strobogo Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 Weird considering they kept all Benoit stuff across ECW/WCW/WWE for the entire run of actual WWE Network and into Peacock era when it was all much fresher in the consciousness. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted May 11 Author Report Share Posted May 11 1 hour ago, strobogo said: Weird considering they kept all Benoit stuff across ECW/WCW/WWE for the entire run of actual WWE Network and into Peacock era when it was all much fresher in the consciousness. To be fair, it was all behind a paywall (there's also Benoit stuff on Netflix). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G. Badger Posted May 11 Report Share Posted May 11 4 hours ago, donsem43 said: Looked at the view count for the WCW channel and stumbled across this: * Flair/Steamboat Clash match - uploaded April 2 - 31k views * Booker T/ Eddie Uncensored '98 - uploaded April 4 - 411k views (4th highest viewed video on the entire channel) * Vader/Cactus Jack Saturday Night April '93 - uploaded April 5 - 57k views * Sting/Steve Austin Saturday Night April '95 - uploaded April 8 - 51K views When it comes to pre-Nitro stuff, full shows are doing much better than singular matches. The full SuperBrawl '91 show and the WarGames match from WrestleWar '92 were uploaded the same day that the channel launched. The former has more than double the views of the latter, 153k to 70k. I did laugh at seeing the the Arquette title win has less views than the episode of World Championship Wrestling (12/21/85) that was uploaded the same day. Thanks for looking at some of the data! I looked at some of it too just now. Kidman vs Hogan already has 46k views so I must be in the minority of who's watching this page...or who they're looking to target. It appears stuff with Hogan, Scott Steiner, Goldberg, Kevin Nash is what's drawing people... Which feels like its casual wrestling fans on a nostalgia trip...young or old. Quality matches, hard to find shows or classic matches seems to be like a 3rd string priority. 3 hours ago, JRH said: Another issue is that they're skipping over shows that had Chris Benoit. Now, I have no problem with them cutting out his matches, but why get rid of the whole show? Given the format of wrestling, it's not like it affects continuity if they removed his matches. Regarding the lack of Benoit shows, I hear ya! Maybe there's some correlation... They're just skipping over a big chunk of quality WCW TV & PPVs since he might have a match, promo or appearance. So they're tip-toeing around 1995-1999. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsem43 Posted May 13 Report Share Posted May 13 On 5/11/2025 at 11:26 AM, JRH said: To be fair, it was all behind a paywall (there's also Benoit stuff on Netflix). Must be worried Benoit would somehow trigger a flag on YouTube causing the video/channel to be demonetized. That's the only thing I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRH Posted Saturday at 07:16 PM Author Report Share Posted Saturday at 07:16 PM Sabu's 1993 dark match: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowtobeaMark Posted Monday at 09:01 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 09:01 PM https://youtu.be/jvakIWf4zAw?si=i-I8tvOs5cX0jUo3 Andre the Giant footage uploaded to WWE Vault Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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