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''WCW Monday Nitro'' was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head with the World Wrestling Federation's (WWF) ''Monday Night Raw'' from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001. Production ceased shortly after WCW was purchased by the WWF. The debut of ''Nitro'' began the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the WWF and WCW that lasted for almost six years and saw each company resort to cutthroat tactics to try to compete with the competition. In mid-1996, ''Nitro'' began to draw better ratings than ''Raw'' based on the strength of the nWo storyline, a rebellious wrestling stable that wanted to take over WCW. ''Nitro'' continued to beat ''Raw'' for 84 consecutive weeks, forcing WWE owner Vince McMahon to change the way he did business.〔 As the nWo storyline grew stagnant, fan interest in the storyline waned, and ''Raw'' began to edge out ''Nitro'' in the ratings. The turning point for the organizations came during mid April 1998 after Steve Austin won his first WWF title. From that week forward, ''Raw'' beat ''Nitro'' in the ratings by a significant amount, and WCW was never able to regain the success it once had. Besides broadcasting from various arenas and locations across the country (such as the Mall of America in suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota, from which the very first episode of ''Nitro'' was broadcast), ''Nitro'' also did special broadcasts from the Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando in 1996, and did annual ''Spring Break-Out'' episodes from Panama City Beach, Florida starting in March 1997. The rights to ''WCW Monday Nitro'' now belong to WWE. Episodes from September 4, 1995 to February 16, 1998 of ''WCW Monday Nitro'' are available for streaming on the WWE Network,〔http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2014/0806/579733/update-on-wcw-nitro-airing-on-the-wwe-network/〕 and WWE has released three "Best of WCW Monday Nitro" DVD sets as of October, 2015.〔 ==First episode== The first episode of ''Nitro'' was broadcast from the Mall of America in WP:NOR policy, the information should be presented the way WCW did. Thank you for your understanding.-->Minneapolis, Minnesota" TITLE="Minneapolis, Minnesota">Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 4, 1995.〔 The featured matches on the one-hour broadcast were Brian Pillman versus Jushin Thunder Liger, Ric Flair versus WCW United States Heavyweight Champion Sting, and WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan taking on Big Bubba Rogers. The show was also highlighted by the return of Lex Luger to WCW after having spent the previous two years wrestling for the WWF, where he had been one of the promotion's top stars. Luger's appearance was particularly jarring because he had just wrestled a match for the WWF the previous evening; the match was his final contractual obligation with the company, and Luger signed with WCW the morning of his appearance. The event set the tone for ''Nitros "anything can happen" atmosphere, and prefigured the similar defections of WWF wrestlers Scott Hall and Kevin Nash the following year. The title video for the debut edition of ''Nitro'' featured multiple shots of Big Van Vader (one of four wrestlers featured, along with Hulk Hogan, Sting and Randy Savage), who parted ways with WCW following a backstage altercation with Paul Orndorff. Absent from the first episode, he had been scheduled to face Hogan for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on the September 11 edition, but was replaced by Lex Luger, who issued a challenge to Hogan on the debut show.〔(SEPT. 4 IN HISTORY: WCW Nitro launches ). PWTorch.〕 Vader would never perform on ''Nitro'', and embarked on a WWF career in January 1996.〔(Vader: Profile & Match Listing ). IWDB.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WCW Monday Nitro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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