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What would be better (though more complex) would be an option to put the shows in chronological order. For example, if you watch the "go-home" Raw (ie, the episode that airs the week of the PPV), immediately after it would go to the "go-home" Smackdown, and then after that, goes to the PPV itself.

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1999 and 2000 Nitros being added, looks like its the next content dump. Should be required viewing for anyone who thinks today's three hour Raws are the worst shows ever.

 

God knows what they have mouldering away in their vault, and this is their focus. It's probably too much to hope that HHH got some tips on how present classic content in his meeting with Bruce this week.

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1999 and 2000 Nitros being added, looks like its the next content dump. Should be required viewing for anyone who thinks today's three hour Raws are the worst shows ever.

 

God knows what they have mouldering away in their vault, and this is their focus. It's probably too much to hope that HHH got some tips on how present classic content in his meeting with Bruce this week.

 

 

 

Well you have to remember WWE considers the Monday Night War as the most important thing in the history of wrestling, They certainly won't pass up the opportunity to upload WCW struggling to its death. Hell, I'm surprised it wasn't available entirely from day one.

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Is it true that at some point on Directv there was a commercial free version of Nitro? Or was that an old Internet myth that I'm misremembering?

It's true, I believe that's how the uncut version of the Bret Hart-Chris Benoit tribute match for Owen Hart ended up doing the rounds on the trading circuit before they put it out on the Benoit DVD.

 

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Does anybody know why the Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers match seems to be missing from WrestleRock '86? Loads of places have it listed but unless I skipped right past it, it's nowhere to be seen?

 

Here's a Talking Heads music video with a couple of still frames of it at 1:47:

 

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Is it true that at some point on Directv there was a commercial free version of Nitro? Or was that an old Internet myth that I'm misremembering?

It's true, I believe that's how the uncut version of the Bret Hart-Chris Benoit tribute match for Owen Hart ended up doing the rounds on the trading circuit before they put it out on the Benoit DVD.

 

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Does anybody know why the Midnight Rockers vs. Buddy Rose & Doug Somers match seems to be missing from WrestleRock '86? Loads of places have it listed but unless I skipped right past it, it's nowhere to be seen?

 

Here's a Talking Heads music video with a couple of still frames of it at 1:47:

 

Pretty sure that match is on Dailymotion

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The thing is, the Monday Night War era stuff gets the most plays. If the classic stuff was getting the same amount of plays they'd put up more of it.

 

 

No they wouldn't, because they never advertise it so it will never get more plays. It's a classic self fulfilling prophecy. They throw a few episodes up out of sequence then when no one watches it they can just point to it as a reason why they don't add more. I'd guarantee the NWA Saturday shows get more views than any other classic content since there's about two and a half years you can watch straight through and follow storylines.

 

Plus, WWE will always push anything related to the MNW since it's Vince's go-to mic drop to prove superiority.

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Is it true that at some point on Directv there was a commercial free version of Nitro? Or was that an old Internet myth that I'm misremembering?

 

News to me, but it's possible. Had Directv (formerly Primestar) at my parents' house starting in 1998 and I don't remember seeing it.

 

 

Ok, looks like it was a special PPV version of Nitro they started in Mid 1998:

 

DIRECT TV PPV DEBUTS

WCW began their "Backstage Nitro Blast" for Direct TV susbcribers. It's a $4.99 PPV where the day after each PPV viewers can see Nitro commercial free with exclusive features. During commercials WCW aired interviews conducted by Lee Marshall and others with Malenko and Juventud.

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I wonder if there's any hidden gems on those Direct TV shows. I'm thinking along the lines of AWA Superstars where they know nobody is watching so they just have fun. Juventud interview immediately grabbed my attention.

 

I think some of them do circulate, not sure how many though.

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If nothing else, SuperClash II is worth watching just for Ron Trongard's hair while he interviews Bockwinkel after the title match.

 

Also interesting that Dave was mentioning on Twitter that the match wasn't supposed to be a title change, but Curt told Verne he got an offer from the WWF after the match so they un-Dusty'ed the finish to give him the belt.

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What would be better (though more complex) would be an option to put the shows in chronological order. For example, if you watch the "go-home" Raw (ie, the episode that airs the week of the PPV), immediately after it would go to the "go-home" Smackdown, and then after that, goes to the PPV itself.

Put me down as wanting to see all the shows listed chronologically too! I wish there was the ability to go to a month and year and watch all of the shows in order by air date.

 

I really thought the search feature over time would've been tweaked and made better but it hasn't changed since the Network rolled out as a PS3 user.

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That Stone Cold Podcast with AJ Styles was phenomenal, no pun intented.

 

AJ just comes across as such an open, sympathetic person, who knows what he's been through but isn't ashamed because of it, but rather embraces it as part of what made him what he is today. You can also feel that his family is the most important thing to him.

 

what I was interested in the most was how they would handle his past, with WWE having their problems acknowledging "competition", or things that were/are big that they didn't create. But these two guys were talking openly about his time in TNA, and it wasn't a quick sidenote, it took up quite some time, which i the way it had to be, given his 11 years there. And they even showed some pictures of the time there and talked about eople that have currently falen outof grace with WWE. This really surprised me and was more than I had hoped for.

 

So, again, just a great watch, an hour that flew by and a definite recommendation in my eys.

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