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World Championship Wrestling is a now defunct wrestling promotion that competed with WWE in the 1990’s until Vince McMahon purchased the company and assumed all rights to the product.

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2 Oct, 2014

Sportingnews.com interview

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Morris talks to Sportingnews.com about NXT, WWE 2K15 and Triple H.

It’s (WWE 2K15) unbelievable. It’s the red wall. You see our banners. You see the seven rings. You’re in the performance center with us, with me, and that’s an honor. I love the fact that the performance center is represented and I get to represent that. That side of what these superstars do to become NXT superstars and to WWE superstars and to WrestleMania.

14 Jul, 2014

Busted Open Radio interview

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Dillon sits down with Busted Open Radio to discuss WCW and the WWE Hall of Fame.

When I first started I was a fan. It was in the late 50s and I thought I could become a professional wrestler and appear at Madison Square Garden. The Hall Of Fame at that point was Baseball in Cooperstown. There was no wrestling hall of fame.

4 Jun, 2014

WrestlingINC.com interview

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Russo discusses why he left WWE for WCW in 1999:

It was a couple of things. I was burnt out and didn’t appreciate Vince adding SmackDown without a heads-up or help. Number two, Vince was adding a show that would bring in millions of dollars in revenue and our salary did not go up one cent. I went into Vince’s office at that point and I was starting to breakdown because he was milking me dry. Part of what I was telling Vince is that I’m away from home, my kids are young, I wasn’t seeing my kids at all, and I was neglecting my wife. I’ll never forget Vince looked me in the eyes and said ‘I don’t know what the problem is. I pay you enough money to hire a nanny to take care of your kids. When he said that to me as a man, father, and husband, that was the end of the line.

21 May, 2014

Ross Report interview

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Goldberg is a guest on The Ross Report to discuss WCW, his streak and early interest in professional wrestling.

Nothing brings back better memories than sitting in my grandma’s swivel chair, watching Texas Championship Wrestling with her at 10:30

19 May, 2014

Piper’s Pit interview

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Guerrero is a guest on Piper’s Pit to discuss road stories, bar fights and working hard in wrestling.

You know there’s always someone who’s got your number. No matter where you go or where you’re at… there’s always someone who is better than you.

11 May, 2014

Wrestling101.com interview

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Vader gives his thoughts about his tenure in WCW:

I don’t really remember how long I was in WCW for but it was a great time of my career flying in and out of Atlanta. I felt during that time my wrestling knowledge, skills and physicality had caught up with each other – I was young and strong, able to wrestle hard and long, it all just kind of fell into place during my time in WCW.

8 May, 2014

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Bischoff is a guest on the Steve Austin Show to discuss WCW, Dusty Rhodes and Kevin Nash as head booker. Austin releases statement.

Eric Bischoff is back… and this time he’s talking WCW – how he ended up running the show, the Monday Night wars with WWF, having Dusty Rhodes book, adding Kevin Nash to the roster, and the real reason he fired Steve Austin! Plus, nWo and Hulk Hogan stories!

7 May, 2014

Steve Austin Show interview

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Bischoff talks to The Steve Austin Show WCW and his rise to power in the company.

I was passionate and I felt it. I believed in it. I believed in myself. I’ve been passionate about wrestling since I was a little kid and I was passionate about my approach to it. And the solution that I had, especially given that Turner had identified as their problem, which was not wanting any more wrestling guys running a television company. So, it worked.

19 Mar, 2014

The Art of Wrestling interview

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Bagwell is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss his tenure in WCW and hazing in the locker room.

I’ve had cold water dumped on my head in very shower I’ve ever taken. I didn’t sell it, I didn’t say a word. I just shut my mouth. Because I knew my place. I was the new guy.

11 Nov, 2013

The Art of Wrestling interview

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Storm is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss his wrestling career and his serious guy gimmick.

Everyone knows me as me. I’m the guy who never smiles and never has fun. A lot of my serious nature comes from being somewhat shy and reserved. The longer people get to know me, the more I get out of my shell and they all claim to be the one who got me out of my shell.

23 Oct, 2013

The Art of Wrestling interview

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South is a guest on The Art of Wrestling to discuss wrestling in the 80’s and almost quitting wrestling training early on.

I was bleeding from my nose, I ripped my blue jeans, I threw up. The old guys got a hold of me and they tied me up and left me in a corner. they were laughing. They didn’t want you in the business. Back then the older guys thought, “If I let this kid in… he’s gonna take my spot.” I crawled out, jumped in my old trans am and left. I said I’d never go back and I hate professional wrestling. The next day I got off work and I went straight back.

