Retro Ups & Downs - When 600,000 Left WCW Nitro For WWE Raw
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🗓️ 9 May 2021
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Our review of both the WWE Raw and WCW Nitro from the night when Tony Schiavone announced Mankid was going to win the WWF Title and 600,000 people changed channel! Then WCW did the finger poke of doom and their downfall began...
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| 0:00.0 | And well here we are January the 4th 1999 which you could kind of compare to one company |
| 0:15.2 | cementing its legacy and the other one taking a gun and shooting itself right in the |
| 0:19.9 | foot. |
| 0:20.9 | And what am I referring to? |
| 0:21.9 | The main events of both WWF Raw and WZW Nitro. |
| 0:26.2 | We all know the story to Raw was taped to Nitro was live so halfway through the show |
| 0:30.1 | Tony Shivane just went ah ah we have learned that over on the other show cactus jack who |
| 0:34.9 | used to wrestle here is going to win their well title so we strongly advise that you keep |
| 0:40.0 | watching Nitro instead. |
| 0:41.6 | Ha that's going to put some butts in seats. |
| 0:44.5 | And then around about 600,000 people changed the channel because they wanted to put their |
| 0:49.0 | butt in that mankind seat. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm probably glad they did do this when they figured out what Nitro had done as well and |
| 0:54.9 | because we have so much to talk about because we are going to compare two shows let's just |
| 0:59.4 | take the finger of power and yes give the good bits and up and the bad bits are down for |
| 1:04.1 | both of these shows. |
| 1:05.7 | And as a little spoiler never ever ever ever ever ever watch this episode of WZW Nitro |
| 1:12.7 | I could have done a bit of job if I got a pencil and stucked out my ass and they're drawn |
| 1:18.0 | on a piece of paper. |
| 1:19.3 | That's the worst and most embarrassing thing I've ever said mum and dad I'm sorry let's |
| 1:23.7 | up those doubts. |
| 1:24.7 | Okay so we will jump back and forth from Raw to Nitro because of course I watched both |
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