There's a buzz going in all the 'news' sheets right now, news that may most likely just be a rumor, but it's one rumor picking up a lot of steam even if not true: that WWFE have purchased WCW.

Again, on many fronts this rumor is quite likely not true. As a publicly-traded company, WWFE would have some serious justifications necessary to justify acquiring a promotion that is losing massive sums of money this year. That's the strongest negative to the rumor, first to the fact that Vince McMahon has publicly stated that he is not buying the company.

A lot of my analysis in this piece is most likely just conjecture - meaning it may well just be a case of "let's pretend", but some of it falls into the category of "fanboy wet dream" territory too:

• If it does happen, there are quite a few names on the list of employees who would walk away from the whole thing: Bret Hart, Vince Russo, Shane Douglas, Bryan (Crush) Adams, Jeff Jarrett... these are all people who have heat with the WWF, and wouldn't want to be associated with it once more.



• Actually, if he's still associated with the promotion, I guess you could also factor in Hulk Hogan. Mind you, fans don't seem to miss him, so that point may be moot.



• With Scott Hall just released from WCW, and a possible return to the WWF, wouldn't that murk up things even more?



• There's talk of Ted Turner's TBS and TNT still carrying the WCW product on their airwaves.
  
  Considering the bitter animosity between Turner and McMahon, that'd be a real surprise.



• There are a lot of theories about inter-promotional matches now becoming possible. The idea of Sting versus The Rock or Austin, or Lance Storm against Chris Jericho would interest me a lot

No matter how these rumors shake out, it sounds as if we're in for interesting times.