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They also have a lot of footage that didn't air on Classics on Demand, they should use. I also don't get why they skip certain episodes of certain TV shows. Also, that whole JIP because of glitches is bull. I would rather them show the stuff technical glitches and all, instead of airing stuff JIP.

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There's shows on there where the picture or sound glitches out for a few minutes and they run the "sorry for the bad quality but it's the best they can do" crawl on the bottom. I think there's just a certain point that if it lasts too long they don't want to upload content that poor quality.

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There's shows on there where the picture or sound glitches out for a few minutes and they run the "sorry for the bad quality but it's the best they can do" crawl on the bottom. I think there's just a certain point that if it lasts too long they don't want to upload content that poor quality.

 

Nothing wrong with that but in cases where the entire episode isn't there they should mention why it is missing. Maybe through crowdsourcing they could find a good enough Betamax copy from a trader.

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A favorite show of mine that I watched was called Dark Shadows. When they released the stuff on DVD, they would have text saying certain episodes have glitches and cannot be eliminated without editing the episodes, the company that releases them chose to present the episodes as is complete with technical difficulties, therefore you see the entire episode unedited, but with glitches.

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Man, I am loving Ride Along. The New Day going to Anna's Taqueria was mind-blowing. as was Xavier openly saying "Fuck this show" when his Playstation got knocked over. Ziggler and Miz were two boring middle-30s guys, but I enjoyed their self-awareness about it.

 

Episode two with Truth, Renee, and Summer was fascinating. Summer came off dumber than I want to believe she is, but maybe she's one of those hard-work dedicated people who's also just kind of shallow in the moment? Renee housing a box of Entenmann's donut holes felt appropriately Canadian. And Truth being a soft-spoken chill guy who loves his wife and has to indulge a lot of gentle ribbing and fart jokes sounds about right. The Sheamus-Barrett car was revealing in that Sheamus came off as a dullard who'll wear a bad gray Polo and doesn't care that he just lost the world title, so long as he gets his protein bar. Which is sort of a perfect synopsis of what you'd expect this talented but inarticulate bruiser who keeps injuring people to be. Barrett was a pretty funny guy who repeats his jokes and at this point should just transition into being a high-end announcer or manager for the next 20 years. I would love a Mauro-Lawler-Barrett team on SD. His condescending Irish accent was solid gold.

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It's not that he should sell it so much as it's a particularly business-exposing moment on a show comprised entirely of business-exposing moments. It was just interesting to see someone who just lost the belt climb into a rental car and drive for 90 mins in search of gas station food. It's a fascinating show in that it drops the veil of how much they drive, whereas I think a lot of casual fans think all these guys fly everywhere they go on a luxury jet while Rich Brennan pours them Cristal.

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I do like how Barrett took note of it though. I can see him being discouraged after putting in a performance where he dropped the main belt after a short reign.

 

Then again, it was what, Sheamus' 4th, 5th reign as a World Champion, with a few IC and US reigns in the mix, the character is decorated enough that I'm sure it doesn't faze Stephen Farrelly how short they are.

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Sheamus's complete lack of caring over losing the title (granted, that could've been because he knew he was on camera and didn't want to appear unprofessional) was a nice contrast to Barrett's desperate "I should have been World Champion!" declaration (alongside Bulldog, Regal, etc.).

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Sheamus's complete lack of caring over losing the title (granted, that could've been because he knew he was on camera and didn't want to appear unprofessional) was a nice contrast to Barrett's desperate "I should have been World Champion!" declaration (alongside Bulldog, Regal, etc.).

 

Last time I looked, Barrett is in that mix at the top of wrestlers whom have had the most PPV matches with any of the recognized Heavyweight titles on the line, but never held the title. Granted there is a couple of Elimination Chambers and other multi-man matches in there (also amazing considering he wasn't in the 2016 Rumble for yet another notch on that total, and only LoN member not to be in the match), but still.

 

Bulldog was in the lead in that category, with Finlay, of all people, tied with Barrett for second in that "distinction."

 

Wouldn't surprise me if Regal leads the category of most PPV matches a WWF/WWE wrestler has had without one appearance in a match where a Heavyweight title was on the line. Unless he did it on a UK Only PPV that I didn't put into a spreadsheet of that info.

