Raw vs Nitro - Reliving The War

It's the night after WWF In Your House: 13 "Final Four" and there's a new WWF Champion in town. Bret Hart won the Final Four match and because Shawn Michaels forfeited the title, The Hitman is now the WWF Champion. Tonight on Raw, Bret has to defend the championship against Sycho Sid. The match gets restarted twice due to interference from Stone Cold Steve Austin. On Monday Nitro, Roddy Piper is g...

Reliving The War Episode 70 - February 10th 1997 Thursday Raw Thursday takes place this week while Nitro takes place on Monday as usual. Shawn Michaels loses his smile this week and the WWF main event picture is tuned upside down. Shawn decides to forfeit the WWF Championship, meaning the Final Four match later in the week will be for the title. Matches on Raw include Bret Hart vs Vader and Stone...

WWF Raw goes to a 2 hour format tonight and so the format of Reliving The War also changes. Instead of scoring head to head matches, the whole shows are taken into consideration and the winner of each weekly battle will be whoever had the better overall Monday Night. The WWF presents "Royal Rumble Raw" from the Toronto Skydome. Last week, Vince McMahon promised the Royal Rumble match would be show...

WCW's Clash of the Champions and nWo Souled Out shows are in the books. Hollywood Hogan is still WCW Champion, but the Hulkster gets a surprise this week when the WCW Board of Directors send a message into Monday Nitro. Hulk's Superbrawl opponent gets announced, and his WCW title will be on the line at the Pay Per View. Elsewhere on Nitro, The Four Horsemen claim to be united once again but Chris...

Reliving The War takes a look at the WWF vs WCW "Monday Night War" that took place from the mid-90s to early 2000s. Each and every segment of WWF Raw and WCW Nitro gets compared to find out which show was really the best. A great episode of Raw this week opens up with Bret Hart dropping a bombshell on Vince McMahon and the WWF; Bret is quitting the company. After what happened at the Royal Rumble,...

WCW presents a live show this week from the New Orleans Superdome while the WWF presents a taped broadcast from Albany, New York. On Nitro, Diamond Dallas Page makes his decision regarding the New World Order and the advances of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Hollywood Hulk Hogan has his first WCW Nitro match since April 1996, and the issues with the Four Horsemen reaches a boiling point. On WWF Raw,...

The first WWF Raw vs WCW Nitro battle of 1997! WCW Nitro features Harlem Heat vs The Amazing French Canadians, Psychosis vs Rey Mysterio Jr. and Arn Anderson vs Jeff Jarrett. On WWF Raw, Bret Hart faces Vader in the main event of the evening. Shawn Michaels provides commentary for Bret's match, and this gives Sid a chance to cause havoc backstage.

The final episodes of WWF Raw and WCW Nitro of 1996 get covered in this week's episode of Wrestling Bios' "Reliving The War". With WCW Nitro being a better show for the majority of the year, can Raw end on a high note with a win? Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels have a face to face in-ring confrontation for the first time since WrestleMania 12 on Raw. Triple H takes on Flash Funk, and the main event f...

Days before WCW Starrcade 1996, Hollywood Hogan is in the arena and he calls out Roddy Piper. Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan try to have a little fun at Piper's expense, but a surprise at the end of Nitro sends the crowd into a frenzy. We also find out who will wrestle at Starrcade for the vacant US Championship when the last semi final match opens up Nitro. Over on WWF Raw, Bret Hart main events th...

It's the night after WWF In Your House: It's Time and Bret Hart isn't too happy about the outcome of his WWF title match. The Hitman kicks Raw off with a message to Shawn Michaels, Steve Austin and Sycho Sid. Matches this week include Vader vs Steve Austin and Billy Gunn vs Bart Gunn. Over on WCW Nitro, Eric Bischoff and Ted Dibiase take over commentary duties for the first hour. Sting is in the b...

It's the week of the WWF's In Your House "It's Time" event and the company are gearing up for their final PPV of the year. On this week's episode of Raw, number 1 contender Bret Hart sends a message to Sycho Sid during an in-ring promo. We also have a big main event this week; Mankind vs The Undertaker in a no holds barred showdown. On WCW Nitro, Roddy Piper is in attendance and he makes a few in-...

Reliving The War takes a close look at the fabled WWF vs WCW Monday Night Wars by looking at EVERY match, promo and segment that aired on WWF Monday Night Raw and WCW Monday Nitro. The date is 12.2.96 and the WWF are headed towards In Your House : It's Time. WCW will put on their annual Starrcade event at the end of the year, and both promotions are giving fans some big names in their scheduled pa...

WCW World War 3 1996 just took place and The Giant earned himself a WCW World Heavyweight Championship match in the future. The US Title is also now up for grabs as a tournament begins in WCW to crown a new US Champion, and the first tournament matches begin this week on WCW Monday Nitro. Elsewhere, Harlem Heat vs The Faces of Fear takes place, and Eric Bischoff announces to the WCW locker room th...

