Unveiling the Collapse: The Dramatic Downfall of WCW

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Dive into the riveting history of World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in this detailed documentary-style video. We uncover the dramatic rise and fall of one of the most influential wrestling promotions in history, featuring iconic figures like Hulk Hogan, Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, and the notorious New World Order (N.W.O).
Explore how Hogan, one of the biggest names in professional wrestling, played a pivotal role in WCW's success and struggles. Delve into the controversial tenure of Vince Russo, the writer and producer known for his radical ideas. Learn about Eric Bischoff's transformative vision for WCW. Revisit the era of the New World Order, one of the most influential factions in wrestling history. Unravel the factors that led to WCW's downfall. From internal conflicts to business decisions, get an in-depth analysis of what contributed to the end of an era in wrestling entertainment. Get a glimpse of the unseen aspects of the WCW world, including rare footage and backstage stories.
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@ReinEngel 5 ай бұрын

"the last thing we wanted to do (with Oklahoma) was hurt (Jim Ross)." Pretty sure that was the first thing you wanted, bro.

@dominiquejones3805 5 ай бұрын

I mean really

@josephsnider8190 5 ай бұрын

The finger poke happened on my 14th birthday, though I was completely oblivious. I was a die hard WWF fan, hated WCW. So watching Mick win that night was easily the best birthday I’d ever had at that point.

@GAURAV25855ify 4 ай бұрын

That was the worst thing that happened to wcw

@meztizo_americano86 3 ай бұрын

Your a WWE fan not a wrestling fan

@HaughtKarl-jx9vr 2 ай бұрын

@@meztizo_americano86 Don't drop out of K-12.

@jamesteegardner2273 5 ай бұрын

This was an amazing time to be a young man. Back in college in the 90s we would get 3 TVs together in one room so we could all watch the WWF, WCW, and Monday Night Football at the same time. I can't explain just how HUGE professional wrestling was back then. Even the girls would watch with us sometimes. Watching WCW and the WWF was just something everyone did back then if you were in your early 20s. It was an amazing time to be young and carefree!

@zacharythomason7359 5 ай бұрын

😎😎😎😎

@zacharythomason7359 5 ай бұрын

Quick question, How do you feel about WWE not doing DVDS & Blu - Rays?

@WesleyWilkins-qf2ky 5 ай бұрын

@zacharythomason7359 They want you to have the wwe network instead plus it’s cost saving since ppl don’t use disc anymore like they used to

@harveymcelroy9332 5 ай бұрын

Amazing times I agree with you

@unbroken1010 5 ай бұрын

You guys try to impregnate each other and trade flesh jacks?

@bigpasty1582 5 ай бұрын

Also unfortunately Hogans back stage whining and crying definitely ruined many angles and wrestlers... and vince russo making himself an onscreen character was also crap

@everyonelovesmajima 4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite things they did was take out a $10,000 newspaper ad for Nitro that appeared in Tuesday’s paper.

@vinceraven1501 5 ай бұрын

I recorded the WWF in the living room & WCW in my bedroom lol. Monday nights was a family pizza party wrasslin night.

@Ryan-hl4ur 9 күн бұрын

Yea, remember they use to have "nitro parties" & wcw would broadcast large groups of "pals" all watching in their living rooms like it's the SB.

@cfairfax85 3 ай бұрын

I was there. Let me just say that no one cared and we weren't confused until afterwards. We wanted him to win so bad that at the time that we completely ignored the slow count. The building EXPLODED. I'll never forget it..the entire show was great and I'm fortunate to have seen these men in their primes. Well...some of them lol. Starcade 97'.

@robalt1983 5 ай бұрын

When WWF didn't wait a year to do the invasion angle, they made a huge mistake. So much more of the main event WCW roster would've been there to tell a great story. Could've been the greatest story of all time.

@GAURAV25855ify 4 ай бұрын

Exactly that was a missed opportunity it took sting 13 years after wcw folded to come to wwe got buried anyway despite his impact

@NathanSeitz 4 ай бұрын

The biggest WCW names had guaranteed contracts where they could sit at home and collect a check for doing nothing.

@robalt1983 4 ай бұрын

@@NathanSeitz Yep that's exactly why WWF needed to wait a year. By 2002 they were all available.

