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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).
WCW Wrestling was the working title for at least two other WCW games. One was a canceled game for the game.com handheld system. The other was a sequel to Electronic Arts' WCW Mayhem, intended for release on the PlayStation 2 platform (the game was later renamed WCW Mayhem 2, and eventually canceled when WCW was sold to the WWF).
Sting would be in the rafters of WCW arenas, and sometimes rappel down into the ring to help WCW wrestlers fight the nWo. This latter feud served to build up Starrcade in December, headlined by Sting facing Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Culminating a 15-month storyline, the event drew WCW's largest buyrate. [56]
Video games by former professional wrestling promotion World Championship Wrestling: WCW Wrestling [1989] (NES) WCW: The Main Event [1994] (Game Boy) WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling [1994] (SNES) WCW vs. the World [1997] (PlayStation) WCW vs. nWo: World Tour [1997] (Nintendo 64) Virtual Pro Wrestling 64 [1997] (Nintendo 64)
The wrestling company ended its long relationship with Acclaim Entertainment after witnessing the video game success of its competitor, World Championship Wrestling (WCW), on behalf of THQ. [5] WrestleMania 2000 shares its game engine with the Japan-only release Virtual Pro Wrestling 2: Ōdō Keishō. The game would be succeeded by WWF No Mercy ...
WCW Backstage Assault; WCW Mayhem (video game) WCW Nitro (video game) WCW/nWo Revenge; WCW/nWo Thunder; WCW SuperBrawl Wrestling; WCW vs. nWo: World Tour; WCW vs. the World; WCW Wrestling; WCW: The Main Event
The company also came out with an Internet archive of all Vine videos that had ever been published—but eventually, that shut down, too. In 2018, Kroll tragically died of an accidental drug ...
An animated satellite would beam down over Dallas, and as it moves east, the World Class logo would appear and move across to the upper left hand corner of the picture. Two more satellite beams aired two highlights from World Class: one involving a match between Kerry Von Erich and Michael Hayes, and another between David Von Erich and Jimmy ...