10 Times You Almost Quit Watching Wrestling

3. When WCW Died In 2001

Any time a wrestling company dies it's going to be a significant piece of news. When WCW died in 2001 and was bought by WWE, it was the death of the second biggest wrestling company in America. There is a large group of fans that never watched WWE. Maybe they were from the south, they grew up on NWA/WCW and had no interest in watching WWE. Think about the number. In America 15 years ago, there were about 10 million people watching wrestling every Monday night. Now it's about 4 million people. What happened to them? It's not just a case of the big name stars leaving WWE. It was the death of WCW that contributed to it. A lot of them are gone because of some of WWE's stars retiring, but many of them are gone because they only liked WCW. With that option gone, those fans never came back. A lot of the people that were watching wrestling on Monday nights quit when WCW died. They had a lot of loyal fans that supported WCW from the moment they started to the time they went to Mondays in 1995 and right until their death. More people were watching WCW in its final days than are watching TNA now. It was a big company that probably should have lasted longer, but when they lost their TV contracts that was it for them. We can laugh about WCW and joke about a lot of things with them, but there's a very good chance that there will never be a "number two" company that gets as big as they did.