10 Important Innovations WCW Made To The Wrestling Industry

World Championship Wrestling was one of the most important pro wrestling companies in the history of the business. There is always a lot of negativity from wrestling fans concerning World Championship Wrestling just because it died in 2001 even though it was doing so well in the mid to late 1990s. What people seem to forget is that without WCW pushing World Wrestling Entertainment to be better, we may not have the same kind of WWE programming we see today. The main thing that WCW brought to the wrestling business was serious competition for WWE. It made WWE improve their product. In the mid to late 1990s, WWE had gotten really boring. Even though Raw was innovative in the sense that it was a primetime wrestling show, a lot of the time it was uneventful thanks to squash matches and very few exciting moments. It was basically like their weekend shows except on Monday nights instead. The wrestling business changed when WCW went after WWE head to head when they launched Nitro in September 1995. Without WCW around since 2001, there have been plenty of times where WWE has become stale. Some say it is stale right now. It just shows how important WCW's role was in the course of wrestling history. What made WCW so good in terms of doing things we weren't used to seeing? There were a number of things that they did really well and innovate in the wrestling business. Here's a look at ten of their most important innovations.