Kevin Nash Says Ted Turner Considered WCW’s Losses Small Compared To Running The Braves

On the latest episode of Kliq This, Kevin Nash reflected on WCW’s place in the wrestling world during the Monday Night War, and why Ted Turner never sweated the company’s losses. Eric Bischoff has previously pushed back on what he called the “false narrative” of WCW being a big money loser, and Nash compared WCW’s losses to the cost to run the Atlanta Braves. You can check out his comments below:

On WCW:

“I hate talking about this era because it feels like I’m being redundant, but when people were at WCW and they weren’t being used, somebody would say, man, you should just go to New York — and if you were green, you’d be like, dude, I’m not ready for New York. That was the big leagues.”

On WWE being bigger than WCW:

“The WWF was the big leagues. WWF was syndicated, they had the Monday show and the Saturday Night’s Main Event, and TBS was the superstation, and they showed WCW wrestling. Within about the third week of the angle with Scott and I, we beat them, and we beat them soundly. He had the number one cable-rated show — my understanding was he was getting a 5.2 rating on Nitro for three hours of original programming, plus Thunder and all these different things. So, whether it was losing $20 million, that was peanuts compared to what it cost to run the Braves.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Kliq This an h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.