Retro Ups & Downs: Highest Rated WCW Nitro Ever

Our retro review of the highest rated WCW Nitro of all time as Simon Miller talks about Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart vs Sting and Lex Luger, Goldberg, Chris Jericho vs Disco Inferno, Eddie Guerrero, Ultimate Warrior, nWo and how this terrible episode of Nitro was a the most watched ever!
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[@j0njn]

Upvote this suggestion to cheer Simon up by letting him review Repo Man: Retro Ups & Downs for This Tuesday in Texas, please.

[@bizieb23]

WWF's PPV 'This Tuesday in Texas' the Repo Man wins a match! Simon deserves it.

[@addidaswguy]

Was that the same one where Hogan v Taker?

[@albertmoreno6947]

Fast and full recovery to THE MOST ELECTRIFYING SPORTS ENTERTAINER IN ALLLLL OF KZbin - and thank you for reviewing this marginally better than Heroes of Wrestling WCW Nitro - I'm grateful I don't have your job now 😐

[@thelegendx1984]

I'm giving Simon a golden Up for being so Karagias to do this for us.

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

I see what you did there.😉

[@TheReignofHorror]

Since we are in rumble season I would like to suggest the Royal Rumble 2003 (mostly because it features both one of the worst and one of the best World title matches on the same show).

[@gradyjustgrady]

I swear the best part of watching some of these old reviews is knowing that its bad and Simon know its bad, but yet we still get a review only to watch simon implode on almost every part ultimately ending in what can only be described as manic depressed laughter. Oh simon you do give me warm feelings in my tum tum sir!

[@willmcateer6752]

"but yes this is shit" retro up and downs is breaking Simon 😂

[@bradleybrandl181]

Simon should do a retro ups and downs video for the first ever WWE draft which came on an episode of Raw in 2002.

[@muneebahmad4378]

He should

[@bmack1708]

Seconded, that's a great idea.

[@HalloweenAllYearEnterainment]

Who else noticed Simon said 2008 Monday nitro instead of 1998 at the beginning of the video

[@retardedmoron81]

Indeed. And if you want to take it deeper and more subtle maybe, in the "worst wrestling shows ever" list, there is one RAW said to be 28.01.2000. In 2000 January 28th was a Friday. They probably meant February 28 and the RAW with the infamous yet greatest moment in sports entertainment history: Mae Young giving birth to a hand!

[@bucones]

Yo Simon, you're the only reason I tune in to this channel! I hope you have a quick recovery and I hope everything goes well for you brother! You are the glue that keeps this flubbing ship together!

[@DomSr]

Everyone is always clamoring about much they want the "Attitude Era" back but we tend to forget that some of wrestling's worst crap came in that era.

[@blueprint7]

no era is perfect

[@varenoftatooine2393]

@@blueprint7 attitude era was mostly bad with very high highs.

[@DatBoiChris420]

Lmfao it damnn sure didn't age very well it's almost unbearable to watch now especially the shit they did with women pathetic The wrestling itself was medicore at best bunch of jobber with 5 main event guys lmfao made no sense

[@josephwernecke3464]

Well its was no suffering succotash that's for sure

[@FrostWazowski]

@@DatBoiChris420 so ... The attitude era roster is the modern roster? Mostly jobers with 5 main event guys? At least back in the attitude era the women were bearable to look at. These days it's like looking at a gallery of acid attack survivors and botched plastic surgery jobs.

[@FrostWazowski]

Well deserved. Wcw Monday Nitro was flawless every single week all the way through 2008. (I bet none of y'all noticed he said 2008, not 1998)

[@0fficialcj249]

I noticed and was mindfucked for a second

[@chillshill3125]

I noticed and was very confused, I'm an idiot.

[@VaultHunterKiriko]

I did and had to rewind to make sure

[@animamaster]

I noticed. It hit me after 1 minute when I realized "Wait Nitro in 2008?"

