By 2005, WWE began reintroducing ECW through content from the ECW video library and a series books. The combination of an intimate venue and live action proved highly successful. They are directed by the Illuminati/freemasons. MORE INFO Classic Type in answers that appear in a list Type in answers that appear in a list Best Score? In December 1999, Bret Hart suffered a career-ending concussion during a match with Goldberg at Starrcade. Before World Championship Wrestling was formed, Jim Crockett Promotions existed. Heat in the wrestling business is often a good thing. Thirdly, Luger's defection created speculation among fans as to which other big-name stars would "jump ship". Goldberg quickly rose to stardom within the organization and became a crossover star similar to the WWF's performers, with appearances in commercials and music videos. The 1997 Starrcade was the 15th annual Starrcade professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW). [40] The institution of concepts like separate rosters, "General Managers" and talent drafts was intended to emulate the rivalry that had ended with WCW. The new World order battles The Four Horseman in a WarGames Cage Match. vs RAW 2011. 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. The first was the ongoing story of Sting's quest to save WCW from The nWo. WCW Roster 1997 Stats Can you name the WCW Roster 1997? This whole entire time nobody ever gave a damn! Lastly, 1997 featured Disco losing a match at Halloween Havoc to Jacqueline. [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. On October 5, 1999, Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara, the head writers of WWF television programs, signed with WCW, and were immediately replaced in the WWF by Chris Kreski. Forget about fans. Take the best deal for income and drop everything else. See photos for more details. It feels like a forced meal we do not want to eat. I now know I cant use the word B**ch, Can someone release Vince McMahon and ban him from returning to the company. Heyman saw ECW as the professional wrestling equivalent to the grunge music movement of the early 1990s, and focused on taking the company in a new direction. The garbage they come out with now is disgusting. In April 1996, two of the WWF's top performers, Kevin Nash (Diesel) and Scott Hall (Razor Ramon), signed contracts with WCW. 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. 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. Our complete Pro Wrestlers Database allows you to travel through time and see the ECW Roster by Year or any specific Date in history. 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. Billy Kidman. In April 2000, WCW hired the reigning ECW World Heavyweight Champion Mike Awesome, who left ECW over a contract dispute. WCW Nitro last edited by Marino on 11/29/22 03:16PM View full history Modes. Earlier in the day, Triple H and other wrestlers appeared outside the arena in military fatigues, challenging Eric Bischoff to come out and face them. They cannot vote on matters? SD! Comments. Paul Wight was a legend in WCW. Despite Sting having cut a promo on Raw saying the match would not be about the war between the companies "because that would be ridiculous at this point",[48][unreliable source] the match finish has been interpreted as a desire of McMahon to reiterate his victory in the Monday Night Wars, with Scott Hall commenting, "That's Vince just reminding you who won, even if he's going to make money the other way".[49][50]. Let him go! 4 months later he takes it all away. WCW attempted to regain ratings supremacy by marketing ex-NFL player Bill Goldberg as an invincible monster with a record-breaking streak of 173 consecutive wins. Heyman pitched the plan to Douglas, noting that the only negative would be that NWA traditionalists would just see them as traitors to tradition. CAGEMATCH Promotions Database World Championship Wrestling (WCW) All-Time Roster World Championship Wrestling (WCW) Inactive promotion in the Americas region [45] The brand would continue to operate until 2010 when it was replaced with NXT. Stephanie McMahon leaves WWE ; Vince is president, Please dont ban me. 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. They cannot vote on matters? WWE promises big changes. He was released when Elizabeth could not keep her story straight. 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. 2009: Triple H invades Randy Orton's home. This commment is unpublished, pending moderation. Bret Hart's departure from the WWF would ultimately turn the tide of the "Monday Night Wars." Tested & in good working condition. 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 McMichaels, 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, Jimmy Grafitti, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Bunkhouse Buck, La Parka, Ultimo Dragon, Tombstone, Super Calo, "Dangerous" Devon Storm, Ace Darling, Greg The Hammer Valentine TOTAL ROSTER: 78 The WCW roster for February 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 Duggan, "Big" John Tenta, Scott Armstrong, Randy "Macho Man" Savage, Sgt. Dominic Ward is a S Tier troll fr. Bischoff's attempt to deliver a "dream match" never produced by the WWF paid off, and the PPV drew a disproportionately high buy rate by the company's standards. Hart's feud against the aggressive, morally ambiguous yet patriotic Stone Cold Steve Austin, would dominate WWF storylines through most of 1997. Two hours in length, the DVD left out a large portion of the "war," breaking off around 1997 before jumping straight to the post-WCW era of WWE. In 2017, TNA was purchased by Anthem Sports & Entertainment, the owner of their Canadian broadcaster Fight Network and renamed Impact Wrestling after their television series. 