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Post by lildude8218 on Jun 12, 2019 23:51:49 GMT -5
When Raw started at 9pm each week
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Jun 13, 2019 0:24:14 GMT -5
Technically I bounced back and forth for the entirety of the Monday Night Wars (tm), as even when the WWF was firing on all cylinders, there were enough moments of Russoriffic drek to make me change the channel and see what the other show had to offer.
In terms of shifting focus from WCW to WWF, I started mentally checking out when the nWo was at its most bloated, and I was watching very little by the time the spiky logo era rolled around.
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Post by mauled on Jun 13, 2019 1:44:17 GMT -5
It was 2 tuning in and out periods for me. I tried it when Hogan first made the switch but soon turned off when it consisted of him squashing Flair and wrestling his buddy Beefcake,which was boring.
I gave it another go when Bret moved over as I'm a huge Bret fan but I soon got bored again with how they were treating him and his character. It wasnt until his and Benoit tribute match and ge was finally put in the Title main event scene (albiet with awful Russo finishes) that I thought ooh this could be good then he got kicked in the head by Goldberg and joined the NWO because reasons and disappeared from TV then I switched off altogether.
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Post by Paul on Jun 13, 2019 5:40:15 GMT -5
I think it was when they did the reboot in April of 2000 where they reset all the angles and titles which is very much not how you want to handle your creative issues because it means that now you know they'll throw everything away that you were enjoying at any moment.
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Post by Jiren on Jun 13, 2019 7:32:45 GMT -5
Sky Digital
When we had original Sky I watched Nitro on TNT but when we switched to Sky Digital around late 98 it didn't get TNT in UK so I couldn't watch it anymore.
We did get WCW Worldwide but that was awful, I know WCW stunk at the time but Worldwide made it worse.
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Post by Alexander The So-so on Jun 13, 2019 8:05:13 GMT -5
I watched religiously from 1996 all the way through 1998, but the Fingerpoke of Doom was a huge blow and caused me to take my first break. I came back to watching in the summer of 1999, but increasingly began to hate the show when Russo took over. The final death blow was the NWO reuniting for the billionth time after Starrcade 1999; that was when I finally and definitively gave up.
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Post by johnnytightlips on Jun 17, 2019 18:56:18 GMT -5
When they spoofed The Tonight Show on Nitro. Think it was called "nWo Nite Cap."
So painfully boring
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Post by Phosphor Glow on Jun 18, 2019 3:31:56 GMT -5
I was a hardcore WCW stan from '97 to late '99. I watched WWE as well but WCW was my bread and butter and what got me into wrestling.
Sadly, I honestly can't remember if it was anything in particular that made me stop watching. I really think it was more of just a gradual thing, because Raw was just putting on more compelling TV every week, even though the wrestling itself was nowhere near as good. I need to go back and revisit those last couple of years of WCW to see in more detail what I missed out on.
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Post by Jaws the Shark on Jun 18, 2019 6:22:53 GMT -5
We did get WCW Worldwide but that was awful, I know WCW stunk at the time but Worldwide made it worse. See, I have a real soft spot for the Channel 5 WCW Worldwide. It was the first wrestling I watched regularly and I never missed it, and was far too young to understand how wretched it was. I didn't have Sky, so Sting and the Filthy Animals were the first wrestlers I got really excited about, and I suppose it reminds me of when life was easy and wresting was new and edgy and exciting for me. I watched WCW until the bitter end and only stopped because it ceased to exist, and I still kind of lament its downfall because the end of it and the disappointment of the Invasion was the close of the first chapter of my life as a wrestling fan.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jun 18, 2019 7:02:59 GMT -5
It went out of business.
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Post by The Ichi on Jun 18, 2019 12:03:40 GMT -5
I was always a casual viewer of them only, but when I tuned in once only to see Jarrett was champion, I don't think I ever did again.
