WWE Network... It's Here

[pantherwagner]

Finally some AWA on the network....... well, the WWE documentary about it will be up tomorrow.

 

Now watching the This is Your Life RAW that was uploaded. The promo opening the show took forever. The Rock segment isn't very good. I have rewatched most of these in the last few months (mostly on the network) and I find all of the "classic" "hilarious" Monday Night Raw moments to be actually terrible: the beer truck, the milk truck, DX and the tank, the promo mocking Owen and NOD, etc.

[artDDP]

Finally some AWA on the network....... well, the WWE documentary about it will be up tomorrow.

 

Now watching the This is Your Life RAW that was uploaded. The promo opening the show took forever. The Rock segment isn't very good. I have rewatched most of these in the last few months (mostly on the network) and I find all of the "classic" "hilarious" Monday Night Raw moments to be actually terrible: the beer truck, the milk truck, DX and the tank, the promo mocking Owen and NOD, etc.

I think it's on the last DVD bio they did for the Rock where Vince himself says he didn't like the "This is Your Life" skit and has no idea why it was so highly rated.

[Petey]

Wasn't Vince's issue more that they were allotted for X amount of minutes and wound up going over by double the time?

[artDDP]

Wasn't Vince's issue more that they were allotted for X amount of minutes and wound up going over by double the time?

I'll have to go back and watch it but I seem to remember that being part of the discussion, yes.

 

Rock and Foley were quoted saying Vince was losing his mind at how long they were going and the next day they were rubbing it in his face about how high the ratings were. Then they cut to Vince who gripes about not thinking the segment was anything special and not getting why so many people watched it.

 

Vince thinks poop jokes and fucking corpses will draw huge numbers, though.

[sek69]

I don't know of anyone who's held the "toilet humor is the funniest thing EVAR" mindset as long as Vince has. Even the biggest man-children usually move past that point by their 40s at the latest.

[Migs]

They really should go to a more structured schedule. Flipping on a random Raw (in order) in the morning is currently my favorite part of the Network. Could it be so hard to add 5 new episodes a week of ECW, an 80s WWF show, etc.?

[Petey]

I don't know of anyone who's held the "toilet humor is the funniest thing EVAR" mindset as long as Vince has. Even the biggest man-children usually move past that point by their 40s at the latest.

Adam Sandler is 47. Honestly, I bet Sandman and Vince would get along great.

[Al]

 

Finally some AWA on the network....... well, the WWE documentary about it will be up tomorrow.

 

Now watching the This is Your Life RAW that was uploaded. The promo opening the show took forever. The Rock segment isn't very good. I have rewatched most of these in the last few months (mostly on the network) and I find all of the "classic" "hilarious" Monday Night Raw moments to be actually terrible: the beer truck, the milk truck, DX and the tank, the promo mocking Owen and NOD, etc.

I think it's on the last DVD bio they did for the Rock where Vince himself says he didn't like the "This is Your Life" skit and has no idea why it was so highly rated.

 

Watching it live and as a fairly experienced wrestling fan at the time, I knew there was a payoff coming. Foley would go through all this sillyness, finally the last person would be revealed as someone who would attack the Rock along with Foley. Heel turn, easy feud. You don't run a 25 minute interview segment without a payoff, right? I still think myself and every other wrestling fan sat through that because they thought there was a big angle or swerve coming at the end.

[Matt D]

 

 

Finally some AWA on the network....... well, the WWE documentary about it will be up tomorrow.

 

Now watching the This is Your Life RAW that was uploaded. The promo opening the show took forever. The Rock segment isn't very good. I have rewatched most of these in the last few months (mostly on the network) and I find all of the "classic" "hilarious" Monday Night Raw moments to be actually terrible: the beer truck, the milk truck, DX and the tank, the promo mocking Owen and NOD, etc.

I think it's on the last DVD bio they did for the Rock where Vince himself says he didn't like the "This is Your Life" skit and has no idea why it was so highly rated.

 

Watching it live and as a fairly experienced wrestling fan at the time, I knew there was a payoff coming. Foley would go through all this sillyness, finally the last person would be revealed as someone who would attack the Rock along with Foley. Heel turn, easy feud. You don't run a 25 minute interview segment without a payoff, right? I still think myself and every other wrestling fan sat through that because they thought there was a big angle or swerve coming at the end.

 

Abdullah the Butcher in a box?

[The Man in Blak]

Just happened to jump onto the Network on a lunch break at work to rewatch Bret/Piper, but I ended up watching most of Eddie Guerrero's Wrestlemania Rewind on the live feed, including Guerrero/Angle at WM20 and post-match comments from CM Punk (!), instead.

 

The live feed may seem like a waste, but it ended up hooking me for the better part of an hour when I only intended to go there for a quick 15 minute match.

[Phil Austin]

I would dip in and out of the live feed or have it on in the background a lot more if it didn't skip on me so much

[artDDP]

 

 

Finally some AWA on the network....... well, the WWE documentary about it will be up tomorrow.

