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Monday Night Nitro or Monday Night Raw

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#1 ·
which show did you watch, i don't care what people thought was better, but to the people that watched wrestling during the 90s did you have a personal fav, was it raw, or nitro or did you watch both?
 
#2 ·
I watched Nitro, always thought it was the better show. Even when Austin and co. were on top. In latter years I realised there was a bit of a swing around that time and WWE had become the superior promotion again but I sure did love WCW back in the day.

It was the Friday Night Wars here in the UK, that's when they aired. So I'd watch WCW on Friday night and then Saturday morning I would watch Smackdwon, as it got it's first UK airing. Via Smackdown, I'd get updates of what happened on Raw. Sometimes I'd trade VHS tapes with friends, so I could see a full Raw but seldom ever did that to be honest. There's so much good stuff that when I go back and watch, I never knew existed.

...all on the WWE Netowrk, for just £9.99 per month!
 
#3 ·
Nitro.

Imagine during that Vince promo at the final Nitro, Vince eviscerates WCW, Shane appears on Nitro. Then, as Vince stands there shocked, a fan in black clothes with a Sting mask enters the ring. He KOs Vince with a bat, takes the mask off, it's Sting. Next WM, Sting VS Taker, Vince VS Flair, Hogan VS Austin.

Or, in a shocking twist, Hogan sides with Vince, and Hogan VS Sting at Wrestlemania.

They really didn't think this through, did they?
 
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I'm sure they wish they couldve done that, but McMahon didn't want to buy out all of those big name contracts. And since he didn't Time Warner had to keep paying them. I don't think anyone should blame the wrestlers for taking their guaranteed money to basically sit at home.

McMahon got WCW for fucking cheap. What you outlined would've been dope, but it's just wasn't feasible at the time.

As for the op. I was WCW until sometime in 97. And once they started focusing more on Steve Austin in late 97 early 98 I was solidly on team wwf.

I do remember being so torn the night Goldberg fought Hogan in Atlanta. I wanted to see the match but I also wanted to see what happened on Raw. I learned that night how to record raw but watched nitro. Lol
 
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#4 ·
Both most of the time. Which I preferred would change year by year and even month by month at times. Nitro generally had the edge for me until 98 came around, then it was neck and neck, then Nitro started nosediving around mid 99 and the gap got pretty significant. In the last year or so I watched Nitro just for the car crash nature of it all.
 
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When I first got into WRestling again, when it became huge, I watched Nitro. I came in the night Goldberg beat Hogan for the title. In other words I came in at WCW's high water mark. Still even after that I enjoyed the shit out of the show. Nitro sure as hell did a 3 hour Wrestling program better than WWE.

But like most I switched the channel and watched Raw as well, I just watched Nitro more. When Nitro eventually got stale It was the other way around.

Appreciate Nitro during those years guys, when WCW died so did Rasslin in the USA.
 
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Nitro! it was on very late monday night here so often at school we wouldn't talk about it till wednesday when everyone had the chance to watch their tape. Didn't see Raw til much later, when my sister got pay tv in her room :p
 
#10 ·
nitro. all the way through. I occasionally turned it over during commerical breaks to watch raw, there in the 2000's i started to watch raw just a little bit more but really not that much, I started watching WCW in 94 or 93 and i loved it, back in 91 or 92 they had a house show near me locally where i met sting personally and got my autograph and picture taken and all that and I was just a little kid so it won me over so I never gave raw any serious watching.
 
#11 ·
Being in the UK, Raw was always much easier to access but my dad would record episodes of Nitro during the peak of the whole Hogan heel turn and NWO/Sting rivalry. That was a brief period though and then Nitro got good again with Goldberg but by the time The Rock was a household name and Austin was red hot, NItro became an irrelevance and honestly, most kids I knew thought WCW was filled with grandpas.
 
#12 ·
Nitro and ECW on Bravo over here in the UK, Raw was on Sky Sports and we didn't have that we had cable so we only got Smackdown on Sky One.
 
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I was a WWF loyalist. When Hogan and my favorite guys left I was like screw them how could they leave.

I'd always watch with my father, and he would put on Nitro telling me how it was the better show at the time with all of the stars. I was a little brat and made him turn back on RAW. But we would still switch between the 2 shows and watch both.

96-97 was when WCW was more popular (among me and my friends and as far as general popularity) 97 was almost neck and neck. Then 98-99 and beyond went back to WWF with DX, New Age Outlaws, Austin, Sable, etc.

But I never watched just one, always switched between them. WWF was my top choice and in the end they won. Still had to watch both.
 
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I could have watched Nitro since the beginning but WCW shows were never available to see in my country.
I wonder if the change to 3 hours had something to do with Nitro's declining seeing how many fans don't like a Raw of three hours now.

Anyways I would've gladly watched Nitro after Hitman Hart entered, more than when my dear Alundra, Diesel and Ramon jumped ship.
Besides, Shawn Michaels and Vader were saying goodbye too that awful 1998...
 
#19 ·
Both until '99.

Raw after.
 
#20 ·
Starting in January of 96 until the Spring of 98, right after WrestleMania 14, I watched only Nitro. Then I started watching a little bit of RAW. I slowly started watching more RAW through the summer and fall of 98 until I finally stopped watching Nitro completely after the Fingerpoke of Doom (which I thought was stupid, but mainly I moved over to RAW exclusively at that time because I was excited that Foley won the championship.)
 
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I watched Raw and thought WCW was full of old pensioners tbh. Where I was at in the UK that was pretty much the common sentiment. I don't think I knew anyone at that age who'd remotely consider watching WCW, we were all just WWF guys (and later ECW too.) I didn't even remotely care about WCW at all until the Radicalz joined WWF and I saw some of the talent they had.
 
#25 ·
I was watching both up until Goldberg lost the streak. At that point, I was sick of the NWO and didn't like the direction WCW was going. Goldberg losing to Nash pretty much ruined it for me, because I was old enough to understand that Nash and Co. were able to do whatever they pleased, and they were pulling the strings.

I stopped watching Raw (and wrestling altogether) after the Goldberg/Lesnar WM match, in 2004. Same night that Cena won the US title. After that, I missed almost every bit of Cena's glorious run up until his WM match with The Miz...so roughly 7 years without wrestling, lol.
 
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