WCW also had two Women's Championships, though they were rarely showcased on television and almost exclusively defended outside of the United States, mostly in Japan (just like in the WSL AWA) so most viewers just saw the Nitro Girls and nWo Girls, who were mostly there to dance for the crowd during the commercial break.WCW Hardcore Championship - Much like the Cruiserweight Tag Team titles, after WCW closed, it was also abandoned and never defended on WWE.WCW Cruiserweight Tag Team Championship - After WWE's purchase of WCW, it was one of 2 titles to be abandoned and never mentioned again on WWE programming.WCW World Tag Team Championship - Defended on WWE programming, then merged with the WWE (World) Tag Team Titles.WCW United States Championship - It is currently being used in WWE.WCW Cruiserweight Championship - It was defended in WWE until its retirement in 2008.WCW World Heavyweight Championship - It was defended on WWE programming until it was unified with the WWE Championship to become the Undisputed WWE Championship.In the aftermath of WCW going under, the void left by it led to the creation of TNA and Ring of Honor, and promoted them to relevance.īy the time WCW disbanded, they recognized the following Championships: Those were just some of the decisions that led to huge losses in ratings and revenue, which resulted in the WWF purchasing WCW's assets on March 26, 2001. Hulk Hogan being relegated to an episode of Nitro, rather than pay-per-view, because they wanted to win the Monday Night Wars so badly. The Cruiserweight Division went from being "the future of wrestling" (as Bischoff touted them as on his show) to being "vanilla midgets" who "couldn't draw", because he was listening to the wrong people the over-reliance on one storyline, with most of the babyfaces forming an nWo offshoot and, most notorious of all, Goldberg vs. While Ring Oldies were given most of the screentime, up-and-comers like Chris Jericho, Diamond Dallas Page, Raven, and Booker T either 1) didn't get elevated like they should have, or 2) it was handled poorly and came about too late. So when Raw rebounded-and everyone knew it would eventually-he had no plan or faith in his own product. Bischoff's problem was that he measured everything by the ratings. Nitro was the superior product for years, until it hit a creative wall.
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Pro wrestling was forever changed by the nWo in some ways, with each show ending on a cliffhanger. Have a mega-angle going on with the New World Order.
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Live TV in an age when viewers had their attention divided. He had the perfect blueprint for a three-hour show: make sure there is variety, showcasing different styles of wrestling (often with interesting stipulations). Nitro was a long-shot idea by Bischoff to compete with Raw in their own timeslot. It also served as a springboard for wrestlers who would go on to achieve fame in later years, with Dustin Rhodes, Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Cactus Jack, and The Hollywood Blonds ( "Stunning" Steve Austin and Brian Pillman) appearing for the first time on national television. However, there were times where they'd let a young nobody get a shot at Flair and actually give him a run for his money.
It was two hours long and had more than a few squash matches, just like every other show at the time. WCW Saturday Night was the mothership show before Nitro.
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