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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 ...
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.
In other prominent matches, The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) defeated The Steiner Brothers (Rick and Scott) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship, Chris Jericho retained his WCW Cruiserweight Championship against Juventud Guerrera in a Title vs. Mask match, and in the opening bout, Booker T defeated Rick Martel to win the WCW ...
Tom Zenk lost the WCW World Television Championship in a match taped on January 7, but the match had not yet aired, so Zenk was billed as champion. The event was poorly received by fans. A fan poll in the February 18, 1991, issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter showed only 79 out of 394 responding fans gave the show a "thumbs up" vote ...
The 2000 event was the final Halloween Havoc produced by WCW, [4] as in March 2001, WCW was acquired by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF); the WWF was renamed WWE in 2002. In 2020, after 19 years since the acquisition of WCW, WWE revived Halloween Havoc as an annual event for their developmental brand, NXT. [5]
The other main match on the undercard was the Winners Take All Steel cage match between WCW Tag Team Champions Undertaker and Kane and WWF Tag Team Champions Diamond Dallas Page and Kanyon, which Undertaker and Kane won, after Undertaker executed the Last Ride and pinned Page to win both titles.
In other prominent matches, Lex Luger and The Giant defeated The Outsiders (Scott Hall and Kevin Nash) to win the WCW World Tag Team Championship, Chris Benoit defeated The Taskmaster in a San Francisco Death match, and in the opening bout, Syxx defeated Dean Malenko to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship.