Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Dec 25, 2013 23:40:15 GMT -5
How did people feel about these.
I never got to watch WCW Monday Nitro back in the day(and I still kick myself for it), but I have watched the 3 hour Monday Night Raws. Or at least try to because I usually end up getting burnt out before the 3rd hour, and quite a few people feel the same. Did they feel the same way about the 3 hour Nitros?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2013 23:51:16 GMT -5
There were a lot of matches between job guys, just to fill air time. And nine times out of ten, nothing of note happened in the first hour after the opening segment. Usually, some big match would kick off the second hour, such as Goldberg winning the US title, Goldberg/Hall the same night Goldberg won the title, and Sting beating DDP for the World title.
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Post by Mozenrath on Dec 25, 2013 23:52:51 GMT -5
I typically only watched the first hour and switched to Raw, so I only really tended to see WCW job matches and 3 Count or something.
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Dec 26, 2013 0:02:19 GMT -5
I typically only watched the first hour and switched to Raw, so I only really tended to see WCW job matches and 3 Count or something. Same. Around that time, Telemundo would edit it down to an hour so it would be whatever the main event was and the cruiser weights so I got the best it had to offer there. Also, WCW Worldwide, the syndicated recap show, would tell me anything else and I could hear the promos. I did switch back and forth. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2013 0:02:47 GMT -5
I typically only watched the first hour and switched to Raw, so I only really tended to see WCW job matches and 3 Count or something. Which says a lot about why the ratings went down when they went to three hours. They were so concerned with counter-programming Raw that they saved the good stuff for the second and third hours. Only time I can remember them putting a major segment in hour 1 was the return of Warrior. That started at 2 minutes to 9, so that Warrior showed up right as Raw was starting. Of course, that means a lot of people stayed on TNT to see Warrior ramble on for 10 minutes... At least when the show was 2 hours, there was less filler. Everything that happened served a purpose and the show didn't feel interminable. |
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Post by SOR on Dec 26, 2013 0:10:38 GMT -5
I actually own all of the 1999 3 hour Nitro's and some of them weren't bad.
The way I see it is if it was a good show where you have build up to a hot main event and the show keeps building and building it's usually a quality time and the 3 hours go very quickly. The January 4 1999 Nitro is a good example of a show that was good and a lot of early 99 was good
The mid to late 1999 stuff began to drag. 20 minute Ric Flair promos for the hell of it. 10 minute matches between jobbers for no reason etc etc
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Post by agent817 on Dec 26, 2013 0:18:25 GMT -5
Man, do I miss the days of watching both the same day because out here in the West, TNT and TBS had their eastern time zone around out here which meant watching Nitro at 5 pacific and then having an hour to kill before Raw started.
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Post by bigalbass86 AKA Smokin Vokoun on Dec 26, 2013 0:23:57 GMT -5
As a kid, I loved them, because I was such a huge WCW fanboy that I would have LOVED to see more of it. As time went on though....yeah they kinda sucked.
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Post by jimmyjames on Dec 26, 2013 4:44:19 GMT -5
I was a big fan of it when it was first announced, because the overruns had become ridiculous. One time there was a 20+ min one. Silly, me thought that would eliminate the overrun and have a couple more matches. Instead, we got a lot of useless filler and they still somehow had the overrun. It's a big part of why I stopped watching Nitro completely, even though living out here, it didn't interfere with Raw, it just got monotonous.
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Post by BigBadZ on Dec 26, 2013 17:29:17 GMT -5
I'd watch the first hour entirely and sometimes switch back and forth between it and RAW, if WCW had something big planned (I didn't understands the concept of 'main event' at that age). Then Nitro started doing a replay right after the first airing so if just skip the first hour and catch it all then
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Post by Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic on Dec 26, 2013 17:55:38 GMT -5
The three hour Nitro's were a lot easier to watch than the three hour Raw's of today.
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Post by auph10imitated on Dec 27, 2013 7:28:57 GMT -5
As a kid, it was the more wrestling the better for me. I wanted it on 24/7. Now I'm older I understand the over saturation of wrestling is one of the reasons its been killed and its one of the reasons why WCW died - it was just too much, you had too much time to fill. It burnt everything out fast. Bad, bad idea and they only did it to one up WWF by having that extra hour leading in.
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 28, 2013 8:11:10 GMT -5
The first hour was the highest rated for a while. There were some huge dips...
9/27/99 3.0(4.1,2.4,2.6)
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