4/6/2023 0 Comments Nitro 9As Nitro began, Bischoff had just made his first major raid of ECW, acquiring Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, and Dean Malenko. The investment in worldwide, ECW and independent talent, would give WCW something the WWF could never do successfully themselves: the Cruiserweight division. Put the names fans knew on TV, and back that up with some of the best international talent he could find. Predictions that either WCW would fail miserably, or would split the audience in two were read in newsletters, and heard in conversations with “smart” fans all across the country. But Eric had a plan. Wrestling fans all thought Eric Bischoff was crazy for going head to head against the WWF. Raw and Superstars, at the time, were full of cartoony characters, and WCW was trying, as Eric Bischoff put it, “reality based programming.” WCW was hot and would soon start a roll that saw 80 + weeks in which they would win the coveted Monday ratings battle.īut every story has to have a chapter one, and Septemwas the beginning of the “Monday Night War,” which would give wrestling fans quality wrestling, daring angles, wrestlers leaving and debuting on the other channel, PPV level main events, and ultimately, one winner and one loser. With the influx of international and cruiserweight talent, WCW was making it clear that they were different than the WWF programming. Two of the WWF top stars, joining forces with THE top star, as bad guys, to tear apart WCW was intriguing programming at the time. At that time, he had joined up with the recently named Scott Hall and Kevin Nash, The Outsiders, known to WWF fans as Razor Ramon and Diesel. This will actually be all new to me, as I was not a Nitro viewer until June of 1996, after word spread that beloved good guy Hulk Hogan had turned into a bad guy. This will be the first review in my series of rewatching the WCW Monday Nitro program in 1995.
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