During the year following the incident, many WWF fans brought signs to the shows saying "Mick Foley put my butt in this seat". ",[citation needed] with none of the profanity censored. Turner, displeased with McMahon's handling of programming on his network, pressured McMahon into selling his time slot to Jim Crockett Promotions, another wrestling promotion. The Monday Night Wars resulted in the creation of millions of new wrestling viewers. Hart's feud against the aggressive, morally ambiguous yet patriotic Stone Cold Steve Austin, would dominate WWF storylines through most of 1997. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. Chris Jericho was by far the most underutilized wrestler on the WCW roster. [42] In June 2015, the weekly show began airing on Destination America as well,[43] though it was dropped and moved to the Sinclair-owned Comet. Disco would go on to have a couple of short stints with the WCW World Television Championship but would eventually drop the title twice. Sid's departure resulted in a further problem for the company: As he had been scheduled to defeat Big Van Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Starrcade 1993, several weeks worth of Disney Tapings had been filmed with Sid as the champion, with the intention not to air it until the following year. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database World Championship Wrestling (WCW) All-Time Roster World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region WCW booked him badly. Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. Like WCW's nWo storyline, the WWF began to blur the line between real life and kayfabe: Vince McMahon, taking advantage of fans' genuine dislike for him following the Montreal Screwjob, recast himself as the evil Mr. McMahon, a corrupt businessman who despised his own fans and valued sycophancy over talent. On January 4, 1999, Nitro broadcast live once again from the Georgia Dome. 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. The decision was largely made out of necessity: The company had intended to place heavy emphasis on Sid Vicious, but he was involved in a legitimate altercation with fellow wrestler Arn Anderson while on tour in England. [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. Last Edit: yesterday at 2:25am by Mid-Carder. The 1997 Starrcade was the 15th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). [19] On April 13, 1998, Raw defeated Nitro in the ratings for the first time since 1996.[23]. The 1997 and 1998 WCW Souled Out PPV events were held on Saturdays due to the Super Bowl being played the next day, the 1999 and 2000 shows were held on Sundays. 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. For alumni of that promotion, see List of former Jim Crockett Promotions personnel.. Deceased individuals are indicated with a . He's a writer, podcast host, and runs the @flashbackwrestling account on Instagram. This whole entire time nobody ever gave a damn! 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. This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. The initial broadcast of Nitro also featured the return of Lex Luger to WCW. Hart signing with WCW in late 1997 led to him being placed in a few upper mid-card feuds to start his run. On this page you find the full WCW Roster in the year 2000. because the show still continued even though a person on the roster had lost his life on the same . WCW vs. Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. The Shockmaster was supposed to crash through a fake wall and intimidate the heels. 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. The former WWE management will still be rich off your hard earned money and chilling on the beach! This expansion became known as the Brand Extension. The Undertaker, then one of the company's longest-serving performers, had his gimmick changed for the first time in his career with the company during the Attitude Era: having performed from 1990 to 1998 as a revenant, his persona was first changed to a pseudo-Satanic cult leader in 1999, then to a "bad ass" biker persona in 2000. This includes the list of all WCW Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Roster, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in World Championship Wrestling. 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. SD! vs RAW 2011. The secret has never changed. Surprisingly for Bischoff, Turner granted him one live hour on TNT[a] every Monday night, which specifically overlapped with Raw. The heightened profiles of WWF wrestlers helped to draw the attention of both new and casual wrestling fans to the company's programming. News on all your favorite celebs, reality TV, and movies. Eventually, that gimmick would die out and Wrath would be able to find moderate success in WCW but 1997 was a rough year for him. Free shipping. WCW 1997-2000. They are listed in alphabetical order of their real name. By 2005, WWE began reintroducing ECW through content from the ECW video library and a series books. 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. Although these elements helped to garner the WWF more attention than it had enjoyed in the wake of the nWo storyline, the injury of Steve Austin at the SummerSlam pay-per-view, which put him out of action for three months, proved to be a severe blow to Raw Is War's popularity. QUIZ LAB SUBMISSION. This format would eventually be the cornerstone of the WWF Prime Time Wrestling (PTW) program. 2009: Triple H invades Randy Orton's home. . 4 months later he takes it all away. update the picture of DREW MCINTYRE please, please add Karl Fredericks to World Wrestling Entertainment and remove him from New Japan Pro Wrestling, Brian Kendrick is not wwe producer he just come for one show ; not signed at this time, Sudu Shah leave WWE !, Stevie Turner is back on NXT. WWE Hall of Fame: Full List of Members & Inductees, All Legends & HOF Classes by Year. On this page you find the full WCW Roster in the year 1997. The concept was spearheaded by McMahon along with head WWF writer Vince Russo, who changed the way wrestling television was written and constructed. 