Vince McMahon had found himself a gold mine in Stone Cold Steve Austin and eventually the company managed to pull around in the ratings. According to Nielsen ratings, the company finally broke WCW's winning streak in April of 1998 only ever losing to them again in the ratings 8 more times before finally going undefeated. For a little under two more years Vince then proceeded to destroy WCW. This is the company that nearly ruined him by taking all his guys for more money, deriding his company on screen and even spoiling his shows ending. Yeah you read that right. See at the time WCW Nitro was live and WWF Raw was Taped. Eric Bischoff, the president of WCW often found out about the endings to to Monday Night Raw and would have commentators Tony Schiavone and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan spoil the endings to Raw during Nitro's Broadcast. One particular time this happened was when Bischoff found out that Mankind (Mick Foley) was set to win the championship on Raw and as Tony Schiavone said "Fans, if you're even thinking about changing the channel to our competition, do not. We understand that Mick Foley, who wrestled here at one time as Cactus Jack, is gonna win their World title. Ha! That's gonna put some butts in the seats, heh." Well funnily enough, according to Nielsen ratings 600,000 viewers at that time immediately switched over to Raw to see Mankind win.
Vince had finally managed to beat the one company that nearly put them out of business and for good measure in 2001 he bought WCW from Time Warner for a million dollars. A company that was previously worth over 100 million, was sold to their competitor for 1 million dollars. That is insane and to even further cement Vince as the man, he even bought out tertiary company Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) who had had a big role in the Monday Night Wars, often supplying WCW or WWF with their wrestlers for big one night appearances. Vince even later gave jobs to some of the rosters from each company that he bough such as Rob Van Dam, Eric Bischoff, Rey Mysterio Jr. ECW President Paul Heyman, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Dusty Rhodes, The Dudley Boys, Rhyno, Goldberg, Ric Flair the list goes on. Vince truly was the king of Wrestling.
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And he never had to deal with another issue in his company again, of course he did, I'm totally lying that's why this expose has been going on for so long.
