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Business Wars

Wondery

History, Business, David Brown, Management

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1995 and the Monday Night Wars are underway. WCW’s new show Monday Nitro is grappling with the WWF’s Monday Night Raw to win TV viewers’ attention.

WCW isn’t pulling its punches either. Under the command of Eric Bischoff, WCW is dropping spoiler bombs, luring away WWF’s top wrestlers and trashing the WWF brand.

And as WCW gains momentum, Bischoff is plotting a killer blow – a shock role reversal that will force WWF boss Vince McMahon to rethink how his wrestling promotion works.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to Business Wars Add Free on Amazon Music.
0:04.8	Download the app today.
0:07.4	Business is battle.
0:09.0	On Business Wars, we learn what it takes to win by looking closely at ambitious battles,
0:13.8	like the one in our latest series, WWF versus WCW.
0:17.9	And our new book, The Art of Business Wars, gets to the very heart of each conflict,
0:21.7	unearthing all the valuable lessons.
0:23.8	Go to Wondery.com slash the Art of Business Wars to order your copy now.
0:29.4	To and Wondery Plus to listen to Business Wars one week early and add free in the Wondery
0:33.5	app, download the Wondery app in your Apple or Google Play mobile app store today.
0:39.9	A listener note, this episode originally aired in 2019.
0:43.5	It's the evening of Monday, September 11, 1995, and across America, wrestling fans are
0:58.2	on Tenter Hooks.
1:00.5	Last week, WCW Monday Nitro exploded on the TV screens and power slammed WWF when it
1:07.0	announced on live television that one of its biggest stars, Lex Luger, had defected to
1:12.9	WCW.
1:13.9	Now, it's round two.
1:16.9	But this time, WCW's Nitro doesn't have the airwaves to itself.
1:22.2	The night, it goes head to head with WWF's Monday Night Raw for the first time.
1:30.8	As showtime approaches, WWF boss Vince McMahon and his top aides gather around a TV in WWF's
1:37.0	headquarters in Stanford, Connecticut.
1:39.6	After last week's upset, they're keeping an eye on the competition, but McMahon's
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