10 Things You Didn't Know About WCW's Nitro Grill Restaurant

4. It Didn't Close Until September 2000

In the intro, it was claimed that WCW wasn't quite off-the-rails in January 1999. This writer would stand by that any day of the week, but even this World Championship mark couldn't defend the horrors of late-2000. By then, the company was in a dreadful state, and the rudderless mess fans watched every week on Nitro and Thunder was only entertaining in a perverse way.

Get this: Nitro Grill was still open.

It didn't close doors until September 2000. One can only imagine what kind of person would want to visit a themed restaurant based around a product so horrible by that point; if WCW couldn't string together a cohesive, logical pro wrestling TV show, then how the hell were they going to make sure your eggs were properly cooked?

The Grill was a goner and last served up some 'Figure Four Fajitas' on 30 September that year. Any plans to expand the business into a franchise that'd grip other cities with WCW fever were cancelled. In truth, that hadn't been on the cards since early-1999.