WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head ...

Growing up, WCW’s Monday Nitro was one of the best parts of my week. For a couple of hours every Monday night, my brothers and I would crowd around our parents’ living room TV and watch the likes of ...

Over the course of Nitro's five-and-a-half-year run, WCW produced some of the best wrestling to air on Monday nights, thanks to a roster of driven young names like Rey Mysterio and Billy Kidman, and ...

Previously on the Best and Worst of WCW Monday Nitro: United States Champion Bret Hart tried to give title shots to El Dandy and Hypnosis, but was shut down by the doubters. Scott Steiner, due to ...

In 1995, Ted Turner — founder, chairman, and CEO of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), which owned the TBS and TNT networks — asked WCW executive Eric Bischoff what it would take for WCW to compete ...

The May 3, 2000, episode of WCW “Monday Nitro” was a train wreck of street fights with no referees and nonsensical run-ins. Somehow, WCW went on for nearly another year before Vince McMahon finally ...

Professional wrestling may never reach the dizzy, ridiculous heights of the Monday Night War, when the then-WWF and WCW pushed each other to the limit in their ratings battle every week. Nitro edged ...