On this special holiday episode of WCW Monday Nitro long time rivals face off once again when 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair battles WCW World Heavyweight Champion, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage. Dean Malenko goes ...

The debut edition of Monday Nitro on September 4th, 1995 ran unopposed. That week, Monday Night Raw didn't air, and Nitro posted a 2.5 rating. It was a promising start for the program, one which would ...

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 ...

“Captain Lovedog” (misunderstood as “Kemp the Love Dog” by closed captioning because of Mongo’s accent) has flown in “from Dogtron” to “see some out-of-this-world action, I’m talkin’ wrestlin’ you’ve ...

I’m glad I’m going back and doing a Best and Worst for this episode, because Pepe is dressed like a Halloween witch with bat wings. He’s even got a little Jack o’ Lantern trick or treat bag. The hat ...

Beyond any in-ring conflict, the most important battle in wrestling history was the Monday Night War between the WWE (then WWF) and its competitor WCW. The war started in earnest when Ted Turner ...

WCW’s hostility towards WWF would only increase as 1995 continued and at the end of the year, Bischoff authorised for the WWF ...

When Eric Bischoff attended a meeting with Ted Turner in 1995, a Monday night prime time show wasn't what he was looking to get. Instead, Bischoff was simply put on the spot by his boss, and reacted ...