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* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: The whole book is about WCW being this.
* [[It Got Worse]]: The whole book is about how this happened in WCW.
* [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope]]: They theorize that Eric Bischoff went slowly crazy trying to beat the [[
* [[Misblamed]]: [[Invoked Trope|Invoked.]] The authors argue that the "guaranteed contracts" that so many blame weren't the reason WCW went under. As they argue, wrestlers had guaranteed contracts even when the company was making tens of millions at its peak, and were probably under-paid. They only were perceived to be over-paid once ratings fell, the result of horrible booking decisions, the reluctance to push new talent, and general behind the scenes chaos.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: The releases of [[Chris Jericho]] and the Radicalz ([[Chris Benoit]], [[Eddie Guerrero]], Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko), [[Mick Foley]] and [[Stone Cold Steve Austin]] were all downplayed by WCW - until they all became huge stars in the WWF (well, not so much Saturn and Malenko, but still).
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