WWF's purchase of WCW — which took place March 23, 2001, 25 years ago to this very day — still stands out as one of the biggest anticlimaxes to occur in the sports entertainment universe.

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the World Wrestling Federation's purchase of rival company World Champion Wrestling, marking the end of a historic rivalry that defined one of wrestling's most ...

These were the (abridged) words that opened up the final edition of WCW Monday Nitro on TNT following the news just days earlier that the then-World Wrestling Federation had acquired it wholesale. The ...

On their ninth wedding anniversary, Rickey and Cheryl Bowers drove from Carrollton, Ga., to Panama City Beach to attend what might have been World Championship Wrestling’s final match. “It’s an end of ...

Picking up steam over the course of the early to mid-'90s, ECW grew from an NWA territory to the third-biggest wrestling promotion in the United States. However, it simply wasn't meant to last. For ...

During an appearance on his "Franchise University" podcast, former WWE Intercontinental Champion Shane Douglas explained why he returned to World Championship Wrestling in 1999 after leaving Extreme ...

Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the World Wrestling Federation’s purchase of rival company World Champion Wrestling, marking the end of a historic rivalry that defined one of wrestling’s most ...