[@Melvinb3k]

I was like: Simon, where were you in 2008?

[@KyleKnoblauch]

Met Konnan after a Saturday Night taping around this same time. He was signing autographs and answering questions for anyone that had one for him out in the parking lot on the way to the bus. I got my ticket to the show autographed and still have it in a lucite holder with my old basketball card collection.

[@jadziaezri2616]

For those of you wondering why there was no RAW against nitro on this night RAW apparently was preempted for the US open tournament

[@TheMahoneydanny]

Simon Miller, the greatest KZbin entertainer in all of wrestling KZbin. Thank you sir, you keep me entertained and happy deep down in my tum tum.

[@Deadline63]

Wrestlemania X...(Macho Man vs. Crush, Bret vs. Owen, HBK vs. Razor Ramon ladder match IC Titles, Luger vs. Yoko / Yoko vs. Bret. Doink/Dink vs. Bam Bam/Luna And MORE!)

[@edvinrosenqvist524]

Please do ROYAL RUMBLE 1988. The first ever Royal Rumble. That ppv also had a great womens tagteam match (The glamour girls vs The jumping bomb angels.)

[@nightbirdds]

August 31st 2008 episode? I know you meant 1998, but now I'm thinking what Nitro would be like in 2008.

[@SuperAttitudeera]

Clearly this is a case of Simon knowing something we don't. And I want some answers damnit!

[@reesdonfamily_yt4968]

Any Simon and WCW retro ups and down are to funny 😭😭😭 we need more

[@kevinthompson3047]

Props to the editor of the video because he fixed the number of UPS from 0 to 2 at 14:53 because Simon gave the DDP promo and up prior to that..., respect

[@AngelRasmus3]

14:13 'But yes, this is shit' the moment Simon broke LMAO

[@hanimahoui8339]

This is hands down my favourite Retro Ups and Downs i've seen. Seeing Simon suffering through late 90's-2000 WCW is just a treat for everyone. I get to rewatch it everytime while being occupied because it's THAT enjoyable. Keep up the great content pal ❤

[@numero1superfly393]

As a special request for Royal Rumble season, Royal Rumble 1992, where Ric Flair won the Royal Rumble.

[@patrickaker4380]

I remember I was so entrenched in anything wrestling in 1998, I thought everything was great. Loved The Warrior shit in WCW then. Looking back now, I was not a very wise 15 year old.

[@daniellatkowsky6284]

Hey don’t beat yourself up, I was super into the Bushwhackers and Hacksaw lol

[@MetalHead4Life94]

If it makes you feel any better when I was that age I was watching 2010 TNA

[@Mjohn307]

Do the first ever Royal Rumble 1988

[@nathanwagner9895]

1998 wcw uncensored needs a retro ups and downs....... please Simon, before i die..... legendary card (hart vs henning 3, their final match ever on a premium live event)

[@joeyriddle428]

He should do an ups and down for the first XFL game😂😂😂😂😂

[@hobbs37110]

Apparently Phill didn't think DDP deserved a up

[@grimwriter9889]

Or Goldberg

[@QDog915]

Yeah the count was not super accurate. Maybe Bishoff took over editing duties this week

[@liamwhite1234]

Retro up and down wwe survivor series 2003 Kane v Shane ambulance match and the buried alive match between undertaker v Vince

[@usmcwhtmike1]

Yes!! I've asked like 5 times for this. The survivor series matches were on point. Who didn't like taker destroying Vince with that first punch etc rapper cena was funny

[@Mdgeist316]

Since you mentioned it, you should go ahead and do SummerSlam 1998. I'm biased because it's my favorite PPV of the 90s.

[@whatever85x]

Summerland 98 or 2008

[@naduhannasheikh4035]

Simon is there a highest rated ECW show ever? That would be interesting to see

[@DatBoiChris420]

Why wouldn't there be?

[@retardedmoron81]

Yes there is. A reported total of 47 people watched on that glorious day.

[@invadermedras]

Hoping for a swift recovery for you, Simon! Especially since it seems like this episode did some damage to you 😅

[@antoinestroman3431]

This was around the time I was actively checking out of Nitro. I would watch for the first hour, then switch over to Raw. I’d go to Nitro during commercial breaks.

[@normbell3372]

Is this some parallel reality we're living in? I have ZERO recollection of Lex Lugar ever having facial hair! So weird LoL

[@pooldead7712]

Because he was mostly clean shaven lol, it's not that hard to work out and in wwe he was probably made to be clean shaven.

[@devanshdoshi681]

Being a Millenial i love aew but I will always have a soft spot for WWE in my heart. Never watched an episode of nitro and after watching this up and down I can understand how some people say WWE is becoming nitro towards its end

[@VanuttChan]

I don’t remember when it was but there was a time when the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show beat WCW in the ratings.

[@chrisbg99]

I'm pretty sure this Nitro was during my very early days of watching wrestling when I was 16. How I kept watching wrestling at this point I don't know.

[@Mystery1G]

Simon sits like a news anchor. Do this setup for Retro Ups and Down.

[@nextstep134]

Simon you are the best. Let me suggest something I think you would like, please do a retro ups and downs for wrestlemania 3

[@markreigns7357]

We should normalized sitting down Simon I get we used to him standing up for most ups and downs but life can alter our usual routines I appreciate Simon for continuing to provide us content no matter where he is and whether he stands up,sits down, laying on the floor

[@jackbaker948]

That is one of the worst up to down ratios I have ever seen🤣🤣 great video as always Simon

[@luckywallace]

WCW actually did the same tag-team main event match in late 1999 of Hulk & Hart Vs Sting & Luger but I've always really liked that match. Hulk was back in red & yellow, Sting was in black & white and he was also the WCW World Champion. Supposedly Sting had turned heel but the fans still loved him so it was almost a babyface vs babyface match. It's no masterpiece but much better fun than the 1998 version.

[@clydecarlyn1867]

A retro up and down for Wrestlemania 22 would be dope!! N hope you feel better 💯

[@billcowan5539]

Back in the 80s and very early 90s , the NWA/ WCW had some great wrestling , Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham, Arn Anderson,Tully Blanchard, Nikita Koloff, the Midnight Express, the Rock n Roll express. the Steiner brothers, Ricky Steamboat,Sting, Lex Luger ,the Road Warriors , Doom and of course the man not Becky Lynch the Nature Boy himself , they had a superior product compared to the cartoonish WWF it’s so sad to see how things fell apart in the late 90s😢

[@rickd9951]

I used to love watching jim Crockett promotions as a kid when I found it

[@daltonhowell7262]

Hope you're doing well simon. Heal up soon, love ups and downs

[@PlatinumRoseLady]

That WCW getting huge ratings just prove something that my dear sweet Mother used to say - some people's tastes are in their mouths. Get well soon, Simon! ❤️🙂

[@Reacher85]

Triple H returns to WWE on Raw in 2002 20 years ago

[@ericastein3926]

Why does Simon not live with me? He is so entertaining and even the corniest jokes make me burst out laughing. "I am biased because I am his son" my manager asked what I was laughing about.

[@scotthiebler2414]

So this is where WWE got the idea to expand RAW to three hours watching this episode of Monday Night Nitro.

[@AftermathDX316NWO4life]

Hey Simon so do u do retro UPS and downs like a couple episodes at 1time cause u were fine yesterday on rampage and smackdown ups and downs lol🤣🤣🤣🤷 anyways next one Royal rumble 99 😉🙏

[@halfmanhalfmyth]

You gotta do a retro ups and downs for summer slam 2000. Triple H, angle & the rock. The dudleyz and hardyz run it back. If nothing else that opening video package and the fact it was sponsored by chef boyardee

[@Muhammedalshabea]

Just listened to a hilarious podcast! “The crap wrestling podcast”. Absolutely hilarious one of the best I’ve listened to and I’m pretty sure the 2 boys have only just started.

