Did You Still Watch WCW in 99-01 over WWF?

[thegame415]

Well, did you? I don't mean watch the first hour of Nitro, then turn to Raw. I mean you watched Nitro during it's full time slot.

I'm most interested in people who watched in summer of 1999 until the end of the company.

[Djm Doesn't Find You Funny]

For Booker T & The Jung Dragons.

I sure did. All the way to the end.

[domrep]

All the way to the end because part of me really thought they were gonna survive.

[Jimmy]

When Nitro was on from 8-10 I would watch the first hour, but otherwise only switch to Nitro during RAW commercials.

[toodarkmark]

If I was watching wrestling, I watched WCW until the end. But boy did I hate most of what they were doing. I got hooked on WCW in 1989, and a decade later I was still a mark. And I was still a WCW mark in 2009 and will be in 2019.

[Paco]

In Canada, you didn't have to choose. TSN was the home channel of both shows.

RAW was live on Mondays. Nitro was on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon.

[kidtamagotchi]

I watched WCW until the end as well. I hated everything about the Attitude Era in WWE. It was brutal to watch WCW during Russo's reign of terror, but WCW overcame that. Just when WCW was getting back on track, it was sold. That sucked.

[chazraps]

I would either watch or tape the Nitro replays Mondays on TNT. That made me a weekly Raw viewer regardless.

But I stopped regularly getting the PPVs in '99, and then quit entirely after BATB 2000.

[Glitch]

I didn't find the wwf that entertaining during that time(in fact I liked the early attitude era better) . I think they simply were winning because of how bad wcw got.

I petty much watched wcw till I lost my cable(which was around august of 2000). I learned of the buy out on one of wwf's syndicate shows.(and then checked online to hope it was just a collaboration between the two companies.)

[The Spelunker!]

Definitely. I prefered WCW to WWF until the end.

[tms]

I was a die-hard fan throughout most of '96-98, and continued in spurts through early '99, but the Russo regime just killed it for me full-stop. Not just the stupid frat joke garbage and smut, but the little things like pushing Madusa over a far more over Mona, the obsession with Judy Bagwell, the horrible treatment of the luchadores, the Harris Twins, and the neverending swerves and run-ins. I eventually switched almost full-time to the WWF out of spite, but in all honesty the WCW I loved had died a long time ago.

[HMARK Center]

I did.

I got back into wrestling in early 1998, both WWF and WCW, after spending the previous 4 years or so only seeing bits and pieces of WWF Superstars or WCW Saturday Night every so often, not really paying much attention to either. I can even recall which episodes of each show I caught when I got fully invested again: for WCW it was the 1998 Spring Break edition of Nitro, for WWF it was the Raw right after Wrestlemania XIV (first segment I recall seeing was Trips introducing X-Pac).

Given that I got back into it in 1998, I wasn't tired of the nWo like so many other people were, and WCW quickly became my preferred show. I also got kind of burned out on how "edgy" WWF was trying to be; while 13 year old me certainly appreciated the chance to see women in their underwear on a weekly basis, it still felt like I was missing out on a lot of possible wrestling on a wrestling show.

Beyond that, I also preferred a lot of the matches on Nitro over the matches on Raw (outside of most of the main events), and I disliked how I felt like so many promos on Raw were just excuses for guys to say catchphrases and get the crowd to "sing along" with them. It's what made me start disliking the Rock by early 1999.

That said, I think I knew in 1999-2000 that WCW was losing it pretty badly, though I stuck with it a lot. So often I'd see something happen on Nitro...a good match, a guy I liked looking like he was about to get a push, something like that...that would make me say "Ok, it's going to get good again!", only to have my hopes dashed within a few weeks.

I know that by early 2000 I had given up, and I wasn't watching either show by the time Vince bought WCW out. Took me until 2005 to care about wrestling again, thanks to ROH.

[Brandon Walsh is Insane.]

I stopped watching wcw when the ring ropes went red. The production values took a dip around that time. And then poles, vince Russo, creative control... Was pretty low rent and cheesy.

[Bishblast]

Only if there was a preemption or a random Thunder... I never watched it over WWF, never followed any of the storylines.

[willyjakes]

I still watched enough to know what was going on, but by 1999 I think I was watching the WWF at least 60% of the time

[Deleted]

I watched both, but by the time Russo came in I was definitely watching WWF more. And at that point I'd already given up on Saturday Night and Worldwide, which is how/why I started watching WCW in the first place.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

I still always tried to watch both. I used to watch Raw live then watch the encore presentation of Nitro. Since I had school the next day a lot of the time I set my VCR to tape it. I'm surprised how few people did this as I hardly ever hear it mentioned.

[El Hijo del Havoc]

I was 7-9 and, thus, was still under the censorship of my parents who wouldn't let me watch WWF (Maybe a PPV here and there), but was perfectly fine with WCW. I started with Halloween Havoc 98 and lasted until Slamboree 2000. Most of it seems like a blur, but I can remember watching random WCW moments as a kid (Fingerpoke, Hogan/Flair at Uncensored 99, Flair in the nuthouse, WCW title tournament, Slapnutz). GAB 2000 was the last time I watched WCW before the buyout. I watched it for 5 minutes and turned it off after seeing the Misfits in Action and Major Gunns/Pops

I still have random taped Nitros and PPV's that I pop in on VHS occasionally and watch out of nostalgia (1/3/99, night after Starrcade & Halloween Havoc 99, Superbrawl 2000, Spring Stampede 2000)

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Jan 16, 2013 22:30:00 GMT -5 Paco said:

In Canada, you didn't have to choose. TSN was the home channel of both shows.

RAW was live on Mondays. Nitro was on Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon.

Dammit. I knew I should've moved to Canada when I was 10.

Anyways....nope. I wish I could say I stayed loyal to WCW, but I was always a WWF guy at heart. Didn't see much Nitro after 1998.

[lildude8218]

I remember being at a point where I preferred WWF's wrestling and overall product (I was always a WWF > WCW guy) but I found myself watching Nitro more often for how stupid and ridiculous the shows had become.