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"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.
Some of the WCW wrestlers joined the WWE immediately and participated in The Invasion storyline as part of The Alliance which lasted until the end of 2001, however many of WCW's top stars had contracts with AOL Time Warner rather than WCW itself that the WWF did not acquire, and most choose to sit out the length of their contracts rather than ...
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]
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]
[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 ...
WCW Main Event, originally NWA Main Event, is an American televised wrestling program of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) that aired from April 3, 1988 [1] to January 3, 1998. [2] For most of its run, it was the promotion 's secondary show and aired on Sunday evenings on TBS .
On the November 10 episode of Nitro, he lost the title back to Guerrero, as well as in a rematch at World War 3 on November 23. [31] On the January 15, 1998, episode of WCW Thunder, Mysterio defeated Juventud to win his third Cruiserweight Championship, but lost it nine days later to Chris Jericho at Souled Out.