Another demotion. Now this sham company sells out everything and everyone. The rivalry, which was cast as a battle between blue collar redneck Austin and white collar executive McMahon, became one of the defining storylines of the Attitude Era, as each engaged in ever-escalating acts of sabotage and violence against the other. He's Bret Hart. 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. 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. In 2000, Ted Turner was no longer running the company, which had been purchased by Time Warner in 1996 and America Online (AOL) in 2001. Pinfalls were allowed this time in a match that was more about individuals than the team effort of the past. 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. In the early 90s, Luger would reach World Champion status in WCW but he'd eventually leave the promotion for WWE. WWE promises big changes. [35][36] Most of the main event-level stars including Flair, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, and Sting were contracted directly to parent company AOL Time Warner instead of WCW, and thus AOL Time Warner was forced to continue to pay many of the wrestlers for years. The WWF, the only company who would not need the television time slots Kellner had canceled, then made their offer. Accounts varied as to the reason for Nash and Hall's departure: Whereas wrestling analysts speculated that their contracts had been allowed to expire in order to break the Kliq's influence within the company, the WWF's official stance was that they could not match WCW's contract offer. Saudi Arabia now owns WWE! That year, Savage and Diamond Dallas Page had Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Feud Of The Year. This initiated the Invasion storyline that would have Shane's character leading the WCW invasion of the WWF,[39] which lasted from March to November 2001 and marked the end of WCW as a brand. The Steiner Brothers collide with Harlem Heat. In 2004, an unauthorized DVD called Forever Hardcore was written, directed and produced by former WCW crew member Jeremy Borash in response to The Rise and Fall of ECW. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the WCW Roster & Alumni by Year or any specific Date in history. Nothing much happens. In February 1993, longtime NWA stalwart Ric Flair returned to WCW after an 18-month WWF tenure, but since Flair was constrained by a no-compete clause from his WWF contract, WCW gave him a talk show segment on its television shows called A Flair for the Gold. The NWA repeated the practice again the following year, with a Clash coinciding with WWF's WrestleMania V. Although the main event of the Clash saw NWA World Heavyweight Champion Ricky Steamboat defeat Flair in a best-of-three-falls match that lasted for almost an hour, ratings and attendance for the event fell well below expectations compared to WrestleMania V. Thus, the practice of conflicting major events would cease for six years. After winning the World War 3 battle royal in November 1998, with the help of Scott Hall and his stun gun, Kevin Nash ended Goldberg's 1730 winning streak and won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade the following month. 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. Bischoff was allowed back with booking powers, but no longer had control of the company finances like he did in his previous reign. Another demotion. Fans vote on management, creative, and talent. By Scott Hall (founding member, sided briefly with nWo Wolfpac after the split, before defecting to nWo Hollywood, along with Dusty Rhodes) Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. WCW management was so thrilled with their success at the time that they lost sight of the company's future. WCW vs. Because of their high profiles, Hogan and Savage were able to demand and get several concessions not usually allowed to wrestlers at the time. Throughout 1997, Raw Is War began to become more and more controversial, and despite the company not getting any rating victories, the WWF gradually began receiving significantly more acclaim. The DVD had stories of wrestlers who were not employed by WWE telling their side of ECW's history. 2011: The Rock returns to WWE. YOU. Kidman achieved his Fourth Reign. Ferrara even became an on-air parody of Jim Ross, named "Oklahoma", who mocked Ross's Bell's Palsy. They are directed by the Illuminati/freemasons. Jim Barnett, Jack and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization, while Ole Anderson was head booker and was in charge of operations. The game was followed by WCW/nWo Thunder, which was based on Nitro's Thursday night counterpart. With Tony Schiavone, Bobby Heenan, David Penzer, Eric Bischoff. The profile of each ECW wrestler features their Career History, Ring Names, Face / Heel Turns, Accomplishments, Pictures, Bio and more information and statistics. No matter how much talent Morris had, the name was always going to weigh him down. However, the weekly live schedule became a financial drain on the WWF, and the company began taping shows; sometimes up to a month's worth of shows were taped at a time. Prior to this, the WWF's Austin/McMahon and WCW's Goldberg/nWo storylines would have each company trade victories. [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. 