Raw vs Nitro "Reliving The War": Episode 30 - April 29th 1996

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WCW Nitro goes head to head with WWF Raw in another Monday Night television ratings battle! The date is 4.29.96, the WWF have been leading the way in the ratings recently as WCW hasn’t been building to anything significant on pay per view.
This week, Nitro is taped. The WCW show also broadcasted 1 hour earlier than normal due to a NBA game airing on TNT. Eric Bishcoff and company have a big surprise in store this week though and it all goes down in the main event, Ric Flair vs The Giant for the WCW Heavyweight Championship.
WWF Raw is live this week on the USA Network, it’s the night after In Your House: Good Friends, Better Enemies, and Vince McMahon is already looking ahead to the next pay per view. Shawn Michaels begins his rivalry with The British Bulldog on this episode of Raw, a rivalry that also includes Diana Smith. The Ultimate Warrior also has his debut WWF Raw match this week.
00:00 - Good Friends, Better Enemies Results
03:45 - Harlem Heat vs Sting & Lex Luger
06:16 - Mankind in action
09:25 - Fire & Ice on Nitro
11:13 - Steve Austin vs Scott Taylor
11:24 - Camp Cornette / HBK / Ric Flair promos
15:18 - Steve Regal and Fit Finlay's Parking Lot Brawl
18:50 - The Main Events
#Wrestling #WCW #WWF

[@aaronexplicable2111]

Warrior ran to the back because he remembered he left his coke out, didn't want hbk getting a whiff

[@popmonika]

I just gathered that he wanted to give the audience a little bit more value for their money seeing how short the match was...

[@ayecaperumba2487]

Underrated comment

[@sithvsjedi9696]

Hahaha 👍😅. Great comment

[@dustinsonnier5602]

😂😂😂😂

[@ferriswheeler08]

''This poor little piggy looks as terrified as I am to watch this match'' hahaha oh my god you are gold good sir!!!!

[@WildDanHibiki]

I died when you pretended to be excited about the arrival of Glacier. Lol!

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

We'll have to wait until September

[@ALB232]

I liked the mk theme in the background

[@PJErvin]

Well thanks for spoiling it... 😏

[@SSNebula]

@@PJErvin maybe avoid comments if you're interested in the content? You can always come to the comments section after!

[@PJErvin]

@@SSNebula Oh that’s clear sarcasm. Everybody knows it’s Glacier. (By the way, the spoiler was for next week’s video).

[@Stumpers24]

It’s crazy to think that 24 years later sting would be returning on TNT

[@Stumpers24]

@ZCS so just like how WWE has to bring in Goldberg and the undertaker every year?

[@jjbjjb273]

This channel is going to blow up when 1998 hits I can feel it this is such a great series

[@inuenndo_]

This is the calm before the storm, 97 is a great year for both companies and 98 really sends Wrestling into the next level. I can’t wait for the in depth reviews of Raw, it was truly a must see program in 98-00

[@PhillipCummingsUSA]

@@inuenndo_ I'd argue that both companies were incredible in 1998

[@OneManGenocide86]

It should blow up now. It's so entertaining and well done. I'm addicted.

[@bendover2865]

@@OneManGenocide86 yeah I agree and knowing that the bash of the beach is just around the corner.....

[@Sbkeezy62]

@@inuenndo_ no doubt the rise of the attitude era changed a lot for WWE but so did the NWO for WCW

[@nickgangone9541]

I'm glad to find that I wasn't the only one that thought Warrior was wack as a wrestler. Tons of energy, I won't lie, I was a mark for him in '88, but he didn't bring a lot in the ring.

[@ferriswheeler08]

''I mean come on how can you miss Jimmy Hart with that suit on'' literally spit out my lunch.. both a great rib and homage to his artistic skill

[@sappyfoot]

what was for lunch?

[@ferriswheeler08]

@@sappyfoot 2 weeks ago.. sammich and a pop lol

[@robbaxter60]

I look forward to this every Thursday bro. Takes me back to when I was young. Thank you for your hard work on these

[@undeadend]

Same here haha

[@ironlift2275]

Yes, total flashback to my early childhood

[@brandonknotts7502]

I couldn't agree more

[@Ragan31687]

I have to echo this sentiment. I love the channel and series!

