Kronos Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Watched the "Patriots" episode of Legends of Wrestling last night (had to access it through the Schedule section). My favorite roundtable so far! To an extent, it was the Sgt. Slaughter Show because the Sarge was on the panel, but that's understandable because he played a big role both as an American patriot and as an anti-American sympathizer of Iraq. I really wish this had been given another full hour, because a lot of the other patriotic acts were given short thrift (including, surprisingly enough, Hacksaw Jim Duggan) or not mentioned at all (The Patriot). Other than that, Sarge told some great stories, the clips were well-chosen and complemented the discussion perfectly for once, and even Michael P.S. Hayes dialed it down nicely. J.R. was also really great rattling off various historical facts. Turns out I wasn't burned out on the roundtables after all - the last couple of them have just been crap. Agreed. This one was superb. I can't get enough Sgt Slaughter talk. One of my favorite bits is when he and Patterson are reminiscing about the alley fight -- and how Patterson said, "We got 'em, Kid!" towards the end of the match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Shouldn't they have a good 25-30 years of their own shows in Spanish? It makes sense to want other libraries in Spanish, but they should have plenty. I remember back in 1990 we'd get Superstars with our own commentators but we'd often have backstage interviews handled by Miguelito Alonzo and sometimes Pedro Morales so pretty sure it goes at least that far back. Hugo and Carlos probably started back in 1993 or 1994 and sometimes Eurosport or some odd channel would buy WWF rights for a few months and use the SAP feed. I'm sure that there's enough WCW in Spanish too as Pedro and Miguel did Nitro for years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Boricua Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Same thing here in Puerto Rico with Miguel Alonso and Pedro Morales being the commentators in 1990 for the Spanish broadcast version of Superstars. I wonder if they would be interested in All Star and/or IWA footage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Do we have spoiler text here? I did not assume that someone would consider the results of a Countdown show as a spoiler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
efrim Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Love getting to see Legends of Wrestling without having to jump through hoops on Daily Motion for piss poor quality rips of them. I had previously seen all the ones posted so far, but there's several I haven't seen - looking forward to those going up. Sarge did have several great stories, didn't expect to enjoy him as much as I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pantherwagner Posted March 20, 2014 Report Share Posted March 20, 2014 Same thing here in Puerto Rico with Miguel Alonso and Pedro Morales being the commentators in 1990 for the Spanish broadcast version of Superstars. I wonder if they would be interested in All Star and/or IWA footage? I imagine at some point they will get the PM/Martinez footage probably cheap. You'd think we'd have already seen all the IWA there is but in Japan they released a Thesz/Mascaras tag match whose TV episode I have never seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Ridge Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I enjoy listening to the Legends shows at work. Well except for the Flair ones. But agreed Sarge did a good job with his story telling. Hope they keep uploading more of those. The latest WrestleMania Rewind with Cena was the weakest one so far. I thought his match with JBL was underwhelming since you had Batista in the main event later on in show winning the World Title. I did like seeing the clips of Cena from 2002 though. Some of his moves looked better back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I enjoy listening to the Legends shows at work. Well except for the Flair ones. But agreed Sarge did a good job with his story telling. Hope they keep uploading more of those. The latest WrestleMania Rewind with Cena was the weakest one so far. I thought his match with JBL was underwhelming since you had Batista in the main event later on in show winning the World Title. I did like seeing the clips of Cena from 2002 though. Some of his moves looked better back then. I did like that JBL expressed frustration about that very thing. They made it sound like Big Show handpicked Cena to feud with at 20 too, which was kind of neat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 The Cena/Big Show match from 20 was on one day and it was refreshing to hear an entire crowd behind him once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 From F4W: --WWE has sent out a survey which asked people their interest in these proposed programming ideas for the network Blackman's Bounties: A reality show following Steve Blackman, who now works as a Bounty Hunter in Pennsylvania NXT Behind the Scenes Pros vs. Joes - WWE talent faces off against people in competitions similar to what you'd see on American Gladiators WWE Around the World - Talent goes around the world and tries risky activities WWE Dirty Jobs - Talent has to do different unpleasant jobs WWE Prankdown - Talent pranks fans WWE Rescue - WWE wrestlers help people with personal life problems or business problems WWE Ultimate Challenge - Scavenger hunts in different cities Xtreme WWE Collector - A WWE fan goes all over the country looking for rare memorabilia WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I want WWE Rescue and I want it yesterday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I basically want all of those. Twice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BP) Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Blackman's Bounties please. Hopefully the theme song is just his awesome entrance music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I love that most of them are obvious jokes with NXT Behind The Scenes being the clearly "real" one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Blackman's show where he hunts down tape traders would be a vindictive Vince show. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I would watch the collector one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Blackman's show where he hunts down tape traders would be a vindictive Vince show. Blackman tracks down Brick. Book it, Danno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Blackman's show where he hunts down tape traders would be a vindictive Vince show. Blackman tracks down Brick. Book it, Danno. Hells yeah!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Couldn't resist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I'm all for the Steve Blackman show... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dooley Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I'm still waiting for the Al Snow/Steve Blackman buddy cop show where they travel through time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 I watched the "Celebrity Effect" episode of Legends of Wrestling last night. Since it's from 2008, it appeared on the Roku without any issues. As much as I loved the one about patriots, this was even better! For one thing, there was no ass-kissing or walking on eggshells, like we saw in the Flair roundtables. DDP really brought the BANG (sorry, LOL). He and J.R. went at it HARD over David Arquette, Karl Malone, Jay Leno, etc. It was the most heated exchange I've ever seen on this show! Both DDP and J.R. had strong opinions and weren't afraid to state them - yet, neither of them were ever openly disrespectful or dismissive of each other (Flair should take notes). DDP's obsession over Malone was funny, and even though that whole thing was never my cup of tea, he wasn't wrong. He also had great behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the Arquette situation. Of course, they covered many other celebs as well - Ali, L.T., Mayweather, some of the Raw guest hosts, etc. I was surprised when one of the panelists (J.R., I think) called Cyndi Lauper the worst celebrity in his opinion. He didn't really explain his position, and it made him look out of touch IMO. Like Lauper or not, that whole thing accomplished exactly what it was supposed to. L.T. was called a success - and in many ways, he was (especially since the match itself was much better than it had any right to be) - but I always thought he came across too heelishly (calling the 1-2-3 Kid a "13-year-old" and acting like a pompous jackass). Having him beat Bam Bam was a bad move, and I still don't understand the rationale behind it. Unfortunately, they barely went into it at all. I wish the show had been 30 minutes longer so we could have gotten more information about L.T. and some of the other celebrity matches and storylines. I expected this to be one of the least interesting episodes, and it ended up being one of the most fascinating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 LT was a heel as a player so he was what he was. The Lauper hate goes back to Mid-South for Ross as they buried Lauper every week just about on their TV then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S. Posted March 21, 2014 Report Share Posted March 21, 2014 Looks like Blackman's Bounties is already being filmed... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stiva Posted March 22, 2014 Report Share Posted March 22, 2014 Blackman's Bounties is proof positive that professional wrestling is the most beautiful art form there is. What a great wrestling world we live in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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