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* During the "[[Monday Night Wars]]" between the [[WWE|WWF]] and [[WCW]], Eric Bischoff would often spoil the outcome of WWF Raw matches on WCW Nitro (Raw was pre-recorded, while Nitro aired live in the same timeslot). In 1999, he gave away a spoiler that [[Mick Foley]] was going to win the WWF title, and mocked Foley as someone who was dumped from WCW because he couldn't "put butts in seats". A huge number of viewers proceeded to switch channels to WWF Raw to see Foley win the title. Obviously, this wasn't a death, but it was arguably one of the things that sent WCW on its downward spiral. |
* During the "[[Monday Night Wars]]" between the [[WWE|WWF]] and [[WCW]], Eric Bischoff would often spoil the outcome of WWF Raw matches on WCW Nitro (Raw was pre-recorded, while Nitro aired live in the same timeslot). In 1999, he gave away a spoiler that [[Mick Foley]] was going to win the WWF title, and mocked Foley as someone who was dumped from WCW because he couldn't "put butts in seats". A huge number of viewers proceeded to switch channels to WWF Raw to see Foley win the title. Obviously, this wasn't a death, but it was arguably one of the things that sent WCW on its downward spiral. |
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** Made doubly devastating in that this happened on the same night as the infamous "[[Finger |
** Made doubly devastating in that this happened on the same night as the infamous "[[Finger-Poke of Doom]]" match, where [[Hulk Hogan]] and [[Kevin Nash]] put months of feuding and a WCW title match entirely to waste. |
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*** For the next year or so afterward, fans going to WWF events would hoist signs saying "[[Mick Foley]] put my butt in this seat". |
*** For the next year or so afterward, fans going to WWF events would hoist signs saying "[[Mick Foley]] put my butt in this seat". |
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**** The really painful part for WCW was that at the time Nitro lasted until 11:10 or so in order to fit in with the Turner networks' scheduling, while RAW ended at 11PM. Nitro's last, unopposed segment drew huge ratings...which means that most viewers who switched to RAW switched back to Nitro afterwards and were at least somewhat interested in seeing Nitro's main event; had they not known about Foley's title win, they would have been content to watch Nitro. Well, content until the Fingerpoke happened at least. |
**** The really painful part for WCW was that at the time Nitro lasted until 11:10 or so in order to fit in with the Turner networks' scheduling, while RAW ended at 11PM. Nitro's last, unopposed segment drew huge ratings...which means that most viewers who switched to RAW switched back to Nitro afterwards and were at least somewhat interested in seeing Nitro's main event; had they not known about Foley's title win, they would have been content to watch Nitro. Well, content until the Fingerpoke happened at least. |
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