What was the highest rated WCW Nitro?

August 31, 1998: 6.0 Rating The August 31, 1998 Edition of WCW Monday Nitro was held at the Miami Arena in Miami, Florida. scored the highest rating in WCW history with a massive 6.0 rating.

When did WCW start losing ratings?

The heightened profiles of WWF wrestlers helped to draw the attention of both new and casual wrestling fans to the company’s programming. In the late 1990s, WCW’s ratings began to suffer as fans grew tired of the nWo storyline, which many viewers perceived as having been allowed to go on for too long.

When did WCW Nitro get good?

1998 was the most profitable year for Nitro and WCW. It was certainly the most competitive year in the history of Monday Night Wars because both RAW and Nitro were drawing big numbers every single week.

When did Nitro go back to 2 hours?

February 1997
Initially only sixty minutes in length (as was Raw at the time), Nitro was expanded to two hours following the 1996 NBA Playoffs while Raw waited until February 1997 to expand to a second hour.

Did Shane McMahon buy WCW?

When Shane McMahon and Stephanie McMahon had bought WCW and ECW earlier in the year they had sold their shares in the WWF to “a consortium”, and that Flair was the man who had bought them, making him half-owner of the WWF.

What years did WCW beat WWE in ratings?

It was on June 17, 1996. WCW Monday Nitro for the first time won the battle of the Monday night ratings against WWE. It would go on to do so for the next 84 weeks in a row. WCW beat WWE to the punch on knowing what the audience wanted to see.

When was WCW at its peak?

WCW dominated pro wrestling’s television ratings from mid-1996 to 1998 in the U.S. (i.e., for 84 straight weeks) mainly due to its incredibly popular New World Order storyline; but thereafter, began to lose heavy ground to the WWF, which had successfully rebounded from the WCW threat with its edgy, antihero-driven …

How much did Vince McMahon make WCW?

Vince McMahon was seen walking backstage on Nitro, and it was soon confirmed that he had purchased WCW. There was a lot that happened to reach that point, but McMahon paid a sum of $2.5 million to acquire his biggest rival and competitor.

Did DX really invade WCW?

April 27, 1998—Outside the Norfolk Scope in Norfolk Virginia, Degeneration-X, led by Triple H, were attempting an invasion, a full out assault, on the front door of the building.

Was WWF vs WCW real?

The Invasion was a professional wrestling storyline in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now known as WWE) that ran from March–November 2001 and involved stables of wrestlers purporting to represent World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW)—which merged to form The Alliance—placed …

Why did they lose WCW?

WCW challenged the then-WWF’s dominance of the industry in one of the most vicious, spiteful, and expensive games of one-upmanship ever played. The internet became more of a factor in the war as insiders in the industry could post spoilers about contracts and storyline plans with relative anonymity.