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WCW Monday Night “NITRO” at its best!!!! 😤 | Bill Goldberg

The action was INSANE on WCW Monday Nitro on this date in 1999! | WWE Network

On July 12, 1999 WCW Monday Nitro aired on TNT from the Jacksonville Coliseum in Jacksonville, Florida. Just one day after winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Bash at the Beach, “Macho Man” Randy Savage challenges “anybody” in the back to take the title from him. A returning Hollywood Hulk Hogan accepts Savage’s challenge. Hogan would go on to defeat Randy Savage that night to win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the sixth and final time. Hogan reverted to his Hulkamania

On July 5, 1999 WCW Monday Nitro took place in front of 25,338 fans at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta and aired live on TNT. Bret Hart returned to WCW television for the first time since his brother Owen’s tragic death on May 23rd. It marked Bret’s first public comments on Owen since the accident. Bret wouldn’t return to action until the September 13, 1999 episode of Nitro in a tag team match with Hulk Hogan against Sting and Lex Luger, reestablishing himself as a face in the process. | Davenport S

The very first episode of WCW Monday Nitro came to you ON THIS DAY in 1995! | WWE Network