So now that the free trial is almost over, they're starting to add more cool stuff, like old Maple Leaf Gardens shows and a live version of Main Event from before the Smackdown tapings. I really like focusing on a specific PPV on Sundays, and hopefully they'll start doing old WCW TV on Saturdays pretty soon. You'd have to assume that with 250ish episodes of Nitro in the can as well that would be an awesome time-filler show.
Like others, I'm really enjoying the random nature of the live stream, tuning in and watching, say, the Kurt Angle cowboy hat stuff from the Steve Austin DVD. It's like with Netflix, where sometimes there's SO much choice that you need someone to just decide for you.
The World Championship Wrestling theme is playing in my head already. We just need a cheesy shot of the Earth, an even cheesier Tony Schiavone moustache and a cheesiest thing ever David Crockett.
ReplyDeleteAny truth that to the report of them adding in all the Clashes, SNME's, and a ton of other content tomorrow after the trials expire?
ReplyDeleteI dunno, we'll find out tomorrow, I guess.
ReplyDeleteThe "Netflix" comment is so true - I often spend more time searching titles than actually watching anything. Same here, I'm looking back at allsorts of old shows, and it's like just seeing the poster-art fills me with so much nostalgic happiness that I don't even have to WATCH the show.
ReplyDeleteAnyone else have the same problem? Come on, raise your hands, I know I'm not the only one.
And I always just end up watching Family Guy.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I'm sticking with the Network. Not a fan of watching random Pay Per Views with no context. I want to binge watch those old weekly shows and see those storylines play out. So far I got my money's worth with the live HOF ceremony and upcoming Pay Per Views, so I'll just wait around for them to give me what I really want.
ReplyDeleteI LOVED that crowd back then. They were always hyped up and you always had a few really crazy chicks screaming at the top of their lungs. I also want to see guys like the New Breed, early Sting, and Lazortron.. Yeah!!!
ReplyDeleteOh man, if they put up all the Prime Time episodes..............
ReplyDeleteOff topic but I like the 2 ppv format of the Saturday night threads, maybe we just need to start earlier or pick more fun shows?
ReplyDeleteRandom thing I just discovered after falling down a Wikipedia wormhole threadjack:
ReplyDeleteCamacho is Haku's son.
The New Breed!
ReplyDeleteI think people are greatly overselling what was said. If I recall correctly, the reports (which weren't from anyone official) didn't even make that claim. They essentially said that WWE would be adding all of them over time starting after the free trial. So while I imagine we'd eventually get all of them, I wouldn't expect to wake up tomorrow and have everything. Probably add stuff as they go along so that there's new stuff every week.
ReplyDeleteSome of these troll crowds ought to bring back 'WE DON'T WANNA HEAR IT! WE DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!'
ReplyDeleteHaku: 'Hey Vince, my son just got out of wrestling school and is looking for - '
ReplyDeleteVince: 'World Champion? No problem, Tonga! Whatever you need, just don't hurt me!'
Haku: 'I just wanted to see if he could get a tryout'
Holy shit, this Miss Wrestlemania Battle Royal is fucking terrible.
ReplyDeleteIt'd be cool if we could find shows the blog is split over but other than wm9, I don't know any off hand.
ReplyDeleteAh, wrestling time travelers. Too bad their flux capacitors were on the fritz.
ReplyDeleteWhatever happened to the not Chris Champion guy, I wonder.
ReplyDeleteMickey Rourke looks like he'd rather be anywhere else than sitting at Wrestlemania.
ReplyDeleteThis Jericho match against the Legends just shows the type of guy Jericho really is. You think Triple H would have ever done a match like this at Mania?
ReplyDeleteNot without squashing each of them like a bug in two minutes flat. Not each. Two minutes for all three.
ReplyDeleteI think a closer scwnario was Vince expecting another legit bad ass and getting all hard then goes all soft when he sees it's just another cruiserweight.
ReplyDeleteThat Santina bullshit lasted forever afterward.
ReplyDeleteMatch to Watch Tongiht - Cena vs. JBL Judgment Night 2005. A wild bloody brawl plus Cena is actually over as a face.
ReplyDeleteI figured he was going to lose.
ReplyDeleteCena bladejobs are great.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that Legends match was pretty fun, especially seeing Steamboat and Jericho having that showdown at the end that crowd was crazy into.
ReplyDeleteWas that Frank Shamrock next to Rourke?
ReplyDeleteSame here.
ReplyDeleteYesterday I started watching like three ppvs before finally settled on Royal Rumble 2000 because that opening match was the best out if the three.
Got to watch the Steve Austin documentary from his 2011 DVD that I never got around to purchasing. Awesome awesome documentary.
