- Arc Fatigue: nWo ran over a year past its welcome, and then they kept bringing it back again.Eric Bischoff (4.17.97 Prodigy chat): I read somewhere if something is working don't try to fix it. Our ratings are high, our arenas are selling out, we can't keep merchandise in inventory. You're right ... there must be something wrong with Nitro.
- Ass Pull: Abundant thanks to Vince Russo's booking style in later years.
- Never Live It Down: Take a look at how many of the trope examples for this show are directly related to the Fingerpoke Of Doom. Decades later and it's still haunting Eric Bischoff, let alone the legacy of WCW.
- The Scrappy: David Arquette winning the WCW title caused Nitro's ratings to drop five points and ticket sales to come to a near halt. Even David himself was unhappy about that angle, as he felt it was a cheap stunt.
- Spiritual Successor: AEW Dynamite (sometimes known as Wednesday Night Dynamite), debuting on TNT in 2019, almost 2 decades after Nitro aired its last episode, picked up where WCW left off as the attempt to provide an alternative mainstream wrestling product to WWE. Although it didn't directly attempt to challenge WWE head-to-head the way Bischoff did with Nitro, it ended up facing off against WWE NXT when Vince moved NXT from the WWE Network to the USA Network to compete against itnote . Dynamite even features some performers who actually used to appear on Nitro back in the day, such as Tony Schiavone, Chris Jericho, and Sting.
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