Talk:WCW Monday Nitro

Too much WWF focus?
In the introduction paragraph the WWE, WWF, Raw, Vince McMahon are mentioned a total of 12 times. Seems slanted and almost promotional. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.48.9.240 (talk) 17:00, 14 May 2015 (UTC)

This entire page is geared towards WWE and their success over Nitro. It needs to be toned down tremendously. Even the two photos are from WWE programming.

"The Final Nitro"
It speaks of a WWF Superstar's "most infamous Heel turn" during a mention of the Invasion angle: I'm going to guess that it was Steve Austin, but could somebody more knowledgeable please elaborate?

Cleaning up
The paragraph that begins "Though ratings were poor early on" needs to be cleaned up just a little bit. By 1995-era wrestling ratings standards, the ratings that the show received were not poor. They beat the WWF quite a few times in 1995. I'm not sure how that should be reworded as I'm not a writer, but I don't believe that the paragraph should begin this way.

Also, I edited a sentence that talked about Luger appearing on the first Nitro. It stated that he appeared during the first match on the show, Flair vs. Sting. For one thing, Jushin Liger vs. Brian Pillman was the first match on the show. Also, Luger appeared during the main event of the show, Hogan vs. Big Bubba, not Flair vs. Sting. Just wanted to clarify so no one changes it back. Gitrcollectibles 06:04, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually he did show up during Flair vs. Sting first.

- The line "WWF would buy a few selected contracts of the WCW talent, keeping key players like Booker T and Ric Flair" is technically incorrect. Flair didn't sign for the WWF/E until over half a year later, only appearing on television immediately after the WCW 'invasion' of the WWF/E had ended.

-Under trivia it notes that the original episodes of Nitro were 2 hours. This is incorrect. I do not believe that Nitro went to 2 hours until the first anniversary of the show in 1996. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.112.66.148 (talk) 17:52, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Bischoff's Challenge

 * "At one point, Eric Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to face him in a match to be held at Slamboree 1998 (McMahon did not show-up due to Stephanie McMahon's graduation, and therefore Bischoff was declared the winner via countout)."

This has no cite to it, and the reason McMahon did not show-up is most likely much the same reason the war between McMahon and the Voodoo Kin Mafia did not happen; he did not care. (However, that is speculation.) I propose that this be shorted to read:
 * "At one point, Eric Bischoff challenged Vince McMahon to face him in a match to be held at Slamboree 1998. McMahon never formally recognized the challenge and did not appear. Bischoff was declared the winner via countout"

Hazardous Matt (talk) 21:09, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Made the edit barring any other future objections. Hazardous Matt (talk) 14:47, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Foley's comment
Foley has repeatedly stated his figure that "600,000" figure, stating that they instantly switched over to Raw. However, this is not a reliable source. Nielson ratings are not calculated to the second, and the statement was not made during a quarter hour, so there's absolutely no validity to the claim. I'm removing it until someone can provide a reliable source (Not WWE or Foley) to suggest that it deserves to be there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The Todd (talk • contribs) 21:10, 25 September 2008 (UTC)

Removed again. To quote someone else of the matter.

"This is probably the best one I can think of, because it's not a simple stretch of the truth -- but is totally inaccurate in every possible way -- as Raw actually lost viewers instead of gaining them.

If you look at the quarter hour breakdown of Raw and Nitro from the January 4, 1999 telecast, it looks like this:

2nd Head To Head Hour

--Q3Q4Overrun Nitro 4.1---4.6--- 6.5 Raw 6.2---5.9--- 5.1

The Mick Foley/Rock match took place between Q4 and the overrun, with the "Finger Poke of Doom" taking place in almost the same space of time, with Nitro ending just about a minute before Raw went off the air. As you can see, Nitro actually gained viewers between Q3 and Q4, while RAW lost viewers and then WCW smoked them in the overrun, making the claim completely impossible.

More than likely, confusion arose out of the fact that Nitro lost about as many viewers as attributed to the Rock/Foley match between the unopposed hour and the first head to head hour, when Nitro’s rating shot down a full nine-tenths of a point from 5.5 to 4.6. Furthermore, the perceived bad taste of WCW’s move in giving away the title-switch gave this little “factoid” traction, despite what the numbers have to say about it. The rest is history of course." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.47.103.42 (talk) 04:19, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Tuesday Nitro
Apparently there were a few Tuesday Nitro specials that were one hour. I've seen at least one in November of 1998. How come there is no mention of this on the page? TheGary (talk) 08:16, 9 May 2011 (UTC)

Bischoff giving away results
I remember watching Nitro back in 97 and 98 and I dont recall Bischoff giving away Raw results, besides the Mick Foley one. Did Bischoff do it mostly in 95-96? Portillo (talk) 07:46, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

AEW TNT
TNT will be airing an AEW show beginning October 2. J4lambert (talk) 20:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)