Raw vs Nitro - The First Battle of The War

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The WWF had been the most popular weekly wrestling television show in America since it's debut in 1993. In 1995, World Championship Wrestling and Eric Bischoff brought a new Monday Night wrestling show to television screens that would compete directly with Vince McMahon, The WWF and Monday Night Raw. This show was named WCW Monday Nitro, and it made it's debut on September 4th 1995. On that same evening, Raw did not air on TV, so WCW and the Nitro show was able to deliver a wrestling television show completely unopposed and unchallenged.
The next week though, on September 11th 1995, both WCW Nitro and WWF Raw would air their Monday night television shows. WWF Raw was taped while WCW Nitro was live, and this would be the very first time both Raw and Nitro went head to head in the Monday Night War television ratings battle. This mini documentary from Wrestling Bios looks at both of these wrestling shows while comparing all the matches and all the promos.
Topics and matches covered include:
02:57 - The WWF and WCW title holders around this time
04:19 - The WWF New Fall Season / "I Like it Raw"
06:34 - The British Bulldog vs Razor Ramon on Raw
10:44 - Eric Bischoff gives away the Raw main event result on WCW Nitro
12:34 - Randy Savage vs Scott Norton on Nitro
14:00 - Todd Pettingill and his Pay Per View Report
14:58 - The Raw and Nitro Main Events
- Much More!
#WWE #Wrestling #WCW

[@WrestlingBios]

Thanks for all your comments regarding the latest video. Great feedback for the Raw vs Nitro concept... let's make it a regular series on Wrestling Bios! I need your help though with an original and catchy name for the series. What ya' got good brothers?

[@jets4687]

Something like "Raw vs Nitro: This is war" or Raw vs Nitro: War of the 90s

[@DaManEX1983]

Monday Night Mayhem

[@Dreamerland101]

Do tna vs wcw or tna vs aew

[@freddiejohnson6137]

War Chronicles perhaps?

[@coopercostantino17]

Raw & Nitro: Card for Card

[@jamesbaker6006]

From humble beginnings, to a massive KZbin sensation. Third time starting from the beginning and watching this series. Thank you Mr. Bio-Man.

[@thomassalas5191]

He seems more calmer here 🤔

[@jamesbaker6006]

@@thomassalas5191 I don't know if I would say calmer so much as I would say in later episodes he just becomes more comfortable with what he dose.after so long of doing something you get into a groove .

[@babauranai]

@@thomassalas5191 he sounds polite like it was the first weeks at a new job

[@marcuswhitlow548]

Of course we want a weekly series, was there ever any doubt...?

[@1KilledKenny1]

Up !!!

[@michaelkeller5927]

You want a war? You're gonna get one

[@grandeofrenzo3112]

3 years later and here we are

[@johnhandcock8193]

I would love to see this become a weekly series.

[@christophernicholson20]

Me too. I don't mind a weekly series of these videos. I been quarantined on lockdown for weeks I love watching these videos

[@CBNL1987]

Agree. Cool serie! Id watch them all

[@UnAmazingRED]

I agree

[@Youngimperialist]

Same here.

[@UnAmazingRED]

You could do a lot of videos for this. newer and older episodes.

[@kuromeisaku]

2 years and 124 episodes later along with the separate PPV episodes, one of the greatest content series on KZbin!

[@welcometomynightmare1983]

I would love a weekly breakdown on this

[@siircartiier]

Yessss I grew up watching the ruthless aggression era so a break down of this would be dope

[@chrisbenoit4267]

For real even a month by month thing please

[@timbartschwolfman]

I agree that would be Awesome to see

[@TheTrainFan9]

Isn't that what Bryan and Vinny have been doing for the last five or so years? I do like B & V, but I would also like a more structured week-by-week analysis.

[@irishpanic]

Same

[@jamesabernethy7896]

Although I'm not a hardcore wrestling fan, I love the stories of the backstage politics of everything. You have an amazing channel and clearly love what you do and are a great storyteller. Keep up great work, looking forward to the next one.