ReplyDeleteWow, Matt Hardy spent a little too long in the spray tan booth.
ReplyDeleteWho cares if Triple H would have done it? Why does Jericho doing it need to be measured in comparison to a hypothetical of what another wrestler might or might not have done in a storyline he was never even in?
ReplyDeleteI've made that reference quite a few times in my NXT rants. SOMETIMES I CAN BE INFORMATIVE.
ReplyDeleteBecause despite getting small reactions from the crowd, Triple H STILL gets the main event spots as recent as Extreme Rules last year.
ReplyDeleteJericho got stuck wrestling FANDANGO at Wrestlemania last year while Triple H got the Lesnar match.
"I think Rey's career is alive and well, King."
ReplyDeleteClassy, JR, very classy.
JR's worst comment ever.
ReplyDeleteLeast the Joker's face wasn't as fucked up as JR's.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think you care about it a lot more than Jericho does.
ReplyDeleteSorry, how dare I speak badly about the Michael Jordan of the WWE, Triple H.
ReplyDeleteAnd you don't see how this is many a tad bit obsessive?
ReplyDeleteDisliking Triple H for being overrated in every aspect is obsessive? Sure, whatever.
ReplyDeleteCorrect
ReplyDeleteWould of loved Mickey vs Jericho, I wonder if it was actually ever in play.
ReplyDeleteWatching summer slam 2013 now.... I actually have never seen JBL vs Cena at jday.... That is on my list on ones to watch soon.
ReplyDeleteNot sure what PPV to watch on the WWE Network? check out: randomppv.info (whipped this up real quick, fun way to watch stuff on the network)
ReplyDeleteYeah, Cena/JBL is a great brawl.
ReplyDeleteHe did sex scenes with Kim Basinger in his prime, his bar for things he's done in his life is much higher than Wrestlemania.
ReplyDeleteYou could pretty much staple that to 90% of the Divas stuff post-Trish and Lita.
ReplyDeleteThere's a bunch of stuff in my Netflix queue I want to see, but then I always ending running through a show like Breaking Bad or 30 Rock that I've already seen.
ReplyDeleteI can count on less than one hand the shows (PPV or otherwise) I've watched all the way through because it's just SUCH an embarrassment of riches that I feel like I'm somehow wasting my membership by not taking a buffet style approach and sampling everything.
ReplyDeleteI loved the crazy women in that crowd. You could tell a few of them were trying to get fucked that night.
ReplyDeleteNot since Flatulent Natalya has such a grotesquely unnecessary angle lasted so needlessly long.
ReplyDeleteWatching the Network, I have surmised that all of Scott Hall's problems can be traced back to having walked under the ladder at WMX.
ReplyDeleteSelfishly, I'd have loved for Jericho to have a higher profile match at that year's WrestleMania since he was killing it throughout 2008. Had they known just how good Steamboat still was, a Jericho/Steamboat singles match(that we got 1 month later) could have been a more satisfying conclusion to their legends feud.
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly down there. There was another time where Lawler said something funny (so obviously it was a long time ago) and JR, who apparently was in a bad mood, made some kind of comment about Lawler's past legal issues, and Lawler sounded legit hurt.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. The only low-point is the finish, which is the same dick finish in nearly every Cena "I Quit" match: Cena threatens harm, the heel says "I quit" to spare himself, and then Cena goes through with harming the heel anyway. Happened with JBL, happened with Batista. I expected it to happen with Orton, but alas, no dice. But 2/3 is still a semi-workable theory.
ReplyDeleteWatched Fully Loaded '99. I think it featured the first of 100 unwanted matches between Kane and the Big Show, plus Show's second heel turn in five months.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many people seem to have that "issue" because I really don't. I'd rather have more content on demand to choose from than someone "choosing it for me".
ReplyDeletealthough that doesn't mean he still couldn't be a total bad ass.
ReplyDeletemaybe he realized the same thing all of us did, too. that the WWE wouldn't give a damn about "The Wrestler" if it hadn't won a Golden Globe for it etc.
ReplyDelete(remember the inital reaction from the WWE to the film? it was very negative)
I think the reason we notice SuperCena not selling the effects of a match nowadays is because he can't blade anymore. He used to be able to hide behind a good bladejob.
ReplyDeleteAccording to former wrestlers and backstage employees, JR has always been a bit of a sarcastic dick. I'm not sure if he has always been this way or if he only became one during his time in WWE.
ReplyDeleteSaw it for the first time last night. How about Gail Kim and Jillian nearly killing themselves on a botched rana.
ReplyDeleteAustin tells the stories on that disk so goddamn well.
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