Of course, 2004 was also an election year. Then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden had declined to run, and John Kerry ended up losing to incumbent President George W. Bush. Oh, and just 11 days after the Red Sox began what became the most important season in franchise history, Donald Trump ...
This is an iconic wrestling match. No matter if you watched NWA or WCW or WWE when you were growing up,War Games is its own thing. It was the culmination of the bitterest rivalries -- a way to settle the score by locking two groups of people in there and having them beat the crap ...
Still, in 1996, when Hogan joined the heel New World Order stable, it was shocking. The move was controversial, with some viewers even demanding WCW make Hogan a babyface again. But ultimately, the buzz generated by the controversial move helped trigger the wrestling boom of the late-1990s. ...
Rick Rude was one of the wrestlers who left WWE after the Montreal Screwjob. He was working with the company on a handshake deal, so he immediately left to join WCW, which created the iconic night where Rick Rude was present on both Raw and Nitro (Raw was taped). After Rude's death ...
Sean Waltman will beenshrined in the WWE Hall of Famewith the rest of Degeneration X this year, but when the legendary stable first started, Waltman was on the other side. Not on the other side of DX withing WWE, but on the other side as in WCW as Syxx-Pac. ...
Of course, 2004 was also an election year. Then-Delaware Senator Joe Biden had declined to run, and John Kerry ended up losing to incumbent President George W. Bush. Oh, and just 11 days after the Red Sox began what became the most important season in franchise history, Donald Trump wrap...
WCW did the unthinkable in the 1990s, powering past Vince McMahon’s WWE as the top wrestling promotion in the world. It was led by a familiar face in Hulk Hogan, who guided WWE and McMahon to previously unheard-of heights a decade prior. Hulk Hogan arriv...
Another bit that made the nWo seem cool as hell were their commercials that aired on WCW television. They were obviously part of the show, but they always started with a deep-voiced “Paid for by the New World Order” disclaimer that made it look like the nWo themselves bought advertising...
In 1995, U.S.-based wrestling promotion WCW and Japanese-based promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling held a show in North Korea at Pyongyang’s May Day Stadium. The two-day event reportedly drew crowds of 150,000 and 190,000, making it the largest pro wrestling event in history. The event...
XWF was too be the WCW replacement federation. Jimmy Hart and the friends of Hulk Hogan did a marathon taping at Universal Studios so they had shows to sell to a Network. Problem was that pretty much the second the tapings ended Vince McMahon brought Hogan, Curt Hennig and Roddy Piper back...