Although, on the other hand, with the way the ratings where going they didn't exactly have a lot of options, like Nitro very likely would have been cancelled around this time had Ted Turner not personally been a big fan.
I remember being 16 and watching this episode, and thinking: this is actually pretty exciting. Finally the younger talent can get some time in the spotlight. Of course that excitement gradually diminished over the following weeks.
Triple H vs Taka was a good match despite it being so short. The crowd really bought into the possibility that Taka could win. I remember watching it live and really enjoying it.
I'm sure this reboot will revitalise WCW, the geniuses in charge are cashing in on the reboot craze decades before the reboot craze! What great foresight!
At its heart: the new blood Vs. Millionaires club IN THEORY is not a terrible idea But you don’t make Vince Russo your face manager. Within literally a week fans were already like “wait we hate that guy” so the entire reason you’re doing this becomes flipped on its head and the storyline becomes “how dare these young upstarts think they deserve a place in the main event” Which is the exact problem you were trying to fix in the first place
@@charlottescrafts The problem with that was Russo didn't have the proper "I can't wait to see this guy get his comeuppance" heat. Rather, he had "turn the channel" heat.
The thing that I hated most about this period of WCW was how often Russo appeared on every show. He wasn't "a great heel" heat for me, but "just get the hell off the screen" heat.
Im kind of getting sad knowing this show, the Reliving the War series, is truly going to be over in less than a year or so....but what a journey it has been!
Real fresh start for WCW here. Bischoff leading a heel faction. A white hummer. Jarrett is the chosen one. They did a total 180 and I'm looking forward to what comes next.
Idky but I always loved russo’s nonchalant walk to the ring. Looks like a kid coming to the dinner table being forced to eat something he doesn’t like 😅😅
This is like the thousandth comment I seen on these videos about Jeff Jarrett being top dog at WCW. We get it. People dislike Jeff Jarrett. And he wasn't a main event guy. But most of WCWs roster was injured. He was better than most of the roster they had. And any wrestler in that situation wouldn't have turned that company around.
It's impossible not to have hindsight when it comes to reboot Nitro, lad. Everything that's said or done here is just a pre-cursor to the absolute bollocks that's ahead of us, and the eventual death of WCW along with wrestlings' greatest boom period
@@brianadkins3880 ez e mentioned on his podcast that he regretted say that..but damn, it was a helluva zinger. But of course I was hoping Sid would have stiffed the hell outta EZ E for that comment.
"Vince Russo wrote shows for the internet." Yeah, and we saw how that worked out in the end. Sadly, certain modern bookers have basically refused to learn from that and care more about likes from their "sickos" than good shows.
I remember this day very vividly. This was the day that everything that I loved about WCW and what got me into wrestling died. I only watched out of habit, rather than enjoyment until about 2002.
Here 17 seconds after this hit! Its still hard to believe we have less then a year of the monday night wars left, gotta say this just might be the best series on youtube ive had the pleasure of watching! I am looking forward to Armageddon 2000 thats for sure!
You know usually there’s like one “jumping the shark” moments in TV, but it seems that WCW had several and this is definitely one of them. It’s going to be a long road for the rest of the series.
@@21stcenturyrambo16I say Starcade 97. It was like the most hyped up feud of the year. It was innovative for the time, making a storyline begin and end all in one year! And the main event came and shat the bed! And what makes it the worst is the fact that Bischoff refuses to admit it was a big mistake.
Not only that, but Bischoff rattled off an insultingly low number to Luger, thinking Luger wouldn't sign, but Lex still jumped ship back to WCW anyway.
An important rule about corporations in general: If you work as a head corporation that sucks, DONT let your clientele know that you also think the corporation sucks. Instead, subtly move and evolve the corporation so that it slowly drifts away from sucking. When you hit them with a big reboot or revamp, you put too much pomp and circumstance that whatever is new is instantly going to be “good”, leading to the chance for the rebooted version of the corporation to be disappointing. …anywhoo, please welcome to the story Vince Russo!
