WCW Monday Nitro 29 years old
WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head with the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001. Production ceased shortly after WCW was purchased by the WWF. The debut of Nitro began the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the WWF and WCW that lasted for almost six years and saw each company resort to cutthroat tactics to try to compete with the competition. In mid-1996, Nitro began to draw better ratings than Raw based on the strength of the nWo storyline, an anarchist wrestling stable that wanted to take over WCW. Nitro continued to beat Raw for 84 consecutive weeks, forcing WWE owner Vince McMahon to change the way he did business. As the nWo storyline grew stagnant, fan interest in the storyline waned, and Raw began to edge out Nitro in the ratings. The turning point for the organizations came during the January 4, 1999 broadcast of Nitro, during which lead commentator Tony Schiavone gave away the results of matches for that night's Raw broadcast. As Raw was taped and Nitro was live, Bischoff believed that knowing the outcome would dissuade viewers from watching the program. Excited by the prospect of seeing perennial WWF underdog Mick Foley win the WWF Championship, a large number of Nitro viewers changed channels to watch Raw, switching back to Nitro after Foley won the title. From that week forward, Raw beat Nitro in the ratings by a significant amount, and WCW was never able to regain the success it once had.
Credits
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Bill Goldberg He was 28 , now 57 years old | |
| Jean-Claude Van Damme He was 34 , now 64 years old | |
| Gene Okerlund He was 52 , 76 years old when he died | |
| Hulk Hogan He was 42 , now 71 years old | |
| Chuck Norris He was 55 , now 84 years old | |
| Will Sasso He was 20 , now 49 years old | |
| Kevin Nash He was 36 , now 65 years old | |
| Randy Savage He was 42 , 58 years old when he died | |
| Tank Abbott He was 30 , now 59 years old | |
| Allen Neal Jones He was 18 , now 47 years old | |
| Terry Funk He was 51 , now 80 years old | |
| Roddy Piper He was 41 , 61 years old when he died | |
| Curtis Michael Hennig He was 37 , 44 years old when he died | |
| Ted DiBiase He was 41 , now 70 years old | |
| Brian Pillman He was 33 , 35 years old when he died | |
| Jeff Jarrett He was 28 , now 57 years old | |
| Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr. He was 49 , 69 years old when he died | |
| Jim Fullington He was 32 , now 61 years old | |
| Marcus Alexander Bagwell He was 25 , now 54 years old | |
| Debra Wilson She was 33 , now 62 years old | |
| Eddie Guerrero He was 27 , 38 years old when he died | |
| Daniel Christopher Covell He was 24 , now 53 years old | |
| Dallas Page He was 84 , 25 years old when he died | |
| Scott Anthony Levy He was 30 , now 60 years old | |
| Paul Wight He was 23 , now 52 years old | |
| Ric Flair He was 46 , now 75 years old | |
| William Regal He was 27 , now 56 years old | |
| Stacy Keibler She was 15 , now 45 years old | as Ms. Hancock |
| Scott Hall He was 36 , now 66 years old | |
| Jimmy Hart He was 51 , now 80 years old | |
| Bret Hart He was 38 , now 67 years old | |
| Jim Neidhart He was 40 , 63 years old when he died | |
| Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman She was 24 , now 54 years old | |
| Scott Charles Bigelow He was 34 , 45 years old when he died | |
| Steve McMichael He was 37 , now 67 years old | |
| James Edward Duggan Jr He was 41 , now 70 years old | |
| Bobby Heenan He was 50 , 72 years old when he died | |
| James Hellwig He was 36 , 54 years old when he died | |
| Brian Adams He was 31 , 43 years old when he died | |
| Lawrence Michael Rotunda He was 37 , now 66 years old | |
| Jeep Swenson He was 38 , 40 years old when he died | |
| Barry Windham He was 35 , now 64 years old | |
| Kevin Sullivan He was 40 , now 69 years old | |
| Eric Bischoff He was 40 , now 69 years old |
Crew
| Name | Job title |
|---|---|
| Eric Bischoff Writing He was 40 , now 69 years old | Writer |
WCW Monday Nitro (29 years)
Ended
- First Air Date: 1995-09-04
- Runtime: [120] minutes
- Number of Episodes: 292