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World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion founded by Ted Turner in 1988, after Turner Broadcasting System, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, purchased the assets of National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) territory Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) (which had aired its programming on TBS).
McMahon opened the last-ever episode of WCW Monday Nitro with a simulcast with WWF Raw is War, which aired from Cleveland, Ohio. [109] The final WCW World Heavyweight Championship match for the show and the company saw WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Booker T defeat Scott Steiner to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship.
TNT did allow a final Nitro show to air from Panama City Beach, Florida which had been scheduled for the following Monday on March 26. McMahon opened the last-ever episode of WCW Monday Nitro with a simulcast with WWF Raw Is War, which aired from Cleveland, Ohio, with a self-praising speech consistent with his on-screen persona. [42]
"The Night of Champions" was the penultimate WCW broadcast, prior to the final episode of WorldWide on the weekend of March 31–April 1, 2001. WCW Monday Nitro was the last professional wrestling program to air on TNT until the first episode of AEW Dynamite on October 2, 2019.
[10] [40] After the match, Hall, Nash, Hart and Jeff Jarrett reformed the nWo and gave Goldberg a new target for a feud that, however, would not last long. [40] Shortly after his title match loss, Goldberg injured himself on the December 23, 1999 episode of Thunder, during a sequence where he chased the nWo limousine into the parking lot. A ...
As Arquette was not expected to remain with WCW for long—his time as champion ultimately spanned four matches broadcast over two weeks [3] —the story culminated at the May 7 pay-per-view show Slamboree, in a three-man match involving Arquette, Page, and Jarrett, which saw Arquette lose the championship to Jarrett. [6]
Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and the ABC News debate moderators had good nights. Donald Trump, Joe Biden and Project 2025 had not-so-good nights.
In 1995, WCW experienced a resurgence under Eric Bischoff following the creation of WCW Monday Nitro, debut of The Outsiders and "heel turn" of Hulk Hogan, and subsequent formation of the New World Order. A new rivalry with the WWF, known as the "Monday Night War", was a major force driving the 1990s wrestling boom.