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Also, as I said, it could also have been that the Sheamus character has been decorated enough, especially with World and WWE Title reigns, that having to drop the big title less than a month after winning it would just roll off his back, as opposed to a Barrett who I'd imagine is a bit frustrated with all the injuries and aborted pushes and seemingly inconsequential secondary title reigns he has had over the years, that he sees that he should have had at least one reign with one of the big titles in the mix over all that time with the company.

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I'm not saying Barrett is necessarily wrong to be frustrated, but at the same time, I don't think he's underachieving if he never makes it past IC/US. That seems to be his ceiling, and nothing about him tells me that he has been unfairly overlooked for a World Title reign. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Sheamus has possibly overachieved, if anything. Yeah, Sheamus is fine and I like him a lot, but I'm not sure anyone would be saying he should be a future World Champ if he had never won the belt.

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I didn't take Barrett as being frustrated, I thought he was goofing around.

Yeah, he didn't say it in a frustrated tone or anything like that, but it definitely felt like he was a bit wistful about "what could have been."

 

In contrast, check out this video: Dolph Ziggler comes across as an unprofessional, whiny, bitter little douchebag bitch when he's supposedly "paying tribute" to Daniel Bryan.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZyDPSuk6kw

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I went through the new Collections feature on the Network and watched two Daniel Bryan matches and re-watched Mark Henry's legendary salmon coat fake retirement speech:

 

- Daniel Bryan vs. William Regal: Not the masterpiece you'd expect from these two, but very good given the constrictions of a short TV match on Superstars. It started out slowly but built up nicely and told a good story. Regal was apparently ribbed before the match, because the old "Man's Man" music played during his entrance, which had both Regal and Bryan laughing.

 

- Daniel Bryan's WWE Tryout (Shooter Schultz and American Dragon vs. Lance Cade and Brian Kendrick): Holy shit, this was a ton of fun, It was honestly better than most matches you see on Raw, Smackdown, and regular NXT TV tapings. That's pretty amazing when all of the wrestlers in the match had only a few months of experience. Of course, it helps to know that Shawn Michaels gave them permission to go as long as they wanted - and they took advantage of that for sure. The crowd was really into it by the end too, which would be almost impossible to achieve with today's audience if you threw four unknown wrestlers out there cold.

 

- Mark Henry's "Salmon Coat" speech: Still a classic. :) In retrospect, the commentary was a bit clumsy and Cena being in the ring should have given the whole thing away, but Henry's overflowing bucket of tears were enough to convince most people. The fans were massively into all of this and kept chanting "Thank you, Henry!" and "one more match!" Would Henry get the same reaction today? :( Probably not, as he's been criminally misused ever since this feud ended. :unsure: On a side note: Henry was losing his hair badly by this point, which I hadn't noticed at the time, but it explains why he eventually shaved his head.

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I've seen a couple of people moan about those shows not being in separate categories but I actually prefer it the way they've got it now. With the purple/yellow graphics, the episodes are easily distinguishable, and I'd rather the convenience of them being laid out chronologically than having to flitter back and forth between two categories and find the spot I was up to.

 

That being said, I couldn't help but notice the airdates for some of the episodes starting in 1998 are all over the place, particularly with regards to some of the missing episodes, and I wonder if this is why they've not been uploaded yet? Some dates jump around wildly as far as what day they're on, and there are sometimes gaps much longer than 7 days where there should only be a single episode missing.

 

Also, I hope when they get done with the current uploads, they go back and finish 93-95. I also wonder if they've got any of the '92 TV, and if we'll ever see that?

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I think it might have been public access or something like that? Unless they were just taping stuff for the sake of it. (EDIT: Having had a look around online, the footage seems to have been produced as a demo/pilot to try and get TV). There's a couple of "Best of 1992" compilations out there (some used to be on YouTube but vanished years ago) with Dick Graham and Stately Wayne Manor as commentators (Bob Smith from PWI replaced Graham after a while). I presume it was TV since guys like Jim Neidhart are there cutting promos to camera and they had on-screen graphics. It's from the sports bar era, and I think there was also an unaired pilot shot in 1993 that I've never seen, prior to the April '93 Sportschannel debut.

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