>>13796195Because it was. I'm rewatching that whole era recently and everything was a frantic pace with Raw because Smackdown didn't exist yet. Only Shotgun Saturday nights and Sunday Night Heat which no one really watched.
WCW was fine with Nitro being 3 hours when the first hour was luchadors. When they added 2 hours of Thunder it totally fucked up the whole appeal to where it feels like a chore. Wrestling feds can only have 4 hours at max during a week. Go more than that and the WHOLE product suffers.
