Episodes
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
081: Nitro Watchalong, episode 35
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
Tuesday Dec 01, 2020
One of the final slender episodes of Monday Nitro brings us four matches that could all be classified as 'heel vs heel', if you are counting the constantly-scowling Scott Steiner and a Lex Luger who camped outside the arena overnight as heels. After all, Luger seems to switch each week at this juncture.
Join Dean and Liam for 42 minutes of perfectly acceptable wrestling, plus the usual greatness from Ric Flair and Woman. Oh, and Elizabeth was also there with them. We think.
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
080: Great American Bash 1992 w/ wrestling historian Bradley Craig
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
Thursday Nov 19, 2020
We here at Because WCW have covered our fair share of awful, harebrained, nonsensical offerings from various loons somehow employed to positions of power at World Championship Wrestling over the years. This time, however, Dean and Liam cover perhaps the dullest.
Joining them to look back at the 1992 Great American Bash is wrestling historian and operator of the Scottish Wrestling Hall of Fame, Bradley Craig. A tournament for the NWA tag team titles dominates the show as the Bill Watts era begins to vaccuum the entertainment and charm out of professional wrestling.
Thankfully, the one non-tournament match is Sting vs Big Van Vader for the WCW World title, one of the best bouts in company history. So there's that.
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
079: Interview w/wrestling writer Scott Keith
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
Wednesday Nov 11, 2020
This special episode of the podcast sees Dean and Liam joined by a man who covered wrestling online for much of World Championship Wrestling's existence and to this day contributes to Inside The Ropes as well as running his Blog Of Doom website, Scott Keith.
The trio discuss Scott's experiences as a WCW fan as well as a wrestling writer, including the implementation of the famed 'hot pokers up the ass' rating system and seminal 'Want Of A Nail' column on WCW's troubles in the year 1993.
And, true to the form of all three members of this nostalgic chat, Hulk Hogan gets well and truly slated, of course.
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
078: Nitro Watchalong, episode 34
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
Wednesday Nov 04, 2020
The era of The Giant has arrived, and WCW wastes no time showing us what an unstoppable and uncontrollable force he is as World champion. They also waste no time in hammering home their two favourite on-off long-running storylines, "Randy Savage has lost his mind!" and "what's the deal with Sting and Lex Luger?"
Join Dean and Liam and take your mind off the confusing United States election updates with a nice, brisk hour of Monday Nitro that unlike the polls, doesn't drag out well beyond a reasonable period of time.
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
077: Halloween Havoc 1990 w/ wrestler RJ Singh
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday Oct 27, 2020
Thirty years ago on the very date of this episode being published, World Championship Wrestling aired the second annual Halloween Havoc PPV live on PPV.
And on this momentous anniversary - not to mention the day before NXT finally brings the beloved concept back - is the perfect time for us to cover another of the most requested WCW themed show, by far.
Joining Dean and Liam as they finally get to rewatch the famous Steiner Brothers vs Nasty Boys donnybrook is British wrestling veteran RJ Singh, himself a longtime WCW fan who made his in-ring debut shortly after the company folded in 2001.
Monday Oct 19, 2020
076: Nitro Watchalong, episode 33
Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
The April 29, 1996 edition of Monday Nitro may well be the best one yet.
Featuring a hard-hitting Parking Lot Brawl between Fit Finlay and Lord Steven Regal plus two major title bouts, the absence of Hulk Hogan continues to lead to some enjoyable hour-long television.
Join Dean and Liam for more great nostalgia, insight and of course, random talk about chocolate bars.
Monday Oct 12, 2020
075: Nitro Watchalong, episode 32
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
Would you believe it? WCW begins three months of Hulk Hogan-less episodes of Monday Nitro with a really enjoyable hour of television!
As fate would have it, while fans on social media bicker over how many non-finishes AEW have or have not used on a year of Dynamite, the April 22, 1996 edition of Nitro is one of the best of the early bunch despite half of its four matches going to non-finishes and the other two using some form of cheating before the pinfall.
It's almost as if things can be great if done right and also bad if done in a slapdash manner, isn't it?
Friday Oct 02, 2020
074: Slamboree 2000 w/ TV's Adam Pearson
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Friday Oct 02, 2020
Earlier this year, we rewatched Spring Stampede 2000 and recalled how Eric Bischoff and Vince Russo's publicised joint rescue attempt of WCW was taking on water after just six days. Three weeks later, their second PPV effort continued to confuse and depress.
The PPV that features actor David Arquette entering as the defending WCW World champion is rife with overbooking, extra-curricular nonsense and short-minded decision-making. But who better to join us for Arquette's big show than fellow TV star Adam Pearson?
Pearson, like all of us, is a huge fan of the 'Ready To Rumble' triple cage structure that main events the show. It's a shame nobody has brought it back since 2000, really...
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
073: Nitro Watchalong, episode 31
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Good news: Midlife Crisis Hulk Hogan makes his final appearance on this edition of Monday Nitro before forming the New World Order and going Hollywood that summer.
Bad news: he manages to leave a horrific taste in the mouth of the watching fan on his way out with his latest desperate self-serving antics.
Join Dean and Liam as they endure a depressing opening segment, enjoy The Nasty Boys and Public Enemy beating the tar out of each other and witness the latest instalment of Randy Savage Formula Reverse Squash Matches(tm).
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
072: Nitro Watchalong, episode 30
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Tuesday Sep 15, 2020
Today, Because WCW turns three years old! And what better way to celebrate than with Hulk Hogan and Ed Leslie's latest desperate attempts to stay relevant?
On the plus side, the Hulkster isn't far in our Nitro chronicles from disappearing until he'd return to form the New World Order. Until then, Dean and Liam witness an hour of old-school wrestling (for better and for worse) staged in front of a very 1990s crowd, littered with some extremely creative (again, for better and for worse) match finishes.