It used to be so much fun to be a wrestling fan, these days if NXT isn't delivering then you pretty much just settle for whatever filler the WWE cranked out that week. Ring of Honor is on point sometimes, but it's not the same for those of us who grew up on the greatest feud in pro-wrestling history.
WCW had access to the virtually limitless bank account of Ted Turner, and was allowed to broadcast Nitro on TNT three times a week. On Monday nights I could watch RAW, take a nap, and catch a Nitro repeat late at night. They were both desperately manufacturing shows that were trying to one-up each other, and yet fans really didn't have to choose one show or the other.
I was getting all the awesome mayhem of the Hart-Michaels feud where fans of the US and Canada were giving different reactions, and the chaos of Sting tearing his way through the nWo with a baseball bat and sorcery.
Nitro made the WWE have to turn up their creative output, and the fans were getting PPV quality content on a weekly basis. The WWE kept their big matches on PPV, but they still had some amazing developments on tv.
This was back in the days of VHS, and I had countless tapes of RAW and Nitro filled to their six hour max.
My favorite Nitro moment is likely the favorite moment of most of us on here; when Scott Hall showed up to interrupt a match and blew the roof off the place. We didn't have the internet at that time, we weren't kept up to date on contract signings or whatever. For all we could possibly verify at the time, the WWF had had enough and finally sent over someone to disrupt WCW. Over on Raw the WWF introduced some guy named Richard Bogner (I believe) as Razor Ramon, and really gunked up their own programming in a doomed attempt at reinventing the character. This was a magical time for WCW because they couldn't fail and the WWF couldn't win. Again; through this entire saga I didn't have to choose a show.
