On this special holiday episode of WCW Monday Nitro long time rivals face off once again when 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair battles WCW World Heavyweight Champion, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage. Dean Malenko goes ...
The debut edition of Monday Nitro on September 4th, 1995 ran unopposed. That week, Monday Night Raw didn't air, and Nitro posted a 2.5 rating. It was a promising start for the program, one which would ...
“Oh no,” WCW play-by-play announcer Tony Schiavone groaned as soon as “Big Poppa Pump” Scott Steiner grabbed the mic. Steiner, a former amateur standout at the University of Michigan, was in the ring ...
For those who subscribe to the WWE Network, you can now watch the "Monday Night Wars" on the service, featuring the battle for supremacy between Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Nitro. All $9.99 jokes ...
Now it can be told. In 1995, two wrestling companies squared off on Monday night television to compete head to head in an unprecedented confrontation. On one side, Vince McMahon, the promoter who ...
Beyond any in-ring conflict, the most important battle in wrestling history was the Monday Night War between the WWE (then WWF) and its competitor WCW. The war started in earnest when Ted Turner ...
Scott Steiner and Booker T were supposed to be planning their match backstage. The implausibly muscled Steiner—on interviews, he called himself “The Genetic Freak”—was the World Championship Wrestling ...
When Eric Bischoff attended a meeting with Ted Turner in 1995, a Monday night prime time show wasn't what he was looking to get. Instead, Bischoff was simply put on the spot by his boss, and reacted ...