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Yup, this only aired in the NY market. On a News Corp owned station.

Merz? No.

Different guy.

Also Vince having no idea how to book a blowjob face and having all of the announcers act like they wanted to bang him.

I don't think he really has an active role at MMA Torch anymore. Jamie Penick took that over.

Yeah, but I'm an HD snob and I forgot how quickly the Collections drop significantly from retail price. There have been a lot of wonky FOTN picks the last year or so, too, FWIW.

The solution to that conundrum is to wait for the best of the year Blu-Ray set (the DVDs since 2011 only have the highlight special) instead of buying the annual Ultimate Fight Collection box. You'll get the very best fights of the year, including the bests prelims. There are always omissions (but usually stuff like "Well, they can't put on everything from Fight for the Troops...") and title fights are favored when they shouldn't be (Cain-JDS 3 is not something I ever need to spend half an hour on again), but it's generally a nice set with all of the must-see fights of the year.

I'm going to make you do a list.

Kane is a great worker. Great. Always rises to the occasion vs. Bryan, will probably have their best match to date since it's a PPV, the first PPV after WM, and Bryan's first title defense.

Get the best of 2012 and 2013 Blu-Rays. The extras on both sets cover a good chunk of the best fights from both years. Also, most of the notable Strikeforce fights from 2012 get reran on Showtime Extreme pretty regularly: Tate-Rousey, Tate-Kedzie, Marquardt-Woodley and Rockhold-Kennedy on the same card, and Cormier-Barnett.

Yes, never mind the soft strikes and repetitive formulas plaguing 99% of the other matches, Triple H did 1 tiger suplex in 1 match therefore WWE is working Japanese style now! (whatever the fuck that is) That must be some nice kool-aid. Read what I wrote more closely: "would have historically been described as 'Japanese style.'" As in it was worked like a cross between something like HHH-Benoit from No Mercy 2000 (a match that was commonly referred to as being worked "Japanese style" or "New Japan" style at the time) and a long Bryan main event style match (which are a lot more Japan-influenced than most WWE main event matches). How is WWE any more repetitive and formulaic than current New Japan? Why are you demanding that WWE's talented professionals hit each other unsustainably hard so as to copy the country with the most wrestlers who have either died of brain injuries or suffered catastrophic brain damage? What the heck are you talking about with Kool Aid drinking? WWE has a lot of great, great, pro wrestling, and they're no longer charging unsustainable prices for the big shows the way New Japan is. If there's enough great wrestling on TV for free and otherwise available cheap/easily (WWE Network), I feel less of a need to seek it out. Are you angry the only guy under contract from the Magical Land of Workrate and Robot Dogs is stuck in developmental? All of the recent NJPW I've seen is a lot more repetitive than current WWE in the ring, barring stuff that's repetitive by design (certain house show matches). Cesaro had a crazy run of something like 7 very good to great matches (Cena, Orton, Zayn, Bryan, Big E, Elimination Chamber, and w/ Swagger vs Christian/Sheamus) within a a 2-3 week period in February. The Cena match was a very legit MOTY candidate. Each match is completely different. If you think there aren't really people who watch Japanese wrestling solely because it's Japanese wrestling, you should consider yourself lucky. There are a whole let less than there used to be, but it was still fairly common until western interest in the Japanese scene as a whole (vs the renewed interest in NJPW thanks to the IPPVs) completely nosedived. Having said all that: What are you so ANGRY about? "Kool-aid drinking! Bullshit!" Dude, it's just wrestling. We don't like the same wrestling. You like NJPW more than most of the posters here. Good for you. Just don't make a fool of yourself being so pompus about it. You're not a better or smarter person because you enjoy Hiroshi Tanahashi matches and Shibata half-shooting on people. I love great Japanese wrestling. Seeing Kenta Kobashi vs. Samoa Joe is still my favorite live wrestling experience. There's just not that much really notably GREAT Japanese wrestling anymore that would be worth my time when I already have to spend as much time as I do on WWE for work, and there's too much effort put into appealing to fans of the very worst things about Japanese wrestling with the continued legit head shots etc. It's not that different from why I don't watch much indie wrestling anymore: The stuff I liked got sapped out and the stuff I didn't like got amplified.