It's the night after WWF Survivor Series 1996 and there's a new WWF Champion; Sycho Sid. Sid defeated Shawn Michaels in Madison Square Garden, and the Michaels' "Boyhood Dream" is over (for now). This week's Raw opens up with a Stone Cold Steve Austin vs Mankind match, one of the best opening matches of the series so far. Eric Bischoff tells us all night that Roddy Piper has been rumored to be in...

The WWF are preparing for their Survivor Series 1996 event this week where Shawn Michaels defends his WWF championship against Sycho Sid. Sid and Shawn team up this week to do battle with Owen Hart & Davey Boy Smith, and the friendship HBK had with Sid gets completely destroyed at the end of this very match. Elsewhere, Stone Cold Steve Austin battles Bob Holly while Bret "Hitman" Hart watches...

Another WWF Raw vs WCW Nitro battle! The WWF are heading towards Survivor Series 1996 where Shawn Michaels defends his WWF Championship against Sycho Sid, while Bret Hart makes his in-ring return against Stone Cold Steve Austin. This episode of Raw features the infamous "Pillman's Got A Gun" segments where Steve Austin tries to break into Pillman's home. Over on Nitro, Eric Bischoff is on the road...

Another weekly episode of Wrestling Bios "Reliving The War", the show where we take a look at the WCW vs WWF Monday Night Wars. This episode features all the results from Halloween Havoc 1996. An old rival of Hulk Hogan has made his way to WCW, and he wants to have a few words with the leader of the nWo. Over on WWF Raw, Bret Hart and Steve Austin get interviewed about their upcoming match at WWF...

This week we have the results from In Your House: Buried Alive. The WWF Raw main event features a change, we were supposed to see Mr. Perfect vs Hunter Hearst Helmsley but because of an injury, Marc Mero decides to defend his IC title against the future King of Kings. Also on Raw, Bret "Hitman" Hart makes his return. WCW Nitro features Harlem Heat vs The American Males, Lex Luger vs Road Block, an...

This week's Raw vs Nitro battle takes place the week before In Your House: Buried Alive. The WWF put on a blockbuster main event; Shawn Michaels vs Stone Cold Steve Austin. Hunter Hearst Helmsley does battle with Freddie Joe Floyd while Mr. Perfect is on the lookout for Hunter's valet, and Vader opens up the show with a match against Phineas Godwinn. Over on TNT, WCW Nitro is live from the Mid-Sou...

WCW Nitro and WWF Raw go head to head in another battle of the Monday Night Wars. Ric Flair is scheduled to take on Macho Man Randy Savage in tonight's main event on Nitro, but a surprise from the nWo leaves WCW without a main event match. Chris Beniot does battle again with Rick Steiner in the semi-main spot, and Arn Anderson gets confident enough to attack Lex Luger during this episode of Nitro....

The date is 9.30.96 and there's a Monday Night War going on. WWF Raw and WCW Nitro are going head to head for ratings supremacy, and the way things have been going lately, the WWF needs to seriously rethink their strategy. WCW Monday Nitro has been a consistently better show, and the TV ratings prove it. This week, the fake Razor Ramon (Rick Bognar) has a match with Savio Vega on WWF Raw. The main...

The date is 9.23.96 and it's the night after WWF In Your House: Mind Games. The WWF are presenting a live episode of Raw tonight, and a new Intercontinental Champion will get crowned when the IC Title Tournament comes an end. Faarooq vs Marc Mero opens up the show. Also, Jim Ross has promised to bring back Razor Ramon and Diesel, but it clearly wasn't the Razor Ramon we thought it was going to be....

After winning in the War Games match at Fall Brawl, the New World Order decide to announce yet another new member on this week's WCW Nitro. Sean Waltman, who worked as the 1-2-3 Kid in the WWF, has signed up with the nWo. Not only does Waltman show up on Nitro, but Glacier makes an appearance too.   Over on the WWF side, the Intercontinental Title Tournament semi finals take place. Owen Hart vs Ma...

This week's Reliving The War features the final build towards Fall Brawl 1996. Team WCW gets thrown into chaos when a member seemingly joins the nWo and things begin looking very bleak for World Championship Wrestling. Matches on Nitro include Lex Luger vs Rick Steiner, Rey Mysterio vs Billy Kidman and Randy Savage vs John Tenta. Over on WWF Raw, the Intercontinental Title tournament contiunes whe...

Reliving The War continues this week with a special "Championship Friday" episode of Monday Night Raw. Shawn Michaels defends the WWF title against Goldust while other competitors participate in the IC title tournament (including Sid, Steve Austin and Hunter Hearst Helmsley). Over on WCW, it looks like the nWo are planning another attack on WCW. The Four Horsemen main event the show against the Du...