Raw vs Nitro - Reliving The War

It's another WWF vs WCW battle this week on Reliving The War as we continue looking at the entire Monday Night War on a weekly basis. It's 7.22.96 and it's the night after WWF In Your House: International Incident, there's a new number 1 contender for the WWF title and his name is Vader. The International Incident results are covered in today's video. 

This week's episode of Raw features a tag team main event, WWF Champion Shawn Michaels and Intercontinental Champion Ahmed Johnson taking on the Tag Champs Billy and Bart Gunn. During the main event, a new WWF superstar makes his debut, a former WCW World Heavyweight Champion who has been brought into the company by Sunny. 

We've reached 7.15.1996 and the WWF are only 6 days away from In Your House: International Incident. The main event will feature Camp Cornette taking on Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson and a returning Sycho Sid. Both Ahmed and Shawn have matches this week against Billy and Bart Gunn respectively, and we also have a Marc Mero vs T.L. Hopper match on WWF Raw.

We are now just 6 days away from WCW Bash at the Beach 1996, the event that would make a huge change within World Championship Wrestling. Kevin Nash and Scott Hall are going to take on Sting, Lex Luger and Randy Savage but Hall and Nash also have a mystery third partner. The Outsiders make an appearance on this week's Nitro on TNT, and the hostile takeover nearly begins a little early. 

Over on Raw, the company are gearing up for In Your House 9 where Camp Cornette will do battle with Shawn Michaels, Ahmed Johnson and The Ultimate Warrior. Raw kicks off this week with the battle of The Rockers when WWF Champion Shawn Michaels does battle with his old partner Marty Jannetty. 

It’s June 24th 1996 and you have a decision to make, do you watch WCW Nitro or do you switch to the WWF channel? WCW Monday Nitro is live this week from Flair Country, Charlotte NC while WWF Raw comes live from Green Bay, WC. It’s the night after King of the Ring, and after Steve Austin gave his famous “Austin 3:16” speech, Stone Cold finds himself in the main event this week for the first time ever. The final match on Raw this week features Stone Cold Steve Austin vs The Undertaker, two men who would remain loyal to the WWF throughout this whole Monday Night War. 

Over on WCW Nitro, things are seriously heating up in regards to the Outsiders invasion. Team WCW is now set in stone; Lex Luger, Sting and Randy Savage will defend WCW at Bash at the Beach against Kevin Nash, Scott Hall and a mystery third partner.

The WWF vs WCW Monday Night War continues in Wrestling Bios "Reliving The War"! It's 6.17.1996, the WWF is on the USA Network while WCW is live on TNT. We're one night removed from The Great American Bash 1996 and the big story coming out of the PPV was The Outsiders and Eric Bischoff segment. Bischoff announced that Hall and Nash's challenge had been accepted, and three guys from WCW will defend the company in a match against Hall, Nash and a mystery third man at the Bash at the Beach show. 

Vince McMahon wants to crown a new WWF King of the Ring and this weeks episode of raw features the KOTR quarter final matches. Owen Hart, Jake Roberts, Marc Mero, Steve Austin, Goldust and Jake Roberts are all in action this week.

With only one week to go until The Great American Bash, WCW continue to turn up the heat with the arrival of Scott Hall's "big surprise". Kevin Nash shows up on Nitro, and he's siding with Scott Hall in a quest to take over World Championship Wrestling. This episode of Nitro also includes a WCW Championship match featuring The Giant and Scott Norton, and the Tag Team Championships are also on the line in this week's main event. 

Over on the WWF channel things aren't looking so good. The company have been hyping the 1996 King of The Ring during their recent Raw episodes yet the WWF are also lacking the excitement that WCW currently brings. The overall nature of the WWF's shows aren't changing while WCW fires on all cylinders, but the King of the Ring will eventually give us a true Monday Night War game changing superstar. 

Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Nitro go head to head in another weekly battle for television ratings supremacy! The date is 6.3.1996, Raw is on the USA Network while Nitro is live over on TNT, and WCW is seriously turning up the heat with the recent debut of Scott Hall. 

While both Raw and Nitro are still a long way away from being the top rating TV shows that they would soon become, WCW Nitro is starting to show signs of greatness. Scott Hall appears towards the end of the show to announce a "big surprise" for next week's broadcast, and WCW are also in a period of remembering their history when The Rock N Roll Express take on Ric Flair and Arn Anderson of the Four Horsemen this week. Over on WWF Raw, the company is gearing towards the King of the Ring pay per view. We have more qualifying matches this week featuring Steve Austin, Jake Roberts and Hunter Hearst Helmsley.

The WWF had a few issues with their In Your House: Beware of Dog pay per view. The lights in the arena got switched off due to a power outage, and also, the pay per view feed got cut off. On this week's episode of Raw, Vince McMahon promises to make things right with "Beware of Dog 2", the pay per view would air the night after Monday Night Raw. This week of episode features King of the Ring qualifying matches including Ahmed Johnson, Vader, The Ultimate Warrior and Goldust. 

While the WWF environment stayed the same really, WCW began to truly turn up the heat this week on Reliving The War. Not only did Scott Hall show up, but WCW went to a full 2 hour broadcast, meaning the company were packing more action into their weekly television show. It would only get better from here,  we aren't quite at the era of weekly cruiserweight action and nWo Hogan, Hall and Nash running the place... but we're very close!

It's 5.20.1996 and it's time to watch WCW Nitro and WWF Raw to see which show was really the best. This week's episode of Reliving The War marks the end of an era for World Championship Wrestling; not only is this the last Nitro broadcast to run under 2 hours, but this is also the calm before the storm... the final Nitro before Scott Hall's WCW return (leading to the eventual formation of the nWo). The whole Monday Night War was about to drastically change.

Raw is showing taped matches from Sioux City Iowa while Nitro is live from Monroe, Louisiana. The Steiner Brothers, Ric Flair, Eddie Guerrero and The Giant all work matches on TNT while The British Bulldog, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Savio Vega and Jake "The Snake" Roberts compete on the USA Network. The 1996 Slamboree results are also covered in this episode.