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They actually weren't bad for what was basically public access TV from 1993.

If this is going right back to 93/4, I might be tempted to watch. I've never watched that stuff and early ECW kinda fascinates me. The idea of Sal Bellomo still having a job in wrestling, for example. I thought the same thing, I saw the name and thought "that can't be the same guy as the WWF jobber, could it?" and sure as shit it was.

What got my attention is that they were going through a group of reels labeled "Omni Live Events" in the first place. I hope this means they were getting ready for another content dump when they stumbled upon history.

Episode 1 of ECW TV is up, and Sandman in the original surfer boy gimmick will never not be funny.

There's a way it could be done that would be a compelling movie if done right, but I have less than zero faith anyone in Hollywood would do it correctly.

That plus the choice of director has all the hallmarks of being a disaster.

Well he didn't after Montreal happened. Dave was just mentioning that Vince was fully cooperating with the production until shit hit the fan. IIRC he tried to block the movie from getting released as well.

Raw could be 6 hours long and there would still be no excuse for stuff like that awful New Day segment or really ANY of the "comedy" stuff that The Club has been doing since the split. The issue is Raw is written to entertain one guy, and as such he's the only one who finds any of the comedy skits funny.

I kind of get why Ibushi wouldn't want to sign with WWE full time, but it seems odd ZSJ would make a point of mentioning he's relocating to the US just to do Evolve shows. They can't be making him that much of a lowball offer.

Who ended up with the rights to that stuff? It seemed that other than Dallas, all the Texas territories ended up in a mis-mash.

Vince and HHH have final say (well, Vince moreso of course) but they do have separate writing teams. At least that was the plan back when the split was announced .

I'm getting a kick out of Kane becoming the 911 of Smackdown,

According to the WWE Archivist twitter, they found a tape with the whole show on it.

My personal grails: 1. Studio Wrestling from Pittsburgh, assumed to be lost/taped over but clips have popped up in the Bruno DVD he was selling on his website a few years ago. I'm holding out hope he had a personal stash that WWE might have obtained in his HOF deal. 2. Hope that whoever holds the various rights to Memphis gets their shit together and/or cashes out to WWE. They love to focus on WWE guys in their Vault section and there's tons of guys who either started there or passed through at some point. 3. One day someone decides to start a project where they go around to all the stations that used to air wrestling back in the territory days and ask if they have any idea what happened to it. As a video game enthusiast, a popular genre has popped up on YouTube where people travel to far flung locales looking for rare games and systems, something similar could be a fun idea for rare footage.

FWIW Dave responded on Twitter to someone asking how WWE got it, and said it was part of the original 130,000 hours (in other words it was part of the vault they already owned and not footage from someone else).

Holy shit the over-the-shoulder powerbomb type move that ended this match, that was a brutal looking bump on what I'm sure was a hard as rocks ring surface.

I was just watching the show on the network where Nikita beat Tully for the TV title, and not only were other babyfaces who were aligned with him in storyline out to celebrate with him, so were assorted jobbers just happy the good guys won. It hit me how that would never happen on a WWE show today where they keep the mid card guys separated from the "real stars", but maybe with the brand split they'll get to the point where they have to go back to a shared universe.

Dave going on a riff about Stephanie being responsible for every case of female empowerment in history had me in tears.

It's so surreal watching a Lou Thesz NWA world title match from the 50s on WWE Network.

Dana's been handled so weirdly on the main roster. She clearly wasn't ready ring wise, but at least she had the fitness model look. Then they've had her costumed in the 1970s women wrestler granny swimwear 90% of the time negating that too. Its like why did they even bother if they aren't even going to accentuate the one thing she has going for her.

There was just a tidbit in the last WON how Miss Piggy is Dana Brooke's nickname with certain people in WWE.

Bo's redemption after hitting rock bottom drunk in an airport could have been Raw's version of the Heath Slater story if done right.

Georgia seemed to be an area that kept the masters of their tapes, and it would be odd they wouldn't have kept a master of something that was the blowoff to a big feud at the time.

Vince is probably happy a guy got in trouble for getting drunk like a real man rather than those wimpy millennial drugs.

Conversely, Storm leaving TNA originally came at a time where a lot of guys' deals were coming up right when all the "MORALE IS LOW" stuff was happening. They may have made Storm an offer bigger than he was worth just to save face with the rest of the roster.