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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).
On August 25, 2009, WWE released The Rise and Fall of WCW on DVD. [111] The DVD looked back at the roots of WCW during the days of GCW and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, to the glory days of Monday Nitro and the nWo, and to its demise and sale to WWE. This DVD included several new interviews from Vince McMahon, Jim Crockett, Ric Flair ...
The Invasion was a professional wrestling storyline in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) during the Attitude Era that ran from March to November 2001 and involved stables of wrestlers purporting to represent World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW)—which merged to form The Alliance—placed against a stable of wrestlers purporting to ...
Shares of Japanese technology and entertainment giant Sony Group (NYSE: SONY) slid 3.2% through 10:30 a.m. ET Friday after multiple news outlets reported Sony is eyeing a purchase of (all or part ...
WCCW promoter Fritz Von Erich. WCCW was originally known as Big Time Wrestling and, until the late 1970s, was dominated by its owner, Fritz Von Erich. In 1966, Von Erich and Ed McLemore-owner of the Dallas Sportatorium- bought out the Dallas/Fort Worth Wrestling Office, breaking away from Houston Wrestling Office, which was managed by Paul Boesch.
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) stock is getting crushed again in Thursday's trading. The company's share price was down 11.7% as of 1:45 p.m. ET, and had been down as much as 17.7% earlier in ...
Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ: SMCI) stock is getting crushed in Wednesday's trading following news that the company's auditing firm has resigned. The server specialist's share price was down 31.6% ...
The Monday Night War largely sprang from a rivalry between WWF owner Vince McMahon and WCW owner Ted Turner, dating back to an incident in the 1980s known as Black Saturday, when McMahon acquired a monopoly on all nationally televised wrestling broadcasts by purchasing a stake in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), whose flagship show aired ...