[@WillyKillya]

I'm just glad Simon didn't have to keep track of the interruption counter for this, he already needs a break!

[@scottfitzgerald5309]

Royal rumble 1995 has to be next to review

[@faisalarab316]

1:17: "Aug 31, 2008 episode of Nitro.."😂

[@TheCho5en]

I was a teen at this time in the UK and we used to be able to watch nitro and thunder on TNT movies. I've not watched the video yet but I predict nothing matches from disco inferno and Ernest Miller

[@TheCho5en]

Just watched this vid and surprise surprise both disco and the cat on here! I do feel that you are judging this programme on today's standards as this was the usual bollox from both WWE and WCW in the late 90's and was lapped up

[@dylanjamieson4300]

It's Rumble season. And once again I begin my request for Royal Rumble 1992.

[@nathantravis5659]

WM8 needs to be reviewed

[@jasonvoorheesthethird]

So the “highest rated” Nitro ever has only 2 ups and 11 downs…you sure it’s not the lowest rated Nitro ever?

[@numero1superfly393]

Well the video does state that while it’s the highest episode, it’s also a terrible episode as well.

[@Zero2k0]

Lol, I remember this show. When the Giant got arrested I was so confused lol

[@jeremyrounds6821]

Simon is the best to give my man DDP an up. He was carrying the midcard and some nights the whole show in 98.

[@wlaw6639]

It's funny that you gave a down to the first Warrior spooky stuff but people thought Matt Hardy and/or The Fiend doing similar stuff was amazing.

[@booksboyspodcast]

Has to be done well I guess. Eg people love undertakers gimmicks but they don't work on everyone

[@HavokStrifeX]

I remember this episode so much, being a RAW kid and ended up watching this when it wasn't on. This episode unfairly shaped my opinion of WCW as a kid. Like I watched ECW one night on a whim similar to this and I was blown tf away. Friends would be talking about Nitro at school and I would just be thinking, haha, you losers watch that stuff. 🤣🤣

[@DatBoiChris420]

And they were saying the same thing about you lmfao this loser watches WWF lmfao

[@jasnmeade9487]

Imagine. Bron was only one year old when this aired. And Hook was still cooking.

[@petersands4449]

I remember thinking that Wrath was going to dominate everyone lol. Oh to be young again

[@deacanbarnard8985]

Go Simon hope everything goes well you are the best KZbinr awesome stuff

[@osmosisbless]

this review needs to be the highest rated ups and downs ever

[@chrishollister80]

It's amazing how terrible WCW was from late 1998 until the day it died, yet it took at least a year until its full pathetic spiral downward became apparent to us fans who loved WCW from the very beginning.

[@MessianicJewJitsu]

1:00 I was die hard and watched every minute of wrestling I could record or catch or borrow until 1999 when I got in the ring.

[@smashysmashyeggmanmovierev1068]

You should do a combo of the 1991 Survivor Series and This Tuesday in Texas since the 91 Survivor Series was basically just a huge ad for the This Tuesday in Texas PPV a week later.

[@22five5]

Raw 8th June 1998, the born of the outlaw rule when billy gunn and road dogg pinned each other to retain the titles in a triple threat match against the LOD and DOA (hilarious)

[@wezrichards8700]

Hope your feeling good Simon 🔥👍 Also and awesome Ups and Downs as usual 🔥👍🤘

[@ethanpacheco4371]

Simon I hope you recover quickly, but you should do Judgment Day 2005 for next retro ups and downs

[@SupraViperhead]

