10 Most Important Weeks In The Monday Night War
7. March 26th 2001 - The Simulcast
The last Nitro closing out with a 15-minute Vince McMahon promo and WrestleMania match build was obviously incredibly important, but not for the reasons the company likes to glamourise during those weird Network filler pieces featuring The Miz reminiscing about getting his buddies around to cheer and boo the telly.
It was important because it signified the end of a near-five year competition. Important because it allowed for Vince McMahon to appear on a Turner network for the first time since the last time during 1984's "Black Saturday". Important because it would serve as the first clue of how wrestling might look in this next era.
F*cked, was the answer hidden under the bluster.
Rarely has McMahon been so deserving of one of his on-screen victory laps, but making a new war from his same old one with son Shane was the first of many missteps made with the fallen brand in 2001. Nitro's demise was only ever meant to come at the expense of WCW, not WWE's golden era. Father and Son couldn't have imagined it as they stared across the simulcast, but the view on a Tuesday morning was about to change for the worst and forever.