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Keith Butler (as a ring announcer for WCW Saturday Night from 1999-2000) Chris Cruise (as a commentator) Doug Dellinger [1] (born Howard Douglas Dellinger) (as head of security) Kip Allen Frey (as a Vice-President) Greg Gagne (as a road agent) Mike Graham (Mike Gossett) † (as a road agent) Slick Johnson (Mark Johnson) (as a referee)
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).
The WCW World Heavyweight Championship is the original world title of WCW and it remained as such until March 2001, when WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) and the championship was defended as the WCW Championship as part of the Invasion storyline, with the WCW initials being dropped from the title's ...
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.
Wrestlemarinepiad '90 Yokohama, Japan Bull Nakano defeats Aja Kong in a steel cage match for the WWWA World Title: Nov 20: NWA WCW: Clash of the Champions XIII: Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. Ric Flair (with Arn Anderson) defeated Butch Reed (with Ron Simmons and Teddy Long) in a Singles match Nov 22: WWF: Survivor Series: Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
While wrestling in WCW, Barr wrestled under the name "The Juicer" due to copyright issues. [3] Big Van Vader: All Japan Pro Wrestling, New Japan Pro-Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, World Wrestling Federation: 1987–2017 United States [3] [4] Black Blood: World Championship Wrestling: 1991 United States [3] [6] [10] [13] Black Cat
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) 1 Shinjiro Otani: March 20, 1996: Hyper Battle 1996 Nagoya, Japan: 1 43: 42 Otani defeated Wild Pegasus in tournament final to determine the first WCW Cruiserweight Champion. This was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling event. [2] [3] 2 Dean Malenko: May 2, 1996: WorldWide: Lake Buena Vista, FL: 1 67: 66 Aired on May 18 ...
In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) purchased the assets of WCW, including the video libraries of all previous NWA and WCW pay-per-views, and the ownership rights of the names of these events. To date WWE has only promoted one pay-per-view event using the name of a former WCW PPV, The Great American Bash, from 2004 until ...