Evan Husney says the 'Who Killed WCW?' team tried to represent everyone's takes as best they could.
The four-part "Who Killed WCW?" series on VICE TV examined the downfall of WCW over two decades after the promotion went under. The company's demise has been covered in various ways over the years, so some fans were skeptical about the new series, which included interviews with Eric Bischoff, Kevin Nash, Turner executives, and others. The Rock's Seven Bucks Productions executive produced the series, and the former WWE star's involvement prompted even more skepticism in some circles.
Speaking with Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp, producer Evan Husney addressed the criticisms of "Who Killed WCW?" and the skepticism about the subject being covered again.
“There definitely was a lot of skepticism I think from the Internet wrestling circle going into this, and rightly so. This is a subject that has been discussed a lot in the past. I think The Rock and Seven Bucks’ involvement created some more skepticism, where people were like, ‘Is this a WWE project where it’s gonna have another WWE perspective on it?’ Like I said, this came together last year, so this was before I even knew or anybody knew that The Rock was gonna be a part of the board of TKO. So no, the whole idea going into this project was that we wanted to, sort of off the heels of [Guy Evans'] book, really tell this story from the WCW perspective, to get a fresh take on this. This isn’t the story of WWE killing WCW, it’s the story of all the elements from within that sort of took down this company. That was what we wanted to examine. Obviously, you see some of the, for lack of a better term, dirt sheet response to the show, and I think there is a lot of dissecting of fact or fiction. It’s very hard with a story like this, 25 years later, to pick apart the facts and everything. But I think the emotions are true still, of everything that went down. When you look at episode two, in terms of Eric Bischoff’s exit, and you look at the Bret Hart/Bill Goldberg fiasco and you look at everything that happened in episode three, I think a lot of the things that went down, there’s varying degrees of opinions and everybody had their take, but we tried to represent them as best we could," Husney said.
During the interview, Husney said that he thought they could have done six hours for the series. Check out his comments here.
Click here to see what Husney had to say about feedback from WWE on the VICE TV shows.
Husney has said that they discussed possibly interviewing Ted Turner for "Who Killed WCW?" Check out his comments here.
