Cast and Crew of WCW Monday Nitro

Cast of
WCW Monday Nitro

About WCW Monday Nitro

WCW Monday Nitro was a weekly professional wrestling telecast produced by World Championship Wrestling, created by Ted Turner and Eric Bischoff. The show aired Monday nights on TNT, going head-to-head with the World Wrestling Federation's Monday Night Raw from September 4, 1995 to March 26, 2001. Production ceased shortly after WCW was purchased by the WWF.

The debut of Nitro began the Monday Night Wars, a ratings battle between the WWF and WCW that lasted for almost six years and saw each company resort to cutthroat tactics to try to compete with the competition. In mid-1996, Nitro began to draw better ratings than Raw based on the strength of the nWo storyline, an anarchist wrestling stable that wanted to take over WCW. Nitro continued to beat Raw for 84 consecutive weeks, forcing WWE owner Vince McMahon to change the way he did business. As the nWo storyline grew stagnant, fan interest in the storyline waned, and Raw began to edge out Nitro in the ratings.

The turning point for the organizations came during the January 4, 1999 broadcast of Nitro, during which lead commentator Tony Schiavone gave away the results of matches for that night's Raw broadcast. As Raw was taped and Nitro was live, Bischoff believed that knowing the outcome would dissuade viewers from watching the program. Excited by the prospect of seeing perennial WWF underdog Mick Foley win the WWF Championship, a large number of Nitro viewers changed channels to watch Raw, switching back to Nitro after Foley won the title. From that week forward, Raw beat Nitro in the ratings by a significant amount, and WCW was never able to regain the success it once had.

Main Cast of WCW Monday Nitro

John Watson

Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett

Paul Wight

Chris Klucsarits

Ernest Miller

Curt Hennig

Shannon McNeill

Kevin Sullivan

Mike Rotunda

Jon Hugger

Jacques Rougeau

Mike Tenay

Stephanie Bellars

Brian Adams

Lash Huffman

Dean Simon

Jimmy Hart

Elix Skipper

Chuck Palumbo

Scott Hall

Darren Matthews

Brian Pillman

Kazuhiro Hayashi

Vince Russo

Scott Levy

Roddy Piper

Roddy Piper

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Bobby Eaton

Ray Heenan

Peter Gruner Jr.

Dale Torborg

Jim Hellwig

Último Dragón

Barry Windham

Sunny

Jim Duggan

Scott Bigelow

Dusty Rhodes

Page Falkinburg Jr.

Bret Hart

Bret Hart

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Ted DiBiase Sr.

Bill Goldberg

Bill Goldberg

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Terry Funk

Ron Jones

Bill DeMott

Chae An

Sherri Russell

Kevin Nash

Kevin Nash

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John Nord

Mike Enos

Steve McMichael

Keiichi Yamada

Eduardo Hernández

Kelly Wolfe

Evan Karagias

Bobby Duncum, Jr.

Stacy Keibler
plays Ms. Hancock (159 episodes)

Ric Flair

Sick Boy

Erik Watts

Kristina Laum

Gene Okerlund

Jennifer Bancalum

Randy Poffo

Randy Poffo

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Jerry Tuite

Michael Cariglio

Sean Waltman

Shannon Moore

Takeiji Muto

Nora Benshoof

Vanessa Sanchez

Kendall Windham

Ron Reis

Marcus Bagwell

Reid Flair

Allan Funk

Debra Marshall

Michael Sanders

Tank Abbott

Chris Adams

Perry Satullo

Christi Wolf

Mark LeRoux

Joseph Dorgan

Trudy Vachon

Steve Williams

Sharmell Huffman

Sharmell Huffman

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Christopher Daniel Covell

April Hunter

Rick Fuller

Jeep Swenson

Tony Mamaluke

Jamie Noble

Mark Hildreth

Bill Smith

Dionicio Castellanos

Jim Neidhart

Kimberly Page

Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan

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Jim Fullington

Steve Borden
plays Sting (292 episodes)

Larry Pfohl
plays Lex Luger (292 episodes)

Secondary Cast of WCW Monday Nitro

Rebecca Curci Hickenbottom

Alex Wright

Sione Vailahi

Lance Evers

Vito LoGrasso

Jerome Saganovich

Sean Haire

Norman Smiley

Pamela Paulshock

Allen Jones

Booker Tio Huffman, Jr.

Debrah Miceli

Martin Lunde

Eric Bischoff

Eddie Guerrero

Paul Taylor

Mark Robert Jindrak

Debra Wilson

Debra Wilson

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Will Sasso

Will Sasso

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Chuck Norris

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Jean-Claude Van Damme

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Crew of WCW Monday Nitro

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