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In 2001, the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE) purchased the assets of WCW, including the video libraries of all previous NWA and WCW pay-per-views, and the ownership rights of the names of these events. To date WWE has only promoted one pay-per-view event using the name of a former WCW PPV, The Great American Bash, from 2004 until ...
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.
Master P's eleventh album, titled Good Side, Bad Side, was released on March 23, 2004, through Koch Records, debuting at number 1 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. Master P and TRU released their last album The Truth in 2005 followed by Master P's twelfth studio album Ghetto Bill:The Best Hustler in the Game.
In April 1994, Sullivan began appearing regularly with WCW. [16] Sullivan enlisted Cactus Jack's help and beat The Nasty Boys for the Tag Team Title. [17] Dave was injured and out of action for a while and Sullivan split with Cactus after losing the titles. Sullivan defeated Cactus in a Loser Leaves WCW match at Fall Brawl. [18]
The rest was just horrible gimmicks and wrestling. One of the worst shows of all time. Just awful." [3] Arnold Furious rated the event 2.5 out of 10 stars, "WCW gets even worse here. This is a new low by my reckoning and possibly the worst WCW show, ever, by this point. Especially considering the stacked nature of the card."
In WrestleCrap: The Very Worst of Pro Wrestling, Reynolds says of the Fingerpoke of Doom, "That was that. Fans had been burned one time too many by WCW and the nWo. From that point on in 1999, ratings steadily dropped for the company". Nitro's rating, which had been competitive with WWF despite losing the ratings lead, plummeted and never ...
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). It originally promoted shows, usually headlined by Jerry Lawler, in both Tennessee and Texas.
In January 2000, "Dr. Death" Steve Williams returned to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW), where Bart Gunn was wrestling under the name Mike Barton as a full-time competitor during Williams's absence. On the live edition of the January 17, 2000 episode of AJPW TV, Williams defeated Barton in a 12-minute singles match, [ 16 ] with two minutes of ...