[@johnbogue1594]

I just finished this video, and I was headed to the comments to post this exact comment.

[@guacamole9199]

Sting has been one of my favorite wrestlers since I started watching, by that time he was doing the crow gimmick which I love, but over recent years the more I see of "Surfer" Sting, he really grown on me. Due to that character being not so illusive, there was more crowd interactions and he worked as more fast paced style. He was a perfect gimmick Babyface!!

[@FraserSouris]

I also love how expressive Surfer Sting was.

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

i couldn't agree more, Sting but more specifically "Surfer" Sting has been one of my top 3 favorite wrestlers since the first time i ever saw him on TV back in like 1989\1990. His other versions are cool but there's just something about early 90's Sting that clicked with me So Much that i would have liked anything he did character-wise after that point. i still have some old WCW trading cards from when Sting won the title his first time, i was so young i can't even remember how i got the cards in the first place. 😄👍

[@PurpleWorldOrder]

lol, was that the promo were Cornette called Michaels a “fornicator”?

[@bathombre9739]

Yes!! Cornette was on fire!!

[@PJErvin]

...and that Diana was no Jezebel. You’d think he were doing Bruce’s gimmick.

[@dohnuts4405]

This time period is when I really got into pro wrestling. I had been a casual viewer before this, but these characters and angles got me hooked.

[@christianholbrook2686]

So Raw was live and Nitro was taped? My how the turns have tabled.

[@RichSmithson]

Watching this era back again, WCW and Bischoff come across as incredibly vindictive. Vince and the WWF barely even mention WCW apart from the Billionaire Ted skits which Vince stopped when told to by the USA network. You even see WWF security telling people with anti WCW signs to put them away. Meanwhile Bischoff opens most Nitros spoiling the WWF raw tapings or just outright bashing the WWF and it’s talent.

[@RichSmithson]

@@ConnieLynchitzWhoElse Few of the Raw's after Vince stopped doing the Billionaire Ted Skits in 96.

[@seanabbins5481]

@@RichSmithson But those Billionaire Ted skits were really below the belt, worse than anything WCW said about the WWF. Remember too, the WWF was the established brand and they had less to gain by mentioning the underdog brand. (One of the main points of the billionaire Ted skits was to convince people that WCW wasn't an underdog brand.) WWF had a long standing policy of not acknowledging NWA, AWA, WCW, UWF etc. They felt those companies were beneath the more upscale Sports Entertainment they were selling.

[@maz5557]

Haha the 1st glacier promo is in this episode...the legend begins!

[@arcticfox04]

No Hogan and WCW wins what a shock.

[@TheBlackScatPack]

15:11 that Sega Genesis Mortal Kombat II Kombat Tomb theme mixup 🙌🏽

[@racewiththefalcons1]

For me, Flair is the current MVP of this war. He's on every single week giving promos AND wrestling, and he's making his opponents look like a million bucks. Nobody made the Giant look stronger than Flair.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Sarcasm: I think you meant Hogan. 😂

[@jaylew8408]

You shoulda told the Bruce and Owen phone call with Cornette about that story line. Comedy gold

[@mangrove]

It really was Stu!

[@JRock-xv3sk]

Man I'm really loving this series going back to my teen years where you couldn't wait for Mondays

[@BrittneyStarling]

I love this series...I sometimes go back to watch the episodes. I love the breakdown. I was pretty young during these episodes and I definitely don't remember them.

[@chrisscalia3746]

I look forward to Thursdays because of Reliving the War.

[@grammysworld5449]

I swear if you had a tv show, I'd watch it.. love these videos bro! Please never stop

[@henrikschmidt3964]

Booker T was really getting into his own at this time. I remember being impressed at his overall 'movement' which was like no-one else's.

[@IvanCruz323]

Can you dig it sucka!

[@Venemofthe888]

He was kinda leaving stevie ray behind

[@henrikschmidt3964]

@@Venemofthe888 You can't stop talent.

[@oldironsides4107]

There wasn’t a lot of black wrestlers I liked the first was junk yard dog. The last maybe Norman smiley.

[@baloothepibble8421]

I wish we could get a retrospective on ALL of Sting’s facepaints. Unlike others his was always unique.

