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Briefs and Happenings: WCW, Barrett and the Big Leadup to WrestleMania
On March - 23 - 2011
It has been an interesting week so far in the world of wrestling, and things are only going to become more buzzworthy as we get closer we get to WrestleMania next Sunday. So without further adieu, here are the hot topics in the world of the WWE and TNA. SATURDAY will actually mark the 10-year anniversary of the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro (with 3/23 actually marking a decade later of the sale of the company to the WWE), and many fans are surprised that there was no mention of the end of the Monday Night Wars on ...
The things that will make me always remember good ol’ WCW
On March - 12 - 2011
Ten years ago, WCW finally shut its doors after rising to the top of the industry only to come crashing down to rock bottom in only a few years.WCW was what many wrestling fans will remember as the wrestling they grew up watching as kids. Young people like myself, at the time, were able to watch albeit for a brief period of time, some of the legends who had made names for themselves in the hey-day of the NWA and the early days of the WWF. When Ted Turner's WCW first got on its feet, he along with Eric Bischoff ...
Pro Wrestling: 10 Years Later, Fans Still Ask, ‘Why Did WCW Fail?’
On March - 11 - 2011
In 1996, the sky was the limit for Eric Bischoff and World Championship Wrestling. Everything that Bischoff touched turned to gold.Starting with the debut of Nitro, and later the formation of the New World Order, WCW was unstoppable.Fans were tuning in, ratings climbed to unbelievable heights and WCW nearly put WWE out of business by dominating the weekly ratings battle for 84 weeks straight.Kind of hard to believe that six years after its debut on TNT that the company would be shutting its doors for good, right?Still to this day, it just doesn't make sense how WCW fell so hard, ...