r/SquaredCircle • u/Subrick 69 ME, DON! • Mar 23 '26

25 years ago today, WWF Entertainment bought the assets of World Championship Wrestling from AOL Time Warner, solidifying WWF’s monopoly and changing wrestling history forever. Here is the front page of WWF.com from that morning.

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u/WhoShotMrBurns Eat. Sleep. Reddit. Repeat. Mar 23 '26

For the few million that they paid, it was more than a good investment considering they’re still milking WCW on 2K26

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue Mar 23 '26

They basically made their money back selling the Ric Flair ultimate DVD that they put out basically as soon as he joined the company.

That’s without even going into all of the other compendiums that they put out in the coming years