Raw vs Nitro - Pick a Show Based on the Opener

[thegame415]

Thought this might be fun - I'll try to do it maybe once a week? Once every few days? Basically, you comment which show you'd watch based on the opening match. Try not to cheat and look at the rest of the show.

I thought we'd start with 26 years ago - Monday, December 8th, 1997.

Raw

Godwinns vs LOD

OR

Nitro

Ray Traylor vs Konnan

OOF...tough start. What do you choose?

[bob]

Nitro

[DSR]

I'd go with Raw.

[saneiac]

Raw. The Godwinns and OLD are both watchable. I don't think I've ever seen a good Konnan match.

[tirtefaa]

Nitro

Somehow, WCW seemed to stay pretty fresh with who they had out there, whereas WWF was promoting Los Boriquas, Tom Brandi, Truth Commission, Barry Windham, "the NWA", and whatnot.

Things would change by mid 1998, but just the general presentation of Nitro week after week was great. Just about everyone looked like a star, no matter how low on the card they were. Even guys like Marty Jannetty got that awesome music!

[chronocross]

Nitro, this was a few weeks before Starrcade 97 and the hype was crazy, you didn't want to miss a moment of Nitro.

I would usually change the channel whenever the Godwinns were on.

[chazraps]

Dec 8, 2023 19:49:43 GMT -5 saneiac said:

Raw. The Godwinns and OLD are both watchable. I don't think I've ever seen a good Konnan match.

Just throwing it out there, the match where Konnan lost his mask in Mexico is one of the most emotive performances you'll ever see in a wrestling ring. The crowd was visibly sobbing.

If you were ever to watch one Konnan match, that'd be one to check out.

[Mozenrath]

I'd go Nitro if I were picking now, as I am a Traylor fan and Konnan had his moments. I never got into the Godwinns, really.

[Cyno]

Yeah I'd go with the Nitro.

[Wolf Hawkfield no1 NZ poster]

Raw.

Konnan sucks.

[DragonMasterP]

Probably Raw, ‘cause of LOD

[Gecko]

I'd go with Raw on that one.

[Tea & Crumpets]

Nitro, liked Konnan back in the day and rewatching WCW I'm realising Bossman was a better wrestler than I remembered.

[tirtefaa]

Also, if we're going to talk about going to an event around this time, I would pick Nitro. The audience atmosphere was easily far more fun than WWF. This is a crowd who would lose their mind for some of the most standard maneuvers. If I'm at Raw, chances are that I'm dodging edgy obnoxious poster boards the whole time.

[Milkman Norm]

Nitro is building to Starrcade, Raw is either the go home or the show after that awful DeGeneration X ppv. Nitro, no contest.

[moonpies88]

Nitro

[Celexa Bliss 54]

Dec 9, 2023 12:29:33 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Also, if we're going to talk about going to an event around this time, I would pick Nitro. The audience atmosphere was easily far more fun than WWF. This is a crowd who would lose their mind for some of the most standard maneuvers. If I'm at Raw, chances are that I'm dodging edgy obnoxious poster boards the whole time.

Oh definitely. I went to a Nitro in June of that year and it was so much fun. Being in a packed arena, chanting for Sting? Nothing like it.

[thegame415]

Fun, Nitro wins 9-5.

Next up, since Nitro is 1-0, lets do the start of the Nitro winning streak during the wars - June 17th, 1996

NITRO

Rick Steiner vs Stevie Ray

OR

RAW

Steve Austin vs Savio Vega

[Mozenrath]

Raw, for sure. I never got into Stevie Ray as a solo or Rick that much in general, so Austin vs Savio is the easy choice.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Probably Raw but neither of those exactly sounds good.