During the Invasion storyline, Heyman's ECW (owned in the storyline by Stephanie McMahon) would align with Shane McMahon's WCW against the WWF, as a faction known as the Alliance. Though Hall was employed by WCW, the storyline took advantage of fans' knowledge of the Curtain Call incident by insinuating that Hall's departure from the WWF had been a ruse and that he was, in fact, staging an "invasion" of WCW on behalf of the WWF. Legends of WrestleMania. The Monday Night Wars were an era in professional wrestling where WCW's Monday Nitro and the WWF's Raw is War shows competed for ratings. on Monday each week beginning on March 8, 2010. Rude made many appearances with ECW during 1997, including during the period when he was in the WWF as a part of DX, as the WWF and ECW often co-operated in terms of talent. Imagine having that 1997/98 WCW roster, then ADDING Bret Hart, Sid Vicious, Warrior, British Bulldog, Shane Douglas, Mike Awesome, Lance Storm and more.. then manage to kill the company. On March 23, 2001, all of WCW's trademarks and archived video library, as well as a select 25 contracts, were sold to Vince McMahon and World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. through its subsidiary WCW Inc. WCW's assets were purchased for just $3 million. [27], Raw Is War was dominating Nitro to the point where WCW was making "quick fixes" to stem the tide, including hiring rapper Master P, bringing in Megadeth, Chad Brock, and Kiss for concerts, and conducting a contest to find a new member of the Nitro Girls (all of which flopped in the ratings). This set up a rivalry between McMahon and Turner that would continue for 16 years. Bischoff's concessions to Hogan and Savage would set a precedent for WCW's hiring process that would prove problematic in later years: As Bischoff began to aggressively pursue rival talent for jobs with WCW, performersaware of the deals Hogan and Savage had been givenbegan to demand similar contracts, ultimately causing wrestlers' salaries to soar out of control. [27] Its 5.7 Nielsen rating on February 8 (on a night when Raw was pre-empted by the Westminster Dog Show) was the last time it would get such a number. Being a cartridge game a swipe of isopropyl alcohol may be recommended if game doesn't boot up first try. On January 4, 2010, TNA moved Impact! Stars such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Bill Goldberg and Sting became household names, and some attempted to parlay their newfound fame into other mediums and found success in them, much like Hulk Hogan of the 1980s and early 1990s: notable examples being Mick Foley, who became a New York Times best selling author with the first volume of his autobiography, Have a Nice Day, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who branched out to become one of the highest grossing actors of all time. On January 24, 1988, another scheduling conflict took place between the WWF and NWA: the NWA presented the Bunkhouse Stampede on PPV, while WWF aired the Royal Rumble for free on the USA Network. It led to another heel turn for Hogan and the reformation of the nWo. SLRaw Time for the wrestling community to come together and build strong alternatives! In the early 90s, Luger would reach World Champion status in WCW but he'd eventually leave the promotion for WWE. [37] The actual WCW entity was reverted to Universal Wrestling Corporation solely to deal with both legal and administrative issues. Monday Nitro premiered on September 4, 1995 as an hour-long weekly show,[8] and Bischoff was instrumental in the launching of the show. Bret's brother, Owen, also attempted to quit the WWF, citing a knee injury but was unable to get out of his contract. Not to be confused with the aforementioned WWF TV show, Adam Kleinberg and Adam Nudelman. With this event, Eastern Championship Wrestling seceded from the NWA and became Extreme Championship Wrestling. At first, Mongo was just an on-air personality. With Hart now on the WCW roster, Nitro boasted the most well-known names in wrestling; WCW had also been highlighting new talent, with up-and-coming stars such as Chris Jericho, Eddie Guerrero, and Rey Mysterio, Jr. forming the company's new cruiserweight division. In 2004, WWE produced a DVD called The Monday Night Wars. The November 3, 1997 Edition of WCW Monday Nitro was held in the Philadelphia Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WWF/NWA/WCW Rosters August 1986 - April 1998 ECW Roster January 1997 - April 98 USWA Roster September 1997 - October 1997 Arranged Month by Month and Compiled by Nicolas Seafort. vs RAW 2009. He states in his autobiography that he intended to resign on the day and when word leaked, they decided to remove him before he could resign. After a falling-out with Gordon, Gilbert was replaced in September 1993 by Paul Heyman (known on television as Paul E. Dangerously), who had just left WCW and was looking for a new challenge. Perhaps even more impressive than the fact that Sting only wrestled once in 1997 is the fact that he didn't even speak throughout the whole year either. Anyone else love the atmosphere of the Hog/Road Wild events? During this time, many wrestlers' personas were retooled, and wrestlers