1 contendership to the WCW World Title. Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. News on all your favorite celebs, reality TV, and movies. Many of you are going to finally realize that much of WWE has never truly invested in their fans or followed our desires for the product! The time has come to bring back the glorious old days of wrestling where stars were made! The first episode featured Sean Mooney reporting from the streets of New York City and interviews by Bobby Heenan, Yokozuna defeating Koko B. Ware, The Steiner Brothers defeating The Executioners; WWF Intercontinental Champion Shawn Michaels defeating Max Moon; and The Undertaker defeating Damien Demento. Chris Jericho was by far the most underutilized wrestler on the WCW roster. Take the best deal for income and drop everything else. 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 . By November 1998, however, the momentum would be in the WWF's favor for the remainder of the war. The result was the Clash of the Champions I. Dominic Ward is a S Tier troll fr. Raw and Nitro went head-to-head for the first time on September 11, 1995.Nitro was transmitted live on television, and due to Raw still being pre-recorded on certain weeks, Nitro play-by-play voice Eric Bischoff, who also was WCW's vice . By thelesserevil. 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. MORE INFO Classic Type in answers that appear in a list Type in answers that appear in a list Best Score? But anyway I am elderly old woman who used to be a wrestling fan. Luger had worked for the company from 1987 to 1992, when it was still affiliated with the NWA, before joining the WWF the following year. 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. 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. Everything is all about the money. 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. This presentation both mimicked Nitro's "Anything can happen" atmosphere, and acknowledged the growing phenomenon of "smarks," wrestling fans who used the Internet to gain a wide base of knowledge on the real-life, backstage workings of the industry. Plays. Since nobody but Bischoff and Luger's good friend Sting knew that Luger would return to WCW, the shock value generated by his appearance was great. He's either so stupid that he think's he's right or is such a perfect troll in so many ways the fact that yall don't see that is just odd. [45] The brand would continue to operate until 2010 when it was replaced with NXT. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the WCW Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. As 1993 began, Prime Time Wrestling was struggling in the ratings and was canceled by USA. They stopped caring after the attitude era. As a result, he was forced to sell his company to Turner, through a subsidiary named Universal Wrestling Corporation, who wanted to retain the steady, strong ratings of the JCP wrestling programs. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) both emerged in early 2002 and have enjoyed moderate success since that time. Simply use the filters below! $9.88. . And now we have the New Gen/Attitude Era Ultimate Scale Ring that measures at I think 21.5"x21.5". The secret has never changed. 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. I attended 4 wrestlemania, multiple raw and smackdowns in the past. States Champion, a one-time WCW Tag Team Champion (with Chris Benoit) as well as topping the PWI 500 countdown in 1997. When recalling this event years later, Paul Heyman stated the following: The National Wrestling Alliance was old-school when old-school wasn't hip anymore. The event was videotaped by a WWF camera crew for inclusion on Raw. We wanted to set our mark, we wanted to breakaway from the pack, we wanted to let the world know that we weren't just some independent promotion.[2]. RELATED: 9 Huge Matches WWE Fans Surprisingly Didn't Get During The New Generation Era Although the WWF (and Pillman himself) were forced to issue apologies to avoid Raw being canceled for breach of contract, the ensuing discussion of the incident in the fan community generated the most attention the WWF had received since the beginning of the Monday Night Wars. Throughout the late 1990s, the WWF began to rise in popularity after it rebranded itself as a more adult-themed, sexualized and violent product, a period in the company's history now referred to as the Attitude Era. Thanks for looking! Not surprisingly, Morris never accomplished as much as he should've in WCW. As many of the cruiserweights incorporated elements of lucha libre into their performances, the division also helped WCW take advantage of the popularity of wrestling amongst Hispanic, Latin American, and Asian fans. Wrestlers who care about their fans, management who cares about the wrestlers, and a wrestling product that