10 Things We Learned From WWE Untold: WCW's Big Bang
$67 million to $2.5 million in less than two months...
WWE are quite fond of their 'Untold' series, and so they should be. Each episode is short (they range between 15-20 minutes), but don't let brevity fool you. There's some seriously good content in these docs; for proof, check out everything we learned from films on ECW's reprise and Sting's run in the company.
Neither of those come close to matching the intrigue WCW's 'Big Bang' throws up.
What was 'Big Bang', you ask? It was supposed to be WCW's relaunch in May 2001. The pay-per-view would've enabled Eric Bischoff to show off his ambitions of returning the promotion to past glories, and it would've capitalised on a temporary shut down period designed to make fan hearts grow fonder for that 'Dubya-C-Dubya' fix.
It was cancelled when bosses at AOL/Time Warner pivoted in a different direction and sold the remnants of WCW to Vince McMahon. Bischoff was heartbroken, if only because things could have been so, so different. He thought WCW still had something to offer, but he couldn't push a deal over the line.
Here's everything we learned from Bisch and co...