Tony Schiavone Recalls Ted Turner Blaming AOL Time-Warner For WCW’s Sale

Tony Schiavone says that he had a bathroom conversation with Ted Turner in which the late mogul blamed AOL Time-Warner for WCW’s sale. Turner passed away last week at the age of 87, and Schiavone shared memories of the media mogul and former WCW owner on the latest episode of What Happened When.

Schiavone recalled how he ran into Turner when he was wking part-time for radio station WSB. The two ended up using a public bathroom and Schiavone introduced himself to Turner, which led to quite the response from Turner. You can see highlights below (per F4W Online):

On Talking With Turner About the Matter In the Bathroom:

“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 motherf**kers [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.'”

On AOL Time-Warner Killing WCW:

“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.”