This should be Volume One because there is definitely more than 10

Back in 2014 I was chatting to a fellow wrestling fan. She said she had only started watching WWE that year. "Why's that?" I asked "I was a WCW girl. If Manchester City went bust would they all start supporting Man United?!" I got her point 🙂 Brilliant video Andy. I honestly think they'd like us to forget WCW entirely now.

The fact that, when he referred to "plenty of skeletons that he's like to keep in the closet", they showed a luchador who WASN'T La Parka was a big missed opportunity... Lol

Nitro did three hours first. Went live every week Monthly ppvs An in house training center Like 80% of the hogan era was the awa. Sting turned them down multiple times.

Vince did his heel character in Memphis with Jerry Laywer years before Bishoff.

Definitely no surprise that WWE wants everyone to forget about WCW’s 83 weeks of dominance in the ratings.

I grew up with WCW it was something my dad and brothers watched every Monday and Thursday night, and AEW being like WCW is why I love AEW now a days.

Vince should have listened to Shane and kept WCW a separate company run by Shane.

Number One: that they had a perfect opportunity to create an awesome WWF vs WCW feud and they turned into McMahon vs McMahon, extremely boring nepotistic affair

Proud to be one of the wcw fans that tuned out for years. And now I’m back tuning into dynamite and rampage! 💪

4:04 actually, Vince turned heel in the USWA long before Eric did in WCW

I was a WWE kid but I would rent the WCW videos at the two locations my parents frequented. I didn't really get the why of these guys fighting, but it was great! I feel that way when I watch old Kana + matches on KZfaq. The wrestling is amazing, but I've no idea of the why.

84 weeks? 84?! Someone tell Eric Bischoff his podcast needs to be renamed lol

Yeah if DX got in you Have Meng, barbarian, Scott Norton, Scott Steiner and several other legit scary dudes in that locker room at the time.

Vince McMahon had a heel Mr. McMahon-like gimmick in Memphis in 1993. It's hard to say that he stole that from Bischoff

Actually the Mr. McMahon character was first revealed in Memphis Wrestling, before Nitro.

That line about Meng from the first entry caught me off guard and made me spit my food out, laughing.

WWE never denied stealing talent; Jericho, Guerrero, Big Show…they deny stealing established main eventers. Which is mostly true, besides the Big Show, the WWE wasn’t taking WCW’s headline talents.

It's funny that you said WCW stole Nash, Hall, and Luger... When they were WCW guys years before WWE as well.

WWE never shuts up about the 84 weeks thing. They bring it up any chance they can get

1:00 "IT'S AN ACTUAL FORBIDDEN DOOR!" My side hurts......

I’m grateful that Netflix had wrestling content back in 2012 which is the year I got into wrestling It was there where I saw matches from WCW Clash Of The Champions and grew respect for what WCW was and also some of the future WWE icons that started in WCW.

The buyout of WCW was the modern equivalent of Black Saturday. The fans of wrestling were simply not interested in WWE's product as Vince McMahon says himself, "it's not wrestling, it's sports entertainment."

Hadn't Vince already done the Mr. McMahon gimmick as a guest in Memphis earlier?

I was always WCW over WWE (it was more available in the UK until about 2000) and at the time I really enjoyed the Invasion angle, mainly because my WCW favourites were back on TV! AEW definitely feel like WCW 2.0 and in a good way! Not just in Sting, TNT, Tony Schiavoni etc, but the black ring ropes, the ramp to the ring, and the other touches like Dynamite (Nitro)!

That WCW was actually pretty Awesome

The night he bought WCW was the last time I turned on a wrestling show until 2014.

My thing that WWE seems to want to forget about WCW: WWE's "win" in the Monday Night War was as much a factor of WCW's self-destruction as it was anything else. Unfortunately, WWE wants to forget this because it undercuts Vince's seeming genius...even as he is being exposed more and more as someone who was less a genius and more an egotist.

??? Number 10 clearly made WCW look like weenies for closing their doors. Definitely accomplished quite a bit, especially with that particular time (late 90s)

I don't watch wrestling anymore, but the television ads and few snippets of AEW YT vids I've seen does remind me of WcW. When I watched with my grandfather.