@SmithCommaBenjamin 4 ай бұрын

Except WWF had never actually been good at booking, except for 2 periods in its entire history (85-90 & 96-99). Vince was never a genius, just a conman that bribed his way to getting rid of competition

@evasimpson722 3 ай бұрын

WCW got buried 🤣🤣 music to my ears

@violentbryan21 5 ай бұрын

Scott Hall said it best “We made a ton of money and spent WAY MORE then we made.”

@GamingManual 5 ай бұрын

I'll never forget my father taking me to the WCW house show in Boston in April 1999, and HOGAN showed up for the main event against Flair. My father, to this day, says that's the single-most electric moment he's felt at an event (he lived through the 70's and 80's, so you can imagine the comparison to shows and concerts, etc.) EVER; Hogan came out and the arena went UNHINGED. Trash in the ring after the match, Hogan using the belt like a shield to block Coke cups, etc., lmao. A night my 11 year-old self will NEVER forget! Great video!

@unclegreenskatesoda9570 5 ай бұрын

It's crazy too because if you watch the monday night wars from the start, wcw started off sooooooooo strong and was SO dang good. after a couple years though they just kept recycling the same story, it got lost in itself and redundant, all the while WWE was evolving and gaining the edge with the attitude movement.

@dominiquejones3805 5 ай бұрын

They just wouldn't let the NWO go

@pabloschweinsteiger3954 4 ай бұрын

Wrestling Bio’s nitroraw documentation is brilliant!

@fallyneprinciotta9058 4 ай бұрын

@@pabloschweinsteiger3954absolutely never miss a Thursday or Sunday. He is so damn funny too.

@doyouevendab77 3 ай бұрын

NEW...NEW...NEW WORLD ORDER!!! NWO 4 LIFE!!!! how long can you do that? Eventually you got to expand from that. It got boring after 2 years. All I got to say is SUCK IT!!!!

@doyouevendab77 3 ай бұрын

Suck it good gabroni!!!!!!!

@Sabu8000 5 ай бұрын

In 1998, it was still WWF. Just call it that.

@reloadpsi 5 ай бұрын

The video does call it that. Unless the joke is that your username being Sabu means you botched your comment and I'm just being slow.

@SoggyMs 4 ай бұрын

He literally does...

@Sabu8000 4 ай бұрын

@@SoggyMsNot even 1 minute into the video he says [WWE's dominance at the time].

@poorchristopher15 4 ай бұрын

World wildlife fund might get mad and his video may be removed.

@MrAjking808 4 ай бұрын

@@poorchristopher15no it won’t lol .. same thing as yall censoring yourselves in comments

@joshmeads 5 ай бұрын

Goldberg's streaking wasn't inflated near as much as originally thought. On Reliving the War his steak was counted and the real number was only like 5 below this given one.

@DonSmith2323 26 күн бұрын

Wrong more like 25

@markwrenn5965 5 ай бұрын

I was a WCW boy myself. Of course, i watched both, but wcw was my wrestling

@Amaterasu-zl5yh 5 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that

@markwrenn5965 5 ай бұрын

@@Amaterasu-zl5yh why?

@Amaterasu-zl5yh 5 ай бұрын

@@markwrenn5965 why not?

@markwrenn5965 5 ай бұрын

@@Amaterasu-zl5yh right.

@Amaterasu-zl5yh 5 ай бұрын

@@markwrenn5965 true

@21Invincible259 5 ай бұрын

I’m from the South so Dubya C Dubya was my rasslin of choice

@joeyperrone3168 4 ай бұрын

Lance Storm was pretty funny in wwf. "If I could be serious for a minute....." 😂

@claytonclifford2323 3 ай бұрын

I wanted to be a WCW guy but it was cause of their midcard and cruiserweight divisions mainly. Booker T, Chris Jericho, Raven, DDP, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio Jr, Kidman, Juventud Guerrera, Beniot, Malenko, Saturn, Chavo Guerrero, Kanyon, etc.

@WrestlePod 3 ай бұрын

I loved it as a kid!

@delbertprince5302 5 ай бұрын

I am big fan of the NWA prior to the change of the WCW. I love the Jim Crockett Promotion...

@buhbuhjaychampagne1706 4 ай бұрын

JCP had the it all. The wrestling was top notch. Great character work. The Four Horsemen ruled the ring. They just tried to go National and they weren’t ready.

@poorchristopher15 4 ай бұрын

You must be a dinosaur.

@perfectblindguy 5 ай бұрын

The fact is that when Nash beat Goldberg for the title, the crowd popped like crazy. Goldberg might have been over, but not as much as Nash.

