Did you watch more Nitro or Raw?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Back when watching wrestling was fashionable, where were your brand loyalties? Poll coming.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Also, tell us why. I always watched Raw and only the first hour of Nitro. Been watching what I missed on Nitro. Trippy ride.

[Boondock Saint]

First hour of Nitro, then all of Raw.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

First hour of Nitro, then all of Raw.

This. Also when WCW started doing a replay at 11 I wouldn't switch channels at all.

[Bad News Gertner]

Watched Raw until 96, then watched Nitro until 200 and then went back to Raw

[Sepholio]

Before the nWo I watched mostly RAW. Once the nWo debuted though I was an all WCW guy until the final episode. Would only switch to RAW during commercials.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Once Jericho got fucked over and left WCW I really stopped caring about them at all.

[Lock Jaw]

Started with only RAW because Undertaker/Mankind got me back into it.... but Hogan/Sting got me into Nitro.

Then I just watched both because they were on different days in Canada.

[Emperor Smeat]

Mainly RAW.

Mostly watched Nitro's 1st hour during their 3 Hour Era and whenever RAW got preempted by dog shows. Outside of brief periods of time, Nitro usually got the commercial switch status. Watched full Nitro shows more during the summer via its replays.

Still find it a bit funny that Vince's main tv threat after 98/99 wasn't Nitro but the yearly dog shows since USA Network always favored them over RAW.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Once Jericho got fucked over and left WCW I really stopped caring about them at all.

Same for me here. They didn't get me back til ICP, strangely.

I love that the cruisers were the first hour. They were the clear highlight on Nitro.

[Sixx]

Nitro, because I loved Hulk Hogan and RAW was in German.

[Sixx]

But they aired on different days here so I usually managed to catch both.

[Destor]

Nitro was longer so Nitro i watched nitro more i suppose

[Destor]

156 hours of nitro a year vs 104 hours of Raw

[DaveWadding]

I did first hour of Nitro, then RAW. But I had friends who were Nitro watchers who would call if good shit happened.

[Disturbed316]

Didn't have Sky so didn't watch Raw, Nitro was on a free channel I could get so would watch that.

[Jordan]

Always a WWF guy, WCW on commercials or lame undercard. Always watched the first hour of Nitro and then the replay when that was going.

[Rammsteinmad]

I usually watched both, but I was a pre-teen mark back then, so even though I always loved the WWF, when all the big names went to WCW I stuck with 'em.

[Cool King]

I always watched Raw and I never watched Nitro.

Similar to Disturbed, Raw was on Sky and I didn't have Sky as a kid as we couldn't afford it but that didn't stop me watching Raw, as my uncle would record it and then I would watch the tape during the weekend as it was shown on Friday nights over here.

Nitro was also shown on Friday nights and it would go on after Catroon Network changed to TNT at 9pm and there were a lot of times where I would be watching Cartoon Network and then it would go off at 9pm and change to TNT and Nitro would start and I would just change the channel during the intro.

I was just a massive WWF Fanboy as a kid.

I didn't like anything WCW because it was "the competition" and if I'm honest, I always felt as a kid that WCW had a bit of a "cheap feel" to everything compared to the WWF.

My only exposure to WCW was from my brother's friend at the time who was a big WCW fan but would occasionally watch WWF but WCW was his thing, so when we were at his house we would play WCW games and WCW would be on the TV sometimes too but I never really paid attention to it.

There was also a kid in my class at school who was like me but with WCW. We would often argue at which was better between WWF and WCW and I remember one time our argument was about who was better, Steve Austin or Goldberg and after he gave his reasons why Goldberg was better, he began acting like Goldberg and walked over to the school gates, began shaking them and snarling and punching himself in the head like Goldberg.

As a kid, that really didn't convince me to watch WCW or Goldberg. It just made me and the other WWF kids feel a bit awkward.

Now anyway, as an adult, I kinda regret not watching WCW when I was a kid as I noticed a good few years ago that it had some good matches and talent. Hell, if I had watched WCW as a kid, I could have became a Chris Jericho fan sooner.

