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#1 The Monday Night Wars
When Billionaire, Ted Turner took over WCW, he wanted to make the promotion bigger than the WWE. So, he announced the launch of Monday Nitro to compete against WWE's Monday Night Raw. In 1995, Lex Luger - who was supposed to be a WWE wrestler - turned up on the inaugural episode of Nitro and the Monday Night Wars were born.
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What followed was the WCW dominating the rating chart as Turner simply outpriced Vince McMahon. He offered bumper contracts to WWE's biggest stars to make them jump ship and it looked like the WWE was heading for bankruptcy.
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Then, everything changed with The Montreal Screwjob. Bret Hart outed Vince as the owner of WWE when the latter had been maintaining a cover position as the commentator for his own promotion and this gave rise to the villainous Mr McMahon - the greatest heel of The Attitude Era.
At the same time, Stone Cold Steve Austin rose to prominence as the greatest face of The Attitude Era and the WWE turned things on its head, forcing WCW into eventually selling to its hated rivals.
As a story, it is unparalleled in its entertainment and it wasn't even scripted.
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