[@tylerbrock4068]

Goldust comes to mind.

[@baloothepibble8421]

@@tylerbrock4068 yep, his were great too

[@ethanstevens7697]

Hardy?

[@baloothepibble8421]

@@ethanstevens7697 even better example of varying styles. His are art 4 real.

[@BlackadderFunk]

The WCW Championship belt changes hands from Flair to Giant yet still displays Macho Man's name - WCW in a nutshell

[@matthewcowan9324]

I worked late, so I always watched the reply of WCW. Like getting caught up on what happened on Raw.

[@jerryjanik480]

I was a fan of Fire and Ice and I remember being a big Mark of them and thinking that they would be the next Steiner's or LOD how wrong I was

[@CollosalSquid69]

i love this series, really makes me feel the excitement again! your the best wresting youtuber imo by far!

[@Netflixnbills]

30+ episodes down. Hands down the best series I’ve ever watched on KZbin!

[@djdarq6311]

I just wanted to let you know something. I only started watching these maybe last week and I am almost caught up. My cat just passed away, I had him more than 17 years and this has helped take my mind of things. Either way you do such a detailed and great job re-living all these memories. There are some good podcasts on wrestling out there, but you are easily the king of KZbin and this format. Great work.

[@harrytmm]

hope things have gotten better

[@tomvickers2231]

Love the attention to detail. In this case, checking to see what the pre raw dark matches were and how they would have influenced the opening bout. That’s quite impressive

[@kamenanew9867]

Things like that, and looking into tupac's arrest and little small things are just really incredible

[@undeadend]

Gah... Sunny was hot

[@ItsHimLanceSoza]

Keep it up my man!! This channel takes me back every time.

[@AwfulMartian1]

I love that the timing between the Patreon upload and the KZbin upload is just enough time to where I want to watch it again

[@N0tsaved]

Corny coming through for raw as the only standout winner against Nitro this episode is telling of his talent and gift of gab.

[@danleyvadiaz4615]

Thanks for putting all of these videos together - they take me back to my childhood, sitting in my room with my big brother, switching channels back and forth between the two shows. Good stuff and thank you again!

[@BlackLabelMark]

This is a GREAT series.

[@16BitJayGaming]

I chuckled at the MK music during the debut tease. Nicely done.

[@canyouseemeright]

The Austin Swing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Love the small details ‼️

[@seanabbins5481]

Regal and Finlay had some good matches during this period. Not sure if you guys in Europe were able to see much of them or their style in the 90's, but it was fresh for us in the US. The international element of WCW during this period was a nice feature that gave the undercard freshness and diversity. Finlay and Regal were both very good at this time.

[@TheChiefSteve]

Wrestle Bios: *Puts MK Music in the Background* Me : You Sneaky Son of a Gun! :D

[@joshwagner8457]

I cant get enough of this.Great job man.thank you!

[@RC99_Productions]

Ah, Regal VS. Finlay. The 2nd best Parking Lot Brawl in wrestling history.

[@leandrofranca5943]

Which is the best?

[@RC99_Productions]

@@leandrofranca5943 John Cena VS. Eddie Guerrero in their Parking Lot Brawl on Smackdown in 2004 in my opinion

[@Venemofthe888]

God i wish Flair as WCW champion at this point was booked like you know a champion

[@attiepollard7847]

Nope not really. Looking for world champion doing this time was kind of iffy at best. Doing this time macho Man should have been world champion to counter a Shawn Michaels champion in wwf

[@RichSmithson]

It’s kinda sad watching nearly everyone Flair fight not sell anything he does too. The whole angle is Woman or Elizabeth need to interfere to help him win.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

​@attiepollard7847 The irony of your statement is that Randy wanted his last fued in then WWF to be with this young kid who he thought had a lot of talent. The guy was Shawn Michaels of course. But Vince didn't want to do it. Macho wanted it to be a long fued. I think Vince was just tired of Macho or something. But anyway, WCW didn't appreciate Macho Man, so he wasn't pushed to be that here. Edit: I remember what happened was McMahon only wanted Randy as a commentator, but Savage thought he could do more.

[@Max-el2nx]

bro i refresh my youtube most of the time because of u. u light up my day, thanks for that awesome content! u relive the time when i was a kid and didnt get it most of the time! now i really get back to it! greetings from germany!