@LostOneOmega 2 ай бұрын

Personally, I can see that being the case as Nash was "cooler" than Goldberg. However, what turned me off of continuing to watch was when Nash got back with Hogan. Once that happened it put a sour taste in my mouth about him winning in the first place. Had Nash stayed face and beat Hogan, and THEN turn. It probably wouldn't have been as bad.

@nick56677 Ай бұрын

Correct. The problem wasn't ending the streak, the problem was the writing thst came afterwards. They had no long-term plan. Nash joining Hogan killed the entire year of 1998s storylines. At that point as a fan I was done because why invest in something thats gonna be taken away? Then we had hogan in the wolfpac wearing jncos, talking gangster "my trigger finger brother" it was cringe and unwatchable.

@One.Zero.One101 Ай бұрын

@@nick56677 This is the main factor for me, what's the point of getting invested when they're just blindly throwing darts on the dart board? Similarly this is also my issue with modern Hollywood franchises, I don't get invested in the lore anymore because they're just gonna retcon it in an upcoming prequel.

@One.Zero.One101 Ай бұрын

Nash fanboys can defend it all they want, but it's undeniable it deflated the momentum not just of Goldberg but the company itself. There was increasing amounts of "Go Away Heat" or "Change The Channel Heat".

@Dovah21 5 ай бұрын

WCW is one of the only promotions I can think of that, on multiple occasions, went, "You know what? These two aren't having a match tonight! They're gonna get in that ring, sure, but there sure as fuck isn't going to be any wrestling going down in it. Suck a dick!" It was a peak late '90s vibe, I'll admit, but it has not aged well at all. You can really only laugh at it all now.

@bizmonkey007 3 ай бұрын

Yeah, there was a lot of cynicism in the late to early 00s and that was reflected in the product. Eventually you have to give people a real pay-off and WCW forgot that - they just kept insulting the audience over and over.

@mahoganyhippie27 5 ай бұрын

I liked both products but I loved WCW more. It was so diverse in different genres of wrestling. You have old school to lucha to technical styles. It really could've killed WWF in the late 90s. It's just sad they allowed the backstage buffoonery to destroy it and with that hurting the business.

@lindenbyass6902 5 ай бұрын

I heard that before Vince Russo WCW came very close to bankrupting WWE

@buckiemohawk3643 5 ай бұрын

no it was going down hill after Starrcade where Sting beat Hogan.... The NWO should have been finished. Yet they continued and it was complete schlock. When Austin Won the belt, WWE were having better shows@@lindenbyass6902

@dominiquejones3805 5 ай бұрын

The Cruiserweight Division was the show

@poorchristopher15 4 ай бұрын

WCW never really had a chance to kill the WWF. WCW'S fall was inevitable, even if the time Warner deal never happened The attitude era killed WCW.

@D1Snr 4 ай бұрын

I'm from the UK, and I always preferred WCW from a very young age.. It used to get shown on ITV on a Saturday afternoon in the early 90's when Bischoff used to interview the wrestlers before he became the CEO. Going back even further, ITV used to show NWA wrestling at about 2 o'clock in the morning on a Tuesday night.

@TheGreatDevlin 5 ай бұрын

How was nWo having a separate show going to work? The heel faction would just run the show with the odds against babyfaces in every match? Things would flip on the other show?

@astuteandy 4 ай бұрын

That's what happens when you have people who don't understand wrestling producing wrestling. They're ignorant.

@Grumhead 4 ай бұрын

@@astuteandy Understand what? This is a show for 10-16 year olds.

@astuteandy 4 ай бұрын

@@Grumhead Yeah, the ratings for demographic ages would disagree with you. More adults than children watch wrestling.

@Grumhead 4 ай бұрын

@@astuteandy hahahaha shame

@astuteandy 4 ай бұрын

@@Grumhead I really don't care what you have to say, man. Have a good day.

@ridddoggrecordz 5 ай бұрын

When they stopped Hogan v Nash from having a real match, then Hogan v Hall, Hogan v Steiner and alot of other matches that should have happened. WCW had the wrestlers, they just dropped the ball on their booking. Russo chased Hogan out rather than book Hogan to wrestle the appropriate matches for the company.

@DeUndefined1 Ай бұрын

WCW should've been sold in 1999 when they started losing money and viewers. But they really should've sold due to AOL and Time Warner called themselves to merge and Ted Turner was no longer in charge. They shouldn't had been sold last minute in 2001.

@KinnereyB 4 ай бұрын

For me, Mike lost his awesomeness when he lost his mullet. It’s one of the few mullets I’ve respected

@vivalafonz 5 ай бұрын

Konnan isnt the founder of AAA, Antonio Pena founded and created AAA. Konnan is the booker of AAA.

@christopherbaker9676 5 ай бұрын

These videos are by far the best on YT. I am so glad they're other's that love pro wrestling like I do. Keep up the good work.

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

I appreciate that!

@stevenoconnor3256 5 ай бұрын

WCW and Jim Crockett promotions were always the second biggest wrestling organizations in the 80s and 90s. Jim Crockett promotions would have lasted longer if they had not bought a bunch of other promotions and overextended themselves. Besides the WWF sabotaging them on Pay-per-view. The Turner sale led to the ultimate demise of the company because they put incompetent leadership in, the mid-90s was just a bit of hot shotting that ultimately always leads to a massive crash if not managed well. The Pizza Hut exec they put in crashed the house show business in the early nineties and drove Flair to the WWF. Hogan really wasn't a fit for the southern audience like Ric Flair was.

@jamesesslinger1976 5 ай бұрын

Vintage wrestling, yes! I was wondering what happened to WCW. When I stopped watching in 1996 WCW was finally on top. Also would you consider doing the beginning of pro wrestling video touching on wrestlers from the 1880s, thanks!

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

Good question!

@Haplo699g 5 ай бұрын

Vintage? Damn, I got old! LOL

@pabloschweinsteiger3954 4 ай бұрын

@@Haplo699gShrek was made in 2001 ☹️😂

@Haplo699g 4 ай бұрын

@@pabloschweinsteiger3954 Daaaamn!

@assassssasa 5 ай бұрын

The reason why WCW was sold so cheaply was the Jamie Kellner didn't want the wrestling

@paranormedic 5 ай бұрын

I rarely watched WCW, I NEVER missed an episode of WWF!!!

@GAURAV25855ify 4 ай бұрын

Did u ever go to ATLANTA

@sinceremaverick7081 4 ай бұрын

Vince planted Russo to destroy WCW

@DeUndefined1 Ай бұрын

I don't think you saw Dark side of the Ring about bash at the beach 2000. Russo stated that he didn't want to leave the WWE, but Mcmahon criticized Russo's family obligations. So he wasn't sent by Mcmahon, nor did he get fired by Mcmahon. Russo, as a man, was forced to quit WWE.

@KingJaq337 Ай бұрын

@@DeUndefined1 Russo was planted to destroy wrestling in general

@ThiccChickCrisha 5 ай бұрын

Hogan literally owned every program he was a part of. His ego would have it no other way! Btw..This is a great channel with quality content!

@shaned7158 5 ай бұрын

Hard not too when you turn everything to gold,whatever wrestling organization you go to.

@Lemont5236 5 ай бұрын

My pops was a huge JCP/WCW fan back in the days.

@Groverismyspiritanimal 3 ай бұрын

the inmates running the asylum is what truly ruined WCW

@WrestlePod 3 ай бұрын

I agree

@Hoovie9596 5 ай бұрын

I miss WCW , bro

@ignatiusjackson235 5 ай бұрын

Shawn Michaels never even signed with WCW in the '90s, let alone was he in the nWo. That would've been too sweet, but it didn't happen. Shawn Michaels was added in the WWE revival faction, long after it mattered.

@darthnowlan 5 ай бұрын

It almost happened when after the backstage fight with Bret Hart, Shawn went to McMahon's office and announced he was quitting, he wanted to join Hall and Nash in WCW.

@ignatiusjackson235 5 ай бұрын

@@darthnowlan That doesn't surprise me at all, but calling Shawn a member of the nWo is a bit disingenuous, especially in the context of the Monday Night Wars. It would have been nifty to see, though, for sure.

@meztizo_americano86 3 ай бұрын

the Giant had to be retrained how to wrestle when he went to WWF

@ignatiusjackson235 3 ай бұрын

@@meztizo_americano86 ...and the first Council of Nicaea took place in the year 325 A.D. What's your point?

