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Turner Enterprises, Inc. (TEI) is a private American company that was founded in 1976 and manages the business interests, land holdings and investments of Ted Turner, [85] including the oversight of Turner's 24 properties across the United States and Argentina.
Shane Brandon McMahon [4] (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək-MAN; born January 15, 1970) [5] is an American businessman and professional wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in WWE. The son of Vince McMahon, he is a fourth-generation wrestling promoter as a member of the McMahon family. He began working in WWF (World Wrestling Federation, now WWE ...
McMahon later came out victorious against Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the television ratings in the Monday Night War after an initial 84-week television ratings loss to WCW [31] and afterward acquired the fading WCW from Turner Broadcasting System on March 23, 2001, with an end to the Monday Night War. [38]
Stephanie Marie McMahon Levesque [8] [9] (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n / mək-MAN; née McMahon; born September 24, 1976) [6] is an American businesswoman and retired professional wrestler.She is known for her various roles within WWE between 1998 and 2023.
The McMahon family (/ m ə k ˈ m æ n /) is an Irish-American family known for their ownership of World Wrestling Entertainment (). Vince McMahon, a third-generation wrestling promoter, was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of WWE from 1982 until 2023. [1]
In American professional wrestling, the term Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984, the day when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) took over the timeslot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for twelve years.
In August 1983 at the 35th National Wrestling Alliance convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, Anderson expressed his ire at World Wrestling Federation (WWF) promoter Vince McMahon's national expansion in defiance of NWA territorial boundaries, threatening to retaliate by running opposite to McMahon in the WWF's territory of Pennsylvania. [46]
He bought Vince McMahon's Saturday night TV time slot on Superstation WTBS and his business began to flourish. The following year, he organized the first annual Jim Crockett Sr. Memorial Cup , in which wrestlers from eight NWA regional territories participated in a day-long tag team tournament at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans .