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In January 1991 Ted Turner bought Jim Crockett Promotions and renamed it World Championship Wrestling. While the promotion remained a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Turner introduced his own championship, the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The new championship continued to use the NWA World Heavywieght Championship title belt. When Ric Flair won the title from Sting ( Steve Borden) he was declared the first WCW World Heavyweight Champion. Because of this WCW regularly claimed the NWA Chamionship lineage for its own championship.
After a disagreement with WCW Executive Vice-President Jim Herd, Flair left WCW for Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment). When Herd refused to return his $25,000 deposit Flair kept the NWA belt. WCW was forced to create its own belt, which it awarded to Lex Luger ( Larry Pohl ) after he defeated Barry Windham .
In 1992, WCW paid Flair $35,000 and the NWA got its belt back. Still retaining membership in the NWA, WCW allowed the NWA to defend its title on WCW television. By September 1993, WCW pulled out of the NWA and kept the NWA belt, because it had purchased it from Flair. The belt was named the WCW International Championship and Sting became champion by defeating Rick Rude .
At this time Flair returned to WCW and won the WCW Championship, by defeating Vader ( Leon WhiteLeon Allen White (born May 14th, 1957), better known under his stage names Big Van Vader or just Vader is one of the most successful professional wrestlers of the 1990s. He also wrestled under the names Super Vader Little Bull and Bull Power''. He is famo). WCW decided to unify the WCW World Heavyweight and International Championships, by having Flair wrestle Sting in 1994. Flair won and the International Title belt replaced the old World Heavyweight belt. Hulk Hogan entered WCW and won the WCW title from Flair. Holding the title off and on until 2000, Hogan helped WCW become the top wrestling company in the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in. However by 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri it had suffered a succession of failures and went broke.