@meztizo_americano86 3 ай бұрын

@@ignatiusjackson235 My point is some WWE fans are narrow minded. Don't get me wrong the attitude ers is the best but it was always good to see all three promotions. Once Vince had no more competition his product became s***

@petevaldezbc1 5 ай бұрын

I didn't watch much WCW, and I'm no country music fan, but Rap is Crap was everywhere when it came out. It was actually big

@LuciferBiscuit 4 ай бұрын

I was letting this video play in the background as I play games, and I had to tab to this video just to see why you're referencing Shawn Michaels when talking about WCW era NWO, also using Tough Enough, NXT credits for the legends you're talking about when the subject is WCW era. Boggles the mind.

@NTwisp13 4 ай бұрын

same thing, guy tries so hard convincing us he watched it at the time while mostly embarrassing himself... for example, in other video he was talking about war games 2000 being one of the worst ppvs while the match actually happened on nitro... other cringy moment is when he constantly tries to prove how even though he was 7-9 years old he was already thinking about the product (with today's eyes, of course)

@kevinb4081 3 ай бұрын

I grew up watching wcw still checked in on wwf from time to time wishing wcw could get the rock and Austin they had Austin one time but didn't know what to do with him

@jedistreaming4006 3 ай бұрын

The NWA/WCW that we know so well was actually started in 1948 by Jim Crockett Sr and not 1905 like Jim Ross always claimed during his calling of matches. The NWA as a hole like Ross claimed was a group of promotors who ran regional areas in the US like The Pacific area, Virginia, St Louis and even up North where one of those promoters was Vince Sr.

@Darktalent1986 2 ай бұрын

Can anyone tell me what the first decapitation clip is from? I'm more interested in seeing what tha's about

@MrCromocrunch 2 ай бұрын

The first sign of the end was the finger poke of doom vs foley’s title win. One was something people hated and one was something people loved.

@ConspiracyQueryDotNet 22 күн бұрын

During the not-fast count, Sting should've just kicked out a millisecond before three. And then everything else proceed the same from there with Bret getting involved.

@WrestlePod 21 күн бұрын

Absolutely

@Noah-fv6dt 3 ай бұрын

I was WWF all the way by 1998. Mankind, UNDERTAKER, Stone Cold and Kane. But I would still watch both shows. I recorded Raw. I wanted to have it on video. But that was hard to do because it meant watching the boring stuff on WCW and couldn't fast forward it because it was live

@MCDCSZN Ай бұрын

Imagine waiting and buying tickets to go see the Goldberg vs Kevin Nash rematch, and you get there and see the finger poke of doom.

@travisford6663 2 ай бұрын

It’s crazy to watch this video when you’re talking about falling below 3.0 now neither one of these companies get this and mainly because TVs watch different but it’s just not the same in every way

@hcaballero57 5 ай бұрын

Great video, very well done. But it was Kevin Nash who said "The Band is Back Together"

@scotnation4798 5 ай бұрын

I love this guys stuff he’s great to watch

@MadHatter-ek7vh 5 ай бұрын

Also Booker T was one of my favorites in WCW because his move set I liked the kicks he would do.

@wolfiewolfdog9771 5 ай бұрын

41:25 surprised all of this wasn't cut out in post lol

@generalkayoss7347 5 ай бұрын

You can't convince me Russo wasn't on Vince's payroll the entire time.

@reloadpsi 5 ай бұрын

I often wonder if that was industrial espionage myself.

@JoshieMadhatt 4 ай бұрын

Seems like something Vince would do

@MrAjking808 4 ай бұрын

@@reloadpsitinfoil hats

@weswolever7477 4 ай бұрын

It really hurt to watch a promotion I loved to watch turn itself into a joke

@GAURAV25855ify 4 ай бұрын

Thats to poor mismanagement

@ryfreedman 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video!

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

Thank you

@sklba632 5 ай бұрын

I gotta correct you on something. Rap is Crap was not poorly perceived overall. The song was getting played on country radio. There was a ground swelling around this song at the time. It struck a never with a certain audience. You can see the same thing in country music this year with divisive political songs aimed at certain demographics. If WCW had put that song in jukeboxes, it would have made them mint.

@ronfroehlich4697 5 ай бұрын

Rap is an abbreviation for crap

@sklba632 5 ай бұрын

@@ronfroehlich4697 it's a genre of music, nothing more, nothing less. Like it, don't like it, whatever, but one can also argue the cunt in country music is well deserved with its deep history of racism, spousal abusers, drunks, druggards, and all sorts of other terrible people who made music certain people enjoyed.

