World Championship Wrestling
American professional wrestling company
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| June 6 2024 | Who Killed WCW?, a four-part documentary series about WCW's downfall, premieres on Vice TV, presented by Dwayne Johnson. |
| 2022 | The newer Cruiserweight Championship was retired. |
| 2020 | WWE revives the Halloween Havoc event. |
| January 15 2020 | AEW revives the WCW Bash at the Beach series of shows. |
| 2019 | The newer Cruiserweight Championship was renamed to NXT Cruiserweight Championship. |
| 2019 | All Elite Wrestling (AEW) formed a partnership with WarnerMedia, returning professional wrestling to TNT for the first time since WCW's closure. |
| 2018 | WWE attempted to plan a revival of the cruiserweight tag team championship under the 205 Live brand, but the plans were not implemented. |
| 2017 | WWE revives the Starrcade event and holds its first annual NXT WarGames event, featuring the first WarGames match since September 4, 2000. |
| 2017 | The corporate subsidiary, Universal Wrestling Corporation, officially became defunct. |
| 2016 | A new WWE Cruiserweight Championship was created, with a different weight limit of 205 lbs, though it did not carry the lineage of the original championship. |
| 2014 | Sting finally joins WWE after remaining out of the company since WCW's closure. |
| 2014 | WWE Network launches, making WCW's library content available to viewers. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles WWE Cruiserweight Championship (1996–2007), World Championship Wrestling & WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.