18. Vince McMahon Failed To See The Threat Of WCW Monday Night Nitro
When WCW launched a Monday Night wrestling show in 1995, Vince McMahon and the WWF failed to realise how significant it was. Rather than identifying Eric Bischoff's aggressive move to directly steal WWF's audience, McMahon instead had the complacent attitude that WCW had shot itself in the foot. If anything, the WWF were happy, in the belief that WCW had picked the one night of the week that they wouldn't be able to build a foundation on. "I thought it was really stupid when he first came head to head with us," McMahon told WWE 50. "I was like, 'Are you kidding me? Why would you want to do that?' We had been established for a long time and it didn't make any sense because he'd have a much higher rating if he was on a Tuesday night or any other night than Monday." One year later, in September 1996, Nitro was way ahead of Raw in the ratings.