The previous productions on the subject of WCW were all made by WWE, the company that bought WCW in the end. This series is not affiliated with WWE as the creators wanted to tell the story from WCW side and without WWE's influence. The interesting bit is, that a major backer and a producer for this product is Dwayne "The Rock", Johnson, a WWE guy that owns and is on the board of TKO, the company that now owns WWE.