[rez]

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[Ol Dirty Dastard]

Overall RAW, but in 1998 I switched to Nitro for a bit because of the screwjob and Bret going there. Needless to say that didn't last very long. Plus I watched RAW all throughout the years before and years after.

[Nicky Fives]

Nitro. It came on in Canada earlier so I could watch more of it, and I would only catch Raw if I was not busy after school on the 4pm Tuesday replay, which was hardly ever. Then I bought a VCR and taped both shows and didn't have to miss a thing, I think that was mid 1999

[Bad News Gertner]

Nitro. It came on in Canada earlier so I could watch more of it, and I would only catch Raw if I was not busy after school on the 4pm Tuesday replay, which was hardly ever. Then I bought a VCR and taped both shows and didn't have to miss a thing, I think that was mid 1999

Lol I did the same thing. I'd watch Nitro live and tape Raw . I still have a bunch of 1998-99 WCW Saturday Night and Worldwide, plus a ton of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night shows on VHS in a box at my parents place in their storage closest.

[Simple Fan]

Nitro, thought I watched it up to the end but I switched over to WWE in 1999 after going back and watching alot of it on the network.

[LibSuperstar]

RAW b/c I was a big WWF guy although I did flip channels to see what was going on w/ both.

[Theo Dious]

Raw because WCW was largely shit. I only popped over to Nitro when Raw was in commercial to see if Hall and Nash were up to any shenanigans.

[Ruien]

Nitro probably. Dont really remember though. Loved both WCW and WWF.

[rez]

I always watched Raw and I never watched Nitro.

Similar to Disturbed, Raw was on Sky and I didn't have Sky as a kid as we couldn't afford it but that didn't stop me watching Raw, as my uncle would record it and then I would watch the tape during the weekend as it was shown on Friday nights over here.

Nitro was also shown on Friday nights and it would go on after Catroon Network changed to TNT at 9pm and there were a lot of times where I would be watching Cartoon Network and then it would go off at 9pm and change to TNT and Nitro would start and I would just change the channel during the intro.

I was just a massive WWF Fanboy as a kid.

I didn't like anything WCW because it was "the competition" and if I'm honest, I always felt as a kid that WCW had a bit of a "cheap feel" to everything compared to the WWF.

My only exposure to WCW was from my brother's friend at the time who was a big WCW fan but would occasionally watch WWF but WCW was his thing, so when we were at his house we would play WCW games and WCW would be on the TV sometimes too but I never really paid attention to it.

There was also a kid in my class at school who was like me but with WCW. We would often argue at which was better between WWF and WCW and I remember one time our argument was about who was better, Steve Austin or Goldberg and after he gave his reasons why Goldberg was better, he began acting like Goldberg and walked over to the school gates, began shaking them and snarling and punching himself in the head like Goldberg.

As a kid, that really didn't convince me to watch WCW or Goldberg. It just made me and the other WWF kids feel a bit awkward.

Now anyway, as an adult, I kinda regret not watching WCW when I was a kid as I noticed a good few years ago that it had some good matches and talent. Hell, if I had watched WCW as a kid, I could have became a Chris Jericho fan sooner.

Nah, this is a cheap feel:

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Convince me

[rez]

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Middle of nowhere Minnesota. Look at all that pyroworks

[rez]

An actual functioning cruiserweight showcase, nitro girls, mean gene, and it was where the big boys played.

[Cool King]

Nah, this is a cheap feel:

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Convince me

That was before my time.

I became a WWF fan in 1997 when that wasn't the intro.

[Cool King]

Although I do remember moments before then of seeing the WWF on TV but it's kinda hazy for me as I was much much younger.

[BigCrippyZ]

Raw from about late 1993 - 1996. Then both, with Nitro having more of a priority priority from 1996 - 1998. Then both with Raw having more of a priority from summer of 1998 through 1999. Then Raw exclusively from mid-1999 on.

[Blue Demon]

I was always a WWF/E guy. Growing up, it was pretty much the only show I got (started watching rasslin' at Mania 3 in '87) and Nitro came to Canada relatively late in the game (at least where I live, dunno about anywhere else) and the few times I did try and watch it, I found it insanely dull.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

I did first hour of Nitro, then RAW. But I had friends who were Nitro watchers who would call if good shit happened.

Did you have an east coast feed to watch at 5?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Nitro's main eventers were flat out garbage for a while. All of the good stuff was on the undercard. Raw's main was way better.

[Evil Vito]

I was firmly on Team WCW. I started watching in early 1998 and stuck with them to the end. I'd watch Raw too and would flip back and forth, but I always cared more about what was going on in WCW even in the Russo years.

Adolescent me was loyal to a fault.

[Droford]

Back in the day I had the west coast feed of USA so I'd watch Nitro and either watch or tape RAW later on

I went to 2 Nitros at the local arena back in 1996/7 but the first Raw I ever went to was the go home show for WM 30 in DC

[Anybody Thrilla]

I think I went to two Nitros and one WCW house show. Countless of every type of WWE show.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Until the end I was WCW primarily. Austin was great, but I thought Undertaker was lame during that period, and until The Rock got big along with Mankind I preferred Jericho/lucha.

WCW crashed hard in quality though.

[A.J.K]

I started watching around 04/05. I remember a tag match between Dudleys vs Hardcore Holly/RVD/Mysterio. piper's pit with HBK.

otherwise i had a vhs tape recording of Wrestlemania 7 and wcw wrestlewar 91

I didn't get officially into full time watching til 2006 when smackdown moved to the cw. 5 months later we got dish so i got to watch raw.

[Destor]

So what you're saying is your input is worthless to the conversation

[A.J.K]

So what you're saying is your input is worthless to the conversation

no need to be rude.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Raw. But I became a fan when WCW was already basically dead and buried. I caught one Nitro of Scott Steiner yelling and would get a few WCW PPVs on VHS.

[Outsider]

Didn't have Sky so didn't watch Raw, Nitro was on a free channel I could get so would watch that.

This.

[DrA]

I watched the shit out of both, but was more WCW oriented until around Wrestlemania 15 then I watched both about equally I think. By 2000 I was much more into the WWF, but in 1999 I was still really into WCW, I know the narrative now is that that was a disaster year for them, but at the time I didn't really notice.

[Tom Guycott]

I was a RAW guy from the start. Remember when they used to get pre-empted for the Wesminster Dog Show?

I didn't watch much Nitro, mainly because I wasn't too into breaking habit. I remember seeing the premere in the mall with the Lex return. I would occasionally switch channels when RAW got super long-winded (it wasn't as often back then), but most of the time, I was greeted with a jobber vs jobber match and changed back (though one of those times paid off, as I saw the debut of Goldberg - I thought Hugh Morrus was *obviously* going to win over this no-name, generic looking guy...)

It wasn't until later I became aware of the re-run later in the night, and after I learned that, watching Nitro became both attainable and dismissed as any priority. I could watch RAW front to back, then stay up (or tape) Nitro after.

[xrodmuc316]

I was always Raw, WCW was just kind of there for me but they never had anything that hooked me long term.

Even when something cool would happen, they would have no follow up or anything long term plan wise.

Goldberg was a cool segment, but it was like 5 minutes of a 3 hour show.

Nitro ran for 6 years, and I think I would have a hard time picking 10 great moments over that entire run. As bad as Raw gets, I wouldn't have a hard time picking 10 great moments per year. WWE does just enough, and has for 25 years of Raw, to keep me coming back every week.

[EIWF]

I was a WWF fan before Nitro and Raw were about. Stopped watching in 1993. Then was flicking through the channels and saw Hogan dressed in black and was like WTF is this. Then saw more ex WWF stars on WCW. From then on I was Nitro until 2000. Although I still watched some Raw in 1998/99 but WCW was my first choice.

[johnsmagic]

watched nitro every Saturday on TNT at 9pm. one reason and one reason only

The Man Called Sting

[Bobholly138]

From when Nitro started until early 98 I watched both each week. Gave up on WCW. Kept watching Raw,but at the time AAA and Cmll were much better. By late 99 I would skip Raw lots of weeks but never missed the Lucha block on Galavision.