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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).
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)
As the final WCW PPV, WCW Greed was also the last WCW PPV of the Monday Night War era of September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, during which WWF Monday Night Raw (later WWF Raw Is War) and WCW Monday Nitro competed for ratings in a weekly Monday night time slot, which is now widely seen in retrospect as having been a "golden age" of pro wrestling ...
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.
The list of WCW World Heavyweight Champions is a chronological list of wrestlers that have held the WCW World Heavyweight Championship by ring name. The WCW World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship and its lineage began when Ted Turner purchased Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), which used the ...
The sequel, The Best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol. 2 was released on DVD and Blu-ray February 12, 2013. Followed by the final set titled, The Very best of WCW Monday Nitro Vol. 3, which was released on August 11, 2015. [3] As of 2016, all 288 episodes of Nitro (September 4, 1995 – March 26, 2001) are available on demand on the WWE Network. [18]
August 21 - The final WCW Clash of the Champions XXXV prime time special on TBS was held in Nashville, Tennessee headlined with Scott Hall and Randy Savage vs Lex Luger and Diamond Dallas Page. November 9 - The Montreal Screwjob; After a long history of Memphis Wrestling the United States Wrestling Association closes its doors in November.
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 ...