10 Non-Wrestlers Who Completely Changed Wrestling History
3. Jamie Kellner
Without question the most tragic casualty of the Monday Night Wars was WCW. Old school fans viewed the company as the lineage from the NWA and Jim Crockett Promotions and losing it was a rough hit, despite the fact the company went out with a whimper rather than a bang. There have been millions of words written about what caused WCW to finally perish some of them accurate but most of them not with blame being leveled at everyone from Kevin Nash to Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff. The real culprit is someone far less familiar to fans; a man by the name of Jamie Kellner. After Time-Warner merged with AOL, Kellner was the man placed in charge of deciding the fate of WCW programming. Despite the fact the ratings had suffered a considerable decline, Nitro was still one of the highest rated shows on the network. However, Kellner concluded that wrestling didnt appeal to a favorable demographic and would not attract the right kind of advertisers, therefore making the decision to axe the promotion from the lineup. Eric Bischoff had assembled a group of financial backers to purchase the company, but because of the lack of TV, the company was close to worthless. This left Vince McMahon as the sole party with any real interest, giving birth to what essentially became a wrestling monopoly.
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