WCW Monday Nitro

1995

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Synopsis

WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head with the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001. Production ceased shortly after WCW was purchased by the WWF. The debut of Nitro began the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the WWF and WCW that lasted for almost six years and saw each company resort to cutthroat tactics to try to compete with the competition. In mid-1996, Nitro began to draw better ratings than Raw based on the strength of the nWo storyline, an anarchist wrestling stable that wanted to take over WCW. Nitro continued to beat Raw for 84 consecutive weeks, forcing WWE owner Vince McMahon to change the way he did business. As the nWo storyline grew stagnant, fan interest in the storyline waned, and Raw began to edge out Nitro in the ratings. The turning point for the organizations came during the January 4, 1999 broadcast of Nitro, during which lead commentator Tony Schiavone gave away the results of matches for that night's Raw broadcast. As Raw was taped and Nitro was live, Bischoff believed that knowing the outcome would dissuade viewers from watching the program. Excited by the prospect of seeing perennial WWF underdog Mick Foley win the WWF Championship, a large number of Nitro viewers changed channels to watch Raw, switching back to Nitro after Foley won the title. From that week forward, Raw beat Nitro in the ratings by a significant amount, and WCW was never able to regain the success it once had.

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Terryfan WCW World Championship Wrestling and their show Monday Nitro took on the WWF World Wrestling Federation and their show Monday Night Raw.The battle that was later would become known as The Monday Night War. Where WCW Monday Nitro and WWF Monday Night Raw went head to head on Monday nights to see would reign supreme in the world of Wrestling. Without question this was the greatest era of pro wrestling when you had two companies going head to head and given you the best they could to keep you watching.While I'll be honest I was loyal to the WWF during the war but I did see WCW Nitro from time to time.Nitro feature some of the best matches in the history of pro wrestling and also feature moments that has left a impact on Wrestling fans.Nitro was the kind of wrestling show where you had to tune in to see what would happen because what Nitro did was go live every week to compete with WWF.During the war both sides would bring everything and everyone they could to try and win the night. WCW feature many great wrestlers like Diamond Dallas Page, Goldberg, Booker T, Sting, the NWO, Ric Flair, many more that help made WCW a champion in the ratings Whenever you tune into Nitro it was going to be something you'll never forget because even today fans will talk about all the matches from Nitro that WCW gave to the fans matches that are rank as some of the best in pro wrestling history. When you can find a collection of WCW Nitro footage and watch to see how well WCW did to take on the WWF .
EJO10488 In response to The Flaming Pig's or whatever the stupid name is comments. I would first like to say he/she has no idea what they are talking about and their comments just show how blind they are. The idea that wrestling (pro) is fake isn't because of WCW. It is because of the fact that some attacks/moves are pulled and/or not done with a lot of force and because everything is predetermined. Hulk Hogan went to WCW because he left the WWF with plans to retire, but the fact that WCW was offering so much money, more than the WWF could afford, made him return to the ring. WCW had some of the best talents on their roster and actually used their cruiser weight division correctly, something the WWF/E still fails to do. Why would Mysterio leave WCW to join the WWF when WCW had the better cruiser weight division and could actually use it? Now, how can the NWO be a rip off of DX if the NWO came first? It cant. If anything DX is an NWO rip off since the NWO was the first to use the whole degenerate attitude. So next time do some research before you decide to bash something, buddy. It isn't that hard to look stuff up, unless you are just one of those blind fans who hates WCW for no reason and makes crap up to make your argument look good.
Movie Nuttball Being a huge wrestling fan for over a decade I always loved WCW.I never missed a Nitro.I liked them even more than the WWF(WWE).I loved their special events and yes even the gimmicks some of the wrestlers had over the decade.Through out the years WCW really put on a show especially the early 90s and in 1995.When Vince Russo came along in 2000 I believe it changed but then it was back on track a while later.My favorite era was in 1995 when the Dungeon of Doom was around.I don't know I just loved WCW and I could go on and on. I am really sad that WCW is no more.I loved the WWF but over last few years its been so disappointing to Me and I am so sad that I can't watch a live WCW show any more.If you love wrestling and never got to see WCW at their best during 1985 thru 1996 and are able to watch Nitros and other wrestling matches on tapes then please do so because I think you'll like it better than today's WWE.
MovieCriticMarvelfan First I have to say that the first idiot who wrote a comment about the show, probably never watched a show in his life!!!"I watch it between Ally Mcbeal". lol. No.If you were watching Nitro chances are, you werent watching anything else.Eric Bishoff , the genius, got all the ex wrestlers that were screwed by Vince McMahon in the WWF: Hulk Hogan, Bret "Hitman" Hart, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Roddy Piper, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and breathed new life into these Legendary wrestlers.WCW in fact beat WWF in the ratings from 1999-2000, after that fiasco with Owen Hart, in which he died live on Pay Per View. Bret Hit lifted Nitro into new realms. Eventually, McMahon gave in and bought WCW and the company in 2001, which was bad because we would never see wrestlers like Sting wrestle in the WWF, we would never rerun matches from WCW from guys like Bret Hart. Thankfully, though I myself have the last matches of these great wrestlers.Again, the first idiot probably never watched the show. It was great 10 out 10.