WCW: The Alternate Timeline: Saving WCW in 1999

As a wrestling fan, one of the saddest events in the Monday Night Wars was the end of WCW. Despite the last few years being pretty awful, WCW always had the potential to be competition for the then WWF. The author has many good ideas to historically save the company but sometimes it comes off as a bit much. And some chapters go into much detail that it almost brings any momentum in reading to a halt. For example, much of his plan involves technical jargon about financial plans about certain wrestlers but instead of keeping it more about the wrestler he tends to monotonously discuss money at length. In the world of wrestling, it's about entertainment so the author should have focused on discussing specifics on characters his plan would revolve around. By keeping casual readers hooked by talking about WCW characters, I believe this book would've been more relatable to fans who loved the company.Just from an accuracy standpoint, there are a few typos with grammar. One that aggravated me to no end was "currant" when it's "current". That's a very simple grammatical error but one which the author repeatedly makes and it's a pet peeve of mine that when reading a book, you have to get grammar correct for me as a reader to take you and your book seriously. So for content and intent alone, I rate this book as 3 out of 5. Had the author thrown in some humor, concise points, & actually used correct grammar perhaps my score would've been higher.

Overall, many interesting points were brought up about the fall of WCW. However, there was far too much repetition with regards to many of those points. Telling me three times in one chapter about the cruiser weights not being likely to jump ship to WWF is two times too many: I got it the first time. Also, some chapters simply repeat previously mentioned ideas; they could have been easily combined for less repetition overall.The worst part was the overall editing of the book. Far too many errors in spelling and/or missing words in sentences throughout the book. It's almost like only a word processing editor was used as opposed to a human editor who could see these errors more quickly and easily. (ie Using 'nWo' as it appeared on television and in print and then the next time it was mentioned, often in the same sentence, it was written as 'now'.) Shoddy editing, at best.

Firstly, I would like to say that I enjoyed the book. It has a lot of information about the wrestlers' pay and has some common sense answers on how they could have saved money. However, the book is riddled with errors and that can sometimes come across as someone who either did not revise his work, or someone who simply does not know any better. Either way, if you are a wrestling fan, especially a WCW fan, then you will find the book to be entertaining. The price being 0.99¢ you really cannot go wrong. If the grammar and errors had been fixed, this could easily have been a five star rating.

A fascinating in-depth analysis of what could and should have been done to save WCW from self-destruction.If you are interested in what goes around backstage and by the business and financial aspect of pro wrestling you must buy this eBook.It's only one buck so you must read it!I will most likely get the two other wrestling eBooks by the same author.

Lots and lots of typos. Same points made over and over again, or even contradicted prior points. If you are not well-versed in the status of WCW in 1999, the book is hard to follow.

Real interesting concept, but execution leaves much desired. Many, many spelling and grammar mistakes ahead. This book was possibly a senior project that took on a life of it's own, but sadly the author forgot to hire a good editor. Still an okay read, I bought it for a buck on Amazon e-books.

Very good

Interesting article concept, but way too repetitive for a book. The author fails to truly provide a timeline and instead lists a ton of ideas. I would like to see a few revisions to clean up the format.

The concept is a good idea however the actual quality of the book is poor.Text looks as if it's simply a print out from a home printer and the book itself is riddled with spelling mistakes.If you're going to write a book about wrestlers then at least learn to spell their names correctly!

I found the subject very interesting, most long term fans like myself would love to fantasy book WCW in 1999. The author does have some clever ideas but the book repeats and repeats in my opinion. The book is only as long as it is because of this. Whilst I am no wordsmith the amount of grammar errors are not acceptable either. Such a shame to be honest because I hate criticising a subject which I am passionate about. Better wrestling alternatives around I am afraid!!!!

Easy to read and interesting view of a company that was doomed to loose the Monday night wars and disappear forever.

Everything always seems better in hindsight. Nothing that hasn't been thought of before. Also, loads of grammatical errors. Read like a cheap college assay. Very disappointing.

There has been a lot of talk about WCW and why it went out of business. This book, even if in some pages sounds a little bit obvious (things aleady heard and written), in some other develops very interesting point and views that deserves to be read. Generally, it was a very nice reading