Worst TV Show

Award Description:

To be given to what is on average the worst wrestling TV show. In 1994, TV
shows and major shows were given separate award categories. 

Previous Winners:

  1991: 07/07/91: WCW Great American Bash 
  1992: 12/03/91: WWF This Tuesday In Texas 
  1993: 04/04/93: WWF WrestleMania IX 
  1994: WCW World Wide 
  1995: WWF Mania
  1996: AWF Warriors of Wrestling
  1997: WWF LiveWire
  1998: WCW Worldwide

**1999**: WCW Thunder

284 first place votes
256 second place votes
231 third place votes

 71 60 30  595   WCW Thunder
 62 29 21  439   WCW Worldwide
 40 37 38  387   WCW Saturday Night
 38 26 23  314   WCW Monday Nitro
 14 27 27  205   WWF LiveWire
  9 19  9  120   WCW Pro
 18  5  6  117   WWF RAW is WAR
  8 13 12  103   WWF Sunday Night Heat
  3 14 13   83   WWF Superstars
  7  5 15   80   ECW on TNN
  3  8 19   77   WWF Jakked / Metal
  2  7  7   45   WWF SmackDown!
  1  3  6   26   NWA World Wide Wrestling
  3  1  0   18   Stampede Wrestling
  1  2  1   13   ECW Hardcore TV
  1  0  1    7   WWF Los SuperAstros
  1  0  0    5   World Wrestling Alliance (NWA Southwest) TV
  1  0  0    5   WCW Main Event
  1  0  0    5   NWA New England weekly tv show
  0  0  1    2   Ultimate Professional Wrestling
  0  0  1    2   Kick Ass Wrestling weekly TV
  0  0  1    2   Heroes Of Wrestling

EDC: The only real problem I had with Nitro is that they still had Hogan
and co. on there. RAW and Thunder were terrible this year. Nitro stunk to
high Heaven.

DON BECKER: WWF LiveWire is just pointless, and has been since they got
rid of the call-in format.  WCW Worldwide is like Saturday Night without
the charm.  And Thunder was Nitro Lite for most of '99.

MAX CHITTISTER: I haven't watched anything consistently that was bad
enough to deserve a vote.

BLOB: WWF almost clean sweeps this category but good old WCW Pro throws
them a bone.

JOHN C.:If you've sat through an hour of WCW Worldwide I seriously hope
you took a trip to the doctor to make sure you are thinking properly.

ELLIOT SPARKS: Worst TV show? Nitro was bad, Thunder was worse. But since
there's more Nitro than Thunder, the balance of abysmality has been
returned to normal. Raw gets third for epitomising the evil (or at the
very least, predictable) nature of today's WWF.

DAVID HANNA:  WCW has been very hard to watch this year.  Be it on TV or
PPV.  Its hard to believe that Nitro used to paste Raw in the ratings.  
That everyone wore NWO shirts and they were hip and cool.  1998 was the
transition year. 1999 was when Nitro hit the bottom.  I put Nitro first
because for being a "flagship" show that hardly ever delivered anything
memorable in the past 52 weeks.  Can anyone sit through 3 hours of Nitro?

SEAN FLYNN:  I hate WCW shows this year.  The big shows had nothing to go
for them, and the little shows had some nice technical skills, but nothing
tying it together.

COLIN MACKINNON: Worldwide, Superstars and LiveWire are all pointless
recap shows with little unique footage/matches.  Worldwide is the only
exception, but decent matches are rare there.

JEREMY SORIA: Worldwide turned into a clip show, and there is one less
place for some up-and-coming wrestlers to show their talents. What a
shame.

SELENA KYTE:  There's senior bowling, senior golf, and for all intensive
purposes, senior boxing.  Thanks to Heroes Of Wrestling, now there's an
official seniot pro wrestling circuit.  From what I've read of the
pay-per-view, it's probably not a good idea to have too many of these
things.  Aren't reunion banquets and autograph shows enough?