Matt D Posted January 16, 2018 Report Share Posted January 16, 2018 It's amazing how much better the Roncerverte WV local promos make the show. Hayes is awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Some 1985 World Class seems to getting added today. I haven't been keeping track so I don't know if it's the beginning of a new drop, or just filling in gaps on a previous one. World Class was dropped earlier, so it's filling the gaps. It was also noted by the WWE Network News site that there was already confirmed to be a new drop scheduled for February so perhaps it will be the long awaited Thunder drop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time Yeah, I’m not sure who is awaiting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 No one here is looking forward to it I'm sure, but there seems to be a lot of folks who were kids back then who have some weird nostalgia for it. Another takeaway from watching Mid-Atlantic: Did Blackjack withold food from his boys until they were in their 30s or what? Barry as BJ J.r looks like Kendall with a porn stache. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time The first 6 months it did yes. Wish they would hurry up with it as it should of been on there by now considering Raw and Smackdown are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 I think Mid Atlantic TV in 1981 comes off far more polished than WWF, WCCW and AWA and several other territories for sure. Actually, I think you could make the argument that overall--talent, in-ring, promos, business, TV--Mid Atlantic was the most well rounded territory going at the time Ok, it's not just the music. Look, I'm watching the Oct 31, 1981 episode. Landell just beat Fulton by reversing a corner whip, hitting a back body drop, and landing a gutwrench suplex, right? The replay? It shows the two corner moves that Fulton hit as his last bits of offense (a shoulder thrust and a knee in the corner) and the very start of the whip reversal before they cut to commercial even before the back body drop. They would have been far better off with no replay at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 The Bruno and Bob in the shorts talking about their MSG history is a great little taster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 17, 2018 Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Gene Anderson, post-stroke, is pretty hard to watch. I wasn't expecting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 Ditto on Gene Anderson. I can't believe he kept wrestling. He looked Mike Von Erich levels of bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickH Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 The Bruno and Bob in the shorts talking about their MSG history is a great little taster. I enjoyed this but what a tease. Together they held the WWE championship for 17 years and yet no documentaries on either guy hasn't been made which is a crime. A 10 minute interview with these legends is an insult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 I agree, such a tease. But I guess this is all the $ they can throw at something most fans, sadly, don't care about Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammerva Posted January 18, 2018 Report Share Posted January 18, 2018 I thought there was a DVD on Bruno from a couple years ago. but I don't see anywhere so either the idea was scrapped or it was just a pipedream. There are some brief interviews in his collection but yeah you can do 2 hours on him easily. A Backlund documentary/DVD would be interesting but I wonder if the main reason they haven't done one is because they don't know which Backlund they are going to get. The one on the short who while excitable is controlled or the one at the Hall of Fame and most of after 1994 that is just bat shit crazy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time The first 6 months it did yes. Wish they would hurry up with it as it should of been on there by now considering Raw and Smackdown are. Its probably more to satisfy the AE completists out there. Granted there is still Saturday Night (especially the last year or so where Jimmy Hart essentially made it like a separate promotion from Nitro/Thunder/PPVs!), Heat, Shotgun Saturday Night, etc still untapped on the Network, but WCWs intended B-Show to battle Smackdown still has significance to the main storylines of WCW towards the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 WCWs intended B-Show to battle Smackdown still has significance to the main storylines of WCW towards the end. Thunder actually started over a year *before* Smackdown. It was more like WCW needlessly jumped into an extra 2 hours, then a year later when Raw was firmly on top, WWF realized they could win at that too. (And UPN really wanted the ratings.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Lately I've been wondering why they just didn't revamp their Saturday Night slot, or just get rid of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDuke Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Would the 80's Worldwide episodes be a good addition to the network? Or does the network already having the 80's World Championship Wrestling show from that period make Worldwide redundant? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grimmas Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Is there a good reason the Coliseum Home Videos aren't even discussed as going up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Bunch of Veruca Salt motherfuckers up in here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiva Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Bunch of Veruca Salt motherfuckers up in here. You have a weird obsession with trying to seem above it all, dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Would the 80's Worldwide episodes be a good addition to the network? Or does the network already having the 80's World Championship Wrestling show from that period make Worldwide redundant? Worldwide tended to have more competitive matches and more angle advancement. It would definitely be a great addition to the existing content. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southofheavy Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 I would KILL to have the entire run of Worldwide on the Network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Is there a good reason the Coliseum Home Videos aren't even discussed as going up? Don't quote me on this but I swore I saw something earlier in the thread about how the masters aren't transferable to the technology which makes it possible to upload them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Liska Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Would the 80's Worldwide episodes be a good addition to the network? Or does the network already having the 80's World Championship Wrestling show from that period make Worldwide redundant? Oh they would be awesome. I know 85 is pretty easy to get online, I think 86 may have some gaps they could fil, not sure on 87. With all the Mid-Atlantic, Dallas, and Mid-South they've put up, I think we should all be cheering for good financial numbers for the company to see what else they might do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthedoctor Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time The first 6 months it did yes. Wish they would hurry up with it as it should of been on there by now considering Raw and Smackdown are. Its probably more to satisfy the AE completists out there. Granted there is still Saturday Night (especially the last year or so where Jimmy Hart essentially made it like a separate promotion from Nitro/Thunder/PPVs!), Heat, Shotgun Saturday Night, etc still untapped on the Network, but WCWs intended B-Show to battle Smackdown still has significance to the main storylines of WCW towards the end. Used to love that show on DSF before Hogan came in as they had quite alot of good matches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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