[@ducketolgy8501]

Favorite show of my week. Thanks

[@dannylfcmeatloaf]

I have said it before but it cant be said often enough....THANK YOU. The effort you have put in to come this far already is amazing. Its the thing I look forward to most all week.

[@Atroz7]

Why do I love this channel? Cause when a match has low crowd noise you try and investigate why by researching the dark matches. It's that care that makes this the cream of the crop

[@davidworden4470]

Great flashback thanks again for reliving those great memories

[@ZiggyTrippzMusic]

Watch every episode brother. Man this series DESERVES to be on the WWE network. Its THAT GOOD! Keep it up!!!

[@martinf74]

Unfortunately this is the only wrestling content I enjoying watching these days.

[@pirajacinto4]

Oooh and here comes the true start of the gimmicks for the characters. Blood Runs Cold, I love it!

[@Poopscipade]

I love the Sunny logic: One team smells and the other team is dumb...I'm going to get a closer look. She should have just said she was going out to get the fans something worth watching, since that's really all she was doing.

[@raphaelmorrata8905]

The only interesting thing in that Godwins vs Rockers match was Sunny

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Eh, it worked.

[@allenmynatt9571]

Look forward to this after work every Thursday night

[@blankwavemessiah]

so glad I got to see the new episode before bed!

[@andrewcrouch2362]

Great video upload again wrestling bios keep them coming cheers enjoy watching them some parts of this video ive got on dvd as well 😀

[@4foot2]

Great show! Thank you

[@stewmalpass3572]

Fantastic as always, thank you

[@thefoamingbrain2469]

@wrestling bios what about an episode about your all-time favorite matches .. ie 5-star matches but the wrestling bios version ! luv your channel keep up the good work

[@alexmarquez9639]

I'm subbing to keep up with this series. Can't wait to see more as we progress into the austin era and nwo.

[@alexh8613]

Davey Boy didn't like the Diana storyline, because it meant that she was out on the road with him, so he couldn't cheat on her

[@attiepollard7847]

Does this kind of tell you that maybe Davy; was a pushover? he changes his mind about a storyline involving his wife and then in 1997 he doesn't even protest the finishing of a match dedicated to his dying sister

[@pc8679]

The title changes hands on Nitro proves that Nitro was truly unpredictable.

[@attiepollard7847]

I say your half way right but was the giant the right fit to be real champion to counter a Shawn Michaels in WWE? Nope. I say they should have dropped the belt to macho Man Savage in 96

[@jchizzle15]

21:08 “whatever floats your boat jimmy” 😂😂😂

[@gen-x-dad]

the WCW tag division was so much more interesting at this time than the dreadful WWF tag teams. For such a big man The Giant was really enjoyable at this time; much better than either Warrior or Yankem. WCW won this week because they actually put out good matches with 2/3 decent finishes. Warrior looks like a roided up Grinch.

[@oldironsides4107]

I would have liked another coffee incident

[@TheRonin248]

You just don’t see the High Flying moves anymore. I really miss those. Especially Randy Savage and his elbow drop.

[@scottmcginn2169]

It's funny to watch Austins offence pre-piledriver. He was a machine back in WCW and had Bischoff had any sense he'd have seen that and kept him around. That said he probably would have been lost in the mix as a mid-carder, elevating guys, but letting him go was ridiculous.

[@karlalden2076]

Straight up love seeing this series in my feed and as a WWF kid I cannot help but root for the brand every week.

[@E_l_l_i_e]

I was a huge WWF fan from 1994 to 96, but as an adult I prefer Nitro over Raw.

[@lukebaer5128]

You work hard as hell on all your videos, and hope you can make a little money on the side. You deserve SO much more credit to how you work ass off on these! I have been having personal issues and you help me forget some of my problems, even if it's 24 minutes at a time. Keep kicking ass my dude!

[@oldironsides4107]

I hope you’re doing better and not in a pine box.

[@EssexAggiegrad2011]

20:53 They've still got the Macho Man nameplate

[@E_l_l_i_e]

They will change that to Giant soon.

[@LordHeath1972]

14:42 - when comparing Raw & Nitro, there is one great comparison right there! Diana Hart & Miss Elizabeth. Both stunners in their day. Point goes to Diana.