17 Aug, 2013

Wrestlingmania.com interview

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Luger talks to Wrestlingmania.com about his WCW debut on the very first Monday Night Nitro.

On reflection, that was a pretty bad move by me. Me and Vince had a verbal agreement. I worked for him for 6 months without any sort of contract as my contract had expired. My mistake came when WCW signed me. I didn’t get to have a conversation with Vince to tell him I’d be leaving. But that was 100% my fault.

22 Jul, 2013

Wrestling101.com interview

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Hall speaks about being a part of the nWo in WCW:

I had no idea the NWO thing was going to work, I knew I was going to be getting good money, and I knew I would be getting days off. I thought creatively it might not be that satisfying, I had no idea all that stuff was going to work, Kev didn’t know, Hulk didn’t know, Bischoff didn’t know, so it was really pleasing that it blew up like that. In my mind when things happen organically they are way better, with the NWO we were making it up, it was live TV every Monday, sometimes we didn’t know what we were going to do till five minutes before we went on air.

8 Jul, 2013

Wrestling101.com interview

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Ross talks about working as an announcer for WCW:

My time in Atlanta was great, I went to Atlanta first for Jim Crockett and I was only doing television so my schedule was very light. Crockett then got into financial problems and that’s when Ted Turner brought the brand and they wanted me to move to Atlanta, which I did, I lived in Atlanta from the late eighties to 1993 so for about five years and Atlanta was one of my favourite place to live and I was doing stuff with the Atlanta Falcon’s Football team.

29 Mar, 2013

Pro Wrestling Radio interview

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Koloff speaks about what he first thought about the wrestling industry when he entered it:

Well, it was somewhat, or quite overwhelming initially, early on you know cause I didn’t have the experience that the other guys had or gone through a camp or something of that nature. I was fortunate and blessed to have the ability to adjust to it quickly, and what we did for the next couple months is, we’d get to the towns and I’d have on the job training. Uncle Ivan and Don Kernodle would work out with me and then I’d have a single match that would last about 13 seconds again and they’d have a world tag title match and I’d sit in their corner and I’d sit in my corner and that’s just how it evolved.

10 Feb, 2013

Wrestling101.com interview

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Steiner speaks about competing in the tag team division of WCW in the late 1980’s to early 1990’s:

After a while it all started to sink in going to WCW and the WWF at the time, looking back it was an honour to be in the ring with The Freebirds, The Road Warriors, Doom, The Skyscrapers. There were a lot of good tag teams back then, tag team wrestling was an exciting element of the show they put on and we were just fortunate to be around in an era when tag team wrestling was still considered a main part of the show.

12 Nov, 2012

Wrestling101.com interview

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Guerrero Jr. talks about being a part of the cruiserweight division in WCW:

People had never really seen that style of wrestling, that wasn’t just flying but was wrestling and brawling and just different stuff that I really attribute to bringing in Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero. They all came from Japan, they had been in Mexico, they had been in ECW, those three had been everywhere together and were used to wrestling all those different styles.

10 Oct, 2012

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Booker T talks about the last episode of WCW Monday Nitro:

It was a bitter-sweet night, I knew something that I had been apart of for so long was coming to an end and there was no way we could recreate that all over again, I knew that part of my life was going to change but on the other hand I was pretty excited because WWE had bought the company, Vince McMahon had taken over and I knew it was time for me to step up and that is exactly what I did. I always thought I was upper echelon talent and I would get a chance to prove it in WWE and I think I did that and I think I did it very well, but I was ready for the challenge.

3 Oct, 2012

Kayfabe Wrestling Radio interview

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Nash discusses being featured in WWE’s upcoming New World Order DVD:

I think the body of work still stands out. A lot of it, because we participated in; even though we did it, we’ve never seen it back. There have been so many matches and segments and things that we haven’t seen that sometimes, especially with the production that the WWE has, when they put something together, it’s usually an incredible piece and you sit there and kind of relive it again. You go ‘Oh yeah, forgot about that’. So, I look forward to watching those pieces because it does bring back a lot of memories.

4 Jun, 2012

Wrestling101.com interview

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Bischoff gives his thoughts on his tenure as president of WCW:

It was a long process, from working on camera to becoming president of the company was a several year process but with every step in that process I learned more about the business side of wrestling industry and took on more responsibilities. By the time I became president of the company I had a clear vision of what I wanted to do and how I wanted to make WCW the number one wrestling company in the world.