Reason Why WCW’s Planned NWO Nitro Show Was Scrapped

Kevin Nash didn’t hold back when asked about the infamous split of the Outsiders and what was really going on behind the scenes in WCW during the Monday Night Wars.

During a Q&A panel at River City Wrestling Con, Nash responded to a fan question about the breakup of his legendary tag team with Scott Hall. According to Nash, neither he nor Hall wanted the split—pointing the finger at higher-ups who believed it was unfair to put the Outsiders against Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage.

“There it was not Scott and I. They said that there wouldn’t be… it was almost like unfair to put Scott and I against Randy and Hogan, you know.”

While Nash and Hall had “favored nations” clauses in their contracts, he made it clear that they had no creative control, unlike Hogan. Then came the shocker: WCW’s long-term plan wasn’t just to build the NWO—it was to let it completely take over the show.

“The whole thing was how it was originally laid out was that we would take over. That Monday Night Nitro would become NWO Nitro — graphics, everything — and it would be a reverse. It would be Sting and DDP would kind of start like a faction of guys that were going to take back over the company. And that was where it was going to go.”

According to Nash, internal politics—and pressure on Eric Bischoff from Turner execs—ended up derailing that vision. And then he dropped a bombshell that explains why WCW was always rumored to be “losing money,” even during its peak.

“People said that WCW was losing money… but the way the accounting was rigged was, you know, you can look back nowadays at an old pay-per-view — especially during the NWO days — and it says ‘Produced by Turner Home Entertainment.’”

The real issue? All the pay-per-view money WCW earned didn’t go back to WCW. It went elsewhere.

“So the biggest revenue that WCW had was the pay-per-view. Yet that revenue was allocated to Turner Home Entertainment, not back to WCW. So we were set up to be just, you know, a loss.”

Nash didn’t just speak on history—he exposed what he believes was an internal sabotage of WCW’s own success. The idea that one of wrestling’s most dominant brands was set up to fail from the inside might explain a lot about how fast it all crumbled.

Kevin Nash pulling back the curtain on NWO Nitro and WCW’s money trail? That’s the kind of truth fans rarely hear.

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