WCW Monday Nitro

Nitro is a professional wrestling television program for WCW that currently airs on TNT

### First Episode

The first episode of Nitro took place on 25th April 1994 the day after Wrestlemania X, it featured Brian Pillman winning the CW championship, Bobby Heenan debuting on commentary, Harlem Heat vs Road Warriors, Vader returning to say goodbye as he retires and Hogan defending the WCW Heaviweight Championship against Meng, the show ended with a surprise return by Ric Flair that had just main evented Wrestlemania X the day before

## Monday Night Wars

### The first years

The first years of the Monday Night Wars saw an even battle but neither WCW nor WWF could bring interest back to wrestling like it was in the Golden Age of WWF, WCW switched to more of a mainstream style as their main event scene was filled with people like Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, The Giant, Sid Vicious while the undercard showcased more wrestling with the amazing CWs and a midcard scene that seemed ready to explode with people like Brian Pillman, Dustin Rhodes, Stunning Austin but all 3 of those would sign with WWF in the next 2 years as WCW didn't push them.

In 1995, at WAR 2 we had the WWF Screwjob that oficially kickstarted the Monday Night Wars on a whole other level as WCW signed a lot of WWF talent, this all led to Nitro 100 where the women's champion Alundra Blayze debuted and put the championship on the garbage, Razor Ramon cashed in his WWF MITB to win the WCW Heaviweight Championship and Diesel beat up the commentators while still holding the Intercontinental Championship, soon Mr.Perfect, X-Pac and HHH would also debut for WCW and Hogan would turn heel to form the new world order as WCW interest skyrocketed.

### New World Order

After the NWO angle kickstarted, Nitro would beat RAW in ratings for the next 63 weeks as their show was just amazing, in 1997 RAW started getting a bit more steam again so The Resistance debuted as they started to take down NWO, the angle was redhot but RAW was still picking up ground.

In 1998, they had possibly the most stacked roster in all of wrestling with talent like Hollywood Hogan, Scott Hall, Goldberg, DDP, Bret Hart, Sting, Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho, The Mob, Los Guerreros, Steiner Brothers but WWF was making gold out of trash with their entertaining storylines and crash TV, Nitro still tried to get ratings with the NWO as they split them up in 3 but it was soon becoming a problem that the whole show was centered around Hogan, Nash and Hall and new young talent couldn't get in the main event scene.

### RAW takes ground

Starting in 1998, RAW started beating Nitro more and more, Nitro managed to make a new star with Goldberg as they had their biggest Nitro attendance ever with 43 000 on July 27th 1998 as Goldberg defeated Hollywood Hogan, Randy Savage and The Giant, Sting in different matches all in 1 night to become WCW Heaviweight Champion, Nitro got their last ever ratings win on October 5th 1998 with a main event of DDP vs Randy Savage vs Bret Hart vs Rob Van Dam for WCW Heaviweight Championship NO1 Contendership.

Eric Bischoff signed WWF's head booker Vince Russo after Starrcade 1998 to destroy RAW once and for all but what happened was 4 months of awful booking and Nitro viewership collapsing with stuff like a show that had 0 clean finishes, a show that only featured old timers and Mean Gene wrestling as young talent led a strike, a best of seven between Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock, Jeff Jarrett being showcased weekly with go away heat and many more.