[@RoKKr023i]

if you aren't a wrastlin' fan before. you keep watchin these you will be.

[@caincotterill5493]

RoKKr023i I’m not a fan, I wasn’t either. But I’m a wrestling bios addict☹️

[@omyswiftlourido4161]

100%facts

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I have a respectable knowledge of wrestling, I know most of the main performers and am interested enough to have opinions about favourite performers. But know that there are people out there who love it so much more than me. Religiously watch this, OSW Review and Wrestling with regret. Also just finished the Wrestling Territories mini documentaries.

[@danieljulbe2162]

James Abernethy it was soooooooooooooooo much better back then than now 😩🤦🏽‍♂️

[@FnRenner]

Scott Norton is one of the most criminally underrated 90's wrestlers. He wasn't booked well in America (WCW) being used mostly as a background filler piece of the nWo, but his work in Japan stands up today, around 25 years later.

[@ninohiggs6339]

Scott was a beast. I use to use him and Brian Adams in the WCW vs the World video game. Would completely smash people.

[@RazorChampion99]

It would be an insane workload going through the full 83 weeks of RAW and Nitro.... but, boy, I'd love this to become a weekly Wrestling Bios series.

[@keelyleilani1326]

@@markula_4040 that's exactly what I've always thought too. WWF in 1995-1997 was getting really corny and there were only a handful of superstars even worth watching.

[@horrorfan4-life689]

@@markula_4040 52 weeks in a year and 5 years...260 weeks.

[@CLM1987]

If you binge all of 93 and 94 Raw plus the ppvs up til Sept 95 for the first Nitro it gets kinda crazy but it is doable

[@herpderp7264]

Im subbing to WWE Network so I can watch the weekly Nitro Raw and ECW shows from 95 onwards Back when I was a younger all I got was Raw, Nitro and some of the PPVS. So I missed out on quite a lot and im certainly not interested in anything modern WWE has to offer. So il go back and watch all the classic old stuff.

[@mikehill1201]

Shyt it was took years off my 38 year old life lol

[@ricci1169]

I cant believe what this series has grown into! This is the Genesis of what you have created my friend. You have and continue to do a fantastic job. Between "Disco Fever" "The Big Bratwurst" "Chin Locks" "The Jam" "Shawns Fanny Pack" "Dirty Old Assholes" and "Steve Mufuggin Blackman" I cant imagine you ever dreamed it would get this big. Continued success my friend and long live the War!

[@SJD1982]

Definately a series to continue. To gradually watch the monday night war from week to week...the highs and lows for both companies....it'll be fun to relive it

[@GlamourSmashedFace]

totally agree!

[@michaelkeller5927]

Almost like..... Reliving the war.... 🤔

[@mattjarrells]

This has turned out to be one of the best wrestling, videos, podcasts, ANYTHING ever.

[@NinjaStudent-yo5ws]

If I travel back in the 90’s I’m buying two tv’s and watching them both

[@rickycain4787]

Right ✅

[@stevengrvp]

I'm down for a weekly breakdown

[@nicholasdunlap2275]

Been watching for months now, as I HAD to start from the beginning. I've seen every episode of Raw and Nitro during those era's, but it's amazing to go back and watch them again with narration. Much praise, thanks, and appreciation.

[@storiedworlds6261]

Speaking of Mike Rotundo, I’d love to see a retrospective on the US Express.

[@jdrifter8]

Sting vs HBK - dream match 😢

[@TheTrainFan9]

16:56 Nash: I'm about to end this company's whole career

[@christophersuswal9544]

But Diesel's not a rapper!

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@christophersuswal9544 But the Hulkster is! 😎

[@seanbean3826]

All right, ive just been randomly playing episodes of this series while i eat breakfast. So now i will watch them in order.

