flyonthewall2983 Posted September 11, 2019 Report Share Posted September 11, 2019 They added one MSG show from 77 and a Boston show from 86 a few days ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted September 11, 2019 Report Share Posted September 11, 2019 Dates? Anything "new"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted September 16, 2019 Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 MSG 8/29/77 and Boston 2/8/86 They have been adding lots of episodes of WCW Thunder today. They added the Clash of the Champions from June '90 recently, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 22, 2019 Report Share Posted October 22, 2019 Seven months of Mid South from 1985 dropped the other day, Rock n Rolls vs Hector and Chavo Guerrero was better than anything any company will put out this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted October 25, 2019 Report Share Posted October 25, 2019 I watched WWF Summerslam from 1994 the other night. I didn't remember the show at all. I do vaguely remember the build-up on TV of Undertaker Vs. Undertaker. I gotta tell ya though, that Owen Hart Vs. Bret Hart cage match was money. It was better than their Wrestlemania X match in my opinion. I can't believe I didn't remember that match. Truth be told, I don't think I had ever seen that match before. It was really good. They told a great story. The way they both struggled to get out of the cage & stop the other from escaping was a breath a fresh air. Even without any real violence or blood or anything, that was just great pro-wrestling. Post match angle was fun too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 27, 2019 Report Share Posted October 27, 2019 So apparently there was some talent exchange with WCCW and Mid South in 1985, as Kerry Von Erich shows up (and puts over Mid South as the best wrestling) then Chris Adams shows up the next week with the American Heavyweight title (WCCW's top title at the time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted October 28, 2019 Report Share Posted October 28, 2019 The April 13th 1985 Mid South episode kicks off with an epic Bill Watts rant on the then-recent Wrestlemania and how Vince McMahon is taking credit for popularizing wrestling and having celebrities, rattling off all the celebrities that go to shows all around the country because they're fans and "not because they were paid to be there". Plus how having an actor pretending to be a wrestler and Mean Gene main eventing a show in Minneapolis (which he did) is 'baloney" and you'll never see that on his show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted November 5, 2019 Report Share Posted November 5, 2019 Interesting news from the WWE Network News site mailbag: Quote Has there been any further news on the WWC tape library since WWE purchased it? In regards to what condition it is in, or if WWE plans to use it any capacity in the near future? As luck would have it, yes there is. For those unaware, back in November last year, news broke that WWE had acquired the video library of World Wrestling Council (WWC) of Puerto Rico. One major concern was that the footage was severely damaged by a hurricane that had then-recently happened in the area. Unfortunately, we were told a good few months ago that this was indeed the case and the issues were so extensive that a lot of the acquired tapes were sent to an outside specialist. However, there is a positive. According to a source, WWE ended up receiving a lot more footage than expected, including “a ton” of unmarked film reels. So the impression we were given at the time was that even if a significant chunk is deemed unsalvageable, the larger haul means that a good chunk would hopefully still survive. It’s impossible to say regarding the near future, but I will say that if footage from WWC does surface on WWE Network in the coming months, I’d say it’s highly likely to appear in Hidden Gems or via documentary clips first and not as a “classic content” batch of full episodes. So while it sucks that it appears a good chunk was damaged, the fact that they could save a lot more than was expected is an excellent sign for the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted November 5, 2019 Report Share Posted November 5, 2019 Not sure why it included my comment in the quote, but editing won't let me fix it so whatevs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted November 6, 2019 Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 Hopefully those film reels have full shows form the stadiums on them with stuff that didn\t air. Any ideas how far back that library was supposed to go? 70's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted November 6, 2019 Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 3 hours ago, khawk20 said: Hopefully those film reels have full shows form the stadiums on them with stuff that didn\t air. Any ideas how far back that library was supposed to go? 70's? I would think at least 70s, they would show classic matches on the Sunday WWC shows up until the storm hit and would regularly have matches from stadium shows from the late 70s/early 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted November 6, 2019 Report Share Posted November 6, 2019 Good...haven't seen a lot of 70's stuff from them, but there are some classic early 80s bouts that are out there which are fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted November 17, 2019 Report Share Posted November 17, 2019 For those who care about such things, the remaining episodes of WCW Thunder are set to drop on Monday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted January 15, 2020 Report Share Posted January 15, 2020 Post's Golden Crisp and and Honey Comb cereals have an offer to get WWE Network free for 3 months if you aren't a current subscriber. Look for Becky Lynch or Big Show on the boxes. My grocery store had these BOGO, so I bought four for the price of two, uploaded the receipt to https://wwexpost.com/, and got the offer after a few days. Worked like a charm! I now have the Network free through WrestleMania. (Well, really $7 or $8 for three months, but the cereal is good!) Since this is some weird cereal site you'll never use again, I recommend