Did you a take side in the Monday Night Wars?

[Throwback]

During the Monday night wars, WCW and WWF were aired on the same channel here. They were on TSN. Because of that, RAW would come on Tuesday Mornings at Midnight and Nitro came on Tuesday Nights at 5:00pm. So for me the Monday night wars were almost nonexistent. I still preferred WWF over WCW but I didn't really care if one beat the other in ratings because I was going to watch both shows anyway. Incidentally neither of which actually came on during Monday Night.

[Rubix Cube Johnny]

I was a little WWF fanboy.

[Deleted]

People who did not witness it live will never understand why the booking was the way it was, but it was necessary. I was in college at the time, and we would literally watch whichever show had the most interesting thing going on at the time, so both shows had to be as hot as possible just to hook the viewer. I never really chose a side. I grew up a WWF fan so I identified with them, but many of the stars I grew up with were in WCW, and I was only a regular WCW watcher from 1996-98 because I didn't get TNT/TBS until '96. So, I'd say indifferent overall. Whichever show was better was where my eyeballs were.

[Deleted]

I would originally watch whatever was more interesting, but as the WWF started kicking ass and WCW started sucking ass, I mostly watched the WWF, though I did tape Nitro for comedic purposes as well.

[mo]

I was the kid in the room who wanted to watch the DX Nation parody over Hogan and Goldberg.

[Deleted]

I was a WWF fan despite my family being raised on NWA/WCW, then when Hall and Nash showed up on Nitro, I started flipping back and forth. This lasted till sometime in late '99, when I solely stuck to Raw.

So I guess WWF was who I eventually sided with.

[slappy]

WCW. I'd watch WWF during commercials.

[Pushed to the Moon]

I kept track of both but liked WWF more.

[turkeysandwich]

I watched both and I miss those days of flipping back and forth between USA and TNT, but I never left camp WWF. Wrestling was so huge then that everybody in my high school watched, but they all loved Nitro, which made me an outcast, of sorts. for being more into WWF at the time. The best thing about Nitro was that they aired the replay later, so I remember when my family would go on vacation I could tape both. I still remember the night Nash showed up the first time the tape cut off one second after I saw his face.

[mizerable]

Oh yeah, WWF all the way.

But with the programming that we've gotten over the last few years from WWE, if WCW was still around (with wrestlers of the same grouping we got back then, as opposed to STILL having Steiner, Booker T and Hogan still going), then WCW would easily be winning me over right now.

[horsemen4ever]

I remember the night when Rick Rude appeared on a live Nitro and a taped Raw.

[MichaelMartini]

I grew up with WWF but I liked both. During the height of the nWo I preferred WCW but when they started pushing Goldberg and WWE was pushing Austin, Rock and Foley I switched sides.

[keepinitreal365]

Well imma born and bread wwf girl. I will admit that i had a fling with wcw LoL. It's funny because i actually thought the wwg was the only wrestling company. I'll never forget sitting home bored outta my skull flicking through tv. All of a sudden i see mean gene interviewing ric flair and hulk Hogan. I'm like WTF. It was wcw Saturday night i believe. From then i was just hooked on wcw then they took off like a rocket. Around the time of the nwo i didn't even watch raw. Well i would flick back and forth. Nitro was just hot. I love when they would have the show outside. I remember miss Jackie throwing some dude in the water. Nash spearing mysterio into thd side of a trailer. Savage jumping on limo roofs.


Then wwf got raunchy. They just went in. Sex, violence, cussing. It was awesome. I remember the house we had at the time. 8 bedrooms. I claimed the last two rooms as mine. I would have nitro on one tv. Raw on the other and LITERALLY slide across the hallway in my socks back and forth watching each show. Man those were good times. That's why i never got into trouble. I stayed in the house watching wrestling and writing.

[celticjobber]

I was always more of a WWF fan. I would switch to Nitro during commercials, but usually I just watched the Nitro replay that aired around 11pm.

[Deleted]

I was always a WWF guy. In 96/97 I always watched Mondays with my cousin, and he was older and always wanted to watch Nitro, with me begging to flip to WWF during the breaks. I did enjoy Nitro a ton, especially in retrospect, but Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, they were my guys.

[Throwback]

May 7, 2013 17:30:07 GMT -5 horsemen4ever said:

I remember the night when Rick Rude appeared on a live Nitro and a taped Raw.

I remember that too. Didn't Jeff Jarrett do something similar?

[rnrk supports BLM]

I went back and forth. I'd been watching WWF near-exclusively until the nWo angle started, started dividing my time equally between the two, shifted almost entirely to WCW after the crapfest that was Wrestlemania 13, spent more time watching WWF later in '97 as things started getting good again, was barely following WCW by '98, checked it out again in late '98/early '99 when I was getting bored with WWF, and the decline in quality was really obvious, such that I basically drifted out of watching wrestling entirely for close to a decade after that.

When I heard WWF had bought WCW a couple years later, I really wasn't all that surprised, with the trajectory things looked like they were moving in.

[Andrew is Good]

WWF all the way. It was because I knew of it beforehand, and I guess I had the same issue with WCW as I had with Sega. They kept taking potshots at the competition, even though the competition was still pretty good, I mean, I had a Nintendo and a Super Nintendo. So when they were taking shots at them, as a kid, I didn't like it. So that's what helped me stay loyal to WWE. Granted, I did watch WCW when it was on, and less and less during the Attitude Era, but I knew of them and a lot of the major talents.

At the time though, I also didn't know about WWF's history of swiping talent and screwing over the competition, so I thought WWF was the innocent victim of guys on Nitro spoiling Raw results and burying them.

[Super Weak Machine]

WCW. I was raised on NWA/JCP, and I stuck with it all the way to WCW's demise.

[rnrk supports BLM]

May 7, 2013 18:08:17 GMT -5 @spindoc said:

Laughable Fun Fact: I was afraid WCW was going to win the war when they signed Master P.

I thought the "war" was dead in WWF's favor as soon as they signed Vader, and figured Sting would be in WWF within a year or two.