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  2. World Championship Wrestling - Wikipedia

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    The second highest ranked title used in WCW. It was established in 1975 under JCP and would continue to be used after WCW's purchase by the WWF until November 2001, when it was unified with the WWF Intercontinental Championship. Under WWE, the title was revived as the WWE United States Championship in 2003. WCW United States Tag Team Championship

  3. History of World Championship Wrestling - Wikipedia

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    World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. It began as a promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that appeared on the national scene under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia.

  4. Black Saturday (professional wrestling) - Wikipedia

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    In American professional wrestling, the term Black Saturday refers to Saturday, July 14, 1984, the day when Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) took over the timeslot on Superstation WTBS that had been home to Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW) and its flagship weekly program, World Championship Wrestling, for twelve years.

  5. Jim Crockett Promotions - Wikipedia

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    This chain of events was critical in Turner's eventual decision to purchase JCP and form World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1988. An extra sense of urgency was added to Crockett's national expansion ambitions when, after Frank Tunney's death, his nephew and successor Jack joined forces with the WWF. Crockett would now have to either find ...

  6. History of WWE - Wikipedia

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    Punk, who had become a top star during the summer of 2011 due to his infamous "pipe bomb" promo, would win the WWE Championship at the 2011 Survivor Series event and hold it for 434 days before losing to The Rock in 2013 at the 2013 Royal Rumble. CM Punk's reign was recognized by WWE as the longest WWE Championship reign in 25 years. [85]

  7. List of WCW World Heavyweight Champions - Wikipedia

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    The WCW World Heavyweight Championship is the original world title of WCW and it remained as such until March 2001, when WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) and the championship was defended as the WCW Championship as part of the Invasion storyline, with the WCW initials being dropped from the title's ...

  8. WWE action figures - Wikipedia

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    WWE action figures are toys based on performers and personalities of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They are currently manufactured by Mattel , and have formerly been manufactured by LJN , Jakks Pacific and Hasbro .

  9. WWE Libraries - Wikipedia

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    The first significant purchase took place in 2001 when the company bought the complete historical archives of their former competitor World Championship Wrestling. [9] The purchase of the Extreme Championship Wrestling's intellectual proprieties and video library during its bankruptcy proceedings in 2003 [10] gave WWE control over the majority ...