who had been growing in popularity were given pushes, often with dark or morally ambiguous alterations to their characters: The Rock, who had failed as a babyface character named Rocky Maiviaa naive young athlete trying to live up to the athletic legacies of his grandfather and fatherwas recast as an arrogant jock who spouted catch phrases. WCW countered that in June, Hall and Nash had emphatically stated on-camera that they were no longer WWF employees, and that Hall's current persona was, in fact, a reworking of his previous WCW character, The Diamond Studd. During the promo, Russo also reversed the result of the Jarrett/Hogan match and giving the championship back to Jarrett. On this page you find the full ECW Roster in the year 1997. This sparked a new interest in football players stepping into the squared circle. Hogan's 1997 was spent playing the role of the cowardly heel to perfection. 2012: Brock Lesnar returns to WWE. Lastly, 1997 featured Disco losing a match at Halloween Havoc to Jacqueline. Wrestlers are going to quit. Hall and Nash were dubbed "The Outsiders", and would show up unexpectedly during Nitro broadcasts, usually jumping wrestlers backstage, distracting wrestlers by standing in the entranceways of arenas or walking around in the audience. [46] The DVD looks back at the roots of WCW during the days of Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, to the glory days of Monday Nitro and the nWo, and to its demise and sale to WWE. Tony Khan recently made an intriguing comparison between AEW's current lineup and WCW's roster from 1997, owing to the mixture of the veteran and young stars in both.. Crockett went to Gordon and asked him to hold a tournament for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, in ECW's home city of Philadelphia on August 27, 1994. Page would keep that momentum rolling into 1998 where he'd experience even more career success. YOU. This influenced Kellner's decision to ultimately cancel WCW programming. The Raw Is War logo and its name were retired in September 2001, following the September 11 attacks and sensitivity over the word war, and because the Monday Night Wars were "over." And now we have the New Gen/Attitude Era Ultimate Scale Ring that measures at I think 21.5"x21.5". 2019 should be updated in the post draft only. [27] During the January 18 episode, however, ratings would fall slightly to 4.9,[27] but would recover to 5.0 the following week. When Eastern Championship Wrestling was founded, it was a member of the NWA, and "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert[3] was its head booker. WWE promises big changes. It also lessened the prevalence of squash matches (where star wrestlers would defeat jobbers) on television, as both companies were compelled to show competitive, pay-per-view quality matches on a weekly basis in an effort to increase ratings. The Millionaire's Club, consisting of WCW's veteran stars such as Hogan, Flair and Diamond Dallas Page, were accused of preventing the younger talent from ascending to main event status and feuded with The New Blood, consisting of WCW's younger stars such as Billy Kidman, Booker T and Buff Bagwell. Notably, Luger would be followed by former WWF Women's Champion Alundra Blayze, who appeared with the WWF Women's Championship belt on the December 18, 1995, edition of Nitro and insulted her former employers before throwing the belt in the garbage. Everyone has a morale/confidence boost after Vince left. Flair was named Richard Fliehr when he was adopted in infancy through the scandal-ridden, Learn how and when to remove this template message, List of former Jim Crockett Promotions personnel, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_former_World_Championship_Wrestling_personnel&oldid=1132241116, Lists of professional wrestling personnel, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from July 2019, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 7 January 2023, at 23:16. But anyway I am elderly old woman who used to be a wrestling fan. Throughout the 1990s, Bret Hart had been arguably the most popular wrestler on the WWF roster since winning the WWF Championship from Ric Flair in 1992, and one of the few performers to remain steadfastly loyal to the company through its numerous changes. The original Raw broke new ground in televised professional wrestling. The rivalry between the companies steadily escalated throughout the 1990s to include the use of cutthroat tactics and the defections of employees between the two companies. Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. The incident marked one of the first times that pro wrestlers had so flagrantly broken character in front of an audience, and forced both the WWF and WCW to begin acknowledging fans' growing awareness of the backstage happenings of their respective companies. . The WWF then threatened that any cable company that chose not to carry Survivor Series would not carry any WWF PPV events sixty days before and twenty-one days after the show. Goldberg would spend 1998 plowing through WCW's entire roster. The incident severely demoralized the WWF roster, shaking wrestlers' faith in McMahon and resulting in a near strike the following evening, with Mick Foley (Mankind) actually going on strike for one day. composed of stock footage of matches featuring current WWF wrestlers who had started their careers as jobbers in WCW, all of which ended in the WWF wrestler suffering a humiliating loss. Two weeks later, the WWF taunted WCW's slipping ratings by sending members of DX to Norfolk Scope in Norfolk, Virginia in an attempt to crash a live taping of Nitro. WWF owner Vince McMahon's controversial treatment of Bret Hart in an incident known as the Montreal Screwjob immediately precipitated Hart's departure from the WWF to WCW, alienating a large segment of WWF's fanbase at the same time WCW came to employ virtually all of the established wrestling stars then in competition. It began as a promotion affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) that appeared on the national scene under the ownership of media mogul Ted Turner and based in Atlanta, Georgia.The name came from a wrestling television program that aired on TBS in the 1980s . 25 th January 1997: "WCW Souled Out 1997": Cedar Rapids, IA - 5,120 sellout ($68,209 live gate) ($38,000 merchandise sales) Masa Chono beat Chris Jericho; Big Bubba Rogers overturned Hugh Morrus in a Mexican Death match; Jeff Jarrett pinned Michael Wallstreet; Marcus Bagwell dropped Scotty Riggs; Scott Norton downed Diamond Dallas Page by count-out; The Steiners . Despite losing to Nitro week after week, Raw Is War rallied in the ratings when it introduced its new "WWF Attitude" concept, in which the family-friendly and clear-cut face vs. heel dynamic of the 1980s to mid 1990s was jettisoned in favor of morally ambiguous wrestlers and adult-oriented, often heavily sexualized storylines. In 2000, WCW lost US$62 million, due to guaranteed contracts of their older performers, plummeting advertising revenues, dropping house show attendance, declining attendance of tapings for Thunder (which moved its tapings to immediately after Nitro beginning on October 9 of that year), controversial booking decisions (like Arquette and Russo winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship), and expensive stunts to boost the dismal ratings and pay-per-view buyrates. 4 months later he takes it all away. The WWF decided that it should use its cable time as a showcase for original matches and storylines that would serve as the major build-up to the quarterly pay-per-view broadcasts. Saudi Arabia now owns WWE! The secret has never changed. The Monday Night Wars resulted in the creation of millions of new wrestling viewers. In the late 80s, Lex Luger joined WCW and immediately started being groomed for the main event position as a member of The Four Horsemen. They used this video library to put together a two-disc DVD titled The Rise and Fall of ECW. The credibility of the company, which did not present the match that had been advertised, was damaged. Pinfalls were allowed this time in a match that was more about individuals than the team effort of the past. The company also drew casual fans' attention by filming events at popular tourist venues such as Disney's Hollywood Studios, and reached out to Mexican and Japanese wrestling fans through its cruiserweight division, which featured wrestlers from a diverse array of ethnic and racial backgrounds competing in matches featuring styles of wrestling popular in Latin America and Asia. Dominic Ward is a S Tier troll fr. They stopped caring after the attitude era. [38] 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. Diamond Dallas Page pinned Stevie Ray to earn a . Although McMahon agreed to the arrangement, he later decided to renege on the deal and have Hart unwittingly lose the title at Survivor Series, to real-life rival Shawn Michaels. During the year, as part of Hart's anti-US angle and his feud with Austin, Hart allied with his brother Owen Hart, his brothers-in-law The British Bulldog and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, and with close Hart family friend Brian Pillman, to form the new Hart Foundation. Sting was the last major WCW star to never wrestle for WWE. When the feed resumed, Austin was shown being dragged out of Pillman's house as Pillman screamed, "That son of a bitch has got this coming! Shawn Michaels, Triple H, and Chyna formed D-Generation X (DX), a rule-breaking, frat boy-themed stable of wrestlers who laced their vignettes with sexual innuendo and lewd gestures. NWA President Dennis Coralluzzo alleged that Crockett and Gordon were attempting to monopolize the title,[5] and stated Crockett did not have the NWA board's approval, which resulted in Coralluzzo personally overseeing the tournament. SD! The roster is quite possibly the largest roster of licensed . Time for the wrestling community to come together and build strong alternatives! Then Mattel released the Main Event Ring which is the light-up modern ring and measures at 20"x20", but it's height is too short so it's not properly scaled to figure height. On this page you find the full WCW Roster in the year 1996. The WWF was taping Raw Is War at the nearby Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia. At Bash at the Beach, Hall and Nash were scheduled to team with their mystery partner against Lex Luger, Randy Savage, and Sting. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) both emerged in early 2002 and have enjoyed moderate success since that time. In 1982, in order to appear less regional in scope, the television show was renamed World Championship Wrestling, a name Barnett had used for promoting shows in Australia in the 1970s. Raw originated from The Grand Ballroom at the Manhattan Center, a New York City theater, and aired live each week. RELATED: 10 Cringey nWo Moments We Completely Forgot About. It feels like a forced meal we do not want to eat. All Rights Reserved. They are listed in alphabetical order of their real name. Later that year, with WWF's WrestleMania IV around the corner, Crockett decided to use McMahon's own tactics against him, developing his own PPV-caliber event and airing it for free on TBS opposite WrestleMania. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz -/5-RATE QUIZ. Rick Rude, a wrestler who had been popular amongst both fans and his fellow wrestlers during the 1980s and 1990s, who had recently made a comeback in the WWF and was one of the on-screen founding members of D-Generation X, left the WWF a week after the Montreal Screwjob, and followed Hart to WCW. While the material involving Hogan and Savage usually poked fun at their old ages, the skits aimed at Turner were decidedly more inflammatory in nature and contained material that could have been considered slanderous. Like its predecessor, Revenge features AKI's revolutionary grappling system as well as heavily improved graphics, a championship mode, and a large roster of wrestlers (real and fictional). Released by THQ for the PlayStation game console in 1997, the game featured a large roster of playable WCW wrestlers as well as full motion video clips of the TV show. made up to look like various WCW shows, including Pay-Per-Views like Starrcade, Superbrawl, and Halloween Havoc. Everything is all about the money. In WWE, Luger had a decent run but failed to reach the top of the mountain. The incident would be talked about for years to come in the burgeoning internet wrestling culture, and, along with WWF's Gobbledy Gooker, "Shockmaster" became wrestling parlance for an exceptionally poorly executed idea. because the show still continued even though a person on the roster had lost his life on the same . A Flair for Gold would eventually play host to one of the most infamous incidents of 1990s wrestling: On a live Clash of the Champions XXIV building up the Fall Brawl pay-per-view, WCW decided to introduce a "mystery partner" for the babyfaces, a masked man known as The Shockmaster. WWF business steadily declined in North America after the end of the war, with a noticeable drop in buyrates and ratings. Dark Match: Chavo Guerrero Sr. defeated Lenny Lane Dean Malenko & Eddie Guerrero defeated Rey Misterio Jr. & Steven Regal Fit Finlay defeated Dave Taylor Yuji Nagata . The Monday Night Wars or Monday Night War was an era of mainstream televised American professional wrestling, from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001, in which the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF, now WWE) Monday Night Raw (later Raw Is War) and World Championship Wrestling's (WCW) Monday Nitro were broadcast opposite each other in a battle for Nielsen ratings each week. A 1997 wrestling game named after WCW's Monday night program. The Steiner Brothers collide with Harlem Heat. Stone Cold Steve Austin would start to become extremely popular with the WWF's fan base during 1997, and would often receive the best fan response of the night; despite playing a heel character, many fans would start to see him as more of an anti-hero. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. The group, composed of Nash, Hall, Shawn Michaels, Hunter Hearst Helmsley (later known as Triple H) and Sean Waltman (1-2-3 Kid), often used their influence to advance one another's careers, and in some instances harm or ruin the careers of performers who displeased them. Everyone has a morale/confidence boost after Vince left. It takes a special type of performer to be so over without wrestling or uttering a single word for over a year. In May 2019, All Elite Wrestling (AEW), which had launched the previous January, announced a deal to broadcast a live two-hour weekly television show on TNT. The final ratings for the night were 5.7 for Raw Is War and 5.0 for Nitro. Secondly, Luger had just come off a successful run in the WWF and was one of the company's top stars. [6] Douglas ultimately decided to go through with Gordon and Heyman's plan, inspired by his father's motto of "doing right by the people that do right by you". But that is why people get on here like Eddy and few other nutjobs and complain about pro wrestling is controlled by satanic Illuminati or freemasons. . The matches revolved around the ongoing storyline between WCW and the New World Order (nWo) organization. Wrestlers are going to quit. The interviews proved immensely successful with fans, and Foley's popularity soared. But that is why people get on here like Eddy and few other nutjobs and complain about pro wrestling is controlled by satanic Illuminati or freemasons. Raw commentator Jerry Lawler insulted and "challenged" ECW on the show's February 17 episode, and in the weeks to come, several ECW wrestlers appeared on Raw in a story arc similar to the nWo storyline playing out in WCW, with the WWF pursuing the "renegade" ECW. Forget about fans. On this page you find the full WCW Roster in the year 2000. The match drew a 6.91 rating for the quarter-hour, the highest rating recorded in the rating war up to that time and over 5 million viewers. The main event, a heavily promoted ironman match between Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, lasted for more than an hour.