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[C.S.]

I don't know anything about Canadian law, but I suspect ganging up with the Nasty Boys to attack and taser an American police officer would result in some legal problems.

 

Well, Mountie did eventually spend a night in jail.

[flyonthewall2983]

I preferred the Mountie's first theme, until I watched The Untouchables and saw that it was a tame version of the Morricone theme.

[Kevin Ridge]

I thought the Doink selection was very weird. Because most of the talk about it was praising how good it was as a heel. They barely touched when he became a face. And yeah, the Disco stuff was getting very personal and not so much the gimmick.

[flyonthewall2983]

Still impatiently waiting for the SNME's and Clash's to go up. Is it past the free-trial run yet?

[El-P]

And yeah, the Disco stuff was getting very personal and not so much the gimmick.

 

Disco Inferno worked every way it could. Gilberti got the gimmick over and got more mileage out of it than anyone could have thought. No way it was a terrible gimmick and Glenn was a solid worker. Gotta love Bill Demott of all people talking shit about Disco when he wasn't half the worker, the promo or the gimmick Gilberti was.

[efrim]

 

And yeah, the Disco stuff was getting very personal and not so much the gimmick.

 

Disco Inferno worked every way it could. Gilberti got the gimmick over and got more mileage out of it than anyone could have thought. No way it was a terrible gimmick and Glenn was a solid worker. Gotta love Bill Demott of all people talking shit about Disco when he wasn't half the worker, the promo or the gimmick Gilberti was.

 

 

Demott mouthing off really annoyed me. That guy is such a fat sack of crap.

[thebrainfollower]

Does anyone know why stuff goes up and then randomly comes down all the time? The Legends Piper and Terry Funk round table was up for all of a day or two, and yesterday I found that all the post ECW becoming Extreme eps went down in favor of a bunch more Eastern Championship Wrestling stuff. All I get when I ask wwe.com is random thank you for your query replies.

[Al]

Just saw a tweet that WWE Network is again offering a one week trial. Essentially, offering up the Wrestlemania 30 replay for free.

[S.L.L.]

 

I can't imagine Jacques looks back on it too fondly either, considering he had to deal with actual mounted police harassing him.

 

He must have liked it well enough, because he more or less kept it going with The Quebecers when neither of them really needed to be "mounties" at all.

But they weren't mounties. Their theme music explicitly said so!

[C.S.]

 

 

I can't imagine Jacques looks back on it too fondly either, considering he had to deal with actual mounted police harassing him.

 

He must have liked it well enough, because he more or less kept it going with The Quebecers when neither of them really needed to be "mounties" at all.

But they weren't mounties. Their theme music explicitly said so!

 

 

LOL!!! I can't believe I forgot about that epic theme music.

 

Thinking back on it, I really loved The Quebecers. They were smooth in the ring and entertaining out of it. Also, they beat The Steiners at a time where a win like that actually still meant something.

[C.S.]

I watched the "infamous" ECW episode with the Sandman/Dreamer cane angle and Shane Douglas throwing down the NWA Title. I believe it was the first episode of ECW I ever saw. I was completely blown away at the time.

 

Revisiting it 20 years later (holy shit!), it's still fun, but the production values were much worse than I remembered (not that they were ever great, even then) and the main event - while enjoyable enough - is certainly no classic (it wasn't one then either though). The highlights of the show - the Dreamer/Sandman angle and Shane's speech - still hold up. The Doink/911 stuff was and is fun, but gimmicky names like "Paul E. Dangerously" and "The Tazmaniac" really stuck out like a sore thumb. Of course, both of those would be changed going forward. This show marked the birth of "Extreme."

 

Dennis Corralluzo and Tod Gordon both came across looking like shady carny promoters after the Douglas title throwdown. Heyman, oddly enough, always seemed much more "sincere" (ha!) and was a much better fit for the on-camera figurehead role.

 

Also, maybe it's just over a decade and a half of hearing commentators talk about everything BUT the match, but Joey Styles seems amazing to me now. He actually focused on what was happening in the ring, called the moves, explained their effects, etc. It was probably Jim Ross Lite at the time, but it's a breath of fresh air compared to today's commentating style. Even more impressive is that he did it all by himself. Styles was and is a really underrated commentator. The only flaw I could really pick out for this particular show is that he seemed to SCREAM through everything. That might have been a byproduct of ECW's lousy acoustics though.

[Eduardo]

As far as Styles goes, wasn't Heyman consistently feeding him lines throughout ECW's run? I remember hearing that in the past. From what I understand, Heyman played a big role in Styles' commentary.

[Bix]

As far as Styles goes, wasn't Heyman consistently feeding him lines throughout ECW's run? I remember hearing that in the past. From what I understand, Heyman played a big role in Styles' commentary.

Yes. I happened to watch an episode from the brief period Styles had to leave in '94, and Heyman is obviously feeding lines to Jay Sully. Lines like "Woman, the Left Eye Lopes of ECW..." coming out of his mouth is something to behold.