getting the cereals on a separate receipt and paying cash, as well using a secondary e-mail address and fake name/info for the cereal site. Won't affect your WWE site login/info. BTW, if anyone cares, I think Golden Crisp is much better than Honey Comb, but both are good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarpetCrawler Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 Going through 1998 with my brother because that's the era he's most into, and we got to Summer 1998 and it looks like the Network not only dubs in different music for The Oddities instead of the Insane Clown Posse, but on the show where Sable introduces them and they turn babyface for the first time (and Golga wrestles Marc Mero), the entire segment is cut from the Network's broadcast entirely. A completely baffling edit when you could have always just dubbed in new music for them rather than remove the entire segment entirely. It confused the hell out of us because they just introduced The Oddities as babyfaces like nothing happened and Ross and Lawler don't really explain anything. Any idea why the Network just removes the entire segment entirely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 They would often do that when dubbing the music would be too much work/not possible due to how the show is constructed. It was pretty common on the old WWE 24/7 VOD service, it's possible it's something they overlooked when a lot of that got restored for the network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarpetCrawler Posted January 18, 2020 Report Share Posted January 18, 2020 20 hours ago, sek69 said: They would often do that when dubbing the music would be too much work/not possible due to how the show is constructed. It was pretty common on the old WWE 24/7 VOD service, it's possible it's something they overlooked when a lot of that got restored for the network. But even they, why scrub the entire match when they could have just started with everyone in the ring? Just seems like a super sloppy edit. Which I mean, I know. But still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 19, 2020 Report Share Posted January 19, 2020 Finally getting a new content drop, Prime Time Wrestling from 1989 coming on January 20. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted January 23, 2020 Report Share Posted January 23, 2020 It's starting to feel like they dont really care about the Network anymore. Forget the smaller content drops, even the original content isnt that promoted as much. It's almost as if the FOX deal caused them to forget about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Migs Posted January 24, 2020 Report Share Posted January 24, 2020 21 hours ago, JRH said: It's starting to feel like they dont really care about the Network anymore. Forget the smaller content drops, even the original content isnt that promoted as much. It's almost as if the FOX deal caused them to forget about it. I think it's also an issue where they know they have a baseline for the Network (people who want to see the current big shows) and the marginal benefit they can get from adding more/better content just isn't there. Even if something got them 100k more subscribers, that's 12M a year, which is a drop in the bucket compared to the Fox deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted January 26, 2020 Report Share Posted January 26, 2020 On 1/23/2020 at 6:06 PM, JRH said: It's starting to feel like they dont really care about the Network anymore. Forget the smaller content drops, even the original content isnt that promoted as much. It's almost as if the FOX deal caused them to forget about it. Austin’s retooled “podcast” (because podcast is audio), focusing on guest’s career, has been getting promotion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted January 28, 2020 Report Share Posted January 28, 2020 I'm still plugging along watching the weekly episodes of World Class on the Network, and today I got to the 12/1/84 episode which contains the Terry Gordy/Killer Khan Texas Death Match, and before the show a TV-MA warning on a black screen with bright red letters came up warning me about the explicit nature of the program I was about to watch. There was also stern sounding audio reading the warning to me as well. I don't know if this is new, but I have certainly never seen it before. Just thought it was kind of interesting, that such a stern warning now apparently has to accompany a bloody match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blehschmidt Posted February 16, 2020 Report Share Posted February 16, 2020 Look's like they are dropping 10 classic ECW show's on the Network tomorrow. Super Summer Sizzler '93, Ultra Clash '93, Heatwave '94, Tag Wars '94, Double Tables '95, Return of the Funker, Hostile City Showdown '95, Enter the Sandman, Barbed Wire, Hoodies, and Chokeslams, and Heatwave '95 Pretty excited for Barbed Wire, Hoodies, and Chokeslams. That show has the angle where 911 destroys "Jungle" Jim Steele with chokeslam after chokeslam as the crowd gleefully chants "Five More Times", "Four More Times" and on and on, as Paul E. dedicates each choke slam to Vince, and Bischoff, and I forget who else. I don't know if it still holds up, but I remember loving that shit in the 90's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 I remember as an 11 year old sneaking peeks at ECW on tv and seeing advertisements for Ultraclash. This is something I can legitimately say I’ve been waiting 27 years to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted February 17, 2020 Report Share Posted February 17, 2020 So in terms of all time legendary revisionist history bullshit by the WWE, is there anything better than the claim in the 1st episode of the Ruthless Aggression show that they changed the name of the company to the WWE because they need a boost in the product. I mean you would thought "Get the F Out" was like when they brought in the Attitude Era or The New Generation. If you like the Monday Night Wars series they did probably 7 or 8 years ago then it seems like you should like this series about the WWE after the War. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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