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Some quality trolling going on at the ol' WWE Dot Com right now: http://www.wwe.com/inside/polls/who-is-the-biggest-crybaby-in-wwe-history

This sounds like me trying to sound contrarian, but I always feit Bret was overrated. Not that he wasn't any good, but the WWF was by and large not that great when he started to get the serious singles push that it made him look 10x as good as he actually was.

The up close shots seemed to be Sting, they showed shots of a guy in Sting gear walking down the aisle who was probably an actor.

I'd like to mention another big issue with the network: awful customer service. Videos still don't play when I try to access the Network via my mac mini computer, and my only options for support are to call an outsourced call center where the people barely are understandable and only can do the very basic troubleshooting, or try via email and get obviously cut and pasted replies that don't fit the question being asked. I tried the email route and their reply bot thinks a mac mini is a device like a Roku or Apple TV and is trying to tell me they don't support it.

Ironic that someone would go down with a knee injury on the cusp of their main event push on a show Sting first appears on WWE TV.

If it was a work, it was well done. Lil Naitch kept looking at him and you could see the doctor running to that side of the ring.

Yep, he's the pre order bonus like Warrior was last year.

Assuming he can stay on the wagon (I know, I know...), Ric would be a great 2014 version of Classy Freddie Blassie.

...or the program with Wyatt isn't over. Doesn't seem like its something anyone wants to see.

I kinda want Lana vs Zeb now too.

Oh man, Lana is so amazing in this segment. Biggest heat in a while and Swagger/Zeb didn't even have to say a thing.

I dunno, I'm all for living the gimmick but I'd kind of feel like an asshole having to carry that around in public.

Ric was punching directly on Bray's eyebrow which is a time tested way to get accidentally-on-purpose hardway bleeding.

I know MLB At Bat doesn't have any kind of contract subscription like the Network has, you pay a lump sum at the beginning of baseball season to get the whole year. In fact, they used to allow you to split the cost over the cost of up to 4 months of your cable service but they stopped that last year. So MLB AM would not have had any gating in place in terms of keeping people from canceling after X amount of time.

Which is why there's a backlash brewing, there was an implication to the hardcores that there would be way more historical stuff available than there ended up being, so now the one segment of the audience they had locked in is now considering not renewing when their six months is up.

Yeah, that's my point. They already had the hardcores, yet the advertising seemed to be aimed at them instead of the folks they need to target to make it work at the level they wanted.

It's weird since it was almost like they were targeting the hardcores (who would likely already know how to stream things to their TV), but delivered the content casual fans would expect instead.

The use of "It's Way Over the Top" as a slogan when no one outside the industry knows what the term "over the top" means shouldn't be slept on either. Between that and not being clear it could be viewed on a TV with a streaming device probably caused a lot of potential subs to shy away since they had no way of knowing these things.

He'll probably be fine on Monday, but I wouldn't be shocked to hear a "Flair being Flair" story within a month if he becomes any sort of regular character on TV. Also, anyone think it was a bit odd they did the deal with announcing KENTA's signing with Hogan and Jimmy Hart? I get sending Hulk over there since it's been a while since he was in Japan in a WWF/E capacity, but there seemed to be something a bit tone deaf having relics from a bygone era there to sign someone supposed to be a future star.

He did, but Silva was clowning around and got caught with a KO shot. Then Weidman happened to be in the cage when Silva's leg exploded in the rematch. A win's a win, but it's not like he pounded him into submission either time. He may well be legit, but I wouldn't base it on the Silva matches. Also it's funny he would include any UFC fighters in a poll like that one when 75% of the MMA discussion on his site is involving dropping interest in UFC.

JBL had a line on Smackdown while plugging the Network that he watched himself and Zeb when he was Justin "Hawk" Bradshaw. I always assumed the current character was named as an inside joke on the 90s one, but I guess they're the same person in WWE canon now.

They would put Raws and Nitros up every two weeks when they were doing the Monday Night War on VOD. I'm sure once they start rolling out they'll do something similar. The biggest issue to me seems like they are unorganized rather than overwhelmed, unless the only have literally one person doing all the work, it should just be a matter of uploading the video files.

I was also a subscriber to Classics On Demand, so I would have got the Network if it was just old stuff and not PPVs. I agree that the main point of frustration among us hardcore fans is that we know they have a lot more stuff already in the can digitized and ready to go, but there doesn't seem to be any clear plan to add content other than "throw a bunch of shit up when subs start to cycle".

All I hear when someone says that is Billy Batts telling Tommy to go get his fucking shine box.

I never could put my finger on why I never cared for the diva label, but that summed it up nicely. That along with the championship belt looking like a bedazzled vagina just makes it look like they're openly mocking the women who work for them.