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WCW Inc . ( formerly known as World Championship Wrestling , Inc .) was an American professional wrestling promotion , historically based in Atlanta , Georgia . It began as a regional ( mid - Atlantic U . S .), National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA )- affiliated " territory " promotion  Jim Crockett Promotions  until ___MASK24___ , when Ted Turner ( through his Turner Broadcasting System business ) bought the promotion , whose struggle to compete with Vince McMahon ' s World Wrestling Entertainment ( then WWF now WWE ) had left it near bankruptcy . Immediately after the buyout , the business was renamed the Universal Wrestling Corporation ( UWC ) and consisted of Crockett ' s business assets not picked up by World Wrestling Federation Entertainment . Atlanta is the capital of and the most populous city in the U . S . state of Georgia , with an estimated 2015 population of ___MASK16___ , ___MASK86___ . Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area , home to ___MASK64___ , 710 , 795 people and the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States . Atlanta is the county seat of Fulton County , and a small portion of the city extends eastward into DeKalb County . Vincent Kennedy " Vince " McMahon ( born August 24 , ___MASK35___ ) is an American professional wrestling promoter , former commentator , announcer , film producer , actor , and retired professional wrestler . Since taking over the company from his father in the 1980s , McMahon has always worked in the corporate area of the WWE as well as behind the scenes . He currently serves as the majority owner , chairman , and CEO of the professional wrestling promotion . Brian Rogowski is an American semi - retired professional wrestler , better known by his ring name , Bryant Anderson . He is the son of wrestler Ole Anderson . Anderson wrestled for World Championship Wrestling in 1993 , as well as wrestling for various independent promotions in the Southeastern United States during the mid - 1990s . Jim Crockett Promotions Inc . was a family - owned professional wrestling promotion headquartered in Charlotte , North Carolina , United States . Founded in ___MASK7___ , the promotion emerged as a cornerstone of the National Wrestling Alliance . By the 1980s , Jim Crockett Promotions was , along with the World Wrestling Federation , one of the two largest promotions in the United States . The Crockett family sold a majority interest in the promotion to Turner Broadcasting System in 1988 , resulting in the creation of World Championship Wrestling . Turner Broadcasting System , Inc . ( known professionally as Turner Broadcasting System and also known simply as Turner ) is an American media conglomerate that is a division of Time Warner and manages the collection of cable television networks and properties initiated or acquired by Ted Turner . The company was founded in ___MASK25___ , and merged with Time Warner on October 10 , 1996 . It now operates as a semi - autonomous unit of Time Warner . The company ' s assets include CNN , HLN , TBS , TNT , Cartoon Network , Adult Swim , Boomerang and TruTV . The company ' s current chairman and CEO is John K . Martin . The headquarters of Turner ' s properties are located in both the CNN Center in Downtown Atlanta and the Turner Broadcasting campus off Techwood Drive in Midtown Atlanta , which also houses Turner Studios . Across Interstate 75 / 85 from the Techwood campus is the original home of Turner ' s WTBS superstation ( now separated into its TBS cable network and Peachtree TV ), which today houses the headquarters of Adult Swim and Williams Street Productions . The Southern United States , commonly referred to as the American South , Dixie , or simply the South , is a region of the United States of America . The South does not exactly match the geographic south , but is predominantly located in the southeastern corner ; Arizona and New Mexico , which are geographically in the southern part of the country , are rarely considered part of the Southern United States , while West Virginia , which separated from Virginia in ___MASK85___ , commonly is . Some scholars have proposed definitions of the South that do not coincide neatly with state boundaries . While the states of Delaware and Maryland , as well as the District of Columbia permitted slavery prior to the start of the Civil War , they remained with the Union . Since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s , they became more culturally , economically , and politically aligned with the industrial Northern states , and are often identified as part of the Mid - Atlantic and / or Northeast by many residents , businesses , public institutions , and private organizations . However , the United States Census Bureau puts them in the South . Robert Edward " Ted " Turner III ( born November ___MASK72___ , 1938 ) is an American media mogul and philanthropist . As a businessman , he is known as founder of the Cable News Network ( CNN ), the first 24 - hour cable news channel . In addition , he founded WTBS , which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television . Alan Robert Rogowski ( born September ___MASK80___ , ___MASK79___ ), better known by his ring name of Ole Anderson , is an American retired professional wrestler , referee and promoter . Part of the Anderson family , Anderson was a founding member of the influential stable The Four Horsemen . The Eastern United States , commonly referred to as the American East or simply the East , is a region roughly coinciding with the boundaries of the United States established in the ___MASK37___ Treaty of Paris , which bounded the new country to the west along the Mississippi River . It is geographically diverse , spanning the Northeast and Southeast as well as the eastern part of the Central United States . The Anderson family is a group of professional wrestlers , a fictitious extended family largely consisting of brothers and cousins . It started in the Minnesota area in the late 1960s with a tag team called The Minnesota Wrecking Crew , consisting of " brothers " Lars Anderson and Gene Anderson ( the only actual ' Anderson ' of the original group ). Later versions of the Crew included " brother " Ole Anderson and " cousin " Arn Anderson ( Arn at other times was a nephew and a brother ) in various combinations with the original two . In total , the four original Andersons won over ___MASK33___ different tag team championships together across the country . Several modern tag teams have taken names similar to the Minnesota Wrecking Crew as an homage to the group . The Southeastern United States is the eastern portion of the Southern United States , and the southern portion of the Eastern United States . The National Wrestling Alliance ( NWA ) is a professional wrestling governing body which has historically been the largest league of independent wrestling promotions in the world . The organization sanctions various NWA championship bouts within its member promotions . The NWA has been in operation since ___MASK41___ . Prior to the 1960s , it acted as the sole governing body for most of professional wrestling , operating as a talent and brand name franchiser for the inter - regional " territory " system .