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Actually, I think they own the whole library now, they have USWA Texas on the Network (inexplicably listed as "Global") and IIRC, USWA Texas was essentially what happened to World Class.

If The Iron Claw becomes a huge hit I can see a lot of people possibly wanting to see this WCCW stuff for themselves, might as well upload the last few months of it (they've got up through 1988).

Something tells me that a President Dwayne Johnson will be a "figurehead" President, who's the face of the Presidency, but the cabinet and the Vice President will do all the "real" work (of course, I thought the same thing about Trump, and that didnt happen).

I miss the old Hidden Gems category (you'd think with the whole Lost Media craze, and some actual wrestling lost media being brought to light via the network, they'd put up more stuff thought to be lost).

We've had 2 months without new classic content uploaded to the WWE Network/Peacock, so it looks like they dont care about that anymore and just see it as a way to air PLEs.

Well, there goes any chance of President Kurt Angle. But seriously IF Dwayne runs for President, you just know candidates will use his attitude era promos against him (did any of Jesse's opponents use some of his more politically incorrect lines against him, or were they not as readily accessible at the time?).

I'm wondering, did British wrestling ever have a presence on home video back in the day? US wrestling had lots of home video releases for multiple promotions, but were there ever any "best of Big Daddy" or "Best of Giant Haystacks" type videos out there?

Makes me wonder how AC/DC became his favorite band (at least the Rolling Stones, his other fav according to Jericho, started getting popular when Vince was growing up in the 60s). Maybe he discovered them during the whole MTV/Rock n Wrestling thing.

Apparently there's a Kurt Angle biopic in the works: https://itrwrestling.com/news/kurt-angle-confirms-a-movie-about-his-life-is-in-the-works-reveals-his-role/

Apparently MJF is the executive producer on this film. Now EP can mean a lot of things, but it's going to be weird seeing Maxwell Jacob Friedman's name in the opening credits (if it has opening credits). If this film is succesful, I wonder if it'll lead to other wrestling biopics. Maybe Martha Hart will get that screenplay about Owen out of mothballs.

Wonder why they dropped televising the MSG and Boston shows. Televising the LA shows died with the death of Z Channel (and showing things like wrestling and sports was a last ditch attempt to keep that channel alive), but I would have love having another WWF show to watch in the 90s (at least the Boston shows on NESN, my cable system never got the MSG network).

With the move to CW, I get the feeling the shows will be more "tighter", if anything, we sure wont have an overrun.

I doubt they book one of the major events in Saudi, just because of the whole time zone thing. It would look really weird to have a WM airing in the early afternoon (in the US).

I think that the WWE Hall of Fame should take a cue from the Academy Awards and put a short "in memorium" segment for the wrestlers who have died in the past year. It would only take a couple of minutes and be a nice gesture. They did something like that for the first ECW One Night Stand.

just watched this on peacock, amazing doc that shows how wrestling is important to fans.

Lex has been looking rather rough sadly (I think he's confined to a wheelchair).

I assume they'll try to get a Thursday night timeslot, which will mean that there will be wrestling on tv 6 days of the week.

Just found out something interesting on the OVP podcast. On March 1, 1986, you had WWF Championship Wrestling, WWF All-Star (in certain markets), WWF Superstars (not the one you're familiar with, this was the c-show, and again, in certain markets), the Slammy Awards. and SNME. Add in all the Saturday shows from other companies, and you've got the most wrestling (or wrestling-related in the case of the Slammys) on one day of tv ever (or at least at that time).

Not only does Randy Orton have the longest tenure for an active wrestler in WWE (not counting guys like Cody who left and came back), but he's also the only one who was there when it was WWF (he had some house show matches in 2001-02 before debuting on tv).

Speaking of Vince, I find it odd that aside from Wrestlemania 2 and Summerslam 90, he's absent from PPV shows until 1992, and didnt become a regular PPV commentator until WM9 (aside from that one off KOTR show with the bizzare Monsoon/Savage/Art Donovan team, which was due to Vince being on trial). On that note, I always wondered what a Monsoon/Jim Cornette team would sound like, but after Joey Marella's death, Monsoon basically became bitter and cynical on commentary no matter who you put him with.

Personally, Hogan getting #2 on the 1994 PWI 500 was much more ludicrous. I guess he deserved a slot due to him winning the WCW title before the cutoff date, but did he do anything else list-worthy between August 93 and August 94?

Actually, the range for the PWI 500 was August to August (so, in this case, August 96 to August 97).

Heck, I'm surprised Eddie Gilbert never showed up (he was in USWA between late 1993 up to his death in 1995), would have been interesting to see him have a WWF stint or even a one-off appearance.

If you count co-promoted shows as WWF shows: WWF / SWS WrestleFest @ Tokyo, Japan – Tokyo Dome – March 30, 1991 (42,000; about 25,000 paid; announced at 64,618) Mel Phillips served as the ring announcer for the show Bret Hart & Jim Neidhart defeated Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty at 14:41 when Hart pinned Michaels when a crossbody off the top by Michaels put Hart on top for the win (Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart) Earthquake pinned Koji Kitao at 6:10 Ted Dibiase & Haku defeated the Great Kabuki & Takashi Ishikawa at 15:16 when Dibiase pinned Ishikawa Samson Fuyuki, Tatsumi Kitihara, Masao Orihara, & Apollo Sugawara defeated Goro Tsurumi, Don Arakawa, Kenichi Oya, & Fumihiro Niikura at 5:37 when Fuyuki pinned Oya Kendo Nagasaki pinned Jim Duggan at 2:50 with a knee to the midsection and kick to the head (World Tour 1991) Demolition Smash & Crush defeated Shunji Takano & Shinichi Nakano at 5:22 when Smash pinned Nakano The Ultimate Warrior pinned Sgt. Slaughter at 6:14 with a series of clotheslines and a splash; prior to the opening bell, Warrior jumped the railing, came through the crowd, and met Slaughter in the crowd before dominating a ringside brawl; early in the bout, Warrior brought a wooden table into the ring and hit Slaughter with it; moments later, Slaughter brought a steel chair into the ring, knocked referee Earl Hebner to the floor, and repeatedly hit Warrior with the weapon Masa Funaki defeated Naoki Sano via submission at 10:23 Kerry Von Erich defeated WWF IC Champion Mr. Perfect via disqualification at 6:59 Ishinriki & Yoshiaki Yatsu defeated Jimmy Snuka & the Barbarian at 10:00 when Yatsu pinned Barbarian Randy Savage pinned George Takano at 13:42 with a bodyslam and the flying elbowsmash after dropping Takano throat-first across the top rope; after the match, a Japanese interviewer conducted a backstage interview with Savage regarding his upcoming bout with Genichiro Tenryu in two days in Kobe, Japan The Legion of Doom defeated WWF World Champion Hulk Hogan & Genichiro Tenryu via count-out at 14:03 after Hogan & Tenryu sustained chair shots during a brawl on the floor; after the bout, Hogan & Tenryu cleared the ring of their opponents but Animal eventually reentered the ring and hit referee Earl Hebner as well as several Japanese officials with a chair; the two teams were then separated by officials (The Life & Death of the Road Warriors)

On a January 2000 Nitro, Jeff Jarrett wrestled George Steele, Tito Santana, and Jimmy Snuka. Tito and Steele only worked for WCW for that night (Snuka did have matches for GCW/MACW which is part of the WCW lineage).