Australian Wrestling Chronicles is back! After a bit of a hiatus, the series is back and will be better than ever. This week I'm writing about the wrestling promotion that saw an opportunity and tried to take on the world!
Way back in 2001 we were witness to the storyline angle now known as "The Invasion." WWF (now WWE) had just bought out World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and was left virtually unopposed in the world of professional wrestling.
There obviously wasn't going to be enough room on the WWF roster to house all of the talent from three of the largest wrestling promotions at the time, and as a result there were a lot of superstars left without a job.
So what were those wrestlers to do? It seemed like nobody wanted to use their talent, but luckily for them there was an alternative. There was a new promotion starting up "down under."
World Wrestling All-Stars (WWA) was the brainchild of Australian concert promoter Andrew McManus. In the past he had managed to entice the likes of KISS, Alice Cooper, Barry Manilow, and Julio Iglesias to tour around Australia.
McManus envisioned a wrestling promotion that would rival WWF and cement it's place on an international level. An alternative to the monopoly that WWF now owned. He wanted to prove that WWF made a mistake in not acquiring the contracts of so many wrestlers.
Some of the superstars that were involved with World Wrestling All-Stars include:
Jeff Jarrett
AJ Styles
Jerry Lynn
Chris Sabin
Christopher Daniels
Shark Boy
Eddie Guerrero
Low Ki
Scott Steiner
Rick Steiner
Nathan Jones
Sting
Shane Douglas
Sabu
Psicosis
Juventud Guerrera
Buff Bagwell
Jerry Lynn
Stevie Ray
B.G. James
Mark Mercedes
Lex Luger
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