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* [[Incompetence, Inc.]]: This trope has always been present to some degree. But WCW from mid-1999 until the bitter end took this trope into new heights. For the year of 2000, WCW managed to lose ''$80 million''. This is what lead to WCW getting sold to main rival the WWF for about $3 million.
** Previously, Ted Turner had been able to tell anyone who suggested closing or selling WCW to stuff it, but after the AOL Time Warner merger, he was put in a figurehead position where he had no real power, which lead to an exec who'd never been part of the wrestling business named Jamie Kellner cancelling all WCW related programming and Turner being unable to do anything about it. Kellner himself was a great example of incompetence, and was forced out of his AOL Time Warner job in 2003. For that matter, AOL Time Warner wasn't exactly not incompetent. As ''[[The Death of WCW]]'' phrased it, "Sure, WCW may have lost $62million in one year, but did they ever lose ''$54 billion'' in ''one quarter''?
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120729022927/http://www.wackbag.com/showthread.php/80399-The-Stupidity-of-WCW The opening post of this thread highlights many of the fuck-ups that led to the company's demise.]
* [[Insane Troll Logic]]: Used to explain Sting's [[Face Heel Turn]] in a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnHa4xw4ewcWCW truly amazing hype video.]
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Eric Bischoff insisted on the term "Cruiserweight" instead of "Light Heavyweight" because he felt the latter made the smaller wrestlers seem less important.
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