 

Now watching the This is Your Life RAW that was uploaded. The promo opening the show took forever. The Rock segment isn't very good. I have rewatched most of these in the last few months (mostly on the network) and I find all of the "classic" "hilarious" Monday Night Raw moments to be actually terrible: the beer truck, the milk truck, DX and the tank, the promo mocking Owen and NOD, etc.

I think it's on the last DVD bio they did for the Rock where Vince himself says he didn't like the "This is Your Life" skit and has no idea why it was so highly rated.

 

Watching it live and as a fairly experienced wrestling fan at the time, I knew there was a payoff coming. Foley would go through all this sillyness, finally the last person would be revealed as someone who would attack the Rock along with Foley. Heel turn, easy feud. You don't run a 25 minute interview segment without a payoff, right? I still think myself and every other wrestling fan sat through that because they thought there was a big angle or swerve coming at the end.

 

I think you're forgetting the star-making conclusion of Triple H storming out to kick balloons and pout.

[Petey]

I just watched the This Is Your Life episode and HHH is horrendous. His promos were so much worse than they would be just a few months later. Amazing how quickly he grew into being a competent main eventer.

[BillThompson]

Just finished 1997 on my big PPV rewatch project, and that means I've watched all the In Your Houses now. These are the 8 matches I thought were great, in order, and if a match isn't on here then I didn't think it was great,

 

1) In Your House 10 (09-22-1996) Mankind vs. Shawn Michaels

2) In Your House 5 (12-17-1995) British Bulldog vs. Bret Hart

3) In Your House 7 (04-28-1996) Diesel vs. Shawn Michaels

4) In Your House 2 (07-23-1995) Jeff Jarrett vs. Shawn Michaels

5) In Your House 18 (10-05-1997) Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker

6) In Your House 16 (07-06-1997) Goldust, Ken Shamrock, Legion of Doom (Animal & Hawk), & Steve Austin vs. Hart Foundation (Brian Pillman, Bret Hart, British Bulldog, Jim Neidhart, & Owen Hart)

7) In Your House 14 (04-20-1997) Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin

8) In Your House 6 (02-18-1996) Owen Hart vs. Shawn Michaels

 

I'm probably gonna post these lists when I finish all the various PPVs, not that it's really interesting to anyone but me.

[BillThompson]

Continuing the above post, here are the great matches (and I'm simply focusoing on great matches because it's an easy reference point, I don't really view great matches as the sole pupose of wrestling) from the other PPVs I've already seen the complete run of on this rewatch,

 

WCW: Beach Blast

1) Beach Blast ’92 (06-20-1992) Rick Rude vs. Ricky Steamboat

2) Beach Blast ’92 (06-20-1992) Cactus Jack vs. Sting

 

WCW: Battlebowl

None

 

ECW: Barely Legal

None

 

WCW: Hog Wild

None

 

WWF: One Night Only

1) One Night Only (09-20-1997) Hunter Hearst Helmsley vs. Dude Love

2) One Night Only (09-20-1997) Undertaker vs. Bret Hart

3) One Night Only (09-20-1997) Vader vs. Owen Hart

[goc]

Catching up to the end of Legends House and watching the Game Show episode. Jimmy Hart still using the line about being a good Christian athlete who would never cheat 30+ years later is the best.

[Karl]

I was watching the live feed earlier and there was a Pipers Pit with Sal Bellomo who was on in the stead of JYD.....I had never seen this before and this era WWF is a time I am mostly unfamiliar with. So imagine my surprise when Piper starts hurling all kinds of racial slurs poor old Sal's way. Really took me by surprise....very uncomfortable viewing, especially with the Snuka coconut bit either just before or just after.

 

Wrestling eh?

[pantherwagner]

I'm not the biggest Piper or Piper's Pit fan so I haven't seen all or even most of them but I recall him using fried chicken and watermelon jokes with Tony Atlas (or was it JYD) and saying that Mr. T (or again was it JYD???) was the only man who wears more chains than his ancestors. So, par for the course for that era of rasslin.

[Karl]

A real shock to see it it broadcast on the network!

[Johnny Sorrow]

Piper played racist all the time back then. He got an ass kicking from retired Bruno for calling him a wop.

[Blazer]

A real shock to see it it broadcast on the network!

 

Oh Geez, you're not aware that standards were different 30 years ago?

[shoe]

It looks like they 'll be airing Total Divas reruns on the network.

[CaptCabana]

It looks like it's taking the slot of Legends House.

[Petey]

Well anyone who was on the fence about subscribing should be signing up any minute.

[rovert]

Reader beware it is Wrestlezone but Vince seems to be taunting Wrestlers to unionise with this morale booster:

 

WZ has learned WWE talent relations held a meeting with all the wrestlers in the past week or so and instituted a dress code again, which is a sore subject with the talent considering the brutal schedule they've been on. Fines will be levied for any violation of the dress code.

Wrestlers were also told there is a zero tolerance rule in effect for showing up to Raw or Smackdown after the designated call time, which is usually 2pm eastern time for Raw and 2pm local time for Smackdown. Needless to say, with WrestleMania checks and video game payments still not distributed, the talent in WWE is, according to one source, "jittery" to say the least.

Wrestlers in their traditional clothing: