Even as the promotion was clearly creaking under pressure, few theorised at the beginning of the year 2000 that World Championship Wrestling had just over a year of existence left. After all, Ted Turner loved the company, because it had been a staple of his media juggernaut for years. There's simply no way 'Billionaire Ted' would let WCW go out of business. The problem was, Turner's control had been loosened by a company merged between AOL and Time Warner. By 2000, Ted Turner had never had less say in what was happening, meaning there was a very real possibility that WCW could be in trouble should it not continue as a viable product. At the turn of the millennium, the promotion was far from running smoothly. 1999 had been a disaster of a year creatively, and fans were rapidly losing interest. As a consequence, Vince Russo had been brought on board later that year. The thought process was very much that Russo had been crucial to the WWF's 'Attitude' Era rise, which was true, but he couldn't replicate it in WCW. This fact, combined with many others, made 2000 a miserable failure for the company. This list explores many of those miserable failures, but offers up solutions for what WCW might have done differently. In essence, what would have helped ease the burden on WCW in 2000, and perhaps saved the organisation from becoming a running joke?
