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Post by OTC Waxbender on May 5, 2023 10:32:28 GMT -5
Simple as the title sounds, I want to know what the Monday Night Wars were like in your home/residence. Were you a kid watching with your family or a teenager watching with mates? Did you only watch one product or both? If you watched both did you switch between the two or have two TV's set up? For me it was strictly WWF/E as a kid and I watched with my Great Aunt and Uncle so mine's rather boring but my older cousin (9 year gap) said he would get together with his buddies and they'd switch between channels while playing party games. His Monday night ritual was way cooler than mine obviously but I made this thread bc I thought some of you would have some neat stories/setups.
cheers
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Post by MKSavage on May 5, 2023 11:16:50 GMT -5
Both. I didn't like everything each company was doing at the time, so when a feud/angle was on that I wasn't into I would switch over to the other company to see what they were doing.
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Post by The Brain on May 5, 2023 11:28:55 GMT -5
Both. I didn't like everything each company was doing at the time, so when a feud/angle was on that I wasn't into I would switch over to the other company to see what they were doing. This.Kept WWF on longer in 99 when WCW was taking a nosedive When WWF had Taker/Mankind and Bret/Austin going on and WCW had the NWO stuff taking off man what a fun time |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2023 11:35:01 GMT -5
i watched both
i was 23 yrs old in 1995 and was living in a huge house with my dad, my girlfriend and several of my dads friends and my friends. then we'd have other people over too sometimes
we'd switch channels back n forth when somthin good/cool was on
i recorded both in other bedrooms (to wathc in full later), which was cool too because you could watch or hear/see wrestling thru the whole house
monday nights were a big night in our house
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Post by JokerFC on May 5, 2023 12:54:03 GMT -5
I watched both from about March 1996.
It was the Friday Night Wars in Ireland. TNT had Nitro at 9pm and Sky had Raw at 10pm. I used to watch both of them then on Saturday Morning because I was usually out. great times....especially from mid 96 onwards. I lost the will with WCW in 1999. It was a hard watch and very repetitive I felt?
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Post by K5 on May 5, 2023 16:38:17 GMT -5
I grew up in rural conditions without a satellite dish so I would:
- read a ton of magazines
- had my cousins in the city record wwf since I didn’t get it on my local channels
- watched wcw thunder as it was available on antenna tv
- go to my uncle’s or friend’s for big events (ppv, special raws etc)
- binge watch if I could when staying at my grandparents who had cable in town. ecw, nitro, raw
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Post by JokerFC on May 5, 2023 16:44:17 GMT -5
They f#cked up Thunder over here. Started out airing it in a block with Nitro which was A1....but then switched it to a weeks delay
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Post by TKO Propagandist on May 5, 2023 17:43:29 GMT -5
I never watched WCW till after the fact. It took the pandemic happening for me to finally sit down & go through all of it, from the Nitro era atleast, show by show, PPV by PPV. I stopped by '99. But I can safely say their 96-mid 98 is some of the best wrestling stuff of all time.