Internet: Wrestling was so much better in the 90s. Wrestling in the 90s: 2 good segments, 11 crap segments. Funny thing is, I see A LOT of things on this episode of WCW that I see in AEW, but in AEW, it gets an "up" and people rave about it, but literally the exact same thing occurs here and it gets a down. Characters appearing just to disappear (Warrior/Black), squash matches with wrestlers that have someone beat hitting more moves afterwards (Norton/Wardlow), the "slave" angle (Lodi and Saturn/Miro and Chuck Taylor), factions with members that do bad, long-winded promos with terrible verbiage in order to act "cool" (Wolfpack/The Elite) just to name a few.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

This dude 100% asks "why can't I say the n word if rap songs can?" 😂 Nuance completely lost on these people

[@ShadowZ6677]

Simon: *Gives something an up* Producer and Editor: *Doesn't give it an up*

[@aprentissdaye]

The final years of WCW were truly horrid, and it only got worse in 2000.

[@AJG7304]

there is nothing better in life than seeing you sit in front of those lil fellas i love it xD

[@HisPanicRoom]

It’s sad that this reminds me of Raw nowadays.

[@matthewdavis6741]

"I'm not sure what people were smoking in 1998, but the whenever someone said his name, smoke would appear in the ring, Warrior would appear for four minutes, and then disappear." Malakai Black is judging you Mr. Miller. JUDGING YOU! O_o

[@jeansalomon8225]

Get well soon Simon. Hopefully you take some much needed time off

[@brennanhughes976]

10 downs at the start to 0😭 Jesus how was this the highest rated WCW Nitro?!?!

[@animeshmehra2188]

Simon told coz raw didn't air that day

[@brennanhughes976]

@@animeshmehra2188 I know, but still how was it still this high rated?!

[@jeffwhitmeyer8648]

I remember watching this "live" and asked myself many of the same questions you mentioned Simon. I do remember the missed spot in the main event, and when they ran it again I just fell on the floor laughing. The announcers were the best part of that show I think.

[@Bonesaw_McGraw]

Hahaha I frigging love WCW

[@KarlWPickup]

20 minute opening promo, followed by a 3 minute match, WCW is alive and well on Monday nights, they just renamed it RAW

[@canuckj8382]

August 31st 2008 episode of nitro? You know wcw went out of business in 2001 right? 😁

[@spikescarberry7041]

WCW was sold to WWE/WWF in 2001. Simon's date in the intro is impossible

[@ahmadceasar5484]

I hope a speedy recovery to you my friend

[@ripsaw2322]

Id take this show over anything on WWE TV these days.

[@LeglessWonder]

Nitro had some amazing things… this episode is def not one of them. I started losing interest in wrestling after this. Then the finger poke of doom happened, WWF bought WCW and everything went to shit and I had stopped watching until AEW come around.

[@spider35manduh9]

I know it would be very difficult but what about an ups and downs for full feuds

[@sspaay]

I remember this period of WCW. They had some good young talent they could have built good stories around. Instead, they gave the mic to the Hulkster and let him talk. And talk. And talk. For the promotion that was supposed to be built around rasslin' this was very frustrating for the fans. No wonder they lost the war.

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

New year and I'm still gonna push for No Mercy 2001!

[@Reacher85]

Next Suggestion: The history of the nWo

[@JetstreamBrawl]

How about a Retro Ups and Downs of SummerSlam 2004

[@lucaslamb9314]

Pls bring retro ups and downs back pls

[@boonski]

Simon... How many times has a heel stopped an pinfall to hit a bigger move then go for the pin? Almost every squash match.

[@LOVINCASH703]

August 31st, 2008?!?! I didn't know Nitro was on in 2008!

[@JUnior-ot1xu]

1:18 2008 lol

[@KenAdams426]

Challenge........Who is going to remember a year and two months from now to come back to this and post an update OR post on the Reliving the War from Wrestling Bios, that this was the highest rated Nitro? June 9th 1997 just dropped today about 35 mins ago.............

[@antonioiessi590]

next show suggestion Wrestlewar 1992, one of the best War Games match ever!!