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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).
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.
JCP started informally calling itself World Championship Wrestling (WCW). In 1988, Ted Turner bought JCP and formally renamed it World Championship Wrestling. During the 1990s, WCW became a credible rival to the WWF, but by end it suffered from a series of creative missteps that led to its failure and purchase by the WWF.
The Triple Crown is an accomplishment recognized by various professional wrestling promotions.It is a distinction made to a professional wrestler who has won three of a single promotion's championships; specifically, a world championship, another singles championship, and a tag team championship.
He is best known for his appearances with World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under the ring name Mean Mike, teaming with "Tough Tom" as "Disorderly Conduct". [2] He is also known for his appearances as Killer , one-half of the Texas Hangmen alongside Psycho .
Starrcade was a recurring professional wrestling event, originally broadcast via closed-circuit television and eventually broadcast via pay-per-view.It was originally held from 1983 to 2000, first by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) from 1983 to 1990, with the 1983–1987 events specifically held by Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP) under the NWA, and then held by World Championship Wrestling ...
The USWA was founded as an attempt to create a fourth national promotion, alongside Jim Crockett Promotions/WCW, AWA and the WWF (now known as WWE).The USWA was created through a merger of the WCCW (from Texas) and the CWA (based in Memphis, Tennessee).
NWA Full Throttle Action 2011–2012 Oklahoma: Will Peden Fusion Pro Wrestling 2008–2009 Colorado: Victoria Star Billy Roberts Jeff Michaels NWA Great Championship Wrestling 2004–2007 Georgia: Jerry Oates NWA Great Lakes Wrestling 2009 Michigan Anthony Watson, Nate Mattson, Brian Dunn, Great Lakes Broadcasting Group Gulf Coast Wrestling ...