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However, beginning in Spring 1998, WCW began an angle which saw the nWo split into a heel faction, nWo Hollywood (centered around "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan), and the rival face nWo Wolfpac (consisting of stars such as Kevin Nash, Sting, Lex Luger and Konnan).
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. It began as a promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that appeared on the national scene under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia.
1994-2010. The World Heavyweight Championship that has been carried by such greats as Batista and Triple H got its start in WWE back in 2002. But its prestigious lineage can actually be traced back all the way to George Hackenschmidt and 1904.
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Nov. 21, 1988 WCW is Born Throughout the 1980s, Ted Turner presents the action from Jim Crockett Promotions on the “World Championship Wrestling” program on his TBS network. In ’88, with Crockett’s company experiencing financial problems stemming from mismanagement, the media mogul buys the failing business and forms Universal Wrestling Corporation...
Feb. 14, 1993 Shift Change Jim Ross makes his last appearance in the announce booth for WCW. On his way out, J.R. is joined by his old friend Bill Watts who resigns from his position as Executive Vice President amid controversy. Cowboy’s replacement is a savvy young announcer named Eric Bischoff — a man with big ideas and the nerve to pull them off...
Sept. 4, 1995 This Means War Throwing some direct competition at WWE, WCW debuts their Monday Nitro program with a live broadcast from the Mall of America in the Twin Cities. In the first of many shocking moments to come, Lex Luger makes an unannounced appearance during a match between Sting and Ric Flair only one night after his WWE contract has e...
May 27, 1996 Say Hello to the Bad Guy Scott Hall — best known to sports-entertainment fans as Razor Ramon — emerges from the audience during a match between Steve Doll and The Mauler with a microphone in his hand and starts a sports-entertainment firestorm by saying, “You people know who I am, but you don’t know why I’m here.” The reasons behind Ha...
Sept. 22, 1997 The Streak In his WCW debut, an unknown, but physically intimidating former football player named Bill Goldberg runs through Hugh Morrus in impressive fashion. The victory turns out to be the start of a 173-0 undefeated streak that last for more than a year. Nov. 17, 1997 Slick Rick On a night where Raw airs taped while Nitro broadca...
Jan. 15, 1998 Bring the Thunder As Nitro continues to top Raw in the weekly tug-of-war for viewers, WCW launches a second brand known as Thunder, which airs Thursday nights on TBS. On the first episode, Ric Flair forces Chris Jericho to submit to his Figure-Four Leglock. May 4, 1998 The Wolfpac After weeks of tension between nWo founders Kevin Nash...
Jan. 4, 1999 Unkind to Mankind In an underhanded attempt to stop fans from changing the channel, WCW announcer Tony Schiavone reveals that Mick Foley wins the WWE Title on tonight’s pre-taped Raw before flippantly adding “that’s going to put some butts in the seats.” Immediately, hundreds of thousands of viewers tune to Raw to see The Hardcore Lege...
April 10, 2000 Let’s Try That Again Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo are rehired by WCW and announce plans to “reboot” the entire company. For their first act of business, the duo strips all champions of their titles and starts a series of tournaments to declare new champions. The audacious move only leads more sports-entertainment fans to tune over t...
Mar. 26, 2001 War is Over With WCW earning a fraction of its highest television ratings and hemorrhaging millions of dollars, parent company AOL Time Warner sells the failed brand to WWE, signifying the end of the Monday Night Wars. The last episode of Nitro features a match between WCW icons Sting and Ric Flair and ends with Shane McMahon revealin...
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion which, in its proper form, existed from 1988 to 2001.
Launch of Monday Nitro: In September 1995, World Championship Wrestling introduced Monday Nitro, a live weekly show that directly competed against WWE’s Monday Night Raw.
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In 2001, WWE acquired longtime rival WCW. What exactly was WCW and how does its legacy live on today? Join the revived WCW.com on a look back at World Championship Wrestling.