Paul Heyman--"Vince our ECW Champion just showed up on TNT..." Vince McMahon--"You Guys Helped us out in 1997 when we were losing to Nitro...Now We'll help you out...." Paul Heyman--"Can you send us Tazz?" Vince McMahon--"We'll send you Tazz but under 1 Condition....Tazz will also be Recognized as ECW Champion on USA Network...Deal?" Paul Heyman--"Deal"
Gotta love the Eric decided to reference Sid stabbing Arn Anderson with scissor in the early 90s. Like who was going to get that reference in 2000? That line is what feels like, to me, whenever wrestlers try to be meta. Like cool, nice inside reference bro, but you John Doe ain't gonna get it, stop pandering to smarks.
30:00 "Test took a 3D, one of the best lookin' double team moves in the WWF during this time period.." Seriously, the 3D looks so good.. especially when there's a lot of hang time before Bubba does his part
My WCW friend an hour before this show: "They have one chance. They either fix everything with this reboot or I'm done." My WCW friend fifteen minutes after this show: "THAT WAS AMAZING! YES! WE'RE BACK, BABY!"
I remember reading Chris Kanyon's book. He said he confronted Hogan about what he said about Billy Kidman. Hogan told Kanyon that he didn't mean it. He was just shooting
As someone who lived through it the first time, I can honestly say by this point I was pretty much checked out of WCW. I think I was still watching a little bit in Jan and Feb of 2000, but by the time this happened I was just done. I would check in occasionally but wasn't really worried about it.
I feel like Jeff Jarrett still, to this day, thinks he was getting awesome heel heat back then instead of the "we're so tired of people letting you have a microphone" heat we were sending lol.
I remember how I excited I was for the change of direction of WCW. But when the New Blood won every match, I thought "oh well, they screwed it all up again."
The WCW World Televsion Championship was also stripped from Jim Duggan on this reboot episode, but that title would never be brought back as it got retired afterwards.
Honestly the worst part of Nitro from this point until he leaves is Russo making himself the strongest booked character on the show, with him regularly emasculating talent Stephanie McMahon style.
You should start asking people to subscribe, like, comment and share. The people who watch this series want to see you get to a Million subs and no one would begrudge you for doing that. Keep up the amazing work dude!!
Back in the UK, after a week in the Caribbean. It’s cold, I’m tired, no food in the fridge. Indian takeaway arrives, and the latest episode of Reliving the War has just dropped; life is good.
Thanks as always for keeping Bret alive in the intro. I know it can't last forever, but it makes me a little happier. Now if we can only get the Roadie 'shut up' all will be well with the world again.
Love how Jarrett and Russo promo start with talking down about the "good ol boys" in the back and change, which is rich coming from a guy who said wrestling was a white man sport, and a company that had to be sued into giving guys like Booker T a chance at a world title in WCW.
@ i mean his "pro wrestling is for white men" comment was only made a few yrs ago.... so who really knows how they felt about Booker? Also recently it came out Booker didnt like Russo or Bischoff at this time as well for not only his pushes but title defenses being booked weak.
I remember rewatching this episode for a while because I couldn't believe they would just reset EVERYTHING. It reallly brought a sense of realism. But as young as i was i didnt think about those stories getting cancelled abruptly.
Everyone's talking about the fallout from Vince Russo and the WCW reboot, meanwhile I'm over here just admiring the backing of Club Foot by Kasabian in the segment.
The WCW reboot is here, and oh boy, I can see why Nitro has 50 episodes left. 😂
50 was too many
The days for WCW are truly numbered now.
Bro the ratings went up, the MIAs were a good ideal..Naw just kidding. They're done
Russo doomed WCW in my opinion
We have entered the final arc, this is the true homestretch everyone
Man, buddy, you figured that out on your own or...
They've been numbered for a few years..brother 😂
I respect WCW to at least be self-aware enough to know their product was lousy. So many businesses wouldn't even try this.
Although, on the other hand, with the way the ratings where going they didn't exactly have a lot of options, like Nitro very likely would have been cancelled around this time had Ted Turner not personally been a big fan.