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on Jun 18, 2019 12:09:09 GMT -5
I didn't watch wrestling until 2005
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Jun 18, 2019 13:03:18 GMT -5
As my parents never had cable we went by my grandparents 6:05 every Saturday night. After my grandparents moved in with my aunt and we never went by 6:05 Saturday night. To be fair WCW was backsliding fast and we never watched Nitro much cause the timing never worked.
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Post by sportatorium on Jun 18, 2019 14:36:15 GMT -5
The slow path to lacking any continuity and their penchant for big moments on big shows becoming a joke. Fingerpoke, Slow Count, Ultimate Warrior etc.
Then realizing that the constant NWO redux, positioning Bischoff as some kind of karate expert, Russo coming in and ruining everything he could get his hands on was all we were going to see.
Even when they would try new stuff, (DDP as heel champ, Jarrett as a main eventer, Natural Born Thrillers) it clearly wasn’t ever thought out and usually bombed.
Even when they found stuff like the West Texas Rednecks they managed to kill any momentum it could ever gain.
A little too eerily similar to the current WWE product, but for whatever reason, I think WWE will find a rhythm once the competition kicks in.
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Post by Macho Pichu on Jun 18, 2019 16:45:48 GMT -5
The only thing that 100% stopped me from watching WCW was it closing. I was watching WWF at the time, but I would very likely have switched eventually if it stayed open.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jun 18, 2019 16:50:44 GMT -5
Even at 12 or whatever in 1999, I was too old for Russo's shit.
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Post by EyeofTyr on Jun 19, 2019 1:41:09 GMT -5
Nothing. I was there till the end.
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Post by segaz on Jun 19, 2019 7:54:13 GMT -5
I watched WCW every week on TNT in the UK 1997 (when it was only a heavily edited hour lol) through 1998 (full shows) into 1999. After that I just watched on and off, mainly WWE though, but would still tune in. I watched the final nitro twice as both TNT and Bravo showed it.
Funny, for me, one of the biggest reasons I stopped watching quite as much in 99 was the fingerpoke of doom FOLLOWUP. I've spoken so much about how excited I was to see the NWO Elite formed, how much potential there was for a great final WCW vs NWO storyline.
But they dropped it so badly, they just dissolved it, their huge main storyline, the reason the streak was stopped, their huge twist...... quietly faded out with no resolution. Really annoyed me.
I generally missed a lot of the Russo year first time around and I'm really glad I did, but i tuned in again during the Goldberg funeral and it seemed to be getting back on track.
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Post by dragonofearth on Jun 19, 2019 20:53:45 GMT -5
for me it was the NWO. at first it was very interesting then after while it became so dominant that you knew most likely the NWO was going to win the match(es) it even started at the beginning of the show. every week the announcers would be kicked out of the commentary booth and the NWO would take over. so i went elsewhere for my wrestling so, imo they poured the NWO down my throat until i hit my breaking point and stopped watching As we all depart from WWE, I have to ask to the people on here who watched WCW, what made you stop? To me, it was Hogan joining The Wolfpac. None of that made any sense to me. I would check in on WCW during its final two years, but never watched regularly after th
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Post by Psicofreak667 on Jun 21, 2019 14:44:52 GMT -5
I'm going to go with about 2/3rds WWF just having a more interesting show. WCW did a segment where Van Hammer (in his post flock, post hippy, "f*** peace" gimmick) requested a TV Title shot and whoever was the boss at the time gave it to him on the next PPV, and I thought "if this were WWF, they'd have given it to him tonight." WCW was really slow paced and uneventful compared to WWF at the time.
The other third was Goldberg. As a mark I had a severe case of hype backlash against Goldberg. While everyone else was counting his win streak and I was saying "the only real wrestlers he's beaten were Mongo and Saturn, anyone could win 80 matches against the guys he's beaten." I could not stand Goldberg. AT ALL. When he lost to Nash I celebrated, after the Fingerpoke of Doom my main thought was "well it beats Goldberg ruling the ring like usual".
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