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Vince McMahon purchases the WCW from AOL Time Warner
For more then 50 years there was two huge wrestling companies in the world. The WWWF that became the WWF owned by the McMahon family. And the NWA which eventually branched off and became WCW, owned by Ted Turner. Think of it as Pepsi and Coke, the thought of a merger was unheard of. It was as black and white as it got, the two would never co-exist.
That all came to a stunning end in March of 2001 as WCW was sold. In a move no one on Earth saw coming, it was Vince McMahon who purchased the WCW contracts, library and name.
It went on to be the worst Invasion Angle in wrestling history. It was just totally botched. But hey, it was cool for a little while and a total shock! Eventually all the big names from WCW would come over and start working for the WWF.
Names such as Booker T, Goldberg, Hogan, Knash, Hall, DDP, Steiner etc. The problem was is that they all came over at different times and it never really worked.
The only big names not to come back were Macho Man and Lex Luger. Both based on the horrible ways they left. Sting took 14 years to appear, and by that time was a shell of himself.
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