I remember being 16 and watching this episode, and thinking: this is actually pretty exciting. Finally the younger talent can get some time in the spotlight. Of course that excitement gradually diminished over the following weeks.
The Wrestling Observer is still in business. That alone defies logic and any 5-Star Rating.
Aew nowadays
@@kishore16966AEW has lasted longer than Nitro 😂
Here we Go...Bro
WCW Reboot, Bro
Titles vacated, Bro
Game Over WCW, Bro
Bro bro bro bro bro
Hey…
Why’d you say Bro less than fifty times?
I really hope & pray Cornette outlives Russo so he can piss on his grave 😂😂😂
Sid never ever gets a wiff of the title ever again.
@jiovanysoltero923 he did but it led to the worst injury seen on a wcw ppv aside from Rick rude at bash at the beach breaking his back
Russo gives off so much negative energy. it's amazing.
He’s just a NY bro
Triple H vs Taka was a good match despite it being so short. The crowd really bought into the possibility that Taka could win. I remember watching it live and really enjoying it.
The predecessor to HHH-Jericho title change tease coming soon…
The callback to the brass knuckles 'that actually look like knucks so we'll call them brass knucks' was a perfect touch 🤌...
I'm sure this reboot will revitalise WCW, the geniuses in charge are cashing in on the reboot craze decades before the reboot craze! What great foresight!
The best thing about this period of WCW is that Flair grew his hair back out for the first time since 1990
Shame it ending up being cut by Russo
The point of no return for WCW
yeah there doomed from here on
This reboot might finally push Glacier as WCW champion!!!
The Big Cold Belt.
At its heart: the new blood Vs. Millionaires club IN THEORY is not a terrible idea
But you don’t make Vince Russo your face manager. Within literally a week fans were already like “wait we hate that guy” so the entire reason you’re doing this becomes flipped on its head and the storyline becomes “how dare these young upstarts think they deserve a place in the main event”
Which is the exact problem you were trying to fix in the first place
The new blood were heels from the get go, as is explicit in this video. You were supposed to hate vinnie ru
@@charlottescrafts The problem with that was Russo didn't have the proper "I can't wait to see this guy get his comeuppance" heat. Rather, he had "turn the channel" heat.
Agreed, it looked good on paper. It’s how that plan was executed that was the issue
“Billy Kidman was in the passenger seat because he isn’t old enough to drive” is one of the best one liners
I audibly sighed when I read the title. Welcome to the "new" WCW.
Hogan v kidman may be the strangest feud of the Monday night war.
Start of F.U.N.B Hogan.
My favorite Jeff Jerret promo in WCW was that one where he was really angry and said he was the chosen one and had all the stroke
So every promo he did in WCW post-1999 😂
The thing that I hated most about this period of WCW was how often Russo appeared on every show. He wasn't "a great heel" heat for me, but "just get the hell off the screen" heat.
Without question, and as someone else mentioned, he always booked himself strong who got to beat up the babyfaces and rarely got beat up himself.
Im kind of getting sad knowing this show, the Reliving the War series, is truly going to be over in less than a year or so....but what a journey it has been!
Also, I was biker miker-liker number 275! Caught it 15 minutes after upload!
Real fresh start for WCW here. Bischoff leading a heel faction. A white hummer. Jarrett is the chosen one. They did a total 180 and I'm looking forward to what comes next.
Your sarcasm is strong! lol
Idky but I always loved russo’s nonchalant walk to the ring. Looks like a kid coming to the dinner table being forced to eat something he doesn’t like 😅😅
😂😂😂😂
I love that The Godfather said that the "creatures of the night" were actually exotic dancers from local businesses.
especially "the one with the large honkers"
lmao! 🤣
Amazing we finally see brass knucks that look like brass knucks for the first time on RTW.
Scott Hudson was highly underrated.
