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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...