Revisiting WCW Nitro 1995 The Second Ever Nitro, First Head To Head With RAW, Hogan vs Luger, Road to WCW War Games

DEADLOCK: A Pro Wrestling Podcast

DEADLOCK

Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

September 11th, 1995 is the second ever episode of WCW Nitro! Lex Luger just made his debut and is here to challenge Hulk Hogan for the WCW Championship. Hogan is preparing for his War Games match this Sunday and is down a member Vader is unable to make the PPV. Who will join Team Hogan to take on The Dungeon of Doom? This is also the first time that Nitro and RAW go head to head in the Monday night ratings war. Plus, Sabu makes his debut against Alex Wright, VK Wallstreet battles Sting for the US Title, and Scott Norton takes on Randy Savage! WCW Nitro is live for the 2nd time ever as they go head to head with WWF Monday Night Raw in the epic battle for rating's supremacy!

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0:00.0	The boys are back in town.
0:04.8	Welcome to the Deadlock podcast episode number 30015.
0:10.8	315.
0:12.1	315, very close to 316, but that's not right now.
0:17.6	For now, on 315, we're going to talk about WCW Nitro September 11th, 1995.
0:24.8	Yes, the second episode of Nitro in history, and of course the first time that they went head-to-head, head-to-head direct competition directly against Monday Night Raw.
0:36.5	And it's quite the doozy, quite the doozy.
0:39.2	And they pull out all the stops here to get the best show possible and get a better rating than Raw.
0:44.8	And do they do it?
0:45.8	We'll find out on this episode.
0:47.2	Before we get into that, Johnny has the Deadlock updates.
0:51.3	Oh, I lost them.
0:53.8	I guess we're going to the names. I have them. Oh, right. Anything to stop you from the names. Deadlock updates, of course, up now on the Patreon. That's patreon. That's patreon.com slash deadlock. But if you know about that, have you heard about this? Have you seen this? Patreon.com slash deadlock DW. Yes, that's our Patreon. 6,000 people can't be wrong. And up now in the $5 and above tier, watch this is up. What is it? Oh, maybe you should tell me. That's fun. Also, in the $10 and above tier, a new retro sync is up covering our review of WCWNitro from 1998, where Brett Hart and
1:30.5	Hulk Hogan have their only singles match.
1:33.4	That feels like a bajillion years ago.
1:36.3	Yeah, it does well.
1:38.0	That is the 99th Retro Sink, by the way, from David.
1:42.1	So after that, 100, he's, there's going to be soon 100 retro sinks by David on our Patreon, the
1:49.9	Deadlock Retro Sync.
1:51.7	He does a great job.
1:52.6	You should check him out.
1:53.5	That's in the $10 above tier.
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