WWE didnt streal any those guys you listed. They all left cause WCW fired them , or was frustrated with the way. they were being used.

I don't think the World Wrestling Entertainment or Titan Sports or whatever you want to call it is trying to hide the 84 weeks thing, it was brought up in backstage segments of the career mode of the video games in more than one game

Ah, a nice list of things people mostly already knew.

2:49 Simon would be proud...

Razor Ramon was poached from AWA ("Big" Scott Hall) Kevin Nash was in WCW first (Vinnie Vegas) The Undertaker was poached from WCW ("Mean" Mark Callous) even though he was going nowhere in WCW

I watch every video you guys do every single day.. while working, playing, etc.. This is my absolute favorite I’ve seen and, no disrespect to anybody else… but Andy is the only person to do this one correctly. His amount of passion, excitement, and cheek is always delivered just right. Thanks for the entertainment!

On the massive Invasion buyrate and citing that as the reason the big names didn't have to be there... couldn't possibly be because we had the debut of Booker T and DDP a month earllier at KOTR and people were expecting bigger names to, well, invade at Invasion?

Lex Luger was in WCW first and made a pretty big name for himself before he went to the WWF I wouldn’t group him with Hall & Nash as somebody WCW stole whom both were virtually unknown in their initial WCW runs.

This is one of the most flawed, biased episodes of WC I've ever seen. Absolutely brutal.

Always good to hear an Andy Murray list.

Number 3 hit me hard because that was me. It took me at least 4 years to be invested in WWE but nothing like I was with WCW. I became loyal to TNA, started to really get behind ROH and NJPW a few years after that and started to love NXT. Now I find myself against any WWE programming and see AEW as “can’t miss TV.” With NWA, Impact, NJPW, ROH, and local promotions having great talent and matches I have no reason to go to WWE again. TL;DR, I was WCW/nWo 4 life, now I’m bleeding that black and gold!

A bunch of these don’t qualify as things WWE want us to forget about WCW at all.

Had to turn this off at the end. I love AEW, but the way you guys give blatant AEW handy Js...it's getting to be a little much.

The Attitude Era edgier and grimier content did NOT copy ideas from WCW. The WWF at the time copied ECW.

Title mentions WCW. Significant proportion of content is focused on stuff WWE did. Whatculture does it again.

You're wrong on the DX at WCW. It was gold and everyone but you, apparently, loved it.

Booker and DDP were top guys. They act like the invasion was headed by Hugh Morrus or something.

No surprise that this turns into aew is great. Thats what this channel is

Well this is a shit list against wwe at this point.

I was wondering if y'all would do a expansion of this Series? I would love to see if Impact has anything they want you to forget about

After watching this, I am curious of who stole the addiction on air storyline, WWE with Hawk or WCW with Scott Hall?

i love so much the way that Andy Murray narrates the videos. You just know how to present a good content

Bro that wcw invasion episode was epic you had to be there guess you weren't

Hart's contract wasn't expiring. It was too rich for Vince's blood at the time.

Didn't Herb Abrams of UWF do the heel authority figure before Eric Bischoff though?

Look at all the new frames and art styles. I'm digging it.

1:32 I never get sick of seeing that clip 🤣 🤣 🤣

That #1 spot got me a little misty eyed.

10 things AEW wants you to remember about WWE 😂

84 weeks ? You sure about that. Do you purposely leave a mistake in every video nowadays or do you just not read your script before filming ?

Great video

Sure you’ve done one of these before 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, Flair came in literally the night after they killed the Invasion. Also the nWo was only months away from coming in when they pulled the plug.

4:00 have you forgotten about Vince in Memphis. He was testing the Mr McMahon character back in 93

I was around watching both WCW and WWF in the 90s and I can confidently say other companies may have done things first but WWF did it better.

I don't think Stone Cold counts as stealing. Bischoff fired him because he didn't think he was marketable (lol) and that he was difficult to work with. Not saying WWF didn't steal but that doesn't really count.

McMemphis preceded Bischoff by four years.

I damn near stopped watching wrestling all together after March 26, 2001, but kept watching because I wanted to see where things would go... Ugh.....

Please do more videos of WCW.

Number 10. That tanks wasn't a tank. Nawww really!?!?

