merger, Bischoff and Fusient Media a WCW representative is standing by to make sure that the contracts are executed.

WCW wrestlers wear all under Time Warner contracts that carried over. WWE didn't haft to pay them a dime to wrestle on their programming until their contracts expired. Those who McMahon saw value

WCW isn’t the only Turner operation facing changes under the AOL Time Warner corporate structure, with hundreds of layoffs rumored to be coming at CNN as early as next week. WCW wrestlers wear all under Time Warner contracts that carried over. WWE didn't haft to pay them a dime to wrestle on their programming until their contracts expired. Those who McMahon saw value

scenarios in wrestling surrounds the demise of WCW and the advertised May Around the time of the AOL/TimeWarner merger, Bischoff and Fusient Media a WCW representative is standing by to make sure that the contracts are executed. I thought I read somewhere that the majority of guys were contracted to WCW, but the actual guys that made money were contracted to AOL/time warner like Nash, Hogan, Flair etc. Which would make sense from a financial standpoint as it keeps your balance sheet looking good if your top paid stars are actually being paid by someone else DDP/Booker negotiated a buyout with AOL/Time Warner. Both were reported to be bought out for less than half of the overall contract just so they could be free and go to the wwf. Guys like Nash sat out there deals and made all there money.