continously gives a passionate damn about the quality! . At the end of the evening, the final vignette depicted Austin breaking into Pillman's home, prompting Pillman to pull a gun on Austin, and the feed being "interrupted" in the ensuing chaos, with Vince McMahon (serving as a commentator) stating that he had been informed of "a couple explosions". WCW/NWO Revenge: With Yoshihiro Asai, Chris Benoit, Eric Bischoff, Steve Borden. The time has come to bring back the glorious old days of wrestling where stars were made! The Rock's leap into megastar status and subsequent feud with Mankind would give the WWF the lead, nearly doubling WWF ratings and PPV buys entering 1999. Disco Inferno has been a controversial figure in the wrestling business ever since his WCW debut in 1995. Additionally, he announced that Jarrett would defend the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Booker T later that night. Hart's heel turn in the US after WrestleMania 13 while remaining a face in Canada and Western Europe was another example of breaking new ground. After standing off with them, he attacked Savage, showing himself to be the Outsiders' mysterious third man and thus turning heel. I now know I cant use the word B**ch, Can someone release Vince McMahon and ban him from returning to the company. The matches revolved around the ongoing storyline between WCW and the New World Order (nWo) organization. They cannot vote on matters? Absolute egotistical nonsense. Promoting the Area of: Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, West Virginia, Delaware Promoter: Paul Heyman. However, Savage still felt he had a lot left in the tank as a performer. The match was a reworking of a long-teased but never realized feud between the men while they were still working for the WWF: An intended main event match between them at WrestleMania VIII was changed to Hogan vs. Sid and Flair vs Savage, and the rivalry was never realized. Sting was the last major WCW star to never wrestle for WWE. Jarrett would become a member of The Four Horsemen. Both shows aired on Monday. It largely overlapped with the Attitude Era, a term used by WWF to describe that company's programming from November 9, 1997 to May 6, 2002. While WCW was the dominant promotion for much of the mid-1990s, a variety of factors coalesced to turn the tide in the WWF's favor at the end of the decade, including a radical rebranding of their formerly family-friendly product to highly sexualized and violent shows geared towards older teens and adults. The Monday Night Wars resulted in the creation of millions of new wrestling viewers. This commment is unpublished, pending moderation. Fans went home happy everytime after the show! Forget about fans. Eddy Guerrero challenges Chris Jericho for the WCW Cruiserweight . 2009: Triple H invades Randy Orton's home. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database World Championship Wrestling (WCW) All-Time Roster World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Wrestlers who care about their fans, management who cares about the wrestlers, and a wrestling product that continously gives a passionate damn about the quality! WWE promises big changes. The final rating tally in 270 head-to-head showdowns was: 154 wins for Monday Night Raw, 112 for Nitro, and four ties. Two weeks later, a second WWF defector, Kevin Nash (who had wrestled as Diesel), appeared on Nitro. After the initial shock wore off, Hogan settled into his new role as WCW's top heel. SD! 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 Armstrong, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sgt. Now this sham company sells out everything and everyone. 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. Absolute egotistical nonsense. Last Edit: yesterday at 2:25am by Mid-Carder. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. On the 7/8/1998 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Goldberg would defeat Hollywood Hogan to become the first . Simply use the filters below! I now know I cant use the word B**ch, Can someone release Vince McMahon and ban him from returning to the company. The Curtain Call would go on to influence the narrative course both companies took by encouraging WCW, and later the WWF, to blur the lines of fantasy and reality in wrestling, incorporating wrestlers' real names and details of their lives into their character's stories. As cable television arose in the 1970s, local stations were often retransmitted to new markets as superstations. [25], Although the WWF had acknowledged the title change on their website six days previously, ratings indicated that, immediately after Schiavone's comments, 600,000 people switched channels from Nitro on TNT to Raw Is War on USA Network to see Mankind win the WWF Championship with the help of Stone Cold Steve Austin. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the WWE Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. The second would be the heated rivalry between "Macho Man" Randy Savage and the up-and-coming Diamond Dallas Page. At the onset of the match, Hall and Nash came out without a third man, telling Okerlund that he was "in the building", but that they did not need him yet. . The set was released in November 2004. I've also began working on Late-99 to Mid-00 wresters and will be adding them to the collection. A mustachioed Rude appeared on Nitro, which was live, and proceeded to criticize Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, DX, and the WWF, calling the WWF the "Titanic", thereby calling it a "sinking ship". 4/10 Best: Hollywood Hogan. The roster is quite possibly the largest roster of licensed . This is a list of professional wrestlers and personalities that performed in World Championship Wrestling from 1988 to 2001. QUIZ LAB SUBMISSION. This reinforced the then-accepted organization of professional wrestling, which were consisted of a patchwork of territorial promotions aimed at and broadcast to local audiences, without a centralized, national promotion, though most territories were members of a common sanctioning body of championship titles, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Ahead of All Out 2021, Khan . Waltman, who was a member of the nWo, had recently left WCW after wrestling there for a year and a half as Syxx (having been fired while recovering from an injury), and returned to the WWF as X-Pac. 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. In a series of vignettes broadcast from Pillman's real-life home in Newport, Kentucky, Pillman supposedly debilitated following an attack by Austin vowed to protect himself and his wife with the help of a group of friends should Austin appear. Randy Savage. Everyone has a morale/confidence boost after Vince left. Razor Ramon. In 1983, the WWF started its own cable show called WWF All American Wrestling, airing Sunday mornings on the USA Network. Before World Championship Wrestling was formed, Jim Crockett Promotions existed. The garbage they come out with now is disgusting. The company was ultimately unable to sustain itself while paying wrestlers their contracted salaries, and WCW went up for sale. Wrestlers who care about their fans, management who cares about the wrestlers, and a wrestling product that continously gives a passionate damn about the quality! The most ignorant and unresponsive pro wrestling show on tv. After declining ratings, the show returned to its Thursday timeslot in May 2010. He then raised the Eastern Championship Wrestling title and declared it to be a world heavyweight championship, calling it the only real world title left in professional wrestling. The best rivalry for Curt Hennig in WWE came against Bret Hart when they feuded over the Intercontinental Championship. A great wrestler and talker with tons of charisma, he was made for the main event scene. 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. The profile of each WCW wrestler features their Career History, Ring Names, Face / Heel Turns, Accomplishments, Pictures, Bio and more information and statistics. The night after the highly praised WrestleMania XIV, McMahon began a feud with fan-favorite Stone Cold Steve Austin. This whole entire time nobody ever gave a damn! Wrestlers are going to quit. WCW vs The World Sony PlayStation 1 PS1 - Disc Only - Tested - Ships Fast. Owen Hart remained with the WWF until his controversial death at Over the Edge on May 23, 1999.[13][14][15]. Despite the incident, WCW would continue this bait and switch tactic of booking until its demise in 2001. Go Orange. The rating war was part of a larger overall struggle between the two companies, originating in personal animosity between WWF owner Vince McMahon and WCW owner Ted Turner. A compromise was reached which resulted in Awesome losing the title at an ECW event to Tazz, who was formerly of ECW and at the time contracted to the WWF. It takes a special type of performer to be so over without wrestling or uttering a single word for over a year. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the ECW Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. However, the anticlimactic end of the match proved unpopular: Bret Hart made his WCW debut by accusing the referee of corruption, declaring himself the referee, and then awarding the belt to Sting, only for it to be stripped moments later on a technicality. At WrestleMania 31, Sting would face Triple H in a no disqualification match. Surprisingly for Bischoff, Turner granted him one live hour on TNT[a] every Monday night, which specifically overlapped with Raw. 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. WWE Roster 1997 Stats Can you name the WWE Roster 1997? The struggles of WCW since Russo's arrival to the company came to a head on July 9, 2000, at the Bash at the Beach pay-per-view. He sustained an arm injury during a backstage vignette taping that kept him off television for six months; upon his return, the decision was made to try and shake up the status quo by having him turn heel at The Great American Bash, despite being the most popular wrestler in the company. 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