[@whosyourdaddymedia]

Wow, looking back at the beginning of "Reliving the War" is pretty awesome. I saw this when it first posted and it just randomly popped up in my recommended list. I love this entire series!!!

[@Evil_Noah]

This is a cool concept, keep at it. I'd watch more of these. Also, really odd to see Sabu in WCW, and Shane Douglas in WWF, at nearly the same time no less. You don't stuff like this anymore.

[@oldironsides4107]

Looks like your drinking a horses rubber

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

and here we go.

[@timbartschwolfman]

Begun The Monday Night War Has

[@MajinSageesh]

3 years later and this series is still my absolute favourite to come back and binge watch!

[@shotgunchris]

I binge watch with your mom... You know what.. I'm sorry.. I wanted to be cool and I took it out on you. I'm sorry.

[@MajinSageesh]

@@shotgunchris all good, made me chuckle a little

[@McPoshSquatch]

That's what was so great about WCW and the WWF shows, you could always record WCW programming because they played it not once, but twice on Mondays and Thursdays. So you could watch RAW and Smackdown, then either catch the later rebroadcast of Nitro and Thunder, or just record it and watch it back later.

[@pirajacinto4]

This was a fun watch! It feels nice to go back and relive this war, especially comparing the segments head to head.

[@ShoneDaddy]

I wish the wwe network added a feature to watch all of the events wether wwf/wcw/ECW in perfect chronological order. Now you gotta bounce around too much

[@michaeledwards3821]

Agreed

[@lazarorodriguez5161]

Didn’t they use to have that, on WWE NETWORK? I haven’t had WWE NETWORK in awhile cause my Samsung TV is old and it won’t allow Streaming WWE. But I remember my friend had WWE 24/7 that was awesome. Then when WWE Network launched I was there right away to Subscribe. How is the Network now, is it better or nah? Last time I left it they had AWA, Smokey Mountain, NWA, WWF Coliseum Home Video, they had nice collection. Let me know you’re thoughts! Thank You 🙏

[@briwanderz]

@@lazarorodriguez5161 you can go check.... right now you can actually watch a some of the network for free (and i don't mean like 1 month free... just plain old free) and basically see the entire setup, just most of the PPVs and recent shows have a "lock" on them that you can't watch without a current membership. watch.wwe.com should work on whatever device you are posting from i would think.. (i'm really not recommending you actually pay for it tho... might be worth one monthly payment then cancel again, maybe)

[@lazarorodriguez5161]

@ Brian McDubb Hey Brother, how are you? Thank You 🙏 will do check it out. When I was kid my Pops had a lot of WWF Coliseum Home Videos VHS 📼. But by the late 90’s early 2000’s he got rid of almost everything, smh 🤦‍♂️. I Begged him not to give it away but he did. They came in the Original box and all that. Once DVD 📀 came out my Pops wanted nothing to do with VHS 📼 and now with streaming forget it about, he don’t watch DVD 📀 anymore rarely. Once I get my TV 📺 situation fixed I’m gonna buy a VHS 📼 Player and start looking for old Wrestling VHS TAPES. I’ve seen this interview with Stevie Ray from Harlem Heat as he talking I couldn’t help but notice all his WCW VHS 📼 Tape Collection. Wild 😜!!! I love technology and streaming but nothing beats a VHS 📼 or DVD 📀 especially the box that they come in! Miss these days! Thank You 🙏 Again!

[@lordother]

There is a post on reddit that list everything on the network in chronological order just Google it and you should find it pretty easy

[@patrickwilliams7582]

Checking in from 2023. Excited to be starting this journey.

[@davidjackson393]

Todd Pettingill was PERFECT for what they were going for at the time, haha. I always loved him and thought of Michael Cole as the new Todd Pettingill for alot of years ha.

[@DrRawBalls_TheDummy]

David Jackson yes good all Todd Pettingell was the man lol an was perfect for that time in wwf I agree an every time I hear the intro music at the beginning of these videos I always think about Todd an the PPV match card when he would recap who was fighting an ect

[@bastih.5264]

I couldn't stand Todd Pettingell. Even back then as a kid i always thought he was just too goofy and too much wannabe-funny. Total pain in the ass!

