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World Championship Wrestling

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Mr. McMahon reveals the purchase of WCW

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10 Wrestling Companies WWE DESTROYED | partsFUNknown

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WWE Home Video - The Triumph & Tragedy of World Class Championship Wrestling - Documentary (2007)

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OPINION: WHAT HELD WORLD CLASS BACK FROM BECOMING THE MAJOR WRESTLING COMPANY ...

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NWA World Championship Wrestling - 1988-12-03

The Universal Wrestling Corporation (UWC), formerly and best known as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), is an inactive American professional wrestling promotion, historically based in Atlanta, Georgia. It began as a regional, National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)-affiliated "territory" promotion, Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), until November 1988, when Ted Turner bought the promotion, whose struggle to compete with Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation had left it near bankruptcy. Immediately after the buyout, the business was renamed the Universal Wrestling Corporation, and soon after as World Championship Wrestling, which had been the name of JCP's flagship television show. In its early years, WCW was buoyed by established NWA performers such as Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes, along with emerging stars like Lex Luger, and Sting, who would go on to be dubbed "The Franchise of WCW".