The Rock, despite being all in for WWE during the Monday Night War, has glowing praise for the run from World Championship Wrestling that knocked WWE from the top spot for a brief time in the 90s.
The Rock began his WWE career in November 1996 during the middle of the Monday Night War that pitted WCW Monday Nitro against WWE Monday Night Raw. By the time the ratings battle concluded in 2001, Rock was heading into his third consecutive WrestleMania main event and it was the rise of stars such as himself and Stone Cold Steve Austin that helped turn the tide for WWE and led to them reaching greater heights than ever before.
Still, Rock has nothing but respect for what WCW accomplished, saying during the final episode of the "Who Killed WCW?" documentary series on VICE that one thing he learned from Harvey Wippleman, aka Downtown Bruno, is that everyone has to come to terms with when their big run is over. That moment eventually came for WCW but The Rock says their run was awesome.
"A good buddy of mine. He's one of my best friends, Downtown Bruno, when I first started, I said, 'Bruno give me some advice.' He said, 'You're going to hear a voice one day, and that voice is going to say, 'Go on home. The big run's over.' WCW, as an entity, they heard that voice and the big run was over, and it was fucking awesome."
Learn more about Rock's involvement with the docuseries at this link.
Elsewhere in this episode, The Rock discussed some of his dream opponents from the peak WCW roster. Read those comments here.
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