I'm like you I started watching both companies in 1998 and that's when both companies were at the height of their fame, I stopped watching WWE around 2004, by then I could tell it was starting to decline fast.
I think pro-wrestling reached its peak in 1998-99-'00 (seriously folks, these were days when the news media outlets, the entertainment outlets Access Hollywood, etc. would mention pro wrestling, they don't dare do that stuff today)
WCW biggest issue was their parent company, (Time Warner) they shouldn't had any control in it. They had something good all the way to 1999 when they stupidily took Bischoff out of command and tried to run it themselves then tried to bring him in '00 but it was too late, WCW was crumbling. You would think Time Warner would have captilized on the fact they had a show that targed the primary advertising target age 13-35 year olds and just give Bischoff full control of WCW. But what they do, they pull the plug on the company and take it off TNT and TBS and then it gets bought up by Vince who use it to promote his show. (I'll say this if Vince didn't buy WCW that year, Wrestlemania X-Seven and storylines that followed would have been boring) Time Warner's biggest mistake to date.
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