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AJ Styles coming to the ring for a XWF event.. The initial XWF tapings were conducted in November 2001 at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, in the soundstage that used to be the home for the WCW Worldwide Wrestling tapings, and later the home for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's TV tapings for iMPACT! and Xplosion as well as some of its pay-per-views.
During this reign on June 23, 1994, Flair unified the title with the WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, Big Gold Belt. The Big Gold Belt was once again called the WCW World Title. The WCW title The Nature Boy won on April 21, 1994 was retired. [3] [4] [17] 11 Hulk Hogan: July 17, 1994: Bash at the Beach: Orlando, Florida: 1 469 ...
A: a b – The title was officially abandoned by the WWF in 1989, though the physical belt was revived by NJPW to represent its Greatest 18 Club Championship, that championship was discontinued by NJPW in 1992. [13] B: a b c – This is the date the WWF acquired WCW, in which WCW's assets were also acquired by WWF, including its titles. [19]
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).
The championship was originally created as the WCW Cruiserweight Championship on March 20, 1996. However, after the acquisition of World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) assets by rival company World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE), both lineages of the WCW Light Heavyweight Championship and the WCW Cruiserweight Championship were considered to be one and the same, with WWE referring to the ...
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) 1 Shinjiro Otani: March 20, 1996: Hyper Battle 1996 Nagoya, Japan: 1 43: 42 Otani defeated Wild Pegasus in tournament final to determine the first WCW Cruiserweight Champion. This was a New Japan Pro-Wrestling event. [2] [3] 2 Dean Malenko: May 2, 1996: WorldWide: Lake Buena Vista, FL: 1 67: 66 Aired on May 18 ...
This was a steel cage match to unify the WWF and WCW Tag Team Championships. The WCW Tag Team Championship was subsequently retired. [101] 128 Spike Dudley and Tazz: January 7, 2002: Raw: New York, NY: 1 43 This was a hardcore match. [102] 129 Billy and Chuck (Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo) February 19, 2002: SmackDown! Rockford, IL: 1 (9, 1) 89 ...
Turner's company still maintained its WCW World Championship, thus having two World Heavyweight titles present in the same promotion. The tournament was won by Japanese wrestler Masahiro Chono. From 1992 to 1993, the NWA belt was defended in Japan and on WCW television. Flair returned to WCW and regained the NWA belt from Barry Windham in July ...