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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.
WWE, then known as the World Wrestling Federation – is a professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut; from its foundation in 1953 until its 2023 sale to Endeavor, it was owned and operated by the McMahon family. In 1982, Vince McMahon bought the promotion from his father and underwent an aggressive national expansion which ...
On April 9, 1984, the Brisco brothers sold their shares in GCW, including their Saturday evening slot on WTBS, to Vince McMahon. [4] The WWF would take over GCW's timeslot on July 14, 1984, a day that would be later known as "Black Saturday."
Vince McMahon and the WWE have been accused of knowing about and failing to stop the sexual exploitation of young boys by a ringside announcer, in a lawsuit filed on behalf of five alleged victims ...
Of all the stories mentioned in the "Mr. McMahon" docuseries about WWE founder Vince McMahon, one that has heavy interest is the sexual assault lawsuit brought onto McMahon by a former company ...
Vince McMahon attends a press conference to announce that WWE Wrestlemania 29 will be held at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. In 1992, Phillips and the then ...
The Monday Night War largely sprang from a rivalry between WWF owner Vince McMahon and WCW owner Ted Turner, dating back to an incident in the 1980s known as Black Saturday, when McMahon acquired a monopoly on all nationally televised wrestling broadcasts by purchasing a stake in Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), whose flagship show aired ...
Lawsuits against Vince may have reached a new boiling point in 2022, but allegations against him began piling up long before then. In 1992, Vince was accused of raping WWE’s first female referee ...