2001

This is a timeline page for moments that occurred in 2001 in the Danaverse.

January 7


 * The final televised Extreme Championship Wrestling card takes place in New York, a pay-per-view event called Guilty as Charged. After defeating Justin Credible and Steve Corino in a Tables, Ladders, Chairs, and Canes match for the ECW World Heavyweight Championship, he is immediately challenged for the title by Rhino, the ECW World Television Champion.  Sandman accepts and promptly loses the title to Rhino a minute later.  The final ECW Champions are Rhino (World Heavyweight and World Television) and the team of Danny Doring and Roadkill (World Tag Team). (ECW Guilty as Charged (2001))

March 26


 * Booker T, the WCW United States Heavyweight Champion defeats Scott Steiner to win the WCW Heavyweight Championship during the final edition of WCW Monday Nitro. The final WCW Champions are Booker T (World Heavyweight and United States Heavyweight), Shane Helms (World Cruiserweight), the team of Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire (World Tag Team), and the team of Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo (Cruiserweight Tag Team).  Other titles had been deactivated by then. (WCW Monday Nitro (3-26-2001))


 * Shane McMahon announces that he is the World Wrestling Federation representative that has purchased World Championship Wrestling, stealing his father, Vince McMahon's chances of doing so and also bringing an end to the WCW promotion. (WCW Monday Nitro (3-26-2001); WWF Raw is War (3-26-2001)).

April 1


 * The Classic Era Universe is destroyed when Steve Austin shakes hands with Vince McMahon, shattering the sport of professional wrestling that the universe had been based upon. (WWF WrestleMania (2001))

September 11


 * The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks occur, destroying the World Trade Center in New York and part of the Pentagon outside Washington, DC using three hijacked commercial planes while a fourth plane headed for Washington crashes in Pennsylvania. The attacks are carried out by members of al-Qaeda. (The Looming Tower 110, 9-11)

October 7


 * Clark Kent, a freshman at Smallville High School uses his super powers to save the life of Lex Luthor. Clark is then told of his true origin by his adoptive father, Jonathan Kent which is Clark being a child brought from somewhere in Outer Space as a baby. (Smallville 101, Pilot)