It's crazy how Bischoff wanted to reboot WCW again in 2001 before Vince bought them
Yea after the 2000 disaster I could see why TNT/TBS didn’t want to go through this headache again lol
Its crazy to see how much time Austin was out for during this era
He was off T.V, outside some cameos for 10 months right in the middle of the Attitude Era. Crazy
Double JJ as the main guy u know WCWs dead. Big thumbs up for Wrestling Bios
This is like the thousandth comment I seen on these videos about Jeff Jarrett being top dog at WCW. We get it. People dislike Jeff Jarrett. And he wasn't a main event guy. But most of WCWs roster was injured. He was better than most of the roster they had. And any wrestler in that situation wouldn't have turned that company around.
"You're the last thing ppl see before their favorite wrestling company dies" - Maxwell Jacob Friedman, 2025
@@labbaby189God damn, that’s somehow more brutal than the “Broke a 1000 guitars, never drew a dime” insult usually levied to him 😂
damn what a missed opportunity, we could have had The Big Val-Showski tag.
This match up between triple H and Taka michinoku is one of my favorite matches
The reboot is what I did on SvR 2006 GM mode for the lols, worked out as well as it did for WCW
It's impossible not to have hindsight when it comes to reboot Nitro, lad. Everything that's said or done here is just a pre-cursor to the absolute bollocks that's ahead of us, and the eventual death of WCW along with wrestlings' greatest boom period
Eric Bischoff: what’s wrong Sid?, you can’t find your pair of Scissors?
Mark Madden: WOW!!!
Fans in 2000: What the hell is he talking about?
@@DLRX Was going to mention this. It got ZERO reaction. No doubt written by Russo for the .00001% who cared.
@@brianadkins3880 Off script bro, swerve bro
If Sid foresaw his future say now till his Raw Return, he should of swung for the fences at Eric
@@brianadkins3880 ez e mentioned on his podcast that he regretted say that..but damn, it was a helluva zinger. But of course I was hoping Sid would have stiffed the hell outta EZ E for that comment.
3 days before the legendary fued between Stephanie and Jericho starts
The Brett Hart "shut up" popped me pretty good
It will Never get old, my guy...it remains timeless 🍻
Shut up 😂 I say it all the time totally forgetting people don't have a clue about what I'm talking about
"Vince Russo wrote shows for the internet." Yeah, and we saw how that worked out in the end. Sadly, certain modern bookers have basically refused to learn from that and care more about likes from their "sickos" than good shows.
This April 10th edition of Nitro arrived 10 days early cuz they had to be 4/20 high to write this
I remember this day very vividly. This was the day that everything that I loved about WCW and what got me into wrestling died. I only watched out of habit, rather than enjoyment until about 2002.
Why is that? What killed it?
@@PancakeProduct Russo.
Here 17 seconds after this hit! Its still hard to believe we have less then a year of the monday night wars left, gotta say this just might be the best series on youtube ive had the pleasure of watching!
I am looking forward to Armageddon 2000 thats for sure!
Going to be a sad day but what a ride reliving it twice.
You know usually there’s like one “jumping the shark” moments in TV, but it seems that WCW had several and this is definitely one of them. It’s going to be a long road for the rest of the series.
What do you think the point of no return was? I think it was the finger poke
@@21stcenturyrambo16I say Starcade 97. It was like the most hyped up feud of the year. It was innovative for the time, making a storyline begin and end all in one year! And the main event came and shat the bed! And what makes it the worst is the fact that Bischoff refuses to admit it was a big mistake.
By that point, even the sharks had gotten bored and moved on.
8:13 Didn’t Luger contract expired with WWE and was gonna give him a new one, but he chose his own free will to come here to WCW you did nothing Eric!
Not only that, but Bischoff rattled off an insultingly low number to Luger, thinking Luger wouldn't sign, but Lex still jumped ship back to WCW anyway.
@@doriangreen3231Yeah so I don’t what Eric was on?
Eddie treated Chyna like Royalty, so convincingly I thought she was Tex Mex Latina
Sid "wish he was Vicious",ooooh what a burn lol
Reboots always end terribly
Final Fantasy XIV disagrees with you
i pop everytime i hear “you wanna war, you got one”
I pop when you pop
me playing killer klowns the game online
I popped from this comment because I also pop when you pop and the commenter above above me pops
Popping like big poppa pumps muscles when hes pumping iron, snorting patsys and popping pills 💪💪💪
You gonna get one
An important rule about corporations in general:
If you work as a head corporation that sucks, DONT let your clientele know that you also think the corporation sucks.