I dunno, man, I like selling and storytelling.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. You think there are more people in the western world in 2014 would seek out foreign language wrestling with guys who have funny names than would seek out WWE's own secondary product? Really?This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. Japanese wrestling is not inherently better than anything. Stop acting like if is. New Japan main events tend to be longer and have more wrestling in them. I don't really see how that's disputable. Who's talking about the number of people who watch WWE or Japanese wrestling? We're talking about hardcores, people who follow and watch wrestling online, and what they think of different wrestling styles. I don't think that Japanese wrestling is inherently better than anything else, but some people do and I don't see the point in pretending that it's not part of its appeal. The original poster asked whether there are people who still believe that modern Japanese wrestling outclasses US wrestling and I assume there still are since New Japan does very well in the WON voting. What do you mean by "more wrestling," though? Is this like when Dave Meltzer would do show reports and say certain matches didn't have any "wrestling" without explaining what he meant? You're using empty buzzwords that don't mean anything. WrestleMania was built around Bryan Danielson having two long showcase matches, including a brilliant match with Triple H that would have historically been described as "Japanese style." Also, nowadays at least, the most vocal NJPW fans are those who follow it in addition to WWE, not as an "alternative." And NJPW is not "Japanese wrestling" in the way that you're using the term. It is a single company that happens to be in Japan. Nobody is paying attention to any other companies.

Crisis of Infinite Rings of Honor?

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. You think there are more people in the western world in 2014 would seek out foreign language wrestling with guys who have funny names than would seek out WWE's own secondary product? Really? This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. Japanese wrestling is not inherently better than anything. Stop acting like if is.

Why would anyone need a "workrate alternative" to 2014 WWE? We're talking about the promotion where Cesaro had a 2-3 week run of great matches on every show a couple months ago, right? Where two of the best matches of the last year were Bryan Danielson doing his ROH main event style...that WWE, right? Why would anyone want a "head dropping epic every night" after doing that literally killed Misawa? What's wrong with promos and storylines? The people who watch Japanese wrestling solely because it's Japanese wrestling drive me up a wall.

I figured all of the stuff with Eva Marie's parents was a work before last night. I guess I was wrong. Wow, they are awful.

Global started on ESPN with an hour long strip but they couldn't sustain it. Wasn't long before they mixed in syndication reruns, recap shows, etc.

Yes. There's a live feed going at all times.

WM2 was live in NY and Chicago, as well as on PPV/CCTV from the Midwest on east. In LA and on PPV/CCTV on the west coast, they aired LA first, a Hogan post-match interview, and then the earlier matches.

Yup. He picked up the phone and called Joe Perkins and said 'Goodbye.' Joe tried to talk — tried to calm the general manager down, who had been embarrassed in front of his son. And Mr. Hellwig agreed to, at the very least, do a videotaped 'I'm sorry,' you know, type situation, which he objected to, obviously. It wasn't uncommon, you know, I mean, for Mr. Hellwig from time to time to refuse autographs from kids or from anybody. He didn't like to do that and was often rude to fans. Warrior's lawyer asked if it had been “true throughout his years at the WWF” and Vince said “More specifically, as he became more and more popular.” Having to shoot the video apology is what caused Warrior to snap and write the demand letter.

Worldwide and Pro had variable time slots due to syndication. There were various C-shows in syndication like East Coast Wrestling. On TBS, you had various Saturday morning shows: Championship Wrestling, Superbouts, a rerun of Pro from 2 weeks earlier, Championship Wrestling again, and eventually the Power Hour in various forms (first a replay from Friday night, then the primary slot). Power Hour's original slot was Fridays at around 10 PM. Sundays was Best of Championship Wrestling and World Championshop Wrestling: Sunday Edition before it was Main Event. Best of was everything from reruns from TBS and Syndication to Omni matches. Sunday Edition was another studio show, which was the primary studio show when Saturday would be moved due to other sports commitments. Also in syndication: All-Star Wrestling in '86-'87 Championship Wrestling from Florida and Southern Pro Wrestling ('87-early '88 and '87 respectively) UWF and Power Pro Wrestling ('87 and '87-early '88 respectively) CWF and PPW were rebranded episodes of pro with Jack Gregory on commentary for however long they lasted into '88. For WWF syndication you're missing original Superatars of Wrestling ('84-'86) and Wrestling Spotlight ('86-'95), the show it morphed into when the '86-'87 season started.

My advance review of Legends' House from the media lunch Tuesday is up now: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2031378-wwe-legends-house-review-first-impressions-and-cast-interviews I really like how the article came out, and the show was much better than I was expecting.

Click the button in the upper left corner to bring up the menu sidebar. The "WWE Network" option gives you everything, unlike the splash screen which only lets you click through to the live stream.

Subscription services just don't siphon users that easily, though. You have to actively cancel. Nobody's going to keep track of when the six months are up.