[@davidjackson393]

@@bastih.5264 Fair enough, the lamewad grew on me though

[@Krendall2]

I think I was about five years too old to find Todd funny. I do appreciate the energy and enthusiasm he had doing pretty much anything, though. That could not have been easy during one of the worst periods in WWF/E history.

[@rickycain4787]

And he still is. 😅😅😅

[@SmarkusAurelius]

This is probably the most consistent wrestling channel in terms of producing quality content

[@nickvillaverde1341]

I LOVE this idea, the monday night wars have just been a thing I've seen on paper, actually seeing them reviewed back to back is bliss

[@trentshimmonsiilaogreens4074]

Totally have to do this. New episodes every Monday at the same time that the old wars were going on. That would be really cool. You can make an hour-long and I would watch it.👍

[@brandonpage7087]

Yes please continue this series! This was an amazing trip down memory lane! This was one of my fave periods in wrestling!

[@McSorleyFan33]

Greatest series on KZbin as of now. I’m looking forward to binge watching this. Love your videos 🤘🏼

[@TheJoec2005]

Sting vs Shawn Michaels would have been a great wrestlemania main event

[@mrdestructo74]

What a great idea for a weekly series , bravo !

[@arpegio88]

Yes please keep this as a weekly series!

[@thorboysen3318]

Wrestling Bios has become my absolute favourite wrestling channel! You always put so much effort and passion in your work. I really appreciate what you are doing! Thanks a lot!!!

[@TheMadStork83]

This was a real war, unlike AEW vs NXT where both shows can’t even break a million viewers.

[@RyanKuebel]

I got your test results. You're postiive. You got the HIV. You got the aids big time!

[@singingbanshee]

@@RyanKuebel LMAOO💀 @Dr mantis But yeah AEW vs NXT is basically the modern version of it, who cares?

[@SawBoss591]

Because NXT and AEW are for the niche Wrestling audience. Not the mass Sports Entertainment audience.

[@justafanofnerdculture7602]

Dr. Mantis Toboggan, M.D. Agreed! AWE vs NXT is not even close to what the MNW was.

[@ironlift2275]

@@singingbanshee aew vs nxt is like school girls gossiping a out each other 😂😂😂 yeah, what a modern war, hahahahaha 😂😂😂

[@purpleepicicon]

I'd totally watch a weekly breakdown of this. Keep it going right up until WCW got bought out and you'd have some amazing binge watching for your channel (not that you don't already).

[@hosslong8339]

Yes , please do more of these !!!! This is an awesome way to compare the two and I would love to watch if you went all the way to the end of WCW . And thanks for the quality of your reviews, not just on this but everything. Your dedication to classic wrestling and wrestlers brings back so many memories and I just can’t thank you enough. Keep it up and I’ll keep watching.

[@GermanWehrmacht]

I know I'd love to see more segments on it. I know the The Monday Night Wars that the WWE did were more overviews and in general, I think having a more perspective analysis of the Monday by Monday look at each shows from a retrospective would be great. I know I would watch Nitro, switch to Raw and watch it that way which was why I enjoyed Mondays coming home from school.

[@redmangc]

Man love the series decided to come back to the start for a bit, and man I was always confused why you said you didnt like some of your older videos and compared to todays i can see why. Its not that this is terrible or anything but Youre so much more confident sounding now and energetic. I doubt you'll ever read this, but if you do I Just want to tell you how great you've become over the last 3+ years

[@customcruzer]

You are my hero for making these, can't wait to watch the rest of them!!!!!!

[@FrancisJFox]

Starting this 3 years after posted - THANK YOU - going one after another!!