@basedelon 4 ай бұрын

What divisive political songs do you refer to?

@MrAjking808 4 ай бұрын

Wrong 😂🤦🏾‍♂️

@MrAjking808 4 ай бұрын

@@ronfroehlich4697hater

@billblaski9523 4 күн бұрын

Cant believe no mention of DDP

@WrestlePod 3 күн бұрын

He gets his own video, plus a huge section in the "Invasion" video

@sadfrogo3126 5 ай бұрын

1:17 what match is this from?

@Reggie_91 5 ай бұрын

This video is so frustrating to watch as the time line jumps all over the place

@extremeuzer3 2 ай бұрын

It’s so crazy how we all watched WCW die on live TV and Dixie Carter/TNA still thought it made sense to bring in bischoff and hogan

@johngroves3251 5 ай бұрын

Banger Nuff Sed

@JPPorcaro 4 ай бұрын

"the fracture" was enormously popular.

@akingwithwords2144 3 ай бұрын

I was a WCW fan as a youngin’ The problem is people tend to remember how it ended and not the years prior. WCW was better than WWF before late ‘99… WWF was pretty much cartoonish before the famed “Attitude” era…

@billytheyid626 5 ай бұрын

How did you watch this aged 7 in the UK when WCW wasn't available in the UK at this time? Something doesn't stack up.

@johnm5889 4 ай бұрын

Saw WCW live a few time when they toured the UK.

@MadHatter-ek7vh 5 ай бұрын

I loved wcw it was different than Wwf back then it seemed more exciting and interesting..I watched both but Wcw seemed much more interesting.

@MrWhiskers65 29 күн бұрын

Oh God! Brian Pillman, that’s a name from the past! He played for the Calgary Stampeders football club of the CFL. He then went into wrestling and became a popular wrestler for Calgary’s Stampede Wrestling in the 80’s but then I lost track of his career because I stopped watching wrestling shortly after that time.

@WrestlePod 28 күн бұрын

Glad to jog those long lost memories!

@BrockAwesome 26 күн бұрын

23:07 I recognize that edit of Chris Jericho lol. Its ripped directly from my Chris Jerichos Funniest Moments video. You are welcome to use it. 😊👍

@Breakbeats92.5 3 ай бұрын

Growing up, the WCW was always that "other" promotion. It was like Nintendo and Sega, you were in one camp or the other. It wasn't until The Road Warriors came over to the WWF that I saw that they might have had a leaner and meaner roster and I should have tuned into the promotion sooner.

@KinnereyB 4 ай бұрын

I was all in on WCW when Hall and Nash were signed in 1996. The rise seemingly came out of nowhere. I was even more over on WCW when Goldberg seemingly appeared from nowhere to take the wrestling world by storm and alongside Stone Cold and The Rock became my favorite wrestler. In 1998, wrestling had never been hotter. By 1999, almost everyone in our football and basketball locker rooms had tuned out Nitro in favor of Raw. Then by 2000, I was watching Raw exclusively. The blame is often rightly given to Russo, who certainly expedited it. But to quote the soft spoken Jim Cornette, “Everyone had a finger in that whore.” The collapse came as fast as the rise, seemingly out of nowhere, as fast as a finger poke or cattle prodder.

@poorchristopher15 4 ай бұрын

I also watched WCW up until 1998. Once I saw the Austin vs McMahon wars, I was hooked. The majority of my classmates in school also switched to RAW. I think every wrestling fan has a similar story to ours.

@KinnereyB 4 ай бұрын

@@poorchristopher15 100% agree 👍

@fearshum 2 ай бұрын

They had Rey mysterio, Eddie Guerro, Chris Benoit, Chris Jericho, Booker T, and The Big show all on their roster at one point but decided that Hogan was more valuable, a 50 year old aging wrestler was more valuable than a chris jericho, or an eddie g.

@WrestlePod Ай бұрын

Such a huge mistake that ultimately cost them

@ccreds8545 Ай бұрын

How does big show fit into that list😂

@fearshum Ай бұрын

@@ccreds8545 He is pretty big 😂

@artgaignard8817 2 ай бұрын

I have read books written on LSD. William Burroughs and Hunter S Thompson's unexprigated unedited works had more narrative than the last 3 years of WCW

@WrestlePod 2 ай бұрын

😂

@cosmoissleeping 4 ай бұрын

One of the darkest days in 40 year old virgin history was when WCW folded

@wintersouljah8437 3 ай бұрын

What??

