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WCW Monday Nitro: The Final Episode

Release Date: 
01/21/2000
Air Date: 
Monday, March 26, 2001, 8 P.M. (ET)
TV Network: 
TNT
Star Rating: 
★★★
Don’t pretend you weren’t watching. The mid-’90s belonged to pro wrestling. The decade’s highest rated cable programs were WCW and, of course, the WWF, with Ted Turner’s Atlanta-based WCW actually beating the WWF’s rating for several of those years. But, oh, how the mighty have fallen!

With an eye on sagging ratings and empty seats, and a desire to “upscale” their image, TNT and TBS are canceling their World Championship Wrestling programming after years of association. The testosterone soap opera’s “finest” form is still the WWF, but nonetheless it’ll be a strange world without Ric Flair. If this is your guilty pleasure, it’s worth a last look.