World Championship Wrestling (WCW) is a defunct American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. That same year, WCW began taping matches months in advance for syndicated programming like WCW WorldWide at the Disney/MGM Studios which would become known as the "Disney tapings". WCW's coup of obtaining Luger was significant for several reasons. Craig "Pitbull" Pittman, The Renegade, Michael Wallstreet, Eddie Guerrero, "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, "The Man of 1000 Holds" Dean Malenko, Scotty Riggs, "The Total Package" Lex Luger, Scott "Flash" Norton, The Giant, The Barbarian, Hugh Morrus, "Flyboy" Rocco Rock, Johnny Grunge, Konnan, "Squire" David Taylor, Madusa, Brad Armstrong, "Hardwork" Bobby Walker, Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, Billy Kidman, "Desperado" Joe Gomez, Rob Ruckus, Ken Kaos, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, "Mean" Mike Enos, Steve McMichael, Rey Misterio Jr., Jim Powers, Chavito Guerrero Jr., Karl Oullete, Jauques Rougeau, Chris Jericho, Juventud Guerrera, Syxx, Vincent, Jeff Jarrett, Psicosis, Roadblock, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Bunkhouse Buck, La Parka, Ultimo Dragon, Tombstone, Super Calo, "Dangerous" Devon Storm, Ace Darling, Greg The Hammer Valentine ,Ray Mandoza Jr., Ron Powers, Jerry Flynn, Chris "Morteus" Canyon, Luna Vachon, Adam Bomb, Malaya Hosaka, T-Rantula, Yuji Nagata, Hector Guerrero TOTAL ROSTER: 84 The WCW roster for May 1997 was as follows: Bobby Eaton, Sting, "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, Jack Boot, "Diamond" Dallas Page, "Buff" Bagwell, Lord Steven Regal, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Stevie Ray, Booker T., Mark Starr, Big Bubba Rogers, "Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan, Steve Armstrong, Meng, "Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright, "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, Scott Armstrong, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sgt. . A great wrestler and talker with tons of charisma, he was made for the main event scene. On the October 2, 2000 edition of Nitro, Russo would relinquish the championship saying that he was "not an athlete nor did I [Russo] ever claim to be". Anderson and Rhodes' booking style was generally in line with the lighthearted, morally uncomplicated narrative that had been popular in 1980s wrestling, but which was generally looked upon with growing disdain by younger wrestling fans. On the September 25, 2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, Russo won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a steel cage match. vs RAW 2009. Not surprisingly, Morris never accomplished as much as he should've in WCW. However, it was announced in early 2011 that HDNet would drop ROH from its schedule. Wrestlers are going to quit. The show that succeeded it, Monday Night Raw, changed how wrestling on cable television would be presented. WCW's closure left a gap in the market which several companies have attempted to fill. It says on wiki that Chelsea Green has resigned I don't know if this is true or not but I just thought I'll let you know, in wwe draft. WCW and the nWo continued to grow in popularity, and for the next 84 consecutive weeks Nitro beat Raw in the ratings. Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. Saudi Arabia now owns WWE! Souled Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in January from 1997 through 2000. In late 1994, "Macho Man" Randy Savage shocked the wrestling world when he departed WWE. They cannot vote on matters? 5 Best WCW Wrestlers Of 1997 (& The 5 Worst), 10 Cringey nWo Moments We Completely Forgot About, 10 Celebrities You Didn't Know Are Wrestling Fans, A Look Back On NBA Legend Dennis Rodman's Time In WCW. The former WWE management will still be rich off your hard earned money and chilling on the beach! News on all your favorite celebs, reality TV, and movies. This includes the list of all WCW Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Roster, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in World Championship Wrestling. When Atlanta television station WTCG (later WTBS) became a superstation in the late 1970s, Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), an NWA member which aired on the station, reached a national audience. It says on wiki that Chelsea Green has resigned I don't know if this is true or not but I just thought I'll let you know, in wwe draft. But that is why people get on here like Eddy and few other nutjobs and complain about pro wrestling is controlled by satanic Illuminati or freemasons. Throughout 1997, Raw Is War began to become more and more controversial, and despite the company not getting any rating victories, the WWF gradually began receiving significantly more acclaim. composed of stock footage of matches featuring current WWF wrestlers who had started their careers as jobbers in WCW, all of which ended in the WWF wrestler suffering a humiliating loss. ECW was promoted as counterculture and a grittier alternative to multimillion-dollar organizations such as the WWF and WCW. Raw, and the WWF in general, was considered to be at a creative nadir before Nitro started. Crockett went to Gordon and asked him to hold a tournament for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, in ECW's home city of Philadelphia on August 27, 1994. On the 7/8/1998 