C.S. Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 On 7/27/2022 at 8:50 PM, Embrodak said: I do hope that the new regime has a less obsessive drive to rewrite history to make WWE both inevitable and transcendent. H's recent comment that Vince took wrestling out of smoky bars says otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 That's a weird tact to take because it erases WWE's own history of Shea Stadium shows and 20+ years of running MSG by the time VKM took over the company. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embrodak Posted August 8, 2022 Report Share Posted August 8, 2022 Well acknowledging that means acknowledging that Vince probably reduced the total audience of wrestling fans, even at the height of the WWF’s popularity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Thread Killer Posted September 19, 2022 Report Share Posted September 19, 2022 They just added a bunch of Maple Leaf Gardens house shows to Peacock today. They also added a house show from Hamilton. Crazy thing is that I was at all of those Maple Leaf Gardens shows, the only one of those shows I wasn’t at is the Hamilton show. I remember that July 88 show because Terry Taylor was on the show and he wrestled twice. This was before the Red Rooster gimmick, and nobody in Toronto knew who the hell he was, for the most part. I knew Taylor from the Apter mags and from Bill Watts UWF show that my buddy recorded with his satellite dish…but I must have been the only one because as I remember the crowd was DEAD for both his matches. I distinctly remember him getting heckled, I should go back and check and see if my memory is accurate after all this time. They were both jobber matches, too. Weird. I remember the September 88 show because there were literally only two marquee matches on the entire show, Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude and Hogan was supposed to defend the World Title against somebody big (I forget who) but whoever it was no showed, so the Main Event was Hogan against Haku. That show was terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted September 20, 2022 Report Share Posted September 20, 2022 4 hours ago, The Thread Killer said: I remember the September 88 show because there were literally only two marquee matches on the entire show, Jake Roberts vs. Rick Rude and Hogan was supposed to defend the World Title against somebody big (I forget who) but whoever it was no showed, so the Main Event was Hogan against Haku. That show was terrible. I am so sorry you had to sit through that Beefcake vs Bass match, my friend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted September 27, 2022 Report Share Posted September 27, 2022 On 9/19/2022 at 4:07 PM, The Thread Killer said: Hogan was supposed to defend the World Title against somebody big (I forget who) but whoever it was no showed, so the Main Event was Hogan against Haku The only difference between Chicago/Landover the 2 nights before MLG and Maple Leaf Gardens was that Hogan/Dibiase main evented in Chicago/Landover with Haku wrestling Koko B. Ware. Then in Toronto, Hogan/Haku main evented with Dibiase facing Koko. They had been running Hogan/Dibiase at shows a bit before this show. I don't think it's a thing that they switched it up because Hogan/Dibiase was on a Boston Garden/NESN show a week before unless NESN somehow got into Canada. Then the next loop Hogan worked had him with Big Bossman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 I signed up for Peacock Premium Plus solely so I could watch old WCW Monday Nitro episodes commercial free. Halloween Ends being on there is a cool bonus, but I haven't had WWE Network since they switched to Peacock. So it'll be cool to re-watch old stuff again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 They should have to pay people for Halloween Ends. Absolute dogshit. Truly hard to believe that the team behind Eastbound, Vice Principals, Gemstones could make the 3 worst Halloween movies. In a row, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffey Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 3 hours ago, strobogo said: They should have to pay people for Halloween Ends. Absolute dogshit. I just watched it last night... yeah. Glad I didn't go to the theater for that bullshit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyin' Brian Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 4 minutes ago, Coffey said: I just watched it last night... yeah. Glad I didn't go to the theater for that bullshit. I went to the theater. I really liked Halloween 2018, even if I did think that H20 did it better. But Kills and Ends have been pointless. I liked Ends better than Kills but it was all over the place. Greene's refusal to embrace anything supernatural about Michael especially makes this movie make no sense. Saying that he's just a man makes the whole thing fall apart. I started a thread in the Pro Wrestling Mostly folder if anyone wants to discuss there. Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 The only good things to come from the entire trilogy are the soundtracks and John Carpenter getting the money actually owed to him, which he spends entirely on video games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted December 13, 2022 Report Share Posted December 13, 2022 I just noticed that Peacock finally has content in 4K. It’s just movies now I suspect but will be interesting to see if WWE finally does stuff themselves in UHD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted December 17, 2022 Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 The brand new "WWE THIS IS AWESOME" S1 | E8: Most Awesome Wrestling Games is possibly my favorite thing all year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 Anyone watch "Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair" on Peacock? It's definitely a WWE puff piece. No mention of Flair's various controversies (I guess that's what "Nature Boy: 30 for 30" and "Dark Side of the Ring" are for). It's basically hand-waved away with "I've done a lot of bad things in my life." But like all WWE docs, it shines with high production values and awesome archival footage. Bruce Prichard is fucking embarrassing though!  Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 The other night I watched a bit of WCW Fall Brawl 94, and was kind of taken aback at how good the picture on it looked on Peacock, even compared to the Network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 22 minutes ago, C.S. said: Anyone watch "Woooooo! Becoming Ric Flair" on Peacock? It's definitely a WWE puff piece. No mention of Flair's various controversies (I guess that's what "Nature Boy: 30 for 30" and "Dark Side of the Ring" are for). It's basically hand-waved away with "I've done a lot of bad things in my life." But like all WWE docs, it shines with high production values and awesome archival footage. Bruce Prichard is fucking embarrassing though!  You certainly get the impression he regrets nothing in his life and would do it all again. He’s not a man prone to introspection at all.  Pitiful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 13 minutes ago, BigBadMick said: You certainly get the impression he regrets nothing in his life and would do it all again. He’s not a man prone to introspection at all.  Pitiful. It's sad, but like this documentary (and "30 for 30") pointed out, Richard Fliehr disappeared a long time ago - he has now fully inhabited the fictional Ric Flair persona. 35 minutes ago, flyonthewall2983 said: The other night I watched a bit of WCW Fall Brawl 94, and was kind of taken aback at how good the picture on it looked on Peacock, even compared to the Network. To be fair, Peacock has always looked better than WWE Network to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strobogo Posted December 27, 2022 Report Share Posted December 27, 2022 I believe Peacock has a pretty significantly higher bitrate than the Network had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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