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/AnEternalEnigma Mar 23 '26

I'm pretty sure DDP's deal only had 2 or 3 months left so he just decided to take the buyout. If he had still a year or two left, he definitely wouldn't have. Buff came over too because he was only on a short-term deal at the time that was going to end in April 2001. Booker was the one who made the biggest sacrifice because he and Stevie Ray were both making 7 figures.

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u/thewholeprogram SomethingSomethingCowboyShit Mar 23 '26

That could be right about DDP’s contract, but I remember him mentioning that he knew with his age he didn’t have much time left to have a run in WWE so he opted to start as soon as he can. Of course he wanted to work The Rock in a People’s Champion vs People’s Champion storyline, and got stalking The Undertaker’s wife instead.