Week 1 - The WCW Reboot
I've been wanting to go back and watch this period in WCW history for a while now, and I was going to wait for my Guest Host series to finish, but then I realized there's still at least 9 months worth of shows to cover there, so instead, I'll run them side by side with this. As the title suggests, I'll be covering WCW's final year in business, starting with the reboot episode of Nitro, on April 10 of the year 2000, along with Thunder that week, and weeks following. Side by side with that, I'll be covering the episodes of Raw and Smackdown each week, as I'm kinda curious to see what WWE is putting together against WCW. For those unfamiliar with this, I'll do my best to recap, seeing as my knowledge of WCW's history is limited as is. Bischoff, former president of WCW, had been removed back in September of '99, as a fall guy for the issues WCW was having. Meanwhile, Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara were brought in, only to be fired 3 months later. Then ...