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. No matter how much talent Morris had, the name was always going to weigh him down. I attended 4 wrestlemania, multiple raw and smackdowns in the past. Now you people realize who you have been feeding this entire time? Forget about fans. [16] An hour later on Raw Is War (which had been taped six days earlier), Rude then appeared with the full beard that he had been sporting during his last few weeks in the WWF, making Rude the only performer to appear on both Nitro and Raw on the same evening until the last night of the ratings wars. On the November 4, 1996, episode of Raw, the WWF aired a storyline involving Stone Cold Steve Austin and Brian Pillman, two former friends who were feuding with each other. WWE promises big changes. Another demotion. But anyway I am elderly old woman who used to be a wrestling fan. 19931994: Eric Bischoff is put in charge of WCW, 1994: Eastern Championship Wrestling goes Extreme, 20012003: WWFE, Inc. purchases WCW and ECW. . After the Sting/Flair match, McMahon appeared on Raw Is War to close Nitro and to declare victory over WCW. The profile of each WCW wrestler features their Career History, Ring Names, Face / Heel Turns, Accomplishments, Pictures, Bio and more information and statistics. The subsequent promotion of Kevin Sullivan to head booker caused an uproar among WCW's wrestlers. The main event featured Sting defeating Ric Flair with the Scorpion Deathlock as a culmination of their trademark feud, then both men embraced one another at the match's conclusion. On the Memorial Day 1996 edition of Nitro, Scott Hall interrupted a match and, apparently out of character, challenged the wrestlers of WCW to a fight against him and unnamed companions. Time for the wrestling community to come together and build strong alternatives! WCW World War 3: With Curt Hennig, Ric Flair, Scott Steiner, Rick Steiner. please put up the Mortis formula!!!! I told you people that WWE does not care about any of you! Triple H is going to play dumb and go with the flow. 2019 should be updated in the post draft only. At the time, Savage had been positioned as the elder statesman overseeing WWE's New Generation. WCW became even more desperate, going as far as placing the WCW World Heavyweight Championship upon actor David Arquette, who was making promotional appearances for WCW's feature film Ready to Rumble. In the fall of 1998, The Rock's popularity led to a main event lead babyface push, pitting him against Mr. McMahon in the build up to Survivor Series, leading to one of the biggest swerves in WWF history with The Rock turning heel and aligning with Mr. McMahon to form The Corporation upon winning the WWF Championship against Mankind. Maybe for once the fans get to choose/organize the product going forward. The Raw formula was very different than that of Prime Time Wrestling: instead of taped matches, with studio voice overs and taped chat, Raw was a show shot to a live audience, with storylines unfolding as they happened. Whenever there were any potential young talents, like Bill Demott, WCW would immediately ruin them by giving them a rib name like "Hugh Morris." Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the WWE Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. These women began appearing on-camera in increasingly revealing clothing and in swimsuit and lingerie-oriented spreads in the WWF's Raw magazine, a lad mag designed as an alternative to the family-friendly WWF Magazine and a competitor to the likewise family-friendly WCW Magazine. SLRaw Therefore, the WWF PPV was cleared 101 over Starrcade, as only three cable companies opted to remain loyal to their contract with Crockett. The best rivalry for Curt Hennig in WWE came against Bret Hart when they feuded over the Intercontinental Championship. 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. 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. [19][20] It was also acknowledged that Diller's purchase of the USA Network gave sympathetic USA Network executive Bonnie Hammer more say regarding the WWF's status at the USA Network and that previous USA Network managing head Kay Koplovitz, who resigned from the network after Diller took over her Chairman and CEO posts on April 9, 1998,[21][22] was in fact planning to remove WWF programming from the USA Network prior to the purchase. July 3, 2001. [40] The institution of concepts like separate rosters, "General Managers" and talent drafts was intended to emulate the rivalry that had ended with WCW. Ted Turner decided to expand the brand by introducing a second weekly program WCW Thunder, on his TBS channel. Both shows aired on Monday. While WCW was red hot in 1997 with talented wrestlers and great storylines, there were also some less than stellar WCW competitors. (c) refers to the champion(s) heading into the match. On April 10, 2000, Bischoff (now a creative consultant) and Russo returned with equal power to work as a team and attempted to reboot WCW by vacating all of the promotion's titles. Eddy Guerrero challenges Chris Jericho for the WCW Cruiserweight . As Rude was being paid by the WWF on an appearance-by-appearance basis, no extant contract prevented him from leaving the WWF without prior notice. This led to the infamous moment which saw Hogan poking Nash in the chest with his finger, nicknamed the "Fingerpoke of Doom", causing Nash to lie down for Hogan to win the belt. 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. Bookmark Quiz Bookmark Quiz -/5-RATE QUIZ. Craig "Pitbull" Pittman, The Renegade, 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, 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, Chris "Morteus" Canyon, Luna Vachon, Adam Bomb, Malaya Hosaka, T-Rantula TOTAL ROSTER: 81 The WCW roster for April 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. Behind the scenes, executives who had longed to see WCW removed from the Turner organization were eventually able to see it come to fruition after Turner Broadcasting's merger with Time Warner and their merger with America Online (AOL). [51][52][53][54] In August, WWE announced that it would move NXT to the USA Network beginning with the show's September 18 episode and change the show's format to a live two-hour program which will compete with AEW's live weekly program. Go Orange. Russo would then cut a shoot promo proclaiming that the reason WCW was in dire straits was due to "that goddamn politician Hulk Hogan". This commment is unpublished, pending moderation. 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. 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. This was a direct parallel to the very first Nitro. During the match between Jeff Jarrett and Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship, Jeff Jarrett, by Russo's order, lied down in the ring to let Hogan pin him and win the title. He was the one who intended to bring more positive change. Kidman achieved his Fourth Reign. Wrestling gained newfound popularity, as wrestlers made the mainstream media, appearing on magazine covers like Entertainment Weekly and TV Guide, and appearing in commercials. In the late 1990s, WCW's ratings began to suffer as fans grew tired of the nWo storyline, which many viewers perceived as having been allowed to go on for too long. After Mankind won the title, many fans then switched back to Nitro (which still had five minutes of airtime left), suggesting that WCW had a show that the fans wanted to see and might have emerged the victor that night had they not given away the Raw Is War results. Plays. Razor Ramon. He'd soon make his way back to WWE. The company was ultimately unable to sustain itself while paying wrestlers their contracted salaries, and WCW went up for sale. SD! 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. The show also featured an interview with Razor Ramon. I've also began working on Late-99 to Mid-00 wresters and will be adding them to the collection. [47], In 2014, Sting would make his first appearance in WWE, interrupting the Survivor Series main event.
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