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. When Page hit a Diamond Cutter for the win at Spring Stampede 1997, he became a made man in WCW. When Luger returned to WCW, he rehabilitated his character back to its former glory. . By 1988, Crockett's acquisition spree had severely drained his coffers. His greatest honor was being made a member of the . As 1999 began, both shows were consistently getting 5.0 or higher Nielsen ratings and over ten million people tuned in to watch Raw Is War and Nitro every week. Bischoff also began to give away the results of Raw matches on Nitro, as Raw was usually taped a week prior to airing. 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. 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. The sudden rise of Diamond Dallas Page certainly caught the wrestling universe off guard. Lastly, 1997 featured Disco losing a match at Halloween Havoc to Jacqueline. Saudi Arabia now owns WWE! In May 1985, McMahon sold the TBS time slot to another Southern-based and NWA-affiliated wrestling company, Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), under heavy pressure from station owner Ted Turner, who was unhappy with the declining ratings. At the outset of the storyline, the WWF filed a lawsuit against WCW, alleging that WCW was illegally representing the nWo as a WWF affiliate and that Hall's persona was too close to his "Razor Ramon" character (itself a parody of Al Pacino's character in Scarface), to which the WWF retained the rights. The garbage they come out with now is disgusting. 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. [2] In 1992, Goodhart sold his share of the company to his partner, Tod Gordon, who renamed the promotion Eastern Championship Wrestling. WCW would capitalize on that interest by signing former Chicago Bear, Steve "Mongo" McMichael. During the promo, Russo also reversed the result of the Jarrett/Hogan match and giving the championship back to Jarrett. 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. Though Hart became strongly disliked in the United States, this had no effect on his popularity in Canada or Western Europe where he remained a babyface. Stephanie McMahon leaves WWE ; Vince is president, Please dont ban me. Everyone has a morale/confidence boost after Vince left. 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". The most ignorant and unresponsive pro wrestling show on tv. Surprisingly for Bischoff, Turner granted him one live hour on TNT[a] every Monday night, which specifically overlapped with Raw. Hoping to counter the McMahon/Austin feud, WCW divided the nWo into the Hollywood Hogan-led heel "nWo Hollywood" faction and the Kevin Nash-led face "nWo Wolfpac" faction. WCW 1997-2000. The World (Sony PlayStation 1, 1997) Complete Tested. WCW PAYROLL INFORMATION (1997) Note: Financial Data runs from January 1, 1997 to December 31,1997, and reflects actual payments made to wrestlers during that period. After standing off with them, he attacked Savage, showing himself to be the Outsiders' mysterious third man and thus turning heel. Being a cartridge game a swipe of isopropyl alcohol may be recommended if game doesn't boot up first try. Even though the names of the international characters are changed most likely due to liscensing issues, this roster is loaded. Another demotion. I personally think these new scale rings are the best ones yet. And yeah while I mostly hated a lot of the 80s guys getting another shot you'd sometimes get something like Rick Martel suddenly having good matches again on PPV out of nowhere (damn shame he got injured right as his career was peaking again and it was over for him). Meanwhile, Raw Is War's numbers continued to rise; a match between The Undertaker vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin drew an 9.5 rating on June 28, 1999. cassonova. 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. 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. Raw and Nitro traded wins in the "Monday Night Wars" early on, but WWE has conceded that by December 1995 "WCW had the advantage over [the WWF] in the storied Monday Night Wars". There are 28 male wrestlers who wrestled for the promotion in 1997 that we do not have accurate payroll records for: Kevin Sullivan, Yuji Nagata, Masa Chono, Ciclope, Pez . WWE 12. 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. The incident, which took place in Hart's home country of Canada, became known as the Montreal Screwjob. Welcome back to the clown world that everyone has fallen asleep to! WCW Roster 1997 Quiz - By thelesserevil. 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. We understand that Mick Foley, who wrestled here at one time as Cactus Jack, is gonna win their World title. 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]. . By 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. Tazz would later appear on WWF programming with the title. The set was released in November 2004. [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. 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. The following evening on Nitro, most of WCW's top stars gave faux indignant interviews, expressing their feelings of betrayal and disappointment with Hogan's actions. After declining ratings, the show returned to its Thursday timeslot in May 2010. While still running steadily, Barnett and the Briscos sold their entire stock in GCW (including the television deal) to Vince McMahon, and on July 14, 1984 (otherwise known as "Black Saturday"), the WWF took over the GCW show. WWE promises big changes. Raw Is War's ratings began to rise steadily, bringing the "Attitude Era" to its highest point. 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. Meanwhile, Hollywood Hogan returned to WCW after a hiatus and challenged Nash to a match, which Nash accepted. Absolute egotistical nonsense. The night after the highly praised WrestleMania XIV, McMahon began a feud with fan-favorite Stone Cold Steve Austin. Absolute egotistical nonsense. Solie's assumes no responsibility for keeping them updated. Russo would then cut a shoot promo proclaiming that the reason WCW was in dire straits was due to "that goddamn politician Hulk Hogan". Austin's popularity would skyrocket even more with the company's fan base during this time. WCW's Starrcade pay-per-view in Washington, D.C. drew WCW's highest buyrate to that date, including the highly anticipated main-event of Hollywood Hogan vs. Sting, a match that fans had been waiting to see since Sting first appeared as the leader of an anti-nWo faction a year before. Because the fans are not in control! But anyway I am elderly old woman who used to be a wrestling fan. A WWE and WCW wrestler from the 1980s to 2000s, William Regal was never the biggest name on the roster, nor have the biggest physique, but has openly talked about his steroid use. Despite winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Souled Out, Chris Benoit quit in protest, along with Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database World Championship Wrestling (WCW) All-Time Roster World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region Deceased individuals are indicated with a dagger (). With the introduction of the nWo, the June 10, 1996, episode of Raw would be the last rating victory for the WWF for nearly two years.[12]. Fans vote on management, creative, and talent. 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. The company was ultimately unable to sustain itself while paying wrestlers their contracted salaries, and WCW went up for sale. WCW Nitro is a professional wrestling video game based on the television show WCW Monday Nitro. 1997 would see the legendary "Macho Man" Randy Savage take Page under his wing and make him a megastar. 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! [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. 4/10 Best: Hollywood Hogan. After scolding Russo as being the reason for WCW's problems and pinning Jarrett, Hogan left the arena in disgust. This set up a rivalry between McMahon and Turner that would continue for 16 years. WCW management was so thrilled with their success at the time that they lost sight of the company's future. 4 months later he takes it all away. Despite the incident, WCW would continue this bait and switch tactic of booking until its demise in 2001. This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies. 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