10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WCW Nitro

9. WWE Do A Better Job With Three Hours

WWE take a ton of flak these days for failing to prepare for life beyond the likes of John Cena or The Undertaker. Creating new stars has been a right pain in the buttocks for Vince McMahon, and it cannot be easy to fill three hours of Raw every single Monday without box office smash hits to fall back on.

Even so, WWE's effort is superior to WCW's towards the end of the 90s.

Nitro went from a two-hour format to three in January 1998, and that turned the once-slick weekly into a bloated time sink that only played to the most hardcore of WCW marks. For all the sh*t WWE takes for turning Raw into a three-hour slog in 2012, they've slowly-but-surely figured out ways to pad the broadcast.

It's still an investment best watched with one finger on the fast-forward button, but WWE has a reliable women's division and few (if any) matches are downright awful. By comparison, WCW only had Cruiserweights to lean on outside the star name mix, and ended up promoting nothing bouts aplenty to power through 180 minutes.