10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1999

10. WWE Outdrew WCW At The Georgia Dome

Shocking if not surprising at the time, WWE had become such an unwavering and unrelenting success story by the fall of 1999 that barging into the enemy's spiritual home and making it their own was par for the course rather than some sort of transgression.

The iconic Atlanta had played host to the legendary WCW World Title change between Bill Goldberg and Hulk Hogan in the red hot summer of 1998, but a spectacular creative and financial collapse (including the infamous "Fingerpoke Of Doom" in the same building in January 1999) saw that Nitro crowd drop from 41,412 to 25,338. If that wasn't bad enough, most of the locals hadn't switched off but simply switched over. Raw packed in 33,375 for the October Raw taping and went from strength to strength. WCW by accident or design never ran the venue again.

And it wasn't the only time that year the market leader packed so many in for a taping...