Instead, subtly move and evolve the corporation so that it slowly drifts away from sucking. When you hit them with a big reboot or revamp, you put too much pomp and circumstance that whatever is new is instantly going to be “good”, leading to the chance for the rebooted version of the corporation to be disappointing.
…anywhoo, please welcome to the story Vince Russo!
18:26 I can't look at Billy Kidman without seeing Adam Sandler
Paul Heyman--"Vince our ECW Champion just showed up on TNT..."
Vince McMahon--"You Guys Helped us out in 1997 when we were losing to Nitro...Now We'll help you out...."
Paul Heyman--"Can you send us Tazz?"
Vince McMahon--"We'll send you Tazz but under 1 Condition....Tazz will also be Recognized as ECW Champion on USA Network...Deal?"
Paul Heyman--"Deal"
Line of 2000 : "Where's the Dog, when you need him?" - Kevin Nash
4:27 imagine starting off your show by telling the crowd how horrible your show is un-ironically… genius marketing..
Gives new meaning to Stinko Malenko seeing Dean taking Rikishi's stink face move.
Gotta love the Eric decided to reference Sid stabbing Arn Anderson with scissor in the early 90s. Like who was going to get that reference in 2000? That line is what feels like, to me, whenever wrestlers try to be meta. Like cool, nice inside reference bro, but you John Doe ain't gonna get it, stop pandering to smarks.
Exactly, no one knew what the hell Bischoff was talking about in 2000. And of course that slob Madden had go 'WOW!' as if everyone knew what he meant.
"What's the matter, Sid? Can't find your scissors?"
Madden: WOW!
Me: Shut up, Madden.
30:00 "Test took a 3D, one of the best lookin' double team moves in the WWF during this time period.." Seriously, the 3D looks so good.. especially when there's a lot of hang time before Bubba does his part
It's the perfect tag-team finisher, and I will fight whoever denies it.
Brian Knobbs laughing and nodding in the ring when Bischoff said New Blood may have been the tip off that something wasn't going to work out.
Complete titterer Brian Knobbs
Eric Bischoff must have gotten those Hogan-sized cataracts again in TNA.
I forgot about that t-shirt
“Va- Chyna”
Thanks Wrestling Bios 👍
Union Underground- "Across The Nation" Raw theme (RTW intro) is a classic! ❤
My WCW friend an hour before this show: "They have one chance. They either fix everything with this reboot or I'm done."
My WCW friend fifteen minutes after this show: "THAT WAS AMAZING! YES! WE'RE BACK, BABY!"
Was your friend on hardcore drugs by any chance?
Ah the beginning of Mike awesome depressing Wcw run
Truth is, a lot of the boys were nervous when Bischoff brought Vince on board. Vampiro would dance around to Alex Wrights theme to ease his nerves.
"Billy kidman was in the passenger seat because he's not old enough to drive yet..." i choked😂
You give Scott a mic, and he give you GOLD
The last time I every watch any of wcw until the last episode
I remember reading Chris Kanyon's book. He said he confronted Hogan about what he said about Billy Kidman. Hogan told Kanyon that he didn't mean it. He was just shooting
Or maybe not
That story doesn't work for me brother
Kanyon worked himself into a shoot brother
@21stcenturyrambo16 I read that in Jawnny's and Pulse's Hogan voices 😂
Wiggle Wiggle’s face at 3:26 says it all…”bro”
This is truly the key point to where WCW hit the iceberg and started sinking.
I’ve been waiting for this moment Wcw in the Russo on screen era this is truely some of the most unhinged wrestling I’ve ever seen
My favorite car wreck era
New Blood Era
@ I just can not wait for him to talk about disco inferno and the duck
Not gonna lie.
That promo Kevin Nash was excellent
As someone who lived through it the first time, I can honestly say by this point I was pretty much checked out of WCW. I think I was still watching a little bit in Jan and Feb of 2000, but by the time this happened I was just done. I would check in occasionally but wasn't really worried about it.
