I've spent the past few days listening to old radio shows from the spring of 2001 and have found them to be intriguing.
The shows in question are from the now defunct online radio station - eYada - which had Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez's Wrestling Observer Live on each weekday.
I'd spend the evenings listening to this show back in the day and managed to download tons of archived shows about two years ago and have been going through them whenever I have time to kill.
I'm finally on the shows that were going on when the wrestling world changed. ECW went out of business and WCW was sold off in a fire sale to Vince McMahon's WWE.
I mean 'WWF' as it was a year before the panda won his court case.
In yesterday's rehearing, I caught the episode of the day that the WCW sale went through and I couldn't help but feel that a similar day couldn't be that far from the future with TNA being such a mess.
With that said, and with the benefit of hindsight - the mistakes World Championship Wrestling made are massive compared to TNA. I still cannot shake off the feeling we'll see things repeated again but not on the same level.
It was funny listening to the callers - in the days leading up to the sale - thinking that they were being worked by the company after Time Warner had pulled the plug on WCW's television presence.
WCW had conned the fans far too many times that some thought they were being tricked again. Scary stuff.
These MP3s can be a great source for someone who was planning on writing a book on professional wrestling. It captures the emotion and feelings of the audience in those dark days greatly.
A lot of said audience switched off for good that day.
Never to be seen again.
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