WCW: The New Millenium

Hashasheen · October 4, 2010

It was a new year. It was a new millenium. It was the rebirth of World Championship Wrestling.

Twelve long years has WCW been in business, following Jimmy Crockett Productions and Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling. The leading promotion during the early stages of the Monday Night War, WCW enters 2000 A.D as a shadow of its former self. Bret Hart has been crippled. Goldberg's star is dimming. Kevin Nash is lurking in the shadows, awaiting his time with the World Heavyweight Championship. The younger wrestlers are revolting. And it was bound to only get worse with Kevin Sullivan at the helm.

Which was why upon the beginning of the merger between America On-Line and Time Warner, Ted Turner put up the southern rassl'n promotion for sale. Eric Bischoff made his offer. Vince McMahon matched his offer and promised more. They both failed. WCW was sold to a third prospective buyer, who has vowed to return World Championship Wrestling to its former glory.

Will he be successful, or will WCW fall for the final time? I guess you'll just have to read to find out...

WCW: The New Millenium

Hashasheen · October 4, 2010

All right, so this is my new work in progress, starting out from January 31st, 2000 and will go on to March 26th, 2001. You won't actually be seeing any cards for a good while as I get the roster into shape and fix a few problems I have with a good number of the wrestler's popularities.

I will attempt to run this as close to reality as possible. Meaning no major thefts of ECW or WWF superstars, using mostly wrestlers in WCW at the time or people I will sign on that were starting out or rookies at the time that later signed with WCW in 2001. There will be many wrestlers who I won't sign that will either get stuck in the Universal Wrestling Corporation grouping that AOL were stuck with after the sale in real life, or just go to the independents or what not.

As for updates, you can expect very detailed and lengthy write-ups for Nitro and Thunder, less so for Saturday Night and Worldwide, which I will primarily be treating similiar to WWE's Superstars. Nothing major will happen there, mainly focused on the wrestling and angles. This is to be able to give a much faster pace of update since writing full write-ups with 4 shows a week is going to make this a rather glacial pace. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Finally, I guess I say that I got a lot of my inspiration from tristram and bigpapa's WCW Dynasties, so you may see things here that remind you of theirs. If so, and I haven't acknowledged them for it, please tell me because with ADD, one can re-remember things and claim them as your own. <img alt="" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/redface.png.900245280682ef18c5d82399a93c5827.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" />

Hashasheen · October 4, 2010

<div style="text-align:center;">WCW Roster</div>

<div style="text-align:center;">Single Wrestlers</div>

April Hunter

AJ Styles

Blitzkrieg

Booker T

Bill Goldberg

Bret Hart

Chavo Guerrero Jr.

Chris Benoit

Christopher Daniels

Chris Harris

Chris Kanyon

Chuck Palumbo

Crowbar

Ciclope

Damien 666

Dean Malenko

Diamond Dallas Page

Eddie Guerrero

Glacier

Hugh Morrus

Homicide

Juventud Guerrera

Konnan

Lash LeRoux

La Parka

Lex Luger

Madusa

Malia Hosaka

Mark Jindrak

Mona

Mike Sanders

Nick Dinsmore

Norman Smiley

Perry Saturn

Psicosis

Ric Flair

Scott Steiner

Shane Douglas

Shark Boy

Shawn Stasiak

Sonny Siaki

Sting

Stevie Ray

Super Dragon

Vampiro

<div style="text-align:center;">Inactive</div>

Goldberg- Injured, Due back in the summer

Sting- Injured, Due back in February

<div style="text-align:center;">Authority</div>

Terry Funk - WCW Commissioner

<div style="text-align:center;">Backstage Interviewers</div>

Pamela Paulshock

<div style="text-align:center;">Ring Announcers</div>

David Penzer

<div style="text-align:center;">Referees</div>

Billy Silverman

Charles Robinson

Mark Johnson

Mickey Jay

Nick Patrick

<div style="text-align:center;">Managers</div>

Tony Marinara - manager of Big Vito & Johnny the Bull

Arn Anderson – manager

<div style="text-align:center;">Valets </div>

Kimberly Page - valet for Diamond Dallas Page

Torrie Wilson - valet for Billy Kidman

Daffney – valet for Crowbar

Miss Elizabeth - valet of Lex Luger

Paisley- valet

Tygress- valet for Konnan

Ms. Han**** – valet

Major Gunns – valet

<div style="text-align:center;">Commentary</div>

Mark Madden

Mike Tenay

Scott Hudson

Tony Schiavone

<div style="text-align:center;">Tag Teams</div>

3 Count - Evan Karagias, Shane Helms & Shannon Moore

Jung Dragons - Kaz Hayashi, Jamie-san & Jimmy Yang

The Filthy Animals - Billy Kidman & Rey Misterio

The Mamalukes – Big Vito & Johnny the Bull

Los Villanos – Villanos IV & V

Los Fabulosos – El Dandy & Silver King

The Haas Brothers – Charlie and Russ Haas

The Backseat Boyz – Trent Acid & Johnny Kashmere

The Havana Pitbulls – Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero

The Spanish Attack Team - Joel and Jose Maximo

Team Canada – Carl Ouellet and Jacques Rogueau

<div style="text-align:center;">Active Stables</div>

The Revolution – Shane Douglas, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn

The Filthy Animals- Billy Kidman, Eddie Guerrero, Konnan, Rey Misterio Jr., Torrie Wilson & Tygress

Hashasheen · October 4, 2010

World Championship Wrestling will always be remembered as the promotion that managed to humble the McMahon juggernaut and rule for two years straight over professional wrestling. The revolution started back in July 7, 1996, when ‘The Outsiders” Kevin Nash and Scott Hall teamed up with the legendary Hulk Hogan to defeat Randy Savage, Sting and Lex Luger. The creation of the New World Order had set the wrestling fandom ablaze. Why had Hulk Hogan, one of the greatest wrestlers of the generation turned heel? The answers to that would be found on Monday Night Nitro, in what would later be called the beginning of the Monday Night Wars. For the next two years, World Championship Wrestling dominated wrestling in the United States, beating out both the World Wrestling Federation and Extreme Championship Wrestling (both of the “Big Three”), and rapidly grew from a second-rate promotion to one with a large cult-like following and international renown. However, with a growing base, came the defeats that would help end WCW, whose success had come in its recreating or reimagining of talented veterans who had already had amazing runs in the WWF as well as an excellent undercard of younger wrestlers. Yet as the years grew on, the older WWF wrestlers, many of whom had creative control placed into their contract as an incentive, refused to put over new wrestlers from the mid-card, and begin to grow stale as the WCW increasingly relied on the nWo to counter the WWF’s well received Attitude Era that was based out of newer developed wrestlers like Steve Austin, The Rock, Shawn Michaels and Triple H. The tactic failed, as did the rising star of Bill Goldberg once he was fed to Kevin Nash. Younger wrestlers such as Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddy Guerrero and Chris Jericho were stolen away from WCW due to serious frustration with the booking committee and their tendency to promote veteran wrestlers. It would be a long road for World Championship Wrestling and its supporters as the continually rising Attitude Era and the continually decline nWo storyline would combine to chip away at WCW’s fans and force the company to draw more and more inward into its home of Atlanta, Georgia and its primarily southern base. In late 1999, out of desperation, the executives of AOL Time Warner brought in Vince Russo, the self-proclaimed genius behind the Attitude Era that was shaming the WCW in the ratings. What followed cannot be fully summed up in mere words, but suffice it to say that in his short tenure as WCW head booker, Vince Russo did more damage than Eric Bischoff and the creative-control contracts did. Rapidly falling even further in the ratings and in profits, the promotion’s fate was sealed when Time-Warner began its merger with America On-Line. Almost immediately after Jamie Kellner made his position that professional wrestling was not desirable programming for AOL-TW official to Ted Turner, WCW was put on the chopping block in January of 2000. Without a deal to purchase the promotion coming through, one of the major powers of professional wrestling in America would die a humiliating death. Former WCW President Eric Bischoff and his quickly formed investor group made an offer of approximately $5m. That offer was quickly matched by Vince McMahon, who had the right to match any offer due a lawsuit settlement, and then increased with a following offer of approximately $19.5m and featuring a more aggressive payment schedule. But before the deal was finalized, a third offer was made to for a much higher price and to be paid at the same rate as the WWF. It was accepted, and after speaking to both the other investors, was the final offer. There was talk that McMahon was furious at AOL-TW over the third offer being accepted and while he considered legal action, he did not pursue that possibility is as the original offer he made apparently upset Viacom, which carried all WWF programming at the time. At the same time, Eric Bischoff was scheming to return himself to power in WCW by other means, attempting to gain meetings with the new owner to arrange to return his old position and haunting grounds. The meetings were refused and an upset Bischoff supposedly declared afterwards that he would simply run WCW into the ground as Russo had, and that ultimately WCW would be his again. That all this occurred in the lead-up to Souled Out and afterwards led to a constantly changing card, which was completely finalized the day before Souled Out as below: <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="29233" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div> The 15-man battle royal for the vacant Cruiserweight Championship Damien 666, Psicosis, Juventud Guerrera, Eddie Guerrero, Ciclope, La Parka, Chavo Guerrero Jr., Jamie-san, The Artist, Shannon Moore, Shane Helms, Evan Karagias, Kaz Hayashi, James Yung and Lash LeRoux. Booker T vs. Stevie Ray Big Vito and Johnny the Bull (w/Tony Marinara) versus The Harris Boys in a No.1 Contenders match for the World Tag Team Championships Shane Douglas, Dean Malenko, and Perry Saturn vs. Billy Kidman, Konnan, and Rey Misterio in a 3 on 3 Elimination Match David Flair and Crowbar w/Daffney vs. Vampiro and??? For the WCW World Tag Team Championships Buff Bagwell vs. DDP in a Last Man Standing Match Terry Funk versus Kevin Nash for control of World Championship Wrestling and the survival of the nWo. Sid Vicious vs. Chris Benoit for the vacant World Heavyweight Championship </div></blockquote> Despite an incredibly weak pay per view buy-rate, the show was critically acclaimed by those who did in fact watch. La Parka would proceed to win his first ever Cruiserweight Championship after outlasting 14 other very determined cruiserweights. Booker T would go over Stevie Ray in a brutal match that had their sister Midnight involved as the special guest referee. Both men would reconcile after the match and end their feud on that night on good terms, while Big Vito and Johnny would pin the Harris Boys to get their shot at the tag team belts. The Revolution would be defeated by the Filthy Animals when Billy Kidman pinned Shane Douglas to secure the win for his team, which was then followed by the tag team championship match, where Vampiro and comedy wrestler and surprise partner Norman Smiley pinned David Flair after he was abandoned by Crowbar and Daffney to win the WCW World Tag Team Championships. DDP would complete his heel turn by going over Buff Bagwell and brutalizing the younger superstar throughout the match and after he pinned Bagwell until he was pulled off by a horde of referees and ringside crewmen. Terry Funk would defeat Kevin Nash despite attempted interference from the Harris Boys which was stopped by both the returning Ric Flair and an injured Sting (who had come back for one appearance before returning to his recuperation) while Kevin Nash was pinned in the middle of the ring, thus giving the nWo it’s long awaited death. In the main event, Chris Benoit would battle Sid Vicious for an amazing twenty minutes of wrestling to ultimately win the championship that Bret Hart had denied him at Mayhem ’99, becoming the WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Following the PPV of Souled Out, World Championship Wrestling shut down all shows for a two-week period. The entire roster was given leave while the new management began the process of cutting the rot out of WCW. TNN and TNT instead aired best-of-WCW compilation shows on their slots on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Despite being edited together rather hastily, these shows proved quite popular and drew decent ratings. It also indicated what the fans truly wanted was a focus on the in-ring action and not the theatrics Russo promoted or the cronyism prevalent with Bischoff. During the shutdown, a large number of contracts had been terminated as part of the purchase process, leaving the new era WCW with a much depleted roster consisting mostly of younger talents. Some of those who didn't come with the purchase were the biggest stars, as they were contracted directly to AOL-TW. Sting, Flair and Goldberg chose to take buyouts from WCW, signing new WCW contracts. They were joined by the likes of DDP, Booker T, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero and Scott Steiner to form the new core of WCW major talents. Some of the biggest names, including Hulk Hogan, Curt Hennig, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall would choose to remain on the sideline and sit out their remaining contracts before returning to either the WWF or WCW. With their diminished roster, WCW began looking outside for some new talent as well, causing rumors of WCW stealing talent from the WWF or ECW to circulate the internet wrestling community on an hourly basis. The rumors turned out to be baseless. The new owners had no desire to convince Paul Heyman to part with any of his wrestlers as of yet, instead looking to the independent scene for new talent. Many wrestlers and future WCW major stars would be picked up from NWA territories and the independent circuit, such as AJ Styles, Christopher Daniels, Nick Dinsmore and Sonny Siaki. Others with potential but still too green were sent on to the Power Plant to continue honing their skills. An immense amount of uncertainty and confusion surrounded WCW during the purchase and shutdown period. Particular management elements – mostly Bischoff - had a history of "working the boys" in the past, so there was a large degree of suspicion inherent amongst the roster over what was happening, and a lot of it was directed at the new owner. Practically unknown in the wrestling world with little to no information on the man’s finances made public, some wrestlers thought it was just another worked shoot by Bischoff or Russo with AOL Time Warner executive support. They were wrong. But it was fact that World Championship Wrestling had a new owner and that the many problems of the WCW being slowly ironed out. But the question is, how long can this new ownership keep the WCW going, with the WWF circling them like sharks in the water, loss of several main event wrestlers and wide-spread dissatisfaction in the locker room leftover from previous regimes?

shawn michaels · November 3, 2010

All right, so this is my new work in progress, starting out from January 31st, 2000 and will go on to March 26th, 2001. You won't actually be seeing any cards for a good while as I get the roster into shape and fix a few problems I have with a good number of the wrestler's popularities.

I will attempt to run this as close to reality as possible. Meaning no major thefts of ECW or WWF superstars, using mostly wrestlers in WCW at the time or people I will sign on that were starting out or rookies at the time that later signed with WCW in 2001. There will be many wrestlers who I won't sign that will either get stuck in the Universal Wrestling Corporation grouping that AOL were stuck with after the sale in real life, or just go to the independents or what not.
As for updates, you can expect very detailed and lengthy write-ups for Nitro and Thunder, less so for Saturday Night and Worldwide, which I will primarily be treating similiar to WWE's Superstars. Nothing major will happen there, mainly focused on the wrestling and angles. This is to be able to give a much faster pace of update since writing full write-ups with 4 shows a week is going to make this a rather glacial pace.

Finally, I guess I say that I got a lot of my inspiration from tristram and bigpapa's WCW Dynasties, so you may see things here that remind you of theirs. If so, and I haven't acknowledged them for it, please tell me because with ADD, one can re-remember things and claim them as your own.

Why? Isn't the whole point of this changing history? So sticking to real life is a little limited. Besides,eventually you will have to get new workers, and good ones. I think you should review that policy.

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