Albino Heat
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Post by Albino Heat on May 7, 2013 18:11:13 GMT -5
I liked the WWF, due to liking their production better. The entrance themes and production were miles ahead of WCW.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 19:25:09 GMT -5
60-40 in favor of WWF.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 19:30:58 GMT -5
In Canada (or at least where I live) Raw was on Monday and Nitro was on Wednesday so I never really had that crucial choice of one or the other. I just figured they were just a couple of wrestling organizations that existed at the same time. Never occurred to me until late into it they were actively competing against each other. I definitely preferred WWF but I liked them both.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 19:32:35 GMT -5
I watched both but I was more of a WCW guy, as I first got into wrestling watching the old shows on TBS. I was also into ECW, starting I want to say a few months before Barely Legal.
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Post by Deleted on May 7, 2013 19:43:44 GMT -5
Not really, but wcw was slightly more kid/less sexually explicit friendly so I felt less awkward watching that around my parents since we only had one TV in the house at the time.
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Post by Been burned too many times on May 7, 2013 19:47:13 GMT -5
I watched both(along with ECW). I was loyal to what entertained me not to any one company. Same way today.
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Post by cool guy on May 7, 2013 20:20:50 GMT -5
At the height of the Monday Night Wars I was five and didn't realize that the various bits of wrestling I saw on TV even came from different shows.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on May 7, 2013 20:40:18 GMT -5
While I was a fan of The Rock, Al Snow, the Hardys and a few others, I leaned more toward WCW because I felt the WWF had more of a trashy product and I felt that WCW had a better roster until the Radicalz jumped.
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Post by h on May 7, 2013 20:49:55 GMT -5
I bought into Vince McMahon's propaganda about how mean Mr. Turner was picking on him. I never really saw WCW as much more than a glorified independent promotion. I liked the some of the cruiserweights, and the nWo was interesting when they were on the recruitment drive. The promotion as a whole, though, was always second-rate. I might have changed my mind if I hadn't stopped watching wrestling altogether in 1996. I didn't like the direction the WWF was heading, so I might have switched loyalties.
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Post by Throwback on May 7, 2013 21:15:00 GMT -5
To me it was an awesome time to be a fan.
Monday - WWF Raw Tuesday - WCW Nitro Wednesday - WCW Thunder Thursday - WWF Smackdown Friday - ECW Saturday - WWF Shotgun Sunday - WWF Heat
I could watch a different wrestling show every night of the week if I wished.
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percymania
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by percymania on May 7, 2013 21:58:45 GMT -5
I watched and enjoyed both, but I was always a bigger WCW/nWo fan.
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Crappler El 0 M
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on May 7, 2013 22:28:46 GMT -5
Watched all three and probably had the most passion for ECW. I started preferring WWF to WCW in early 1998. I really wanted all three to do well. I remember when WCW brought in Russo and Ferrara and I was truly hopeful it would get better. I wanted all three to thrive.
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Post by cabbageboy on May 7, 2013 22:30:11 GMT -5
Yeah I would say I watched either one during that initial 6 months or so, but after Shawn won the title I found myself drifting more into WCW. I think a lot of people did the same since that coincided with the NWO. I would say WCW remained easily the better show for most of 1996 and early 1997, but shortly after WM 13 I would say the WWF kicked it into another gear and was a vastly superior show.
Ironically enough by 1999 I might have preferred ECW to either. WCW was becoming a fiasco on a weekly basis and the WWF was becoming entirely too Russo-ized for its own good.
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Bub (BLM)
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Post by Bub (BLM) on May 7, 2013 22:30:49 GMT -5
Nope. I used the return button on my remote probably 50-100 times every Monday night switching between USA and TNT.
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Post by bytor on May 7, 2013 22:55:54 GMT -5
I was a rabid WWF fanboy who bought into the propaganda about WCW being an evil empire out to destroy Vince McMahon and the good, hard-working, wonderful folks at WWF. Saying you watched WCW in my presence would earn you a stern, long-winded lecture. I gulped the McMahon kool aid down by the barrel and even took pride in thinking I was the most loyal WWF fan outside of Titan Towers. I quit watching WCW for good in August 1996 and spent the vast majority of my time arguing with those clueless WCW fans when I first got on the 'net in early 1998.
It's rather amusing how passionate I was looking back on it now. I literally thought Eric Bischoff was the worst person in the world.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on May 7, 2013 23:00:05 GMT -5
I was primarily a WWF fan, but I really liked WCW in '97 and '98, too. I'd watch Nitro at 7 (Central time), then Raw would come on at 8, so I'd switch over there, then when something dragged or they went to commercial, I'd switch over to WCW or occasionally use the picture-in-picture. By '99, WCW started really sucking, so I'd only watch on commercial breaks. By '00, I just stopped bothering flipping the channel to TNT.
Before all that went down the tubes, I was a huge wrestling fan. I'd watch Raw/Nitro on Monday, Thunder and Smackdown on Thursday, ECW Hardcore TV, WWF Shotgun, and WCW Saturday Night on Saturday, all the morning shows (Livewire, Superstars, WCW Worldwide), and later on ECW on TNN on Friday. Part of it was being a new fan in the late 90s, part of it was the product quality being pretty high up there. It was one of the funnest experiences of my life, especially because all your friends are into it, and it's fun to discuss, speculate and read about.
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H-Virus
Hank Scorpio
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Post by H-Virus on May 7, 2013 23:01:37 GMT -5
My TV had Picture-In-Picture. Made it super easy to keep track of what was going on with both shows at the same time.
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fw91
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by fw91 on May 7, 2013 23:25:27 GMT -5
not really took a side, but I gradually lost interest in WCW as time went on
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Post by The Spelunker! on May 7, 2013 23:43:44 GMT -5
I was a definite WCW fan as a kid. I liked the WWF enough, but I thought DX and the Rock were terrible, and much preferred the NWO and countless randos that you'd see in WCW.
I caught more Worldwide than anything else though.
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Post by rapidfire187 on May 7, 2013 23:47:39 GMT -5
I was the kid in the room who wanted to watch the DX Nation parody over Hogan and Goldberg. I came home from seeing that Nitro live and watched RAW on tape with my cousin. The DX/Nation parody was hilarious as an 11 year old.
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