WCW Thunder
WCW Thunder was a show of Catch of the World Championship Wrestling diffused with the E. - U. on TBS of the January 8th 1998 with the March 21st 2001. The enormous popularity of the WCW in 1996 and 1997 called with the creation of a new show, which became WCW Thunder . Thunder was recorded Tuesday evenings and was diffused Thursday, a change for the WCW and its president Eric Bischoff which was very enthusiastic that its principal show WCW Monday Nitro is diffused on line each weeks (as an adversary of the rival WWF RAW is War, then during this time, diffused also on line each weeks).
With a too large number of all-in wrestlers, which included the recent acquisition which was Bret Hart, TNT and Management Turner found the need to create a show of scale. The WCW was conscious that could affect their popularity, but they were obliged to do it. Promotions for Thunder put at the poster large stars like Hulk Hogan saying " I will show you thunder (French translation of Thunder), my brother! " and The Giant with " This envisages suffering definitively! ". However, nor Hogan or Giant was frequently going to appear in what is regarded by the fans as being a show of second zone. Goldberg was in the beginning the best all-in wrestler of the show.
Thunder changed its behavior of Thursday evening at the Wednesday evening starting from the January 12th 2000, following the diffusion on UPN of WWF SmackDown! and thus to prevent a " Thursday Night War" who was lost since the beginning vis-a-vis the latter. It is precisely for this period that the things turned and that the WCW was found behind the WWF in terms of audience. The WCW started to make unroll Nitro and Thunder (Nitro always on line and Thunder recorded the same evening) Mondays of the October 9th 2000 with the March 19th 2001.
Thunder used dominant blue with regard to its couleure would be this only on the level of the decoration or the logo, a apparance which was copied by SmackDown! , which is comparable with dominant the reds of the shows of Monday evening, RAW and Nitro . Thunder stopped Wednesday of the repurchase of the WCW by the WWF the March 23rd 2001. In fact, the agreement was announced two days later after the last diffusion of Thunder .
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