The Build-Up: WWE’s Acquisition of WCW

Picture this: March 2001. Vince McMahon, WWE’s iron-fisted patriarch, snatches WCW’s carcass for pennies on the dollar—a corporate heist so audacious it made Gordon Gekko look tame. But here’s the twist: while Vince counted his spoils, his fictional son Shane “bought” WCW on live TV. Wrestling’s version of Succession had arrived, complete with body slams […]