What the World Was Watching: World Championship Wrestling in 1995 (The Nitro Era) (What the World Was Watching (WCW))

On September 4, 1995 World Championship Wrestling (WCW) launched its first episode of Monday Nitro from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota. That night would inaugurate the famed "Monday Night Wars" between Nitro and the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) Monday Night RAW and constituted WCW's largest challenge to the WWF to that point as Executive Vice President Eric Bischoff hoped the show would bring greater attention to WCW, ensure its profitability, bolster his job security, and make it the top wrestling promotion in the United States. Building on the work of What the World Was Watching: World Championship Wrestling in 1995 (The Pre-Nitro Years) this book analyzes WCW from September to December 1995, reviewing its television program, chronicling angles, compiling win/loss data for superstars, charting major feuds and angles, ranking matches, and providing a timeline for major WCW events.