WWE is hands down the biggest wrestling promotion on the planet, but during the Monday Night Wars, it was almost overtaken by WCW. World Championship Wrestling was first born in 1988, and while it had a respectable amount of success as one of the bigger wrestling brands at the time, there was still a significant gap between them and WWE, with WCW being consider more like a large regional promotion, popular in the South of the United States, while WWE had a national, and global, reach.