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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).
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.
WCW's pay-per-view events and Nitro ' s live television episodes during this period would surpass almost all of the previous records set by JCP during the 1970s and 80s. Outside the U.S., WCW partnered with New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) to promote the Japan Supershows (also known as Starrcade in Tokyo Dome) between 1991 and 1994, which set a ...
George Harvey Strait Sr. was born on May 18, 1952, in Poteet, Texas, [1] to John Byron Strait Sr. (January 11, 1922 – June 4, 2013), [17] and Doris Jean Couser (June 26, 1930 – January 30, 2010). He grew up in nearby Pearsall , in Frio County , [ 1 ] where his father was a junior high school mathematics teacher and the owner of a 2,000-acre ...
This year, Strait also broke a record for the largest ticketed concert in U.S. history with over 110,000 people in attendance at his show in College Station, Texas, edging out the Grateful Dead's ...
Strait drew 110,905 fans to Kyle Field at Texas A&M in College Station on June 15, smashing the Grateful Dead's 1977 peak. Country singer George Strait breaks the U.S. concert-crowd record Skip to ...
North Texas native and screenwriter Rex McGee is back in town to talk George Strait and the movie “Pure Country.” ... going until he convinced George. He needed a Texas writer, because George ...
WCW Monday Nitro: April 3, 2000 1.8 Before the official "reboot", the most memorable moments of Nitro are revisited. WCW Monday Nitro: April 10, 2000 Pepsi Center: Denver, Colorado: 3.1 WCW is "rebooted" by Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo and all WCW titles are vacated. WarGames 2000: September 4, 2000 Reunion Arena: Dallas, Texas: 3.6