Kidman and Hogan is the weirdest pairing ever
That's putting it nicely
Here we go fellow wrestling fans when WCW hit the restart button this truly marked the last days of wcw
I feel like Jeff Jarrett still, to this day, thinks he was getting awesome heel heat back then instead of the "we're so tired of people letting you have a microphone" heat we were sending lol.
So weird that I remembered this today and looked it up and then Wrestling Bios released a video about it
Never opened a video so fast in my life
I had forgotten about it happening but Tank Abbott "smacking" Mark Madden around makes Tank's WCW time more respectable.😂
Wcw is like watching a trainwreck at this point.
happy thursday bios fam! 🤘
Did they ever explain why Triple H and Chyna separated on TV?
I remember how I excited I was for the change of direction of WCW. But when the New Blood won every match, I thought "oh well, they screwed it all up again."
The WCW World Televsion Championship was also stripped from Jim Duggan on this reboot episode, but that title would never be brought back as it got retired afterwards.
I haven't watched any of these and I'm gonna binge the entire series when the last episode is uploaded
Not long now until the second David of Doom appears on WCW TV, Arquette.
He paid his Wrestling Sins.
You can’t kill David arquette
Taka’s title shot. A genuine highlight of the attitude era.
The Nitro Reboot was legit outsider art.
Honestly the worst part of Nitro from this point until he leaves is Russo making himself the strongest booked character on the show, with him regularly emasculating talent Stephanie McMahon style.
Ain't that the truth, his 'Go Away/Change the Channel' heat was off the charts.
Thanking you again for making my Thursdays better along with this Mary j. THANKS WB💯
Wrestlingbios is gonna need a new gig soon.
BUCKLE UP, BOYS AND GIRLS!!!
The fundamental flaw of the new Blood storyline is that they should have been the Faces.
You should start asking people to subscribe, like, comment and share. The people who watch this series want to see you get to a Million subs and no one would begrudge you for doing that. Keep up the amazing work dude!!
Here we go. The reboot of WCW begins. Strap in folks.
Back in the UK, after a week in the Caribbean. It’s cold, I’m tired, no food in the fridge. Indian takeaway arrives, and the latest episode of Reliving the War has just dropped; life is good.
Thanks as always for keeping Bret alive in the intro. I know it can't last forever, but it makes me a little happier.
Now if we can only get the Roadie 'shut up' all will be well with the world again.
And I (kinda) got it!! I love this channel.
Love how Jarrett and Russo promo start with talking down about the "good ol boys" in the back and change, which is rich coming from a guy who said wrestling was a white man sport, and a company that had to be sued into giving guys like Booker T a chance at a world title in WCW.
Yeah but can you think about anything else except race?
I thought Russo came out and said he always wanted to make Booker T a world champion but that might just be the Mandela effect
@ what do you think "good ol boys" is code for, you saying that is basically saying "dont bring up him being hypocritical"
@ i mean his "pro wrestling is for white men" comment was only made a few yrs ago.... so who really knows how they felt about Booker? Also recently it came out Booker didnt like Russo or Bischoff at this time as well for not only his pushes but title defenses being booked weak.
The blonde with Godfather has two of the best workers the business has ever seen.
I remember rewatching this episode for a while because I couldn't believe they would just reset EVERYTHING. It reallly brought a sense of realism. But as young as i was i didnt think about those stories getting cancelled abruptly.
At the moment . The WCW reboot was exciting . For about 2-3 weeks
I absolutely love a good unhinged Steiner promo holler If ya hear me!
Everyone's talking about the fallout from Vince Russo and the WCW reboot, meanwhile I'm over here just admiring the backing of Club Foot by Kasabian in the segment.
Never got why Jarrett got a free pass to the championship match. He was so overrated
I never understood him main eventing a decent heel and worker but everyone I knew was meh on him
Because he was best buds with Russo. Nothing more, nothing less.
Him and Russo been BOIS for a loonngg time
It’s finally here!
The return of the Bret Hart “Shut Up.”