WCW - Under New Ownership

The Y2J Problem · 12-03-2008, 08:43 AM

World Championship Wrestling was a promotion run by Ted Turner. During the late 1990s, WCW was the number one wrestling promotion in America as it had managed to surpass Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Federation. There were many reasons why WCW was number one. It had the main event talent such as Hulk Hogan, Sting, Ric Flair, and Kevin Nash while younger talent such as Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and Chris Jericho were used as the mid-carders and they hoped that someday they would be the future of WCW.

However, WCW used storylines such as Hulk Hogan shocking the world by turning heel with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, making the New World Order stable. The group stayed for a long time and eventually WCW was starting to fall to its very own death because of backstage politics used by older talent to make sure that they would always be on the same level. The younger talent realised that they were never going to make a break in WCW so it was no surprise when Benoit, Guerrero, Jericho, and many others such as Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn jumped to the WWF.

Even when WCW brought in WWF Creative Writers, Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara never helped WCW even when they pushed younger talent such as Billy Kidman and Rey Misterio, Jr. because of the backstage politics. More WCW talent were asking for their releases every single day because they wanted to make a break for themselves in the WWF. The man that had carried WCW for years rather than Ted Turner, Eric Bischoff had made several offers but all were rejected and eventually Vince McMahon bought out the company from AOL Time Warner for a lower offer than Bischoff had offered.

WCW was now extinct.

But would the wrestling world be so much different at that time if World Championship Wrestling wasn’t bought out by Vince McMahon and Eric Bischoff had bought out the company instead and changed his ways? We will go back to the date March 18th 2001 where WCW had just finished its WCW Greed Pay-Per-View in Jacksonville, Florida in the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum and Eric Bischoff had just bought out the company and he is now the new owner where he will try and turn WCW around to what it used to be and hopefully defeat the WWF and Vince McMahon.

Below are the official results from the first ever WCW Greed Pay-Per-View.

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Jason Jett def. Kwee Wee

Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo def. The Filthy Animals (Rey Misterio, Jr. and Billy Kidman)

Shawn Stasiak (with Stacy Keibler) def. Bam Bam Bigelow

Team Canada (Lance Storm and Mike Awesome) def. Konnan and Hugh Morrus

Shane Helms def. Chavo Guerrero, Jr. to win the WCW Cruiserweight Championship

Sean O’ Haire and Chuck Palumbo def. Totally Buff (Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell) to retain the WCW World Tag Team Championships
Ernest Miller (with Ms. Jones) def. Kanyon

Booker T def. Rick Steiner to win the WCW United States Heavyweight Championship

Dusty Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes def. Ric Flair and Jeff Jarrett

Scott Steiner (with Midajah) def. DDP in a Falls Count Anywhere Match to retain the WCW World Heavyweight Championship

Straight after the very unsuccessful Pay-Per-View event, WCW unexpectedly made headlines across the wrestling world when it was announced that Eric Bischoff had bought the company. Many fans logged onto the WCW website on the internet but many were disappointed to see this.

“Eric Bischoff has successfully bought World Championship Wrestling from Ted Turner. WCW will now be taking a week’s hiatus until next Monday night. More updates soon.”

Fans were disappointed about the hiatus because they would have to wait until next week but many understood. The next night, WWF Raw had aired and got a successful rating, still no updates on WCW. On Tuesday night, fans were shocked as an update had been posted again.

“World Championship Wrestling has come to terms of the releases of the following:

Big Vito
Cash
Don Harris
Dustin Rhodes
Ernest Miller
Jason Jett
Kwee Wee
Lash Leroux
Leia Meow
Ms. Jones
Ron Harris

WCW wishes them all the best in all future endeavours.”

Although some were not major big names, people were shocked to see that Dustin Rhodes, Ernest Miller, and The Harris Brothers were released. Fans across the world were all now wondering what would happen to Dustin Rhodes father, Dusty Rhodes. That question was answered a few hours later after the releases of those eleven names.

“World Championship Wrestling has come to the terms of the release of Dusty Rhodes. WCW tried all they could to persuade Dusty Rhodes to renew his contract but we now understand that he wants to concentrate on his new wrestling promotion with his son, Dustin Rhodes. WCW wishes him the best in all future endeavours.”

Now everyone was shocked that WCW had just released Dusty Rhodes and Dustin Rhodes. It was then reported later on several internet sites that it was true that WCW had indeed tried all they could to persuade Dusty to renew his contract but after the release of his son, Dustin Rhodes, he refused and is now concentrating on his new wrestling promotion, Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling, with Dustin.

Over the next few days, there were no more updates. It was Saturday on March 24th, 2001 and WCW Monday Night Nitro was meant to air in two days time. Many were logging onto the WCW website now as Monday approached. On the WWF website, Vince McMahon noticed that WCW was getting a lot of attention but the past week he had put on two kick ass shows, RAW and SmackDown and was putting on a huge main event this Monday which is The Rock teaming up with Steve Austin to take on Undertaker and Kane, to compete with the return of Nitro.

In the late hours of Saturday night, the WCW website had been updated with new features and the WCW Roster Page had just been recently updated due to the releases. Down below is the WCW Roster and WCW Information.

Champions
WCW World Heavyweight Champion – Scott Steiner
WCW United States Heavyweight Champion – Booker T
WCW World Tag Team Champions – Sean O’ Haire and Chuck Palumbo
WCW Cruiserweight Champion – Shane Helms
WCW Hardcore Champion – Vacated

Roster
Air Paris
AJ Styles
Alex Wright
Bam Bam Bigelow
Billy Kidman
Booker T
Brian Adams - Injured
Bryan Clark - Injured
Buff Bagwell
Chavo Guerrero, Jr.
Chris Candido
Chuck Palumbo
Crowbar
David Penzer – Ring Announcer
Diamond Dallas Page
Disco Inferno
Elix Skipper
Evan Karagias
Hugh Morrus
Jamie-San
Jeff Jarrett
Jeremy Borash - Interviewer
Jim Duggan
Johnny Stamboli
Kanyon
Kaz Hayashi
Kid Romeo
Konnan
Lance Storm
Larry Zbyszko – Thunder Color Commentator
Lex Luger
Major Gunns
Mark Jindrak
Midajah
Mike Awesome
Mike Tenay – Thunder Play by Play Commentator
MI Smooth
Norman Smiley
Road Warrior Animal
Reno
Rey Misterio, Jr.
Ric Flair
Rick Steiner
Scott Hudson – Nitro Color Commentator
Scott Steiner
Sean O’ Haire
Shane Douglas
Shane Helms
Shannon Moore
Shawn Stasiak
Stacy Keibler
The Wall
Tony Schiavone – Nitro Play by Play Commentator
Tygress
Yun Yang

Tag Teams and Stables
The Magnificent Seven (Scott Steiner, Ric Flair, Jeff Jarrett, Lex Luger, Buff Bagwell, Road Warrior Animal, and Rick Steiner)

Totally Buff (Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell)

Sean O’ Haire and Chuck Palumbo

KroniK (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark)

Filthy Animals (Rey Misterio, Jr. and Billy Kidman)

Team Canada (Lance Storm and Mike Awesome)

Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo

Shannon Moore and Evan Karagias

Yung Dragons (Jamie-San, Yun Yang, and Kaz Hayashi)

Air Raid (Air Paris and AJ Styles)

Straight after the roster was updated, the Pay-Per-View schedule for the rest of the year was also updated. Down below are the upcoming Pay-Per-Views for the rest of the year.

April – TBA

May – Slamboree

June – The Great American Bash

July – Bash at the Beach

August – Road Wild

September – Fall Brawl

October – Halloween Havoc

November – World War 3

December – Starrcade

Many wondered what the next WCW Pay-Per-View was going to be or was there even a Pay-Per-View? Nothing had been announced on Sunday day but heading into the early hours of Monday morning, the day that Nitro would return, the next Pay-Per-View was announced on the WCW website.

“Read the following sentence as you read this. Over one billion years ago, the BIG BANG…the creation of us and the creation of the universe...over one billion years later…we witness…the BIG BANG…the creation of the new WCW.”

Xanta · 12-03-2008, 04:46 PM

A quite impressive first post. Good luck with this.

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