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20 years ago, the final episode of WCW Monday Nitro aired on TNT
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I ran into Disco Inferno in Vegas three weeks before and he swore Bischoff had the sale in the bag.
He did. Then AOL Time Warner decided to cancel Nitro and Thunder.
Then Eric Bischoff's investors backed off.
It's almost too appropriate for late-stage WCW. Literally just random noise and feedback with just the faintest hint of structure. The fact they debuted this at the exact same time as a logo that WCW itself compared to bird shit...
...and you just have to wonder if all this was all some sort of weird The Producers style ploy went wrong, a deliberate metacommentary on how the company was a sinking ship destined to fail...
Yeah, no, it was probably them just trying to be hip and edgy and falling flat on their faces.
Anyway, here's a dumb Simpsons meme:
I absolutely loved WCW as a kid. My mum would always let me stay up late so I could watch it. It used to be shown after cartoon network on a Friday night in Ireland.
I thought about this all day on Friday, and yeah... I was in a funk all day.
March 26th, 2001 went down as one of the saddest days of my life. And it was just weeks after SEGA pulled out of the Hardware Business.
Pop-culture wise, 2001 was fuck standing awful.
Wanna get even sadder? Imagine if WCW had lived and New Japan had its 2010s Renaissance in a similar fashion?
March 26th, 2001 went down as one of the saddest days of my life. And it was just weeks after SEGA pulled out of the Hardware Business.
Pop-culture wise, 2001 was fuck standing awful.
Wanna get even sadder? Imagine if WCW had lived and New Japan had its 2010s Renaissance in a similar fashion?
i remember watching the invasion at my grandma's house living room with milk and cookies by the side
wcw is gone
so is my grandma
life man š
wcw is gone
so is my grandma
life man š
I was more of a WWF/E kid but I liked WCW as well. WCW had better matches but WWE had my favorites.
I gave up on wrestling back in 2009. I still played the games for a few years and would read up on the history of the business. I don't think I really cared about the genre as whole since 2012.
I gave up on wrestling back in 2009. I still played the games for a few years and would read up on the history of the business. I don't think I really cared about the genre as whole since 2012.
Eric Bischoff wanted to bring in Toryumon/Dragon Gate wrestlers once he purchased WCW. I was tape collecting during that time. Just imagine watching an Nitro match between Crazy Max and the Yung Dragons.
OP
OP
WTF indeed. It's like they wanted to copy Attitude Era Raw, and just butchered it.
As someone who only got into wrestling recently with AEW...
And 2: How can I watch*/relive classic WCW and which years are the best to track down?
*Legally or otherwise, I guess.
Is that Schiovane?!?
And 2: How can I watch*/relive classic WCW and which years are the best to track down?
*Legally or otherwise, I guess.
Jesus Christ, is that the sort of thing I get to look forward to, going through old WCW?
Oh my god. This is the greatest day in the history of my life.
Man, I'd forgotten how "Y2K" that era's WCW logo was. Graphic designers were out of control back then.
The way Vince proceeded to bungle was could have been the most obvious, biggest money angles in wrestling history with the Invasion would be mind boggling if it weren't apparent in subsequent years that he has absolutely no idea what he is doing.
Late WCW wasn't all bad. It gave us the undisputed greatest movie ever made, and the legend of Jimmy King.
If you walked out of that theater not a Jimmy King mark, you're a fucking liar.
If you walked out of that theater not a Jimmy King mark, you're a fucking liar.
First episode I'm watching of Nitro which I think is the last episode of 95... is that Paul Wight with an nWo t-shirt on, talking to Hogan?!?
Edit: Watching these first 5 mins, I'm not going to ruin AEW for me at all, am I? The crowds and the energy are just electric.
Side note: What was the episode that the gif of Sting revealing himself comes from? Was that Nitro?
Edit: Watching these first 5 mins, I'm not going to ruin AEW for me at all, am I? The crowds and the energy are just electric.
Side note: What was the episode that the gif of Sting revealing himself comes from? Was that Nitro?
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According to the ResetEra.com-endorsed Chronological Wrasslin' Super Gradez, these are the must-watch extravaganzas.
Or just watch the first three or four years of Nitro chronologically. God bless.
Bless *you*. I'm working from home and my wife is working in the office today, so I'm gonna load up on Nitro after Dynamite. Woo!
According to the ResetEra.com-endorsed Chronological Wrasslin' Super Gradez, these are the must-watch extravaganzas.
Or just watch the first three or four years of Nitro chronologically. God bless.
According to the ResetEra.com-endorsed Chronological Wrasslin' Super Gradez, these are the must-watch extravaganzas.
Or just watch the first three or four years of Nitro chronologically. God bless.
I'd only add every big event from Starrcade '93 to Clash XXVII. WCW up til Hogan's arrival in '94 kicked so much ass.
WCW talk was fun as hell in high school in 1996. As weird as it is to look back at it, EVERYONE loved it in my area. You could talk about it or wear shirts in public without shame. Also WCW shirts were always really terrible except for getting lucky with the nWo shirt.
I'm sorry that the Invasion Angle killed your Grandma. At least someone was willing to put over WCW in that angle.
