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Capital Combat: Return of RoboCop was a one-time professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event from the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) held under the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) name. Capital Combat took place on Saturday, May 19, 1990, at the D.C. Armory in Washington, D.C.
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Battle Resistance – 1st Open Tournament Tokyo, Japan Masanobu Kurisi defeated Tarzan Goto by referee's decision in an Open Tournament final match Jan 21: WWF: Royal Rumble: Orlando, Florida, U.S. Hulk Hogan won by last eliminating Mr. Perfect in the 30-man Royal Rumble match: Feb 6: NWA WCW: Clash of the Champions X: Corpus Christi, Texas, U.S.
The WCW United States Championship Tournament was a tournament that ran from December 14, 1992, to January 11, 1993. [1] This was initially a #1 contenders tournament for Rick Rude's United States Heavyweight Championship , but when Rude became injured, he was stripped of the title, thus the final between Ricky Steamboat and Dustin Rhodes was ...
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 ...
The May 1990 pay-per-view Capital Combat saw the fictional character RoboCop come to the ring to rescue Sting. [9] Anderson was dismissed as booker at the end of 1990. [67] On the June 13, 1992 episode of WCW Saturday Night, Anderson was appointed senior referee of WCW by Bill Watts. [68]
Under Ole, WCW began to gradually incorporate much of the gimmicks for which the WWF was better known. These stunts included a cross-promotional appearance of RoboCop at Capital Combat in May 1990, [24] the Chamber of Horrors gimmick, and the Black Scorpion storyline. [25]
The Road Warriors made their last WCW pay-per-view appearance on May 19, 1990, at Capital Combat where they teamed with Norman “The Lunatic” against Kevin Sullivan, Cactus Jack and Bam Bam Bigelow [23] in a match that was cut from the commercial tape of the event.