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Mark Madden Speaks On Similarities Between WCW’s End And WWE’s Current Product, His Commentary, More

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Mark Madden recently spoke with The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling to talk about various topics. Here are the highlights:

On similarities between WCW’s end and WWE’s current product: “I see a slight parallel in terms of just everything feels rushed and nothing rarely gets to where it should go and I’m not going to say never because sometimes it does. The big man stuff is played on very well. WCW went out of business because TBS and TNT didn’t want to have it on their stations anymore. As soon as Ted Turner sold TBS and he was no longer the guardian angel of wrestling (which he was for many years) than all it took was one guy who hated wrestling to get it off the network and that guy was Jamie Kellner. Obviously it would have been harder to do where WCW was not hemmoraging money and where the ratings were not dropping but nonetheless it was the most watched program (if memory serves) on TNT when Nitro folded and the just didn’t want WCW on there TV anymore.”

On if management ever get upset with his “shoot” style commentary: “Sometimes Eric got mad. There were checks and balances but it didn’t really stop us. It might have kept us from saying certain things that he didn’t want out there and Eric would get mad but Eric Bischoff at the same time was the biggest booster of the show. There were a couple of guys named Tom Hunt and Mike Webber who worked in communications for WCW that stood behind it as well. If Eric didn’t want to do it (he was certainly on it enough) not frequently but he was on it so there were a few instances but that is what bosses are supposed to do and get mad so people don’t go too far over the ledge. But we did that sometimes anyway.”

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