Ian 86 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 From the summer of 1998 or so. I think it started at 9pm on Saturdays, then moved into the WCW HELL BLOCK to 11:30 after Nitro on a Friday.  Ive just consulted my big wrestling book of all the tapes I recorded at it seems the first show I recorded was 8th October 1998. Whether that date means US date or UK date ive no idea  8th October 1998 was a Thursday so I'd assume it's US air date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Why were WCW ppv's not shown in the UK? I know they were on DSF if you searched etc but it seems strange that TNT or any channel never showed them at all despite how huge wrestling was at the time, you'd think any channel would want Admiteldy, Thunder went outside of the "peak hours" Was "Thunder" on TNT? I don't recall it. Was it shown from the beginning? Cheers! Â It was, here's a quote from the Observer about it... Â "In the United Kingdom, they are now airing Thunder right after Nitro on Friday Nights. It's about a four-and-a-half hour nightly block of WCW which is said at this point to be pure torture" - The Wrestling Observer Newsletter: October 05, 1998 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor Whos Next Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) Yep, probably their thinking was, "Everyone's out on a Friday Night, lets stick the wrestling on". I imagine TNT/Cartoon network having about six staff, including teletext, and all the marketing/PR budget went into stuff for the cartoons. Â I don't think I ever saw any WCW wrestlers doing UK on Nitro promos in the same way that TNA and WWE do. Hall and Nash only did some tour promo stuff for channel 5 I think. Edited November 8, 2013 by Doctor Whos Next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members IANdrewDiceClay Posted November 8, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) They did move WCW briefly to Thursdays on TNT for a period in 2000, I remember. It didn't last long, but around WrestleMania time when WWF had their CDs, t-shirts, videos and books in the top 10 in HMV and WHSmiths in every shop over here, Nitro was forced to move to Thursday. I can't imagine how battered they were getting on Fridays in 2000. WWF blew up in this country. It was on Channel 4, they were doing PPVs over here, the Rock was all over the place, everyone at school loved it, I went to my work experience in a DX shirt, Trevor McDonald was doing "Ban this sick filth" style news bits about it. The WWF was super strong. Â 2000 