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Post by JokerFC on May 5, 2023 17:47:11 GMT -5
I never watched WCW till after the fact. It took the pandemic happening for me to finally sit down & go through all of it, from the Nitro era atleast, show by show, PPV by PPV. I stopped by '99. But I can safely say their 96-mid 98 is some of the best wrestling stuff of all time. Agreed....it was must see, exciting TV with super over talent, red hot crowds & huge matches on TV regularly. |
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Post by OTC Waxbender on May 5, 2023 17:50:49 GMT -5
i watched both i was 23 yrs old in 1995 and was living in a huge house with my dad, my girlfriend and several of my dads friends and my friends. then we'd have other people over too sometimes we'd switch channels back n forth when somthin good/cool was on i recorded both in other bedrooms (to wathc in full later), which was cool too because you could watch or hear/see wrestling thru the whole house monday nights were a big night in our house This was super wholesome and it sounds like the memories have stood the test of time. Hoping my own kid gets the wrestling bug when she's older. |
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2023 17:55:11 GMT -5
i watched both i was 23 yrs old in 1995 and was living in a huge house with my dad, my girlfriend and several of my dads friends and my friends. then we'd have other people over too sometimes we'd switch channels back n forth when somthin good/cool was on i recorded both in other bedrooms (to wathc in full later), which was cool too because you could watch or hear/see wrestling thru the whole house monday nights were a big night in our house This was super wholesome and it sounds like the memories have stood the test of time. Hoping my own kid gets the wrestling bug when she's older. how old is she? start with some wrestling figures and a ring. then start to show her those figures/wrestlers on tv in matches my buddy did this with his 3 yr old and she's 6 now and hooked. but its on old school wrestling and wrestlers. she wants to see all the old ppvs and stuff. its kinda cute surfer sting is her fav, and she carries several toybiz stings around with her at all times lol |
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Post by OTC Waxbender on May 5, 2023 20:35:02 GMT -5
This was super wholesome and it sounds like the memories have stood the test of time. Hoping my own kid gets the wrestling bug when she's older. how old is she? start with some wrestling figures and a ring. then start to show her those figures/wrestlers on tv in matches my buddy did this with his 3 yr old and she's 6 now and hooked. but its on old school wrestling and wrestlers. she wants to see all the old ppvs and stuff. its kinda cute surfer sting is her fav, and she carries several toybiz stings around with her at all times lol She just turned one on the 20th last month so she's got a ways to go still but whenever there's entrance music that catches her ear she'll focus on the tv and dance to it so we're planting the seeds lol if we do get her interested I'm curious to know who she'll gravitate towards whether it's characters from today or another era. My first and only kid so it's a journey in itself but I can only hope to be lucky enough to share the same passions the way your buddy and his daughter do. Just want her to decide on her own and if it sticks, that's dope. |
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Post by hbkjason on May 6, 2023 0:55:23 GMT -5
I watched both,but I was definitely more of a WWF fan.
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Post by PJ on May 6, 2023 6:48:54 GMT -5
I was more WCW but I would flip when wrestlers I didn’t care for were on. And I would record the other shows and fast forward to watch the matches of the wrestlers I liked in the WWF. And PPV’s my mother had a friend who ordered every PPV and I would supply him with the tapes and he’d record them for me.
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Post by JokerFC on May 6, 2023 7:42:10 GMT -5
I will add that WWF in 96 was rough. Raw was usually a pretty bad/medium show. It wasn't until 97 it got going....
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on May 6, 2023 12:37:36 GMT -5
Both & it was hard to pick which one was better tbh
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Post by Zincdust on May 9, 2023 12:57:37 GMT -5
I was a fan of both, and would watch one live while recording the other show to watch immediately afterwards. Which one I watched live depended on who I felt had the stronger set of previously-announced matches for that week.
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Post by jason88cubs on May 11, 2023 13:14:24 GMT -5
From memory
---Raw until NWO
--Nitro until Wrestlemania before Austin-HBK
--Nitro around Goldberg becoming champ
-Raw
then stopped watching because I got busy with sports
had no idea WCW sold until a random night i tuned in and saw Vince saying he bought WCW
My head was spinning
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Post by jason88cubs on May 11, 2023 13:15:13 GMT -5
i watched both i was 23 yrs old in 1995 and was living in a huge house with my dad, my girlfriend and several of my dads friends and my friends. then we'd have other people over too sometimes we'd switch channels back n forth when somthin good/cool was on i recorded both in other bedrooms (to wathc in full later), which was cool too because you could watch or hear/see wrestling thru the whole house monday nights were a big night in our house That sounds amazing! |
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Post by Butchers on May 23, 2023 15:58:36 GMT -5
I watched both from about March 1996. It was the Friday Night Wars in Ireland. TNT had Nitro at 9pm and Sky had Raw at 10pm. I used to watch both of them then on Saturday Morning because I was usually out. great times....especially from mid 96 onwards. I lost the will with WCW in 1999. It was a hard watch and very repetitive I felt? What great times! I used to watch with my bro and sometimes one of our friends would come over too. Watch the first hour of Nitro and then mainly watch Raw but flick over to Nitro on ad breaks. What was a shame was not getting WCW PPVs unless you watched a German channel on a few days delay |
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