@cosmoissleeping 3 ай бұрын

@@wintersouljah8437 rasslin is for 40 year old virgins

@MrAlvin714 Ай бұрын

Lmaaaaao whaaat ?

@cosmoissleeping Ай бұрын

@@MrAlvin714 rasslin has an audience of, largely, 40 year old virgins

@oli3437 5 ай бұрын

Everyone with a Wrestling KZfaq account parodies the same WWE propaganda talking points about WCW. Pro-Wrestling is the only sport were more people used to watch it then they do now and WCW not being around because of the AOL Time Warner merger (no other reason) is a big part of why millions of real wrestling fans that had loved Wrestling since the 80’s boom stopped watching. Any mistake WCW made WWE has made a thousand times over. ‘The Attitude Era’ for WWE only ended up beating WCW in the ratings because it was “car crash” tv as perfectly stated by Jim Cornett. After a while fare weather fans got bored and we got HHH’s reign of terror losing millions of fans to the sport although as Vince McMahon told Ted Turner when Ted informed Vince he was in the Wrestling business “I’m not in the Wrestling business, I’m in the entertainment business” Look back at that era in WWE as Vince said when asked if there was one deciding factor in the ratings victory he said “Stone Cold maybe?” Agreed, without Austin & The Rock no one would watch WWE at that time. As for younger talent not getting over, if you watch WCW at the time and especially if you ever went to see a Nitro live, those guys were never over and you would never have taken them seriously as a top star. Benoit was handed the title in 99 then left the next day without dropping the title, oh how very professional. Still talent like Lance Storm, Chris Candido, Vampirio, Shane Douglas were having great matches and success and a younger talent like AJ Styles were just being introduced that with the criminally unappreciated Scott Steiner who was a monster in WCW. He made Nitro must watch tv, destroying opponents, having awesome matches with top stars Booker T, Goldberg, Sting etc whilst giving awesome promos. I’m sick of people sh**ing on WCW when Nitro from 1996-2001 was far superior and much more popular than WWE is today and most KZfaqrs just parrot WWE’s talking points because history is written by the victors plus every KZfaqr sounds like someone in their teens or early 20’s. You weren’t there and you don’t know sh*t other than what WWE want you to believe

@oli3437 5 ай бұрын

You were 7 when you started watching Wrestling in the 90’s!!! That explains why you just didn’t get it. If you were 7 when Hulkamania was running wild in the WWF you would understand just how over and beloved he was and how he could draw crowds and ratings that today’s product could only dream just by being Hogan. You never liked the nWo! They kept Nitro at the top for years. Only when in late 98 when Raw finally beat Nitro that the ratings war start. Nitro was still beating Raw on Mondays after the 83 week streak. Plus fans started booing your hero Goldberg just like they started booing Hogan before he turned heel and we wanted Nash to go over because he was just a big a babyface with “The Wolfpack” nWo then any Wrestler at that time. You can be forgiven for you poor interpretation of WCW in this video because after all you were only 7 and had no idea what the grown ups who were old enough to buy tickets and PPV’s wanted

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

lol I grew up only watching WCW I’m 32

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

I agree

@jonharrison9222 4 ай бұрын

WCW had Taker, Foley, HHH, Austin, the radicals and Jericho and did sod all with them. Nuff said.

@matg5760 4 ай бұрын

Expand this Beyond just 70s prog,to just 60s and 70s bands in general embracing synth wave in the 80s. And phil collins solo career also contributed to what Genesis became.

@nikkyray3558 5 күн бұрын

I've never seen a wrestler more over than Nash at that starcade

@jamestakacs 16 күн бұрын

Just remember this. That finger poke garbage was in the same ring that true legends like Harley Race and Dory Jr wrestled 60 minute matches and when you left to go home you wanted more

@jacksmith-mu3ee 5 ай бұрын

Lingchi is not just in china but most central asia

@troublenyc4092 5 ай бұрын

Good morning all! Happy Friday!

@WrestlePod 5 ай бұрын

Good morning!

@Clown_Wizard 4 ай бұрын

25:14 The 3 hr run time is what turned me away. I was in high school and didn’t have 3 hours to burn every Mon. They did a segment called The Eric Bischoff Show which was a talk show like format complete with couches. It was clear they were padding for time, and that was the last time I watched WCW.

