Brian Gewirtz has recalled how ceaselessly former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon stored updated with WCW Nitro within the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s.
Gewirtz joined WWE as a author in November 1999. RAW had already overtaken Nitro within the Monday night time tv rankings by that time. Nevertheless, McMahon nonetheless needed a few of his staff to observe the rival present, which featured the likes of Hulk Hogan and Ric Aptitude.
In an interview with Sportskeeda Wrestling’s Riju Dasgupta, Gewirtz stated Nitro was once proven on a monitor backstage in WWE:
“I feel there have been, if I recall appropriately, concurrent screens on backstage at Gorilla Place [backstage area], and that was I’m certain a carry-over of when competitors was actually cut-throat and neck and neck. By the point I joined, WWE was fairly comfortably in entrance within the Monday night time rankings wars. However you do wanna hold monitor, ‘Oh, they’re in business now,’ or Hogan’s popping out or Aptitude’s wrestling or Sting or no matter.” [7:12-7:37]
Gewirtz clarified that, because of the time distinction, McMahon often solely watched Nitro if RAW came about on the west coast:
“I don’t suppose Vince was watching it, nevertheless it was on a monitor, whether or not it was Jerry Brisco, who’s answerable for timing the present… The one time we might collectively watch Nitro, and I detailed this within the e-book, is once we had a west coast present as a result of if we had a west coast present we had been writing SmackDown often usually the subsequent morning.” [7:39-8:04]
Watch the video above to listen to Gewirtz’s story in regards to the amusing WCW second that McMahon nonetheless referenced years later.
Brian Gewirtz explains the outdated WWE SmackDown writing course of
Whereas SmackDown now airs reside on Friday nights, that was not the case over 20 years in the past. Reveals was once pre-recorded on Tuesdays earlier than airing later within the week.
For that motive, Brian Gewirtz usually wrote SmackDown episodes instantly after reside RAW reveals:
“That may evolve to the purpose the place the reveals can be written, not less than a model of them, earlier than you even bought to the sector, however again then it was very seat of the pants. As a result of TNT would replay Nitro and have an 11 p.m. Nitro displaying, we might generally put that on within the background.” [8:21-8:39]
Gewirtz additionally defined why he didn’t agree with a significant WCW World Heavyweight Championship title change that occurred in 2000.
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Brian Gewirtz’s new e-book, “There’s Simply One Drawback…: True Tales from the Former, One-Time, seventh Most Highly effective Particular person in WWE,” is that can be purchased on Amazon.
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