What do you do when you purchase your competition and obtain contracts for a number of their most talented workers? Well you take a handful of them, for your own gain, and dump the remaining workers in developmental to build up talent your interested in bringing on board. That's basically what happened after WWE (then WWF) bought, their main competitor, WCW on March 23rd 2001. Whilst the biggest asset WWE got, from the sale, was access to WCW's video tape library, which also included footage from Jim Crockett Promotions, they also got their hands on a number of WCW talent that weren't locked in contracts with, WCW's parent company, AOL TimeWarner. While talent like Booker T, Diamond Dallas Page, Hugh Morris, Chris Kanyon, Lance Storm and Mike Awesome (the first person from WCW to win a WWE title) got to get some decent airtime, on WWE's 'Raw' and 'SmackDown' programmes, talent like Elix Skipper, Johnny The Bull, Mike Sanders, Reno and ...