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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.
However, maintaining the quality of the shows became difficult, particularly after WCW's owners Time Warner Entertainment (who bought Turner Broadcasting System in 1996) ordered the creation of a second live cable WCW program WCW Thunder, to air on Thursdays on TBS Superstation starting on January 8, 1998, [14] [34] as well as ordering a third ...
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
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 ...
His last in-ring match for World Championship Wrestling in this run came on November 24, 1994, in Albany, Georgia, where Dusty and Dustin Rhodes defeated Arn Anderson and Bunkhouse Buck in a steel cage. [60] [61] Through 1995 he was exclusively on commentary for WCW and did not participate in any in-ring angles.
This was a Texas Bullrope match. During Luger's reign in 1991, World Championship Wrestling (WCW) split from the NWA and the title was renamed as the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship. [33] World Championship Wrestling (WCW) — Vacated: July 14, 1991: The Great American Bash: Baltimore, MD — — —
Page did not win the match, [1] but the match was voted WCW Magazine ' s "Match of the Year" 1998. Halloween Havoc ran slightly longer than expected resulting in a number of cable companies blacking out the end of the Hogan versus Warrior match and all of the DDP versus Goldberg contest.
Fall Brawl '93: War Games was the inaugural Fall Brawl professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). It took place on September 19, 1993 from the Astro Arena (now NRG Arena) in Houston, Texas. As of 2014 the event is available on the WWE Network. [2] Eight matches were contested at the event.