WWE is reviving WCW. Sadly, it won't be as a new brand of the company, but rather as a YouTube channel where the company will be uploading matches, highlights, and even full weekly episodes of Nitro, Thunder, and PPVs.
It's still pretty cool, as most of this content was only available for users outside North America via the now defunct WWE Network, which shut down on January 1 as the company moved to broadcast televised weekly shows and PLEs via Netflix internationally. Old content did not make its way to the subscription service.
World Championship Wrestling, founded in 1988, started as a popular regional promotion in southern USA. Once Eric Bischoff took creative control in the mid-90s, WCW became the hottest company in wrestling, kicking off the iconic Monday Night Wars with WWE (then known as WWF) with the debut of their own weekly show, Nitro, in 1995.
Hubris, poor management, and WWF's radical shift in tone eventually made fans too invested in stars like The Rock, Stone Cold Steve Austin, HHH, Mankind, and many more. WWE came out on top and purchased several assets owned by WCW, including the brand, the majority of archived footage, and multiple wrestler contracts.
Despite being live for just a few hours at the time of writing, the channel has surprised 18k subscribers and counting, with some iconic videos already uploaded, including the first episode of WCW Monday Nitro with the debut of Lex Luger.
A WCW YouTube channel is the perfect way to archive all the footage available from perhaps the most important period in wrestling history. Without the Monday Night Wars, the sport would simply not have become what it is today.
WCW also lives on in videogame form, as players can use the brand in WWE 2K25 MyGM mode, letting you live in an alternate world where the company is still going strong in 2025.