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The best thing to watch is Tuesday Night Titans. Especially the one with Paul Christy.

 

"How many apartment buildings do you own?"

Any TNT episodes involving Piper or a heel Captain Lou are brilliant. I feel Captain Lou went a bit shit after the babyface turn though. 

Anybody bothering with the live shows? I'm going Manchester and sitting in the cheap seats - can't help it, I have a soft spot for even really bad TNA. I love dogshit like the Bro-mans like I loved the Natural Born Thrillers in the dying WCW. Theres still a very capable roster there though, especially adding the Bootcamp lot. I love this Spud/EC3 story too.

 

I don't think it's selling well - saw Spud on twitter promoting some Groupon thing, although the Groupon tickets didn't seem any cheaper than buying from the venue.

I'm not bothering this year for a variety of reasons, but I've enjoyed every single one of the four Manchester shows I attended. 

Been watching the network and found Jim Ross in this cracker of a shirt at Beach Blast 92.

You've also been able to stream shows for free (think Wrestlemania 18 was the first time I did that) but many still prefer to order it through Sky. I imagine there will always be a core that choose to do so that way. 

Bloody hell WWE, resorting to ripping off WCW airing your shit for free.

While slagging them off on the Monday Night Wars for doing so...

it better be Todd Pettengill in the WWF Mania studio with all the video reels in the background.

I'm sure they could have done something with the NXT lads to fill three hours, would have been a great showcase for them,

I'm pretty sure Philadelphia's on the east coast

Sure they could do something at the NXT studios if it comes to that, its based in Florida isn't it?

 

I bet there are still people that forget that it has 2 W's, used to piss me off as a kid when i heard someone talking about "that WF wrestling".

 

Don't think I've ever heard anyone say that in 24 years of being a fan.

 

For me, it's been WWE now longer than it was WWF from when I started watching it.  I don't get why people who are fans still call it WWF, but I can understand people who aren't still calling it WWF because in the early 90s and late 90s when everyone knew what it was that's what it was called, and the name change probably wasn't a major news story in the mainstream.

 

Also, on podcasts and interviews when people are talking about WWE and they say "or WWF as it was known then"...just say WWE, people aren't going to get confused and not understand you because there was no company called WWE in 1996.

I still find myself calling it the WWF from time to time, but much less frequently. As Ian said, the 'E' doesn't roll off the tongue naturally though. There will always be men of a certain age, late 20's and older, who will always refer to it as the WWF as wrestling's only ever been in the mainstream over here when it was called that. How many times have you seen Football or Rugby commentators refer to a tackle 'Like something you'd expect in the WWF"?

Agree with your point about podcasts though. It would be like Jeff Stelling referring back to footage of Anders Limpar playing for Arsenal in 94 and saying, "In the Premier League, or the Carling Premiership as it was once known."

The whole pagentry and outdoor setting of WM9 more than makes up for the pretty lacklustre matches in my book. Plus it also has a special place in my heart as the first PPV I was able to watch live.

Have to agree. I'd gone through the realisation that Jericho is a one-trick pony who's heel persona makes him look like an angry gnome 

Definately his WWE heel persona, but I think his WCW heel act was the best of his career by a country mile.

Although the angle obviously wouldn't have worked anywhere near as well as it did with Owen, I thought Bruce had a genuine point in his autobiography when he said that Owen already had a steady job with the WWF so Bret essentially cost him a decent run and all the cash that comes with it, just to be a dick about it. 

I think he ended up working a few shows though, tagging with Bret against Owen and the Bulldog until Davey Boy signed with the WWF around Summerslam of that year.

The closest thing I can think of is when that 'Its real to me damnit' video went viral.

Jericho is always a cock when talking about WCW. I've been watching the last few episodes of the Monday Night Wars on the network, and he has nothing good to say at all about WCW.

Obviously, that could partially be down to WWE's editing. But he's not even a full-time WWE employee so its not like he has to play along to the propoganda of the victor company line either.

New interview with Dixie Carter

Now, I know you should never shit on your own product in public, but c'mon? There's bigging up your company and there's being deluded as fuck too.

Do you think that TNA will ever be in a position to challenge the WWE in the manner that WCW did in the 1990s?
Absolutely, I think we can be in that position or we wouldn’t be in business today. We’ve got some exciting things on the horizon and our television partners worldwide are really stepping up and are committed to growing our brand, and that’s a big part of it.
In the United States, we have one, two hour television show every week and we want to be developing the programming and doing some exciting new strategic things to grow our company in ways that we’ve never even had the opportunity to do in the past. So 2015 and beyond looks very bright for us.

It sounds like Vince McMahon working Bruce Pritchard and Jim Cornette to the brink of a nervous breakdown in 1997 was a more effective writing team.

Did anyone notice how desperate HBK was to keep his hat on when making his entrance? There can't be much hair left on top going by that evidence.

You do get the impression that most wrestlers these days grew up watching WWE so its their lifetime ambition to simply be working there, and they don't want to do anything to put that in jeopardy.

On the flipside, in days gone by, while WWE was easily the biggest game in town from 1983 onwards (probably before then as New York and the north east is the biggest market by far) , they may not have the same emotional attachment if they grew up elsewhere in the states and watched World Class, the AWA etc. Also, until 2001, you also had the safety net of WCW if you'd gone too far. 

Its apt they call him 'the best there is' when most fans I know have been saying all season that he's past it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdW_HJGncOM

Fucking hell, its been worth getting the WWE Network just to see Fabulous Moolah's Suburban Commando audition at Saturday Night's Main Event 1.

On the AT&T Stadium front, Meltzer said last night that if they use the standard configuration (and then add floor seats and block one end off for the stage) the actual capacity for wrestling would be about 70,000. The maximum they can fit in for wrestling (which would take advantage of a huge standing section along with the fact that some rows of seats can be moved closer together to fit in new seats) would be 95,000. 

I suppose that most fans will be too accustomed to this set-up for the WWE to go back now, but surely that's a huge revenue blow to lose so many seats for no real reason other than aesthetics.

If you look at the Wrestlemania 3 set-up, the only reason they managed to pack 78,000 in was because of the standard (well, apart from the golf carts) entrance way. 

 

Apparently he thinks TNA is a a career killer. But I don't get that.

You only have to look at their roster to get it. Everyone is working in front of what looks like the set of the first series of Bullseye. Who would look at TNA and think "I'm going places here."

 

Yeah, but he's bound to turn up in ROH or somewhere with even worse production values, so what difference is it going to make? Going anywhere from the WWE is a massive step down anyway.

There's a part of me, even though the 93,000 is bollocks of course, that doesn't want the WM3 record broken. There's something romantic about Wrestlemania 3 and I still consider Hulk v Andre to be the biggest and most iconic match of all time. Of course, it has to happen sometime though.

As regards to the streak making another Undertaker match pointless, he's still a massive star though. The streak was what it was, but when did they even start referring to it? Must have been the mid 2000's at least.

Undertaker main evented WM13 (yeah, debateable I know as we all remember Bret v Austin now) and had high profile matches at WM14 when the streak wasn't the streak.