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. Hall and Nash were in control of the match when Hulk Hogan came to the ring. The match was interrupted by the stables of WCW's nWo and WWE's DX, leading to a brawl between them and Sting's defeat in his first match in the company. [47], In 2014, Sting would make his first appearance in WWE, interrupting the Survivor Series main event. 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. They used this video library to put together a two-disc DVD titled The Rise and Fall of ECW. Additionally, he announced that Jarrett would defend the WCW World Heavyweight Championship against Booker T later that night. Throughout 1997, Hogan had a stranglehold on the WCW Championship. The 1998 edition featured three teams of three battling for the No. [19] On April 13, 1998, Raw defeated Nitro in the ratings for the first time since 1996.[23]. 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. 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. Replay. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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. Ha! Now this sham company sells out everything and everyone. With this event, Eastern Championship Wrestling seceded from the NWA and became Extreme Championship Wrestling. 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. 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! Whenever there were any potential young talents, like Bill Demott, WCW would immediately ruin them by giving them a rib name like "Hugh Morris." On the September 25, 2000 edition of WCW Monday Nitro, Russo won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in a steel cage match. 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. 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. In the summer of 2003, WWE purchased ECW's assets in court, acquiring the rights to ECW's video library. Chris began his WCW heel turn in the late summer of 1997 as part of his feud over the cruiserweight title with Rey Mysterio. First one to score a pin fall, submission, or count out is the winner. During a span of five months between November 1987 and March 1988, a bitter event-scheduling war broke out between Vince McMahon and Jim Crockett, Jr., the owner of JCP. 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. The Steiner Brothers collide with Harlem Heat. 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. 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. 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. During the year following the incident, many WWF fans brought signs to the shows saying "Mick Foley put my butt in this seat". The final ratings for the night were 5.7 for Raw Is War and 5.0 for Nitro. As a result, the term "NWA" became virtually synonymous with JCP. Ferrara even became an on-air parody of Jim Ross, named "Oklahoma", who mocked Ross's Bell's Palsy. So, overall, not the greatest year for Disco Inferno. 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 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. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and Ring of Honor (ROH) both emerged in early 2002 and have enjoyed moderate success since that time. Dominic Ward is a S Tier troll fr. 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. The show that succeeded it, Monday Night Raw, changed how wrestling on cable television would be presented. MORE INFO Classic Type in answers that appear in a list Type in answers that appear in a list Best Score? Being a cartridge game a swipe of isopropyl alcohol may be recommended if game doesn't boot up first try. The roster is quite possibly the largest roster of licensed . That's gonna put some butts in the seats, heh. No of course not, he was as over as he'd ever been when he left WWF in 1997. WWE promises big changes. Gordon and Heyman planned to have Shane Douglas, who was scheduled to face 2 Cold Scorpio in the tournament finals, throw down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship upon winning it as an act of defiance.[6][7]. 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. That year, Savage and Diamond Dallas Page had Pro Wrestling Illustrated's Feud Of The Year. On this page you find the full ECW Roster in the year 1997. WWE Hall of Fame: Full List of Members & Inductees, All Legends & HOF Classes by Year. However, Russo and Ferrara failed to replicate their success in the WWF. 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. On this page you find the full ECW Roster in the year 1997. 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. After the Sting/Flair match, McMahon appeared on Raw Is War to close Nitro and to declare victory over WCW. Although born with the family name Anderson, his name was changed to Williams in early childhood when he was adopted by his stepfather. They stopped caring after the attitude era. Fans vote on management, creative, and talent. They are listed in alphabetical order of their real name. WCW World War 3: With Curt Hennig, Ric Flair, Scott Steiner, Rick Steiner. Random Sports or Roster Quiz. Comments. Despite winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Souled Out, Chris Benoit quit in protest, along with Eddie Guerrero, Perry Saturn and Dean Malenko. 