@Jerry-zc5qt 4 ай бұрын

When the kiss segment gave Nitro its lowest rating ever Noone said it directly but basically wcw attitude was "how dare people tune in to a wrestling show and expect to see wrestling "

@el-kiote 5 ай бұрын

36:26 why is Judd Nelson hosting a talk show?

@danielmarkle9000 5 ай бұрын

I was a wwf fan myself. I remember occasionally watching WCW and I did find the nwo interesting but I couldn’t help but notice that aside from them and sting they really didn’t have anything special going on despite all the talent they had. I never liked Goldberg because he only did 2 minute matches. It got old really fast. Wwf had all kind of things going on. And they did a good job of using a lot of there talent.

@eddie9244 Ай бұрын

I tried to like wcw in the late 90s but they made it so difficult

@dennisblackmon8773 Ай бұрын

I was a wcw fan until the fingerpoke of doom it ruined wcw for me and I never changed back I stayed a wwf fan until wcw went out of business and wwf became wwe so yeah

@jamarcuscarter5197 Ай бұрын

Those where the day's WCW Monday Night Nitro

@WrestlePod Ай бұрын

So much nostalgia!!!

@jessmcafee2557 17 күн бұрын

Preferred WCW for most of the 90s. I taped Raw and watched both tho. But it was getting tough to watch toward the end.

@danielwebster5748 Ай бұрын

I remember when I was a young man both of them were in existence and I would if it was a work day I would take them both if it was not a work day I would tape one and watch the other one. And that day I could not decide which one I like better I actually like them both.

@WrestlePod Ай бұрын

Both had so many pros and cons, there was something for everyone

@JimmyChangE16 3 ай бұрын

I always remember WCW in like 90 or 91 and it looked so budget! Dubya see Dubya Pro!!!

@WrestlePod 3 ай бұрын

I loved the look during that time period

@rodneywaugh8535 19 күн бұрын

Growing up in the south in the Carolinas.... It was always NWA / WCW.... When Vince bought WCW..... It's just too bad that he could not run them both as two separate entities.... Have a WCW champion and a WWE champion... And have one guy that was a true world champion

@nichhodge8503 3 ай бұрын

16:46 what everyone forgets is Goldberg’s loss to Nash was his second loss in WCW. Goldberg lost to Mongo McMichael early in his WCW career even Kevin Sullivan said “I did a good job at making everyone forget Goldberg’s loss to Mongo and making people think that Goldberg was still undefeated”

@787_rayray3 3 ай бұрын

I loved wcw when i was like 6 or 7 when scott hall nd kevin nash went to wcw frm wwf then came nwo nd i was hooked but i also watched wwf back then i loved stone cold so i really did not understand it was a war nitro vs raw i just enjoyed watching man it was great

@pussydestroyer87 5 ай бұрын

I've been watching Wrestling Bios Reliving the War series, and it's painfully obvious that WCW had no plan to the nWo. They were just riding the wave as long as they could.

@irvingsmith6559 Ай бұрын

I loved the WCW cruiserweight division. Outstanding wrestlers.

@fergaoneill5323 2 ай бұрын

Very sad wcw is gone

@tomsawyer5736 Ай бұрын

I liked both equally

@user-bd8dk1tu5i 3 күн бұрын

I dont give a damn what they say, the Oklahoma gimmick was made for one reason only. To make fun of JR. Making fun of a man who has a condition he cant control is sick

@Scorch1028 5 ай бұрын

The Finger Poke of Doom signaled the end of WCW.

@JoshieMadhatt 4 ай бұрын

Fun fact: This was also the episode of Nitro where Eric Bischoff made the incredibly stupid decision to give away Mankind's victory over Rock to win the WWF Championship with the famous "that'll put butts in the seats heh" and ofc failing to realize that wrestling fans weren't partisan like them and they loved Mick Foley. Apparently after they spoiled the victory about half a million ppl immediately switched channels to see it. That Nitro was honestly a snapshot of all that was ( and would continue) to go wrong with WCW

@chrismcfarland3085 2 ай бұрын

Finger poke of doom sealed the fate of WCW for me.......

@WrestlePod Ай бұрын

And so many others I agree

@Ryan-hl4ur 9 күн бұрын

We'd of probably kept doing it but the cops were getting too many calls about a "vicious attack" in progress (fugazi) & kids are trick or treating so they can't floor it. We never "routed for the good guys." (point being)