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Goldberg would defeat Hollywood Hogan to become the first . Fans went home happy everytime after the show! That year, The nWo sparked a revolution, unlike anything the sport had seen before. The change was poorly received by fans. Diesel wasn't the only gimmick WWE tried to pass on to a new wrestler. Week after week in 1997, fans tuned in to watch Sting drop from the rafters and foil The nWo's plans. WCW vs. 2010: The Miz cashes in Money in the Bank. By November 1998, however, the momentum would be in the WWF's favor for the remainder of the war. Disco would go on to have a couple of short stints with the WCW World Television Championship but would eventually drop the title twice. They cannot vote on matters? At the end of the match, Russo suffered a concussion after Goldberg speared him through a cage, resulting in a head-on collision with the ringside barriers. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) had its origins in 1991 as the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance, owned by Joel Goodhart. update the picture of DREW MCINTYRE please, please add Karl Fredericks to World Wrestling Entertainment and remove him from New Japan Pro Wrestling, Brian Kendrick is not wwe producer he just come for one show ; not signed at this time, Sudu Shah leave WWE !, Stevie Turner is back on NXT. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. Therefore, the WWF PPV was cleared 101 over Starrcade, as only three cable companies opted to remain loyal to their contract with Crockett. This commment is unpublished, pending moderation. Ted Turner decided to expand the brand by introducing a second weekly program WCW Thunder, on his TBS channel. Randy Savage. MORE INFO Classic Type in answers that appear in a list Type in answers that appear in a list Best Score? Like WCW's nWo storyline, the WWF began to blur the line between real life and kayfabe: Vince McMahon, taking advantage of fans' genuine dislike for him following the Montreal Screwjob, recast himself as the evil Mr. McMahon, a corrupt businessman who despised his own fans and valued sycophancy over talent. Copyright 2010-2023 TheSmackDownHotel.com. He's Bret Hart. Incarnation Notes Members nWo July 7, 1996 - April 27, 1998 The original incarnation was formed when Hulk Hogan defected from WCW to join Scott Hall (Razor Ramon) and Kevin Nash (Diesel).Portrayed as being a separate entity, apart from WCW. The initial broadcast of Nitro also featured the return of Lex Luger to WCW. On January 24, 1988, another scheduling conflict took place between the WWF and NWA: the NWA presented the Bunkhouse Stampede on PPV, while WWF aired the Royal Rumble for free on the USA Network. update the picture of DREW MCINTYRE please, please add Karl Fredericks to World Wrestling Entertainment and remove him from New Japan Pro Wrestling, Brian Kendrick is not wwe producer he just come for one show ; not signed at this time, Sudu Shah leave WWE !, Stevie Turner is back on NXT. I've also began working on Late-99 to Mid-00 wresters and will be adding them to the . Ports for the PC and Nintendo 64 were . WWE promises big changes. Last Edit: yesterday at 2:25am by Mid-Carder. They stopped caring after the attitude era. This was never more evident than on the 8/4/1997 WCW Monday Nitro where Luger defeated Hollywood Hogan for the WCW Championship. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. First to Perry Saturn, then to Booker T. 1997 would also mark the start of Disco's silly dancing feud with Alex Wright. Later that year, the WWF debuted a second cable show, also on USA, called Tuesday Night Titans (TNT), a talk show spoof hosted by Vince McMahon (also the WWF owner) and Lord Alfred Hayes. Absolute egotistical nonsense. In February 1993, longtime NWA stalwart Ric Flair returned to WCW after an 18-month WWF tenure, but since Flair was constrained by a no-compete clause from his WWF contract, WCW gave him a talk show segment on its television shows called A Flair for the Gold. Now you people realize who you have been feeding this entire time? Comments. [9] Nitro began airing a weekly segment entitled Where the Big Boys Play! Notably, Luger would be followed by former WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze, who appeared with the WWF Women's Championship belt on the December 18, 1995, edition of Nitro and insulted her former employers before throwing the belt in the garbage. WWF business steadily declined in North America after the end of the war, with a noticeable drop in buyrates and ratings. Revenge gained critical praise and tremendous . At Road Wild 1999, the so-called "Millennium Man" pinned Sting in a decisive, career-defining matchup. Fans went home happy everytime after the show! WWE promises big changes. He's either so stupid that he think's he's right or is such a perfect troll in so many ways the fact that yall don't see that is just odd. WCW would ride that positive momentum into 1997, where their dominance over WWE would continue. Everything is all about the money. Replay. The 1997 Starrcade was the 15th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). 98 was a great year for WCW, 99 is where it really starts to fall apart. This collection includes all of the WCW/nWo roster members from late 1997 to early 1998. Nitro was cut to two hours beginning with the edition of January 3, 2000 (with the first hour running unopposed and the second hour competing against Raw Is War) in an effort to bolster the aggregate ratings score,[8] but the elimination of the third hour did not mean higher ratings for Nitro, which by April averaged around a 2.5 (while Raw Is War drew more than double that amount).