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. WWE Hall of Fame: Full List of Members & Inductees, All Legends & HOF Classes by 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. Maybe for once the fans get to choose/organize the product going forward. WCW's final victory in the Monday Night Wars came on October 26, following the previous night's Halloween Havoc pay-per-view. To Monday nights, in direct competition with Raw. 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. To compensate for the decrease in domestic revenue, the WWF expanded their business outside of the United States. It was held on December 28, 1997, at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C.. Everything is all about the money. The enigmatic silent warrior took WCW by storm starting in late 1996. This influenced Kellner's decision to ultimately cancel WCW programming. WCW Nitro is a video game based on the professional wrestling TV show WCW Monday Nitro. Although the formula had been popular during the MTV-fueled "rock n' Wrestling" era of the 1980s, fans in the 1990s began to gravitate towards more morally ambiguous characters, wrestlers whose personas were more grounded in reality, and metafiction storylines that acknowledged their awareness of backstage politics via the use of the Internet. Double J even scoop up some gold in WCW, winning the U.S. Championship. At the time, Savage had been positioned as the elder statesman overseeing WWE's New Generation. Additionally, there was animosity between Douglas and Coralluzzo, who had publicly criticized Douglas and advised NWA-affiliated bookers not to schedule him for shows, as he believed Douglas was a "bad risk" and had the tendency to not appear at shows he was scheduled to wrestle at. Disco would go on to have a couple of short stints with the WCW World Television Championship but would eventually drop the title twice. 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. [2] In 1992, Goodhart sold his share of the company to his partner, Tod Gordon, who renamed the promotion Eastern Championship Wrestling. Hogan's 1997 was spent playing the role of the cowardly heel to perfection. Some dispute whether the Fingerpoke of Doom angle hurt WCW. . 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. 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. A heated argument between the men escalated into a physical altercation, which culminated in them stabbing one another with a pair of scissors. [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". When you first start the game there are sixteen playable characters. The ensuing storyline, in which the nWo waged a campaign of anarchy against WCW, blurred the lines between reality and scripted entertainment, a unique presentation that acknowledged fans' growing awareness of backstage wrestling politics and kayfabe. The initial broadcast of Nitro also featured the return of Lex Luger to WCW. [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). 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. This format expanded to two live hours in May 1996 and later three. Both shows aired on Monday. WWE promises big changes. Its eventual successor, Extreme Championship Wrestling, aimed its product at males between 18 and 35, breaking a few taboos in professional wrestling such as blading. As few WWF performers at the time utilized the type of aerial techniques found in lucha libre, the cruiserweight division and the acrobatic performances of its wrestlers helped not only to draw in new viewers to WCW, but also helped the organization reach out to fans who were used to seeing such feats in wrestling performances in their native countries. WWE 12. The incident, which took place in Hart's home country of Canada, became known as the Montreal Screwjob. 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. PLAY QUIZ . Seating at the events was also partially contingent upon wearing merchandise promoting different wrestlers, and audience members being made to respond on-cue to particular in-ring events. The WWF, the only company who would not need the television time slots Kellner had canceled, then made their offer. Fans went home happy everytime after the show! It says on wiki that Chelsea Green has resigned I don't know if this is true or not but I just thought I'll let you know, in wwe draft. In an attempt to break the momentum of Nitro, WWF entered into a cross-promotional agreement with ECW. Everyone has a morale/confidence boost after Vince left. SD! With no national television outlet to air the shows, Fusient dropped their offer to purchase the promotion. Despite that, Jarrett found himself working in WCW in 1997. WCW vs. 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. 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. 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. 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. Kidman achieved his Fourth Reign. The most-remembered Prime Time format featured Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon introducing taped matches and analyzing them afterward, with Monsoon taking a neutral/babyface position and Heenan unashamedly cheering on the heels. 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