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10 WCW Innovations That Changed Wrestling Forever - More PPVs! War Games! Cruiserweights! The New World Order?!

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🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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From a live weekly wrestling show to cruiserweights in the spotlight, WCW did a lot of things right. Adam Nicholas presents 10 WCW Innovations That Changed Wrestling Forever...


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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's often a lot of negativity towards the company because of its

0:35.2

internal reputation, creative decline, and eventual death in 2001. What people often forget, and by people, I mean, W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. B. W. W. B. W. W. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B.C.W. pushing W.W. better, we may not have the same kind of programming we see today.

0:56.4

When W.C.W. went after W.D.E. head-to-head by launching Nitro in September 1995,

1:01.6

they brought serious competition and it forced

1:03.9

Vince McMahon to adapt his own product to their newer, more innovative, more

1:07.5

creative efforts. Now as of this recording, W.C.W. has been dead and

1:11.0

buried for a good 19 years at this point, but while it may no longer

1:14.6

be around to offer competition to W. W. W.'s still many things that did so well that they have

1:19.5

become staples in both W. W. W. W. W. W.'s newest competitor that we see today.

1:26.0

I'm Adam Nicholas. This is what culture wrestling and these are 10 W.C.W innovations that change

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wrestling forever.

1:32.0

Number 10. Going to 2 hours and then three hours.

1:35.0

Raw was a one hour show when it started out in 1993.

1:38.0

Nitro was two when it began in 1995,

1:41.0

like everything in wrestling, fans wanted more. Nitro was the first to go to two hours. in Without W.C W go into two hours first, we don't know if W W W W W.

1:53.4

ever would have changed Raw and how it was presented.

1:56.1

When W W. W. announced that the longest running weekly episodic show in television

1:59.4

history, aka Mundonite Raw, was moving to three hours permanently in 2012.

2:03.6

They did so without mentioning the W.C.W.

2:05.8

actually made Nitro a three hour show in January 1998.

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