[30]. The most-remembered Prime Time format featured Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon introducing taped matches and analyzing them afterward, with Monsoon taking a neutral/babyface position and Heenan unashamedly cheering on the heels. But that is why people get on here like Eddy and few other nutjobs and complain about pro wrestling is controlled by satanic Illuminati or freemasons. He declared open war on the WWF and aggressively recruited high-profile former WWF wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, using Turner's funds. When Eastern Championship Wrestling was founded, it was a member of the NWA, and "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert[3] was its head booker. These people operating things just do not care. The following evening on Nitro, most of WCW's top stars gave faux indignant interviews, expressing their feelings of betrayal and disappointment with Hogan's actions. Nothing much happens. In 2004, WWE produced a DVD called The Monday Night Wars. Nothing much happens. Because of their high profiles, Hogan and Savage were able to demand and get several concessions not usually allowed to wrestlers at the time. (1999 - 2001) (1988 - 1998) WCW Worldwide (1999 - 2001) WCW Worldwide (1992 - 1998) WCW World Championship Wrestling WCW Thunder WCW Saturday Night WCW Prime The revamped promotion's unorthodox style and controversial storylines made it popular among fans in the 18- to 35-year-old male demographic. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) both emerged in early 2002 and have enjoyed moderate success since that time. No of course not, he was as over as he'd ever been when he left WWF in 1997. The roster is quite possibly the largest roster of licensed . 19931994: Eric Bischoff is put in charge of WCW, 1994: Eastern Championship Wrestling goes Extreme, 20012003: WWFE, Inc. purchases WCW and ECW. Got a group shot of some of my early 90s wcw customs. This includes the list of all WCW Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Roster, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in World Championship Wrestling. WCW's Starrcade pay-per-view in Washington, D.C. drew WCW's highest buyrate to that date, including the highly anticipated main-event of Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting, a match that fans had been waiting to see since Sting first appeared as the leader of an anti-nWo faction a year before. Games Movies TV Video. Bret Hart's departure from the WWF would ultimately turn the tide of the "Monday Night Wars." Waltman, who was a member of the nWo, had recently left WCW after wrestling there for a year and a half as Syxx (having been fired while recovering from an injury), and returned to the WWF as X-Pac. He would have worked with Rock on his ascent as well considering how he looked out for him. This "match" may have started the permanent ratings slide that was to follow for WCW, as Nitro according to Nielsen ratings numbers listed by TWNPNews.com-[27] only got a 5.0 rating three times afterwards. I attended 4 wrestlemania, multiple raw and smackdowns in the past. These people operating things just do not care. Earlier in the day, Triple H and other wrestlers appeared outside the arena in military fatigues, challenging Eric Bischoff to come out and face them. A WWE and WCW wrestler from the 1980s to 2000s, William Regal was never the biggest name on the roster, nor have the biggest physique, but has openly talked about his steroid use. He'd find a way to continually hold on to the WCW Championship while also managing to dodge sting at every possible turn. Post by Mid-Carder onyesterday at 2:24am. 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.The name came from a wrestling television program that aired on TBS in the 1980s . By The NWA repeated the practice again the following year, with a Clash coinciding with WWF's WrestleMania V. Although the main event of the Clash saw NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ricky Steamboat defeat Flair in a best-of-three-falls match that lasted for almost an hour, ratings and attendance for the event fell well below expectations compared to WrestleMania V. Thus, the practice of conflicting major events would cease for six years. Promoting the Area of: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, West Virginia, Delaware Promoter: Paul Heyman. In 1983, the WWF started its own cable show called WWF All American Wrestling, airing Sunday mornings on the USA Network. After Mankind won the title, many fans then switched back to Nitro (which still had five minutes of airtime left), suggesting that WCW had a show that the fans wanted to see and might have emerged the victor that night had they not given away the Raw Is War results. A 1997 wrestling game named after WCW's Monday night program. CAW Archives 2003 - 2013. By 2005, WWE began reintroducing ECW through content from the ECW video library and a series books. From the point of view of Hart and the Canadian/European wrestling fans, it was the US wrestling fans that were the bad guys and whose morals had changed for the worse compared to previous years. 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