[@Rob_Thorsman]

You must be smoking something. The only stunners on Raw were Sunny and Marlena.

[@LordHeath1972]

@@Rob_Thorsman You suggest I must be smoking something.... and then proceed to refer to Marlena as a "stunner". Well whatever I am smoking I must have got from you pal!

[@Rob_Thorsman]

Marlena is better looking than Diana.

[@seanabbins5481]

Memory can be a strange thing. If you had asked me before this series started, there are a lot of things I thought I remembered from the early Monday night war period that I would thought have been a major component by April 29, 1996. Where is Raven's flock? The luchadores? The Cruiserweight title? Where is Ken Shamrock? Farooq? I suppose all of this is coming, but I would have thought that they started in the early months of Monday Night wars. In any case, I remember being very enthusiastic about Monday night wrestling by this period, and was asking my boss to have every Monday night off. It was so much better than what wrestling had been prior to this.

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

I know that the Raven stuff started in late 97. JJ Dilon was taking about him needing to take a contract then if he wanted to keep making appearances.

[@matthewrobinson5265]

I’m so dang late but very well done on your thoughts and looking into the dark matches also. Truly intriguing. Thank you again brother!

[@CurlyFromTheSwirly]

Me too, but it's just more episodes to binge now. 😂

[@sithvsjedi9696]

Ta for another AMAZING upload Matey ❤️👍🙂 Top stuff thank you.

[@cityboy2528]

I watch everyone he has put out I was born in 1990 so yes this is when my child hood started thanks for this

[@adamrenfrow]

Love your channel. Keep em coming.

[@MisterRON]

Nice touch with the MK2 music in the video. ;)

[@matthewcrouch6454]

I put down Cyberpunk 2077 to watch this. As always great video! I look forward to these every week.

[@lauragoble4112]

Love the show thanks bro it's great content

[@daddust]

Thx for these great videos

[@truckshackley373]

During the Michaels/Bulldog angle Jim Cornette (who was on the booking committee at the time) actually got a phone call from Stu Hart complaining that they were making Diana “look like some kind of a who-er (that’s the way Stu said it, who-er) 😂

[@robertsharpless999]

Great stuff again!!!!

[@runvalddarkstone5517]

15:14 Yay .... the tone when saying " ican't wait to know what this is" ... OF course ... it's your favorite ^^ Next week : the bread and butter of Wrestilng Bios for the raw vs Nitro war ...

[@sonicthehedgehog5360]

This series will peak will around 1998 cant wait till then

[@rodyaromanovic3741]

Thanks mate.

[@berzerkbankie1342]

That car window sells for no man

[@mikemccoy5092]

Shame fire and ice didn't achieve more success they were a good tag team

[@JohnSuave]

I'm just here for the closeups of Pepe

[@patricklillie4391]

I remember the Mankind/Jim Ross promos. Haven't seen em in 26 years. Looking forward to more of those honestly. Some of the best promos I'd ever seen.

[@Yetijam2k]

That intro was LEGENDARY.

[@Drummer8282]

Nearly a clean sweep for Nitro segments. WWF sucked during this time - the Shawn Michaels era.

[@2000guineas]

Always have to watch this!

[@aspectra]

The suspense is killing me. WWF and WCW have come so close to a clean sweep, hasn't happened yet though!

[@eddie9244]

well my day instantly got better

[@craigusselman546]

KEEP UP THE GOOD STUFF MAN!

[@jacob9538]

I never understood why rollups work so good. Is it supposed to be the guy is so surprised, for over 3 seconds, that he can't kick out?

[@pezpowerproductions2602]

On my bday! Turned 11 couldn’t wait for the warrior to return. Man I was disappointed

[@JM1993951]

9:47. We all know and love Teddy Long. Now meet Teddy Thicc.

[@robertlakay88]

Oh my Sack that intro just brought back memories!

[@597yasser]

My favourite time of the week !

[@RealRandomTM]

Reliving The War and Costco Pizza. Is the best. Combo. Ever!! And yay! Another Reliving The War! Can't wait to watch it!!!

[@jchizzle15]

7:38 mick moving like that is crazy to think about considering how he moves now