Bryan Alvarez > Quotes

“Everyone knows that what they see in the movies is not real, but they’re still able to let themselves go for two hours and “believe” what they see up on the screen.”
― Bryan Alvarez, The Death of WCW

“The nWo was a legendary force until they started bringing on every Tom, Dick, and Virgil they could find and wore out their welcome.”
― Bryan Alvarez, The Death of WCW

“Ironically, Jericho could have left sooner than he did: “Even though I’d been working in WCW for over a year I had never signed my contract. I wasn’t holding out for more money or having a legal disagreement, I simply never put the pen to the paper and returned the contract to WCW’s lawyers. Nobody seemed to realize it and I decided to see how long I could go without signing. It was astonishing that no one in the office had ever followed up with me about it, but this was the same company that once sent me a FedEx with nothing inside, so it wasn’t too hard to believe.”18”
― Bryan Alvarez, The Death of WCW

“By 1993, McMahon thought Savage was getting too old and phased him out of the ring and into a commentator spot.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“He allowed cruiserweights to get in there and tear the house down, something you’d never see on RAW.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“Besides his physique, his defining characteristic was that he owned more than 100 pairs of tights and nearly 100 pairs of boots and would color match them to the sports team in whatever city he wrestled in.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“The Mega Powers exploded and squared off at WrestleMania V, where Hogan beat Savage to win the title. The show did the biggest wrestling gate up to that point in history, $1.6 million (keep in mind, in the entire history of WCW, even at its peak in 1997 and 1998, it never broke a $1 million gate even a single time) and 760,000 buys, the all-time record that stood until WWF’s peak year of the Monday Night Wars in 2000.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“Triple H claimed that the nickname “The Game” was to be given to Owen, and that he took it as a tribute to him after his death.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“In July of 2018, WWE announced that it had signed the most lucrative television deal in history, a five-year deal with USA and FOX totaling a staggering $2.3 billion. The irony is that ratings for RAW and SmackDown were hitting all-time lows.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“It’s funny looking back at this period, because everyone remembers that the crowd turned on the happy, smiling babyface Rocky Maivia and WWF responded by turning him heel. That did happen, to be sure. But if you’re a modern fan whose idea of fans turning on a guy is the reaction Roman Reigns got in 2018, the “Die, Rocky die” period is absolutely stunning in hindsight. He was overwhelmingly cheered, with only small pockets of fans turning on him. The fans were probably 90 percent behind him, but that was enough for the company back then to change directions.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“One day he asked me for my address, and shortly thereafter he sent me a card from Eddie’s funeral, a chair with Eddie’s likeness on it from the PPV where Eddie beat Brock Lesnar to win the WWE title, and a handwritten letter. I’ve never published this before, but this is what he wrote: Life is the journey we perceive it to be. I got so much of my perception from Eddie. Eddie shared so much of his life and his life’s experiences with me. He was never too proud or never too ashamed to open up and share with me his experiences, at times revealing his deepest wounds. I am so blessed, so fortunate to have had Eddie’s influence in my life. I pray to God that each one of my children find a friend in life, like I have in Eddie.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“I attended an event on June 8, 1990, at what was then called the Seattle Center Coliseum (later the Key Arena). I was 14 years old and had a pretty good idea that”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

“There was a plan for him to return to the ring at WrestleMania X-Seven, but personal issues again put a stop to that. At some point, he found religion and cleaned himself up. The match planned for WrestleMania was moved to the 2002 SummerSlam.”
― Bryan Alvarez, 100 Things WWE Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die