The Darkest Timeline Podcast

S06E09 - Ready to Rumble - 2000


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Welcome to the ninth and final episode of the Darkest Timeline Wrestling Gauntlet! In this episode, the boys from the Darkest Timeline try to finish the season by continuing their three episode winning streak. This week they take on the vaguely disappointing beast that did the exact opposite of its job. That's right, we take on 2000's "Ready to Rumble", represented by David Arquette, Oliver Platt, Scott Caan, and Diamond Dallas Page! This film was supposed to the catalyst of WCWs return to the top, and to stop it from hemorrhaging viewers, but the whole thing was so universally panned that it became the final nail in WCW's coffin, and the company folded the next year.Ready to Rumble cost $24 million and only pulled in $12,394,327 in the domestic box office. It also made a further $58,035 somewhere else in the world, but for the life of me I can't find out where, but it clearly didn't make an impression there either. That leaves the worldwide total at effectively unchanged from the total in the states. I'm sure WCW was happy with their investment.Be sure to not tune in next week cause we're taking a week off. So join us in taking a nap or something. Maybe binge the podcast and find out how much better we've become.
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