Believe it or not, WCW actually had a movie star who won the World heavyweight champion 16 years


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David Arquette wins the World Heavyweight Championship: WCW Nitro April 26, 2000 Movie star David Arquette wins the World Heavyweight Championship on WCW Nitro.


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The real truth behind David Arquette becoming the WCW World Heavyweight Champion, straight from Ferrara's mouth: WCW was a sinking ship, and it was a last-chance, desperate effort to get attention. Goldberg chokes out David Arquette at 'Ready to Rumble' Premiere [April 5th, 2000]


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The fateful night was April 25, 2000. The main event was a tag team match that featured Arquette and then WCW World Heavyweight Champion Page against WCW Senior Vice President Eric Bischoff.


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In a crazy turn of events, Hollywood movie star David Arquette wins the WCW World Championship. On April 25, 2000, David Arquette kicked off a firestorm of controversy when he won the WCW World Title in a convoluted match on WCW Thunder. Arquette was a likeable actor best known for films like "Scream" and the WCW farce "Ready to Rumble.


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related galleriesview all +. WWE Classics takes you back to the night where David Arquette became the WCW World Heavyweight Champion in these photos.


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Tickets Eighteen years after actor David Arquette became an unlikely pro wrestling world champion (and easy target), he's returned to the ring to prove something to himself.


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Arquette's championship win came on the April 26 broadcast of Thunder. He and then-champion Page competed in a tag-team match against Jarrett and Eric Bischoff, with the stipulation that the competitor scoring the winning pinfall would win the championship.


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Former WCW Champion David Arquette sat down with Wrestling Inc.'s Nick Hausman on The Wrestling Inc. Daily podcast to discuss his new documentary "You Cannot Kill David Arquette", a documentary.


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And just as insulting to tradition! 18 years ago today, actor David Arquette won the WCW Heavyweight Championship on Thunder in a tag team match by pinning a non-wrestler to promote an.


Believe it or not, WCW actually had a movie star who won the World heavyweight champion 16 years

David Arquette made his first WCW appearance two weeks earlier, on WCW Thunder on April 12, 2000. Sitting at ringside, he engaged in a verbal sparring match with Eric Bischoff, who was leading his New Blood stable. Arquette was ultimately backed up by Chris Kanyon, who had been the stunt coordinator on Ready to Rumble, and Diamond Dallas Page.


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David Arquette is a professional wrestler, but he wasn't when he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. The actor-turned-wrestler shocked the world when he won the world title back in.


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David Arquette shocked the wrestling world when he won the WCW Championship. However, this movie star isn't the only celebrity to win wrestling gold! David Arquette winning the WCW World Title is generally regarded as one of the key moments that led to the downfall of World Championship Wrestling.


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That's gonna put some butts in the seats.


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David Arquette's brief stint as WCW World Champion teaches us that promotion isn't a bad thing in wrestling. Monday Night Raw had a series of guest hosts a few years back and while some got into.


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Cageside Seats Features This Day in Wrestling History (Apr. 25): David Arquette Wins the WCW World Title By The Notorious Eddie Mac @notoriouseddie Apr 25, 2017, 10:00am EDT Share 37 years ago today, the WWF and NWA world heavyweight championships were defended in the same building.


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David Arquette (born September 8, 1971) [4] is an American actor and former professional wrestler. He is best known for his role as Dewey Riley in the slasher film franchise Scream, for which he won a Teen Choice Award and two Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.