Number 10 was funny as hell, WCW regrets not opening the door, #8 stealing talent is a lie, the talent chose where they wanted to go and the wrestlers chose to sign in a company they like. WCW's spirit does not lie in AEW, this is a promotion for AEW more trashing on WWE, great going in lying and promoting.

I had left wrestling before the buyout, as I just got tired of WCW shenanigans, and my fav was Bret who was no longer with WWE. It took years for me to return

As someone who grew up during the Invasion and loved it,I am happy to hear someone defending The Invasion.

Also the Invasion 100% failed because they only had b level wcw guys. Invasion ppv was purchased but after that there wasn't anything worth watching. Horrible take

Also re: #2, "The Alliance doesn't have enough starpower!" Then *make* some. That's supposed to be your job, right WWF?

1:35 ah yes the time we almost lost Simon

Yeah AEW is all the best parts of wcw without someone having the ego and power of hogan it feels great to have wrestling on tnt again

I 100% tuned out of wrestling when WWF bought WCW. Didn't even think about wrestling again until I heard that Sting had gone to WWE. I tuned back in out of curiosity only to get my heart broken again by WWE. Now I watch AEW religiously!

Underrated billy Kidman

Sorry, Andy, I'm going to tell you how RIGHT you are with the #1 Spot! Never thought of this before, but the Buy Out had the same effect on true WCW fans as Black Saturday. Hell, we were already teetering just dealing with Russo!

So many of these entries are wrong, 83 weeks not 84, Bischoff being the first heel gm, home grown stars (WCW had three who were real world champs, Steiner and Booker only existed when they were dying. Goldberg was a complete fluke and Sting was champ before the war began) wwe were far greater at making new stars than WCW who failed to push so many talents they could have had etc, etc

one of the biggest lies wwe tells to this day is that ' raw is the longest running weekly episodic television show in history. not really, Raw did not air on the night the first nitro did on September 4, 1995.

i grew up as wwe kid and i will stick with that.. dont just put the videos like some kind of agenda showing wcw did all great stuffs.. only those wrestlers like benoit, eddie, chris jericho big show all moved to wwe because they dont like the directions wcw going.. and burying young talents for the sake of nwo and hulk hogan contract to refuse to lose any matches as he can refuse any bookings .. u guys won cause of nwo and buried of the same over utilisation of nwo only..

Everytime I hear the DX tank bullshit I laugh... 1 it was a jeep 2 it did nothing 3 I just heard u bring it up and say the exact same thing haha

I went to wcw nitro bar and grill in Las Vegas was epic

When dx invaded it was in my area

now with poaching hulk hogan from awa, you have to consider that he was in wwf from '79-'81. the hulkster got sacked by vince sr because of his cameo in rocky 3. flash forward to '83, vince jr takes the reigns, hogan's rehired & becomes the biggest name in wrestling history.

Eric Bischoff has stated he wished he had let DX in the building.

WWE brought in the Light Heavyweight Championship to compete with WCW’s popular cruiserweight division (and fail miserably at it)

Vince was a heel in 1993 when he led an invasion in to the USWA in a feud with Jerry Lawler. And if you watch his promos from then it’s the Mr. McMahon character without a doubt. So not sure I’d say he copied Easy E.

Can it be considered stealing if WWF did everything better?

One of your best videos. Very well done.

For real NWO vs NWO was probably my favorite era in wrestling 3 giants taking over and sting fighting them off alone then he got his own crew to fight them off when they got stronger in numbers, it was a classic war in wrestling, and then they had the first creative game that everyone else that followed copied

Oh my goodness I forgot about Norman smiley..lol..

Saying Vince stole talent is weird. Those guys were ignored and had terrible characters. WWE built them from scratch

We keep forgetting the higher ups didn't want wrestling on TNT and tbs

And I agree itshould be a volume 1 n add new Japan to this..

Was it 83 weeks or 84 weeks that Nitro beat Raw in a row. I see the different numbers all the time. While we're at it because I can almost never find it, (I AM a bit lazy, from time to time) was it 121 or 122 weeks in a row the Raw beat Nitro in the end?

AEW knows how to treat the legends and do a good job with the young up an coming talent.

You said something about Scott Steiner being a WCW original but he was in WWF with his Brother as The Steiner Brothers firstl