WWF Origin History
The WWF got kicked off in the 1960's by
Vince MacMahon's father (Vince McMahon Sr.) It is called the WWWF
(WorldWide Wrestling Federation), and their style of wrestling is
much different than the goofy style of today. There were no weird
personalities (clowns, mounties, insane Iraqies, etc.) there were
just normal guys in serious matches. But in the early 1980's, the
federation was passed on to Vince Jr., and all that changed. He
used a style of wrestling that was much more exiting and the WWF
became world renound..... when it was started, the basis of it was
centered around Hulk Hogan. The match where he faced the champion
the Iron Shiek (who was an Olympic champion at the time) was
probably the most know match of all-time. Hogan won and held the
belt for a LONG time.....a few years...
In 1990 a Southeastern based Organization
is formed an joined the National Wrestling Alliance. This
Organization is known as World Championship Wrestling.
In 1991, with only several regional
branches of the NWA still operating, WCW TV Announcers start to
refer to the NWA World Title as the WCW World Title.
On March 21, 1991, Tatsumi Fujinami
defeated Ric Flair in Tokyo, to win the NWA World Title. the WCW
however disagreed with the NWA and started there own World Title
and gave it to Ric Flair. They claimed Tatsumi should have been
disqualified. This now made two Recognized World Titles within the
NWA.
On May 19th,1991, Ric Flair defeated
Tatsumi Fujinami in Florida to unify the two belts.
When Ric Flair joins the WWF on September
8 ane the unified title is stripped from him.
August 12, 1992, Masahiro Chono defeats
Rick Rude in tournament to fill the vacant NWA/WCW World Titles.
The Titles change hands several times throughout the next 11
Months.
July 18, 1993, Ric Flair after his return
to the NWA/WCW defeats Barry Whindam for the NWA/WCW Unified
Title.
Later that year in September, WCW
withdrew from the NWA on an upcoming Pay- Per-View match between
Ric Flair and Rick Rude. The result of this has the NWA no longer
recognizing Ric Flair as its champion a. WCW then renames there
title the WCW International title. It is then renamed back to the
WCW World Title. |
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