[12]. The heightened profiles of WWF wrestlers helped to draw the attention of both new and casual wrestling fans to the company's programming. Booker T ended up winning the championship over Jarrett. The last Nitro drew a 3.0 rating. Everything is all about the money. YOU. When Atlanta television station WTCG (later WTBS) became a superstation in the late 1970s, Georgia Championship Wrestling (GCW), an NWA member which aired on the station, reached a national audience. As wrestling began to grow in popularity in the early 1990s, the organizations and, as a result, their programming became a venue through which the business feud could continue, with each company working to drive the other out of business. Wesly Avendano is a writer from a small town in southern California. hide this ad. Welcome back to the clown world that everyone has fallen asleep to! WCW vs The World Sony PlayStation 1 PS1 - Disc Only - Tested - Ships Fast. Surprisingly for Bischoff, Turner granted him one live hour on TNT[a] every Monday night, which specifically overlapped with Raw. Free shipping. I've also began working on Late-99 to Mid-00 wresters and will be adding them to the . On January 4, 1999, Nitro broadcast live once again from the Georgia Dome. The garbage they come out with now is disgusting. Moreover, despite originally promising to produce original programming for the TBS time slot in Atlanta, McMahon chose instead to provide only a clip show for TBS, featuring highlights from other WWF programming as well as matches from house shows at Madison Square Garden, Boston Garden, and other major arenas. The initial broadcast of Nitro also featured the return of Lex Luger to WCW. They are directed by the Illuminati/freemasons. [4], In 1994, Jim Crockett Jr.'s non-compete agreement with Turner, to whom he had sold in 1988, expired and he decided to start promoting with the NWA again. Heat in the wrestling business is often a good thing. Eddy Guerrero challenges Chris Jericho for the WCW Cruiserweight . While WCW was red hot in 1997 with talented wrestlers and great storylines, there were also some less than stellar WCW competitors. Despite having a run as WCW United States Champion in 1997, Mongo was one of the promotion's weaker characters at the time. Now you people realize who you have been feeding this entire time? They are directed by the Illuminati/freemasons. After losing the title to Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XII, Hart took a hiatus from the WWF, returning in late 1996 at the Survivor Series soon after signing a 20-year WWF contract. Under the auspices of Eric Bischoff, WCW introduced a new, complex metastory involving the defection of multiple wrestlers to a rival organization called the nWo. He's Bret Hart. They cannot vote on matters? The subsequent promotion of Kevin Sullivan to head booker caused an uproar among WCW's wrestlers. Take former WWE performers and bring them into WCW to perform for an audience that hadn't already been overexposed to them. Some fans tolerated Disco while others hated him. Craig
"Pitbull" Pittman, The Renegade, Disco Inferno, Michael Wallstreet,
Eddie Guerrero, "The Canadian Crippler" Chris Benoit, "The Man of
1000 Holds" Dean Malenko, Scotty Riggs, "The Total Package" Lex
Luger, Scott "Flash" Norton, The Giant, The Barbarian, Hugh Morrus,
"Flyboy" Rocco Rock, Johnny Grunge, Konnan, "Squire" David Taylor,
Madusa, Brad Armstrong, "Hardwork" Bobby Walker, Rick Steiner, Scott
Steiner, Billy Kidman, "Desperado" Joe Gomez, Rob Ruckus, Ken Kaos,
Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, "Mean" Mike Enos, Steve McMichael, Rey
Misterio Jr., Jim Powers, Chavito Guerrero Jr., Karl Oullete, Jauques
Rougeau, Chris Jericho, Juventud Guerrera, "Big" Ron Studd, Syxx,
Vincent, Jeff Jarrett, Psicosis, Roadblock, Rowdy Roddy Piper,
Bunkhouse Buck, La Parka, Ultimo Dragon, Tombstone, Super Calo,
"Dangerous" Devon Storm, Ace Darling, Greg The Hammer Valentine ,
Ray Mandoza Jr., Ron Powers, Jerry Flynn, TOTAL ROSTER: 78
The WCW roster for March 1997 was as follows: Bobby Eaton, Sting,
"The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, Jack Boot, "Diamond" Dallas Page, "Buff"
Bagwell, Lord Steven Regal, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Stevie Ray,
Booker T., Brian Knobbs, Jerry Saggs, Mark Starr, Big Bubba Rogers,
"Taskmaster" Kevin Sullivan, Steve Armstrong, Meng, "Das Wunderkind"
Alex Wright, "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggin, Scott
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