The Rock’s Involvement in ‘Who Killed WCW?’ Docuseries Revealed

The death of WCW is always a huge topic of discussion as there are many factors that have gone into its demise. That’s why a new docuseries based on the company’s death will be released soon and now The Rock’s involvement in the show has been revealed.

As previously reported, the ”Who Killed WCW?” docuseries will be produced by Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions and the series is set to premiere on June 4 on VICE TV. The show will focus on the rise and fall of WCW and who was truly responsible for it.

Dark Side of The Ring creator Evan Husney recently spoke with Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp about how the series came together. Alongside Jason Eisner, they received significant support from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions for the project. Husney disclosed that both Seven Bucks and VICE were fully committed to the project, and the collaboration quickly materialized, with filming commencing as recently as December 2023.

“We thought maybe we could do it like, you know, the final years of WCW as a subject and it started, we just got so excited with this idea that we’re like, wait, maybe this could be its own series for television,” he recounted. “Then we’d done Tales from the Territories with Seven Bucks, Dwayne Johnson’s production company, and VICE wanted to continue that collaboration. So just kind of these two perfect things like, ‘Well, what about this? Would you guys be interested in doing this doc about the sort of the last years of WCW?’ Seven Bucks was all on board, VICE was all on board and then we were off to the races and we only started filming it in December. So it’s a very quick turnaround.”

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Discussing the collaboration with The Rock for the project, Husney disclosed that Johnson initially hadn’t intended to participate in an interview for the series. However, after viewing a cut of the first episode, he opted to do so.

“It was nothing we really planned on, per se, in terms of having The Rock sit down for an interview. But it just, as we started sending him cuts of the episodes, he was so enthusiastic about them and he loved that first episode, and he’s like, I wanna sit down for this. We’re like, ‘Awesome.’ It actually worked out more so in a practical way, because most of the people we interviewed for this had lived through the demise of WCW, and that was the whole point of this, by the way,” said Husney. “The whole point was to not go the WWE framework because, you know, victors rewrite history and we didn’t want to go down that path. It doesn’t really get into—like it touches on it, but it doesn’t really get into how—the WWE fought back in the Monday Night Wars and stuff. It touches on that briefly. So it doesn’t get into the DX invasion and all that stuff. But anyway, we needed somebody to speak enthusiastically about the good days of WCW, and nobody involved with WCW these days is gonna speak enthusiastically about it. They’re all kind of dejected, you know?”

Despite never having worked for WCW in his career, Rock, driven by his deep passion for the industry, emerged as the ideal hype man for the glory days of World Championship Wrestling.

“So we needed a hype man. We needed somebody to put all this over and to talk about when it was good, how great it was and there’s nobody better than The Rock to really do that,” Husney said. “He also did touch on what his perspective was from the other side seeing how when WCW was kicking their ass like, ‘Whoa, we need to be inspired by this and we need to go more in that direction. I think it all worked out.”

We will have to wait and see how ‘Who Killed WCW?’ will turn out and be received by fans as it will be dropping this week. Nevertheless, there is some noticeable hype surrounding the show for good reason.

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