[C.S.]

As far as Styles goes, wasn't Heyman consistently feeding him lines throughout ECW's run? I remember hearing that in the past. From what I understand, Heyman played a big role in Styles' commentary.

 

I didn't know that. Either way, I can't hold that against Styles, because WWE commentary is the same way now and it's terrible compared to Styles's *ahem* style.

[Migs]

Does anyone know why stuff goes up and then randomly comes down all the time? The Legends Piper and Terry Funk round table was up for all of a day or two, and yesterday I found that all the post ECW becoming Extreme eps went down in favor of a bunch more Eastern Championship Wrestling stuff. All I get when I ask wwe.com is random thank you for your query replies.

 

They're not gone, just hidden for some reason. Use this list that Jon Lister posted earlier in the thread for links - http://www.reddit.com/r/wwenetwork/wiki/wwe_network_shows

[KrisZ]

MKJ is reporting that DTV is dropping WWE PPV's....that's a big deal for the Network

[Timbo Slice]

Thought that was assumed by this point anyways, that DTV only agreed to carry WM at basically the last minute and that after that, no more?

[C.S.]

For Roku users, a tip I found on Facebook:

 

As you know, several of the Legends of Wrestling shows are missing from that section on Roku. But if you type "Legends of Wrestling" into the search section, ALL of the shows will come up.

 

I've tried it and it really works.

 

(This did not always work. I tried it before, early on, and nothing came up. But it does work now.)

[shoe]

For Roku users, a tip I found on Facebook:

 

As you know, several of the Legends of Wrestling shows are missing from that section on Roku. But if you type "Legends of Wrestling" into the search section, ALL of the shows will come up.

 

I've tried it and it really works.

 

(This did not always work. I tried it before, early on, and nothing came up. But it does work now.)

Now if we could find a work around for the old school.

[pantherwagner]

 

For Roku users, a tip I found on Facebook:

 

As you know, several of the Legends of Wrestling shows are missing from that section on Roku. But if you type "Legends of Wrestling" into the search section, ALL of the shows will come up.

 

I've tried it and it really works.

 

(This did not always work. I tried it before, early on, and nothing came up. But it does work now.)

Now if we could find a work around for the old school.

 

 

Not sure if this works on Roku (as the above tip didn't work on Apple TV) but on Apple if you know who's wrestling on the Old School shows you can access the full show via the search function. I.e. I searched for Mr. Perfect and found the 1990 MSG show with Warrior vs Perfect that was posted today.

 

I find it amazing that they have such shitty software. At this point maybe 50% of the Old School shows aren't accessible on Apple TV. This isn't a footage bandwith problem like it was during the first week, as the shows are clearly there and accessible through back doors.

[shoe]

 

 

For Roku users, a tip I found on Facebook:

 

As you know, several of the Legends of Wrestling shows are missing from that section on Roku. But if you type "Legends of Wrestling" into the search section, ALL of the shows will come up.

 

I've tried it and it really works.

 

(This did not always work. I tried it before, early on, and nothing came up. But it does work now.)

I tried Andre and failed. Some work some don't I guess.

 

Now if we could find a work around for the old school.

 

Not sure if this works on Roku (as the above tip didn't work on Apple TV) but on Apple if you know who's wrestling on the Old School shows you can access the full show via the search function. I.e. I searched for Mr. Perfect and found the 1990 MSG show with Warrior vs Perfect that was posted today.

 

I find it amazing that they have such shitty software. At this point maybe 50% of the Old School shows aren't accessible on Apple TV. This isn't a footage bandwith problem like it was during the first week, as the shows are clearly there and accessible through back doors.

 

[C.S.]

 

I tried Andre and failed. Some work some don't I guess.

 

 

Because Andre was taken down for some reason.

[shoe]

I've tried other searches on the Roku like Bruno,Roddy Piper,Randy Savage, Tito Santana, Ricky Steamboat, and Greg Valentine. Not all the old school content that is available shows up in the search. So I still think it's a hit or miss.

[C.S.]

My bad. I thought you meant a LoW show about Andre. My confusion came from hearing that a couple of episodes were put up and taken down very quickly.

 

Hopefully Old School will eventually be fully searchable. LoW wasn't until recently.

[JNLister]

 

Does anyone know why stuff goes up and then randomly comes down all the time? The Legends Piper and Terry Funk round table was up for all of a day or two, and yesterday I found that all the post ECW becoming Extreme eps went down in favor of a bunch more Eastern Championship Wrestling stuff. All I get when I ask wwe.com is random thank you for your query replies.

 

They're not gone, just hidden for some reason. Use this list that Jon Lister posted earlier in the thread for links - http://www.reddit.com/r/wwenetwork/wiki/wwe_network_shows

 

To date, nothing that's been taken off has stayed off for long, and usually it comes back with minor edits such as replacing music. That said, the ECW stuff that's come down is the biggest batch of stuff to disappear.