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Who Killed WCW? is an American-Canadian documentary television series produced by Vice Studios Canada and ... 2024 in the United States on Vice TV, and in Canada on ...
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).
It premiered on April 10, 2019 on Vice TV in the United States, and airs in Canada on Crave's streaming and TV network. The show focuses primarily on dark and often untold stories from the world of professional wrestling and is known for its research, interviews with key figures, and its re-enactments of the events described. [ 2 ]
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.
In 1999, it secured a cable deal to air a program on TNN, but the next year, TNN gained rights to WWF programming and dropped ECW, which folded in April 2001, shortly after the WWF's purchase of WCW's assets. In July 2018, the Black Saturday episode was made available as a hidden gem on the WWE Network. [7]
Over a three-day period between June 22 and 24, 2007, Chris Benoit, a 40-year-old Canadian professional wrestler employed by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), murdered his wife Nancy and their seven-year-old son, Daniel, before hanging himself at their residence in Fayetteville, Georgia, United States.
Earlier in the same broadcast, WCW announcer Tony Schiavone gave away the results of their Monday Night War rival World Wrestling Federation (WWF)'s Raw is War (which was taped six days earlier, and aired from tape at the same time Nitro was being aired live), revealing that former WCW wrestler Mick Foley was set to win the WWF Championship.
The WCW World Television Championship was a professional wrestling television championship owned by the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion. The title was introduced on February 27, 1974 in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling / Jim Crockett Promotions , a territory of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA).