It’s been 23 years since WWE (then WWF) purchased World Championship Wrestling (WCW), effectively killing its competition. Yet more than two decades later, the now-defunct pro wrestling promotion ...
WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head ...
In 1995, Ted Turner — founder, chairman, and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), which owned the TBS and TNT networks — asked WCW executive Eric Bischoff what it would take for WCW to compete ...
“They wanted more traditional programming. They didn’t want rasslin’ in their high-brow portfolio. They weren’t interested, and nothing else mattered.” Vice TV’s new Who Killed WCW? show is equal ...
WCW Main Event was a televised wrestling program of World Championship Wrestling that aired from 1988 to 1998. For most of its run, it was the promotion's secondary show and aired on Sunday evenings ...
The fall of WCW has been attributed to several different parties and circumstances, and even the "Who Killed WCW" documentary couldn't pinpoint one specific reason for why the promotion ended up ...