Rewatching The Last Wrestling Show To Beat WWE Raw In The Ratings
8. Three Hours Can Work
Realistically, three hours for a regular weekly wrestling show is too much. One of the biggest problems with WWE these days is that they've lumbered themselves with a three-hour Monday night show that they forever struggle to fill with anything remotely entertaining.
The latter days of WCW were clearly far from perfect, with the company putting on awful show after awful show in its final year, yet there were times when Ted Turner's organisation made a weekly three-hour broadcast work well.
With a roster overflowing with genuine main event stars, with lower-card talent who had defined characters and storylines, with a commentary team who expertly guide the audience, and in-attendance fans who were rampant, the October 26, 1998 edition of WCW Nitro flew by.
Was this a perfect three hours of wrestling television? Absolutely not - especially when anyone with the last name Bagwell was on screen - but, as a whole, this was an enjoyable, engaging wrestling show that never particularly dragged.
Given how WWE struggles so much with making Raw even passable these days, there's a lot that Vince McMahon's promotion could learn from revisiting some old Nitro episodes.