[1996-01-29-WWF-Raw] Billionaire Ted Skit

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

This is the press conference. There are some real gems here.

 

"Is it true that you provide double the programming of the WWF, but you purposely undercut your advertising rates?"

 

"Since you own television networks, couldn't you include your rasslin' show on another night? Don't you think fans would have preferred that?"

 

And Huckster: "It's in my contract with Billionaire Ted that I never lose"

 

Of course, WCW responded to that by having Hogan do a bunch of jobs for a few weeks on Nitro.

 

This one was the best one so far, but the audacity of some of this stuff is still amazing.

[Phil Austin]

Can't remember if it was this one or not, but I was amazed at the gall they had showing the letter from Bischoff with his signature showing clearly on tv

[Jack_Briscoe_Is_My_Hero]

The lawsuit seems to be the catalyst to the Billionaire Ted skits really jumping off the deep end. The lines Loss mentioned are quite good, and in some cases what fans were actually thinking. Eric did state his intent of Nitro was to put the WWF out of business.

[BackToBionic]

Coming from anyone else these would be valid points, but the insanity of someone who was ACTUALLY putting people out of business and using underhanded tactics to do so, now getting pissy that it's happening to him is unreal.

[Matt D]

I'm sure in Vince's mind the difference was that he was gambling with everything he had while Turner was just pulling from one of many giant piles.

[Kevin Ridge]

World Wrasslin Federation! Doc Hendrix shows off a legal notice sent by WCW to WWF about these segments. Cheap shot about WCW not caring about fans but only caring about running WWF out of business. Huckster and Nacho Man brawling at the news conference.

[Zenjo]

Seeing these segments makes me wish they had put the WWF out of business.

[El-P]

And Huckster: "It's in my contract with Billionaire Ted that I never lose"

Meanwhile, on the other channel, Hogan was losing to Flair via pinfall.

[PeteF3]

An unbearably smug Dok Hendrix laughs off a legal notice from Turner Broadcasting, and promises more. Billionaire Ted clarifies that he is not a hillbilly who wears cheap suits. The Huckster reveals his contract clause that he never loses--whoops, except Hogan had already done a job to Flair earlier that night. "Jane, where's my lithium?" Oh, Lord.

[soup23]

The WWF wont back down and is doing what the fans asked for, more skits of this shit. This makes me pine for the DX invasion days.

[tim]

This was the worst yet. Painfully long and very transparently Vince whining.

[JKWebb]

I'm with Zenjo.  This was lame, and wow has WWE tried to change the narrative over the years through their documentaries.  Not surprising at all, but just lame.

[dawho5]

While I am with Loss that many of the lines were indeed spot on, this is just petty, whiny bullshit.

On top of that, it's petty, whiny bullshit about the same thing the WWF was known for.  If WCW has gone on air bitching about how WWF was doing stuff that wasn't good for family TV in 1999/2000, it would pretty much be the same thing.