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[stro]

I could have sworn Jake's and Eddie's were up for a while

[sek69]

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

[Migs]

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

 

Terrific. They got to at least 1989 on 24/7, so they should be able to do a bunch of that.

[Migs]

One of the new collections is the buildup to Barely Legal, which turns *20* years old this week.

[Mrzfn]

I noticed that on my computer, the chapter stops dont have any captions under the thumbnails. Is this happening for anyone else?

 

This happened to me too and it's driving me freakin' nuts.

[Robert S]

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

Was that the A show in the late 80ies or was it Superstars?

[PhilTLL]

 

 

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

Was that the A show in the late 80ies or was it Superstars?

Superstars was where most of the angles actually happened, but everything was covered on PTW.

[sek69]

Prime Time was the WWF equivalent of the NWA Saturday night 6:05 show, with the twist of the banter between Heenan and Monsoon being the best thing most weeks,

[sek69]

Watching Mid South episodes, and it's so bizarre watching Iron Mike Sharpe presented as the guy who gets wins over jobbers. Like, I know he was a midcard guy in most places before he went to the WWF but as someone who's formative fandom years included large quantities of Iron Mike as the world's loudest jobber it's a trip.

[Migs]

 

 

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

Was that the A show in the late 80ies or was it Superstars?

Superstars was where most of the angles actually happened, but everything was covered on PTW.

 

 

It's also a much better weekly watch, with far more competitive matches. I'm sure that's part of what's driving the uploading of PTW over Superstars - much more rewatchabale show.

[Ricky Jackson]

Watching Mid South episodes, and it's so bizarre watching Iron Mike Sharpe presented as the guy who gets wins over jobbers. Like, I know he was a midcard guy in most places before he went to the WWF but as someone who's formative fandom years included large quantities of Iron Mike as the world's loudest jobber it's a trip.

Sharpe did actually start as an almost upper midcarder in 1983 WWF, managed by Albano. Also had a shot against Backlund at the Spectrum. By 84 he was had settled into his JTTS role

[sek69]

Makes sense since I started watching regularly in 86. Speaking of WWF 80s jobbers, Terry Gibbs just showed up on these shows with an amazing permed fro.

[The Thread Killer]

Watching Mid South episodes, and it's so bizarre watching Iron Mike Sharpe presented as the guy who gets wins over jobbers. Like, I know he was a midcard guy in most places before he went to the WWF but as someone who's formative fandom years included large quantities of Iron Mike as the world's loudest jobber it's a trip.

 

I'll never forget the time (years ago) that I had purchased a Best of Hulk Hogan in Japan comp for a friend of mine who (for some reason) is a huge Hogan fan. So we're watching the comp, and it's going along good...there was a really good match with Hogan vs. Abdullah The Butcher which was a lot of fun. There is a singles match against Inoki.

 

Then we get to a Tag Team Match with Antonio Inoki and Tatsumi Fujinami against Hogan and his partner...Iron Mike Sharpe. My friend and I were both all like "WTF?!" Turns out Mike's father and uncle were once a Tag Team in Japan and were pretty successful, so the Sharpe name carried a lot of cache with the fans there. Apparently they worked a bunch of televised Tag Matches against Rikidozan and a partner, and were very well known. But at the time, we only knew Iron Mike as the WWF jobber and were NOT expecting him as Hogan's partner.

[sek69]

Watts must have been really upset at the Lawler-Kaufman angle, devoting the opening segment of the first show after their match (which had nothing to do with his territory) to him cutting a promo on why non wrestlers don't belong in the ring.

[Cobra Commander]

 

 

Prime Time from 1987 is the next classic content being uploaded right now.

Was that the A show in the late 80ies or was it Superstars?

Superstars was where most of the angles actually happened, but everything was covered on PTW.

 

is the WWE still not uploading much about Superstars of Wrestling because somebody else got that phrase trademarked? or was that resolved?

[flyonthewall2983]

I believe it's been resolved. I watched one of the episodes that had a Superstars of Wrestling match and the logo went unblurred.

[Cornette's racket]

That interesting you say that anout superstars. I was watching one of the new prime time wrestling uploads and the blue banner in the arena was blurred out.

[PhilTLL]

That interesting you say that anout superstars. I was watching one of the new prime time wrestling uploads and the blue banner in the arena was blurred out.

That could be/probably is a relic resulting from the fact that the show was prepared and archived during the name dispute, then not redone afterwards.

[flyonthewall2983]

There are still old PPVs and things where you can hear "WWF" bleeped out of the audio.

[Cornette's racket]

 

That interesting you say that anout superstars. I was watching one of the new prime time wrestling uploads and the blue banner in the arena was blurred out.

That could be/probably is a relic resulting from the fact that the show was prepared and archived during the name dispute, then not redone afterwards.

I doubt the blurred version is the master copy. WWE would have been very stupid to alter the master copy.

[SteveMPunk]

Looks like some of the uploads are the CoD versions, whereas some are untouched

[sek69]

There are several examples on the Network of previously mandated censoring that they didn't bother undoing when the issues were resolved. I'd imagine they just feel it's too much of a pain in the ass to go back over everything.

[PhilTLL]

 

 

That interesting you say that anout superstars. I was watching one of the new prime time wrestling uploads and the blue banner in the arena was blurred out.

That could be/probably is a relic resulting from the fact that the show was prepared and archived during the name dispute, then not redone afterwards.

I doubt the blurred version is the master copy. WWE would have been very stupid to alter the master copy.

They don't care enough (and shouldn't, it's really not worth the time) to go back to the master, ie the original videotape, to create a new digital version now that the issue is resolved.

[flyonthewall2983]

I agree it's not worth the time, at least until they get around to working on putting actual Superstars/Challenge episodes up.

[Robert S]

 

 

 

That interesting you say that anout superstars. I was watching one of the new prime time wrestling uploads and the blue banner in the arena was blurred out.

That could be/probably is a relic resulting from the fact that the show was prepared and archived during the name dispute, then not redone afterwards.

I doubt the blurred version is the master copy. WWE would have been very stupid to alter the master copy.

They don't care enough (and shouldn't, it's really not worth the time) to go back to the master, ie the original videotape, to create a new digital version now that the issue is resolved.

 

Actually I would be surprised if they did not create an unedited version when they digitized the thing in the first place.