Sting was shown actually in the rafters this time, watching the action.
WCW ROADBLOCK EWR UPDATE
It’s promoted heavily during Nitro that he will phone in with an update regarding contract negotiations for a future match between Rowdy Roddy Piper and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hollywood Hogan. No Eric Bischoff for the entirety of this episode as he is off negotiating with Rowdy Roddy Piper during this show. The Nitro reviews will continue and let us get into this Nitro review first, including more follow-up to the big Rowdy Roddy Piper/Hollywood Hogan showdown at Halloween Havoc.Ĭommentators (First Hour): Tony Schiavonie and Larry ZbyszkoĬommentators (Second Hour): Tony Schiavonie, Bobby Heenan and Mike Tenay I therefore feel that RAW was worth reviewing. As I will get into when I review the RAW review, they ended up producing one of the most controversial segments in wrestling history!
They got the time slot and they wanted to start off with a big angle. There’s a lot of ratings stuff to consider when they got that time slot. So now with RAW starting at the same time as Nitro, perhaps it would convince some fans to watch RAW and then watch the second hour of Nitro once the big angles of RAW are done. Alternatively, something big would be promoted for the second hour on Nitro so they would feel the need to stick around to see what it is rather than watch RAW. Therefore, the Nitro fans would either stay or switch over the channel and if they’re hooked enough they would stick around for the second hour. I wonder if the idea was that previously, Nitro were destroying them because they had an hour advantage leading into the second hour clash with RAW. The direct head-to-head competition between RAW and Nitro would happen during hour one instead. They were getting creamed by Nitro in the ratings during the second hour so they changed it up. They were head-to-head with Nitro’s second hour for years and remember, RAW was still a one hour show at this point. …this is the week where RAW actually moved its time slot to an hour earlier. I will review both shows as they went down and then I will pick a winner and a loser! We’re changing it up for this week but there is a reason as to why we are watching RAW this week…
WCW ROADBLOCK EWR SERIES
IT’S RAW VS NITRO TIME! This is a WCW exclusive review series but this week, we’re reviewing WCW Monday Nitro as well as WWF Monday Night RAW from November 4th 1996 as they go head-to-head.
WCW ROADBLOCK EWR FULL
They showed the full Halloween Havoc segment on Nitro last week and Hollywood Hogan’s response to this new threat was to flex for the nWo fans. Rowdy Roddy Piper had arrived in WCW but Eric Bischoff denied that Piper was actually associated with WCW but a free agent that was looking for “five minutes” to tell WCW World Champion Hollywood Hogan what he thought about him at Halloween Havoc. Links to the previous posts are at the bottom of this post. This post is part of an ongoing series where we’re reviewing every episode of WCW Nitro from start to finish. This is where we’re taking a stroll down memory lane at wrestling history.
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