This is one of My most favorite moments ever in wrestling and is pure history and is really the most crucial date in wrestling because today is September 4th, 30 years ago this year 1995 marked the day that The Monday Night War started❕
This is the first EVER WCW Monday Nitro!
Here is the totally awesome intro!
The late great Steve "Mongo" McMichael just joined the commentator spot. He was just in the WWF just months prior with the huge L.T. Laurence Taylor vs. Bam Bam Bigelow match at WM11. Even though I wasn't into football, I knew who Mongo was because of those cool WWF moments. Bobby Heenan meets him and get's a surprise! The first match ever on WCW Monday Nitro was Jushin Thunder Liger vs. "Flyin" Brian Pillman! Pillman was back as a singles wrestler and a babyface because Steven Austin was fired and on his way to ECW :o
Eric Bischoff interviews the late great Hulk Hogan about his Pastamania with Jimmy "The Mouth of the South" Hart!
After that here's Mean Gene has a tiny promo for himself & WCW then a very surprising promo Michael Wallstreet returns to WCW however their pretending like he's a new wrestler :o I was absolutely stunned when I saw this when it first happen on TNT, he was just with Ted Dibiase in his Million Dollar Corporation in the WWF :o This was big! Listen to what he says about "The New Generation" and especially about The I.R.S. :shock: Then Big Bubba Rogers is ready to face Hulk Hogan.
"The Hulkster's" iconic entrance!
Now if that wasn't big enough, during the iconic match with Sting & "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair "The Total Package" Lex Luger returns and how apropos it was because they all had such huge history with each other years before this. This was shocking at the time because even though Wallstreet appeared, he wasn't seen on WWF programming for a while, the same wasn't for Luger because we just seen him at WWF SummerSlam 95 only a week prior when he interfered in the Diesel vs. King Mable World Title match which was Luger's last appearance ever in the WWF/WWE and forcing his Allied Powers team to breakup and making the British Bulldog turn heel :o Now during the Rogers & Hogan match, The Dungeon of Doom interfered then Luger came in and helped out. We then got the face to face with Luger & Hogan after fans like Me dreamed about for years & years not to mention that we got Luger (who is a WCW original) back with Sting in the same ring with Hogan & Macho Man...oh these were such great times and this would continue for a awhile as they would together face the Dungeon of Doom at Fall Brawl at War Games since Vader would get fired!!!
Now, WWE posted the whole episode on their WCW Channel!
It was such a remarkable time and I'm grateful that I experienced it. That's My special for the 30th anniversary of WCW Monday Nitro😀
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