I've also began working on Late-99 to Mid-00 wresters and will be adding them to the . However, Savage still felt he had a lot left in the tank as a performer. That's gonna put some butts in the seats, heh. It feels like a forced meal we do not want to eat. Copyright 2010-2023 TheSmackDownHotel.com. On July 6, 1998, airing from the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, Nitro defeated Raw Is War in the ratings when Goldberg pinned Hollywood Hogan to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. 98 was a great year for WCW, 99 is where it really starts to fall apart. 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! Saudi Arabia now owns WWE! But anyway I am elderly old woman who used to be a wrestling fan. 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. Throughout the wars, the WWF and WCW would both adopt different concepts and narrative techniques. 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. 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 1997-2000. YOU. During Bischoff's first year at the top of WCW, bookers Ole Anderson and Dusty Rhodes concocted cartoonish, unbelievable, and poorly built-up storylines that were poorly received by fans, such as "Lost in Cleveland," a storyline in which Cactus Jack developed amnesia and disappeared in Cleveland, Ohio; The White Castle of Fear, a match between Sting and Vader themed around B movies meant to promote SuperBrawl III; and tongue-in-cheek, short beach-party movies used as promotional videos for Beach Blast. This includes the list of all ECW Wrestlers, division between Men and Women Roster, as well as Managers, Announcers, Authority figures, Producers and other personalities in Extreme Championship Wrestling. Concurrently, many WWF performers became crossover successes: during this period The Rock would become very popular and then would embark on a successful acting career, while Mick Foley published a New York Times-bestselling autobiography; Stone Cold Steve Austin quickly became the company's most popular star and the company's flagship performer, and would be featured in mainstream media all over America and made guest appearances on a variety of television shows, from Nash Bridges to Dilbert. Time for the wrestling community to come together and build strong alternatives! This is a list of professional wrestlers and personalities that performed in World Championship Wrestling from 1988 to 2001. I now know I cant use the word B**ch, Can someone release Vince McMahon and ban him from returning to the company. The company was able to briefly reinvigorate itself after the introduction of Bill Goldberg, who was presented as an unbeatable force who won matches within a matter of minutes or even seconds. 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, "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 "Mortis" Canyon, Luna Vachon, Malaya Hosaka, Wrath, Hector Guerrero, Hack Myers, Hector Garza, Masahiro Chono, Yuji Nagata, Yuji Yasuraoka TOTAL ROSTER: 85 The WCW roster for June 1997 was as follows: Bobby Eaton, Sting, Jack Boot, "Diamond" Dallas Page, "Buff" Bagwell, Steve Regal, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Stevie Ray, Booker T., Mark Starr, Big Bubba Rogers, Kevin Sullivan, Steve Armstrong, Meng, "Das Wunderkind" Alex Wright, "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan, Scott Armstrong, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sgt. WCW would capitalize on that interest by signing former Chicago Bear, Steve "Mongo" McMichael. Austin's popularity would skyrocket even more with the company's fan base during this time. This took place on episode of WWF Smackdown. 1995 -WCW ROSTER The WCW roster for January 1995 was as follows: Earl Bobby Eaton, Sting, "Fly'in" Brian Pillman, "The Enforcer" Arn Anderson, Brad Armstrong, Big Van Vader, "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes, Johnny B. Badd, "Stunning" Steve Austin, "Diamond" Dallas Page, Marcus Alexander Bagwell, "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff, Lord Steve Regal, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, "Pretty" Paul Roma, Stevie . . 2010: The Miz cashes in Money in the Bank. On this page you find the full WCW Roster in the year 1996. They stopped caring after the attitude era. 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. Each wrestler comes with at-least 2 attires, though most have 4. This influenced Kellner's decision to ultimately cancel WCW programming. 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. 