The reason the company survived was WCW screwing up royally. They were loaded to the gills with talent and if they would have had any sense booking-wise, would have buried Vince in 1997. Instead you had the utter cluster that was guys like Bischoff/Nash/Russo/Sullivan, etc. booking and only pushing old guys. The mid-carders that they had were epic - Eddie, Mysterio, Benoit, Jericho, Malenko all in their primes, and they blew it. All they would have had to do was get more of those guys over - problem being that guys like Hogan/Nash, etc. wouldn't job to them. It's not like those guys would have been buried, but they were just stupid. And they screwed Flair like a dozen times.