Eric Bischoff credits Ted Turner as one of the key reasons pro wrestling still thrives today:
"When Ted said to me, Eric, go compete, I had no idea how to do it. I literally sat down and made a list of all the things that [WWF] did.
Had Nitro not come along, had I not gone weekly, had I not shifted the focus and changed the creative to address the 18-49 year old demo, Vince would have been stuck in the mud doing what he'd always done, and he wouldn't be in business today."