2019 should be updated in the post draft only. . This whole entire time nobody ever gave a damn! Because of their high profiles, Hogan and Savage were able to demand and get several concessions not usually allowed to wrestlers at the time. Hall and Nash were in control of the match when Hulk Hogan came to the ring. Plays. Just re-watched the 1997 and 1998 shows and the unique look/atmosphere is a breath of fresh air for sure, especially compared to todays WCW's closure left a gap in the market which several companies have attempted to fill. In 1997, after gaining some strong momentum, Page would enter the feud that would make his career. As a result, the term "NWA" became virtually synonymous with JCP. Meanwhile, Hollywood Hogan returned to WCW after a hiatus and challenged Nash to a match, which Nash accepted. On the 7/8/1998 episode of WCW Monday Nitro, Goldberg would defeat Hollywood Hogan to become the first . In May 2002, WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) after a lawsuit with the World Wide Fund for Nature, which operates in the U.S. and Canada under its former international name of "World Wildlife Fund", and also used the WWF initials. Throughout 1997, Hogan had a stranglehold on the WCW Championship. WCW Nitro is a video game based on the professional wrestling TV show WCW Monday Nitro. In fact, he had been in line to get the WWF World Heavyweight Championship (he had had several previous title matches), and worked a WWF house show the night before. I told you people that WWE does not care about any of you! 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. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database World Championship Wrestling (WCW) All-Time Roster World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Now this sham company sells out everything and everyone. Young stars were rarely developed. WCW's first major pay-per-view event since Hogan's hiring, Bash at the Beach, saw Hogan defeat Ric Flair for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. 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. Last Edit: yesterday at 2:25am by Mid-Carder. This was regarded as a major breach of kayfabe at the time and ultimately led to WCW's departure from the NWA in September 1993. While Mongo certainly had name identity, he was far from a good wrestler. On this page you find the full WCW Roster & Alumni across the All-Time History of the company. Nothing much happens. 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I told you people that WWE does not care about any of you! 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. 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. As a result of the increase, WWF was divided into franchises through its two main television programs, Raw and SmackDown!, assigning the now divided roster to either franchise while also designating championships and appointing figureheads to each franchise. hide this ad. On August 10, 1998, WCW regained the lead for six weeks.[why?] They are listed in alphabetical order of their real name. WCW/NWO Revenge: With Yoshihiro Asai, Chris Benoit, Eric Bischoff, Steve Borden. [44] With the financial and critical success of the production, WWE produced a second One Night Stand in June 2006 and relaunched the ECW franchise as a WWE brand, complementary to Raw and SmackDown. Three weeks prior to the final Nitro, ECW owner Paul Heyman had begun an announcing contract with the WWF, as ECW had also fallen to financial problems and was forced to declare bankruptcy and close in January 2001. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the WCW Roster . 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. 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. It was held on December 28, 1997, at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C.. Storyline elements included racist graffiti targeted at the Nation of Domination (a stable loosely based on the Nation of Islam), drinking beer on camera by Stone Cold Steve Austin, and emphasizing the sexuality of valets Sunny, Sable, and Marlena. Tacoma, Washington. 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. Jim Barnett, Jack and Gerald Brisco had major stakes in the organization, while Ole Anderson was head booker and was in charge of operations. With Turner no longer in control, the corporate executives of the combined AOL Time Warner would sell its assets. Souled Out was a professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event promoted by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in January from 1997 through 2000. For alumni of that promotion, see List of former Jim Crockett Promotions personnel. Chris began his WCW heel turn in the late summer of 1997 as part of his feud over the cruiserweight title with Rey Mysterio. ",[citation needed] with none of the profanity censored. World Championship Wrestling (WCW) is a defunct American professional wrestling promotion that existed from 1988 to 2001. [37] The actual WCW entity was reverted to Universal Wrestling Corporation solely to deal with both legal and administrative issues. [28] According to TWNPNews.com, Nitro's Nielsen ratings on January 11, the week following the incident, once again reached 5.0. In contrast to professional wrestling of the time, which was marketed more towards families, Eastern Championship Wrestling was geared more toward adults and fans who craved a more athletic and violent wrestling product. Raw, and the WWF in general, was considered to be at a creative nadir before Nitro started. 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