Tony Schiavone reveals great Ted Turner story following WCW sale: “those m*therfuckers”
Former WCW commentator and AEW on-screen talent Tony Schiavone recently revealed a great Ted Turner story, which incidentally took place in a toilet following the sale of WCW in 2001 to the then WWF.
Turner passed away back on May 6, and he revealed back in 2018 during an interview with CBS that he was living with Lewy body dementia, a condition similar to Alzheimer’s.
Tony Schiavone on Ted Turner meeting while peeing
Speaking on his What Happened When podcast this week, Schiavone revealed the meeting was during time he was working part-time for radio station WSB…and at a urinal:
“I look to my right, the other guy who’s peeing is Ted Turner. So I say, ‘Mr. Turner, of course, after zipping up, I say, Mr. Turner, I know you don’t know who I am, but I’m Tony Schiavone, and I did the WCW, World Championship Wrestling…’ And he said, I remember vividly, the first words out of his mouth was, ‘Those m*therfuckers [AOL Time Warner]. If I was still running this place, wrestling would still be on TBS. It would still be on TNT. They are out of their minds taking off wrestling, which has been an integral part of what we’re doing.'”
The AOL Time Warner merger is what directly led to the failure of WCW and eventual sale of the company to Vince McMahon, at least in Schiavone’s view: “There’s so many ways, fingers you can point at what killed WCW, but what killed WCW was the fact that AOL Time Warner did not want us on. It was that simple.”
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