400 pages of alvarez smugly calling everyone involved with WCW a complete retard

the nitro book is better

nah

I never read it. I thought it was all backstage politic stuff.

it's a week by week summary from Outsider debuts to post-Invasion. also has about 60 pages describing how the early regional feds got bought out resulting in WCW vs WWF. if you filter out alvarez putting himself over it's a decent overview

The Death of WCW book is wildly inaccurate, extremely biased & fails to challenge conventional wisdom. The book is filled with errors, glaring omissions, & biased authors who inject their personal views on cards, talents & decisions. The book is not an accurate historical reference or analysis of the company or how it went out of business. The book if you're being charitable, is incomplete. If you're being honest, it's a quick-buck hack job written by Dave Meltzer's sidekick & a hack from WrestleCrap, who weren't there & have their own agenda, so they gleaned selective "facts" from Wrestling Observer Newsletters, basically rewriting Meltzer's work for fun & profit. It's unfortunate that the authors chose to be selective in which targets they went after, choosing to focus on easy & acceptable targets while avoiding ruffling the feathers of their friends even when such criticism was called for. Just one of many examples of where the book loses credibility as a definitive, balanced history of WCW.

The Meltzer-esque bias is rampant throughout. Simply put, anybody that Dave likes gets lionized as a hero, & everybody he doesn't is evil. Bryan Alvarez & R.D Reynolds echo him in everything. Ric Flair comes off as a cross between a martyr suffering to preserve the glory of wrestling & a battered wife from a "Lifetime" TV-movie coming back to her abusive husband for the sake of the kids in the family. Hulk Hogan is an Emperor lurking in the shadows & plotting to destroy everything around him. Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho are the noble warriors driven from their homeland. Kevin Nash is an egomaniacal doofus & Scott Hall is his comic relief flunky.

Read the Nitro book instead.

>Ric Flair comes off as a cross between a martyr suffering to preserve the glory of wrestling & a battered wife from a "Lifetime" TV-movie coming back to her abusive husband for the sake of the kids in the family. Hulk Hogan is an Emperor lurking in the shadows & plotting to destroy everything around him. Chris Benoit & Chris Jericho are the noble warriors driven from their homeland. Kevin Nash is an egomaniacal doofus & Scott Hall is his comic relief flunky.
every word of that is accurate though

Raped bitch on the top right

I would've agreed to that had Ric Flair not gone in shoot interviews and WWE DVDs afterwards saying WCW was a trash company and it was the happiest day of his life when it closed down

Page 187 - Says Hulk Hogan blamed DDP for the poor rating Hogan vs. DDP match did on the March 29th 1999 edition of NITRO, & said Hogan said it proved DDP wasn’t a main event quality star - no evidence is provided to back up this claim. DDP stated on one of his YouTube videos that Hulk Hogan (& Kevin Nash) made the decision that he would become WCW World Heavyweight Champion at Spring Stampede 1999.

Page 191 - Talks about British Bulldog injury on the trap door. Conveniently forgets Davey Boy Smith was already broken down shell of himself in the year leading up to that day & was hooked on crack & morphine - as revealed by Ultimate Warrior in his Highspots shoot interview.

Page 193 - Says Goldberg decent continued because he wasn’t the main event of Spring Stampede but makes no mention to fact he beat Kevin Nash clean in semi main event of that same show (go figure). Unnecessarily buries DDP saying he was in his 40’s but looked like he was in his 50’s.

Page 204 - Says “Sid, you might recall, had left WCW about 10 years prior after nearly stabbing Arn Anderson to death”. Fails to mention that Arn Anderson also stabbed Sid Vicious & Sid may have also bled to death had Vader not applied pressure to Sid's wounds.

Page 208 - Says in unscripted moment Randy Savage slapped Torrie Wilson backstage & that she was so shocked she began to laugh on live TV which is incorrect as she was actually laughing before Randy slapped her & stopped after he did.

Page 217 - Claims Jeff Jarrett had been a colourless heel in WWF who had just started to get over beating up women (funny how they never described Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko as colourless).

The books sucks. Accept the reality and stop being an Alvarez apologist.

Page 218 - They say Goldberg won U.S. Championship from Sid Vicious via blood stoppage which made no sense because later in show Ric Flair “bled a total gusher”. Apparently these insiders don’t know that the guy they have a massive raging hard on for in Ric Flair went into business himself (like he usually does) & cut himself without permission. WCW management fought hard to get the representative from Turner’s “Standards & Practices” division to agree to let Sid bleed. The S&P rep was sold on the idea that Sid bleeding was not being done for the sake of gore, but was part of a storyline. When Flair bled in the next match, WCW management looked bad for being “unable to control their wrestlers.”

Page 224 - Claims Goldberg nearly ended his career the night after Starrcade 1999 on NITRO which is false because the incident (Goldberg punching a limousine window) occurred a few days later on a taped Thunder. Says Bret Hart, Kevin Nash & Scott Hall reformed nWo for 87th time (actually it was only the 3rd time & they don't mention that Jeff Jarrett was also apart of the reformed nWo that night). No mention of Scott Hall's promo (which was edited off Thunder when it aired) as being the reason why Goldberg was angry & punched out the limousine window.

Nobody mentioned Bryan Danielson shankfaggot. FTR current AEW wrestler Bryan Danielson was raped like a whore by a gay black man.

if you actually watched wcw in 99-2000 you know that it's not

I just started reading this last night
>upon getting the job Bischoff immediately films 3 months of tv without fans with Sid as champ at the end
>Sid gets into a shoot fight in the UK and gets stabbed with scissors by Arn
>they have to scramble to put the belt on Flair
this level of dumbfuckery was already happening in 1993 let alone 1998

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>imagine reading any of this shit
And the Nitro book sucks too. Reading Bischoff and Wolfkek's defense meltdowns is just as bad as listening to any of Alvarez's or Meltzer's drivel.

>Hulk Hogan is an Emperor lurking in the shadows & plotting to destroy everything around him
HOLY FUCKING DIMESOLA

Nitro book interviews all the top Turner executives. You have to be a special kind of moron to disgreard it. I'd expect nothing less from a faggot on Any Forums who still blabbers on all these years later about "wolfkek" though.

>400 pages of observer reports about how fucking stupid WCW execs and bookers are. Where do I buy?

The funny thing is the Nitro book is a lot more damning of Eric than Death of WCW. Alvarez and Wrestlecrap fag just clown on Bischoff, Nitro lays out in painfully in-depth detail how he was a fucking retard who had one good idea and got lucky for 18 months in the late 90s.

>Wolfie is shoot ITT seething as I type this
KWAB.