10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WCW
5. 84 Weeks
WCW Nitro bested WWE Raw for 84 straight weeks of ratings supremacy between 17 June 1996 and 6 April 1998, putting Vince McMahon's promotion on the ropes several times throughout that period, having largely traded Monday Night Wars wins back and forth up to that point.
Masterstrokes like Hulk Hogan's heel turn, the New World Order, and shifting towards a grittier style of programming while McMahon was still stuck in Cartoonland on the other channel led to this, though it was over by 1998. Nitro never outdid Raw again after scoring one final victory on 26 October, boosted, as it was, by the promise of DDP and Goldberg's full WCW Title match from Halloween Havoc after shambolic timing issues saw most of it cut from the PPV.
This is something too big for WWE to ever ignore. A pivotal Monday Night Wars period, ommitting it from discourse would be taking the p*ss, even for Vince McMahon's revisionist history museum, but history tells us that this isn't a guy who likes showing his bloodied nose to the world. Even though he ultimately emerged victorious, those 84 weeks stand as a monument of late-90s failure.