When the WWE purchased both WCW and ECW in 2001, they also obtained the entire past video libraries of both productions and have released many past matches online and on home video.

When X-Factor broke up due to Credible joining The ECW / WCW Alliance, he feuded with Kidman and Tajiri, until he took time off for another injury, after losing the WCW Cruiserweight title to Kidman.

When WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) in 2001, Storm's contract was kept and he became a WWF employee.

When Vince Russo was fired as WCW booker and replaced by Kevin Sullivan, Guerrero asked for and received a release from his contract on January 19.

When the Invasion storyline began, he found himself in the new WCW / ECW Alliance.

When Hall and Nash went to WCW, they formed the New World Order ( nWo ) stable, along with Hulk Hogan.

When Waltman later jumped to WCW, he also joined the nWo.

For instance, the logo was designed by Craig Leathers, Scott Hall is credited with the group's trademark hand-signals, and Taylor belatedly scrawled the group's most popular catchphrase, " When you're nWo, you're nWo 4 life ", in one segment he scripted for WCW Monday Nitro in late 1996.

When WCW was purchased by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) Morrus signed a deal with the WWF and became part of The Invasion angle as a member of The Alliance.

When NWA / WCW sued WWF and Flair for their use of the " Big Gold " Title belt on WWF TV, the WWF made a new, similar belt ( called the " Vegas " Big Gold as it was debuted by Flair in Las Vegas ).

When Hulk Hogan entered WCW and won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship ( now represented by the " Big Gold Belt ") from Flair, Hogan helped WCW become the top wrestling company in the United States.

When WCW was bought by the World Wrestling Federation ( WWF ) ( now WWE ), Helms ' contract was kept by WWF.

When WCW was bought by the WWF, he was one of three WCW referees who had their contracts purchased, along with Charles Robinson and Billy Silverman.

When the Invasion angle began, Tazz acted as " the voice of the WCW / ECW Alliance ", sticking up for them and speaking on their behalf whenever possible.

When Turner bought out JCP in 1988, the Omni became the " home arena " for the NWA / WCW.

When the WWF purchased WCW, the contract of Gruner ( who was still wrestling as Billy Kidman ) was one of twenty-five involved in the purchase.

When The Invasion storyline commenced, Gruner appeared on WWF television as a tweener for the WCW Alliance faction.

When WCW was purchased by WWF owner Vince McMahon in 2001, Page was one of the few major WCW stars to sign with McMahon.

When he began working for WCW full-time, Vader was paired with a manager, Harley Race, and received a shot at Sting's WCW World Heavyweight Championship on April 12, 1992, and was disqualified.

When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

`` When I was in college '', I grinned, `` I remember a poem I had to read in my lit class.

When they got to Shillong, in Assam, he was happy.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When he awoke in the mornings, she was in his mind and he could hardly wait to get to school to be near her in the flesh.

When he came back to the schoolhouse, his mind was made up.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

When he was eight he began violin lessons.

When the possibility that he had not given reconsideration to so weighty a decision seemed to disconcert his questioners, Mr. Eisenhower was known to make his characteristic statement to the press that he was not going to talk about the matter any more.

When he was stripped, deloused and numbered by his guards, his much-thumbed sketchbook was seized and thrown on a pile of prisoners' goods to be confiscated.

When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.

When Harold Arlen returned to California in the winter of 1944, it was to take up again a collaboration with Johnny Mercer, begun some years before.

When he was fifteen John H. Mercer turned out his first song, a jazzy little thing he called `` Sister Susie, Strut Your Stuff ''.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.

When the estate was sold in 1889, Churnsike Lodge was purchased by the Chesters Estate ( near Hexham, Northumberland ).

When this project never came about, Lynch decided to work on a film alone, and so purchased the cheapest 16mm camera that he could find in order to do so.

When Isaac died at the age of 180, Jacob and Esau buried him in the Cave of the Patriarchs, which Abraham had purchased as a family burial plot.

When Kenesaw was eight, the elder Landis moved his family to Delphi, Indiana and subsequently to Logansport, Indiana where the doctor purchased and ran several local farms — his war injury had caused him to scale back his medical practice.

When they purchased Canadair, its production line and inventory systems were in disorder.

When purchased premade it may contain sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, thickeners, emulsifiers, EDTA, flavor enhancers, and water.

When Kaye unexpectedly died in 1975, Blume's father, Melvin, purchased Kaye's shares, and the company was re-formed as TSR Hobbies.

When a product in such a container is purchased, a small surcharge is added to the price.

When the Claretians sold their Claretville property in 1978 to Clare Prophet and her Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT ) cult, Thomas Aquinas College purchased, moved to, and began construction on a permanent campus in Santa Paula, CA At the present time, the Gillette Estate / Claretville property is now known as the ' King Gillette Ranch ' and this property remains at the intersection of Mulholland Highway and Las Virgenes Road in Calabasas.

When Hawker Siddeley purchased Victory Aircraft in 1945, Smye became the first employee of A. V.

When Schary went to MGM, he purchased the rights to the script from RKO, over the objections of Louis B. Mayer, who believed that the public was tired of war films.

When the ship arrives in Wisborg, Orlok leaves unobserved, carrying one of his coffins, and moves into the house he purchased.

When a neighbor in tough straits offered to sell his dented and scratched Gene Autry model guitar with worn-out strings, Buck purchased it for a couple of dollars.

When Neave went to Oxford University, he purchased and read the entire written works of the prescient writer Carl von Clausewitz.

When TELEVISA went bankrupt in 1960, Diego Cisneros purchased the remaining assets of the company.

When the Havana, Rantoul and Eastern Railroad ( which became the Illinois Central Railroad ) came through the area in 1879, John Putnam purchased of land from the railroad and a town was later established there.

When the C & EI floundered in the early 1920s, Charles F. Propst purchased the Coal Road and in October 1922 incorporated it as the Chicago, Attica and Southern Railroad.

When Conrad Kaplan purchased the newspaper in 1965, he named it the Kaplan Herald.

When in 1981 the local company, operating from a two-position magneto switchboard in the living room of owners Barbara and Elden Hathaway, was purchased by the Oxford County Telephone & Telegraph Company, a nearby larger independent company.

When the Air Force base was decommissioned, the housing was purchased and offered for sale to private individuals.

When the town of Oyster Bay purchased what is now Brookville from the Matinecocks in the mid-17th century, the area was known as Suco's Wigwam.

When the British government resolved the dispute in New York's favor, the colonial government attempted to assert control over the grants and force residents who had purchased land grants from Wentworth to pay a fee and confirm their titles.

When Robert and June Fader purchased the newspaper upon Dwelley's retirement in late 1970, the building remained the home for the weekly.