[@mjl221]

It's got to be a lot of work putting one of these together, but if you're up to it, I'd certainly enjoy watching it. This one was great! I forgot both shows were only 1 hour each back then. I used to watch one live and record the other onto VHS. They were on head-to-head in my area. Great job as always, sir!

[@JSKIDNB]

Glad you've started this! I loved watching the monday night wars on the network and I am pleased to see we now get your take on it too. Will we be getting a brief history of the monday night wars series? Thank you as always!

[@camwatson9172]

3 years later been a fan since the beginning

[@tmacjersey6472]

Please continue to make these, this is by far the best thing anyone could do with comparing the two products

[@darthrowsdower3554]

thanks for this! would love to see more. it wasnt until i watched an Eddie Guerero match by chance that i really started to channel switch between raw and nitro. At this point i felt Hogan and Macho had given wwf their best years and had no interest in what they were doing. It was wcw's midcard that got me into the brand. Benoit, Alex Wright, La Parka, Jericho were phenominal and underused.

[@ryanrandall1727]

Yasss... Definitely make this a series! Appreciate the work put into these

[@Phanhsackdy]

Thankyou for taking ths time to put all this together. I used to watch the monday night wars with my pop when I was in middle school. I was a more WWF fan back then but thanks to channels like this I enjoy seeing and realizing that wcw was better.

[@jeremytrump7007]

Please keep doing them I grew up switching back and forth and it’s cool to relive this stuff 25 years later

[@jrich195]

Yes Absolutely would love a weekly series!

[@RL-rd3gf]

Definitely a weekly segment I look forward to viewing. Great content and love the breakdowns for each show.👌🏽👍🏽

[@there615]

Love this series! Please keep doing these vids!

[@NickMullet]

Starting the series been watching random eps here n there but going for the full swoop now. First two eps on the conception of both shows were awesome. Thank you.

[@shenanitims4006]

I'd love to see the next week reviewed. It's a nice time capsule to that time in my life. Though I think it's about when I started to check out of wrestling. So it's nice to see the old faces in "new" matches.

[@RetroJR3379]

I would love to see a weekly version and you gave me a great idea. I'm going to watch both RAW & NITRO before I check out your review 😎

[@thomgage7083]

I just came across this series today. I got a lot to look forward to. Keep up the good work.

[@BrandonHex]

Thank you for this series.

[@craigles7]

Great concept Bio-Man! Love the points system at the end too.

[@TheHorrorMiserMontyG]

This was a great job. Please make this a weekly show.

[@weiry1356]

Great stuff hope this becomes a weekly series.

[@MrBARishel]

Please create these as a playlist we can watch in order! Awesome work. Love reliving my childhood watching the wars!

[@mdgersper]

I will watch this every week that you make it. Your content is fantastic

[@at0micwerew0lf]

Had to come back and watch the 1st episode again. What a great series this has become! Bloody brilliant.

[@AsToldByRena]

This was great! I would love to see these every week

[@sextonhardcastle8696]

The weekly breakdown is a great idea!!

[@williamblackwell8589]

Love this channel just keeps getting better and better! Hope to see more like this, VERY interesting how you match the programs head to head. Keep up the great work! LOVE WRESTLING BIOS!!!

[@bartlevinson8874]

Wow that was awesome! Love this format!!

[@kevinmuldoon2192]

Enjoyed this very much, keep them coming

[@johnhandcock8193]

Wait a second, I'm not complaining but are we going to be doing this for the next 5 years, approximately how long the war was itself, because if so, count me in, I wasn't born then, but this will be one hell of a roller coaster and I'm climbing aboard.

[@Kerldogg13]

Would LOVE a weekly vid like this

[@danielward6624]

I know it just started subscribing to your Channel but I have not regretted one moment of it. I really love the fact that you're never biased you always give a look into wrestling when it truly was at its peak. I absolutely 100% hope that you continue the Nitro versus Raw War and keep it running because let's face it all fans love to be nostalgic and it's kind of hard to be nostalgic about wrestling 5 years ago 14 years ago. It's just not the same anymore and it feels good to go back to my childhood. I was 10 in 1995 and I absolutely loved this video. "Keep it up brother"

[@ruesmale6940]

Caught some of these out of order, liked them so much, I’ve started over. Thanks for the content.

[@LordDezzer]

Yes definitely carry on with this. Complete new and fresh idea (at least for me)

[@wawaelias8842]

Wrestling bios, I'm happy especially now you watch whatever you post i just got an exercise machine for my apartment , so this is gonna be shop fun to watch while i do the cardio , whatever you want to post on your channel i will gladly watch , your videos are entertaining, thank you so very much my dude !!

[@THENONCHALANTDON]

Going above and beyond with content thank you ❤

[@sebastianwhpx298]

This was so entertaining to watch I hope you do a week by week comparing every single nitro vs raw video. Kudos my friend this was one my most favorite things to watch in a long time!

[@Nickzstuff]

Definitely would love a weekly breakdown

[@Benjatron-jw2rg]

I remember watching the first Nitro. As a 10 year old, I thought it was awesome. It was a big surprise when Lex came in and Hogan was finally doing something. Before Nitro, Hogan only wrestled on PPVs.

[@rickycain4787]

Yep, I was 10 as well. I remember nitro more than wwf. I always watched nitro more from that point on. Eric got me with Lex being there.

[@lhmmhl1]

This was great! Keep doing these.

[@mikebuglione32]

All your videos are great, but a series on this would be another level. Keep up the great work!

[@RetroJR3379]

I loved it and make me think what I missed cause I didn't had cable so I missed the 1st few month of the Monday Night War. If I was watching it I would've watched Nitro for the novelty.

[@christianouellette1006]

Who's here after Reliving the war 200?!?

[@Jasonwilliams21]

this is great. love the format

[@dillonwhite634]

Defo more of these please. It only get's more interesting. 1. Talent going back & forth. 2. Shady tactics on both sides. 3. Changes to both shows to compete. 4. The push of mid carders from the start to the main event. 5. The arrogance of Bischoff, thinking 83 weeks will last forever. 6. Huge mistakes on WCW's part. So many interesting factors at play! What a time period! :)

[@barrettlloyd9247]

A weekly series like this is pretty ambitious but a great idea. especially if you're able to dig a tiny bit deeper and find the ratings for each show and give sporadic recaps of storylines and on-air content to contextualize the rating shifts. A deep dive of the Monday night wars on its own playlist (or even a second channel might open another revenue stream for you? Idk that much about youtube) That would be super ambitious but your channel is A+ and I'm sure you have the ability to pull it off if you can find the time. Count me as a fan either way, keep up the great work!

[@Venemofthe888]

i think doing these on the same day each week would be really cool since i quite enjoyed this. If not every week just every so often :)

[@squattingnevil]

Would definitely love a weekly series of these. Love your stuff 👍

[@Funtimes874]

This is brilliant! Please do more!

[@imal25]

WILL SEE YOU ON THURSDAY ON THE ALL NEW EPISODE OF RAW VS NITRO RELIVING THE WAR. SO THANK YOU FOR WATCHING AND TAKE CARE.

[@keelyleilani1326]

Nitro with Hogan and Macho Man was what got me into wrestling in the first place. I never even saw an episode of Raw until 1998.

[@bradhornby89]

Yes please more of this Loving your videos Thanks for doing this

[@J0HNJ0RDAN]

This channel is a gem, absolutely fantastic.

[@nm499x]

Whether it's 1985 or 2019, Ric Flair looks 60 years old.

[@victoryusmc]

Wonder if this weekly review would be any good, says someone who has already watched it from beginning to end twice.

[@itburns805]

Thanks W.B. for putting the time in and making these videos, you more than earned my sub.

[@DerekDomino71]

I would really enjoy weekly episodes of this. Really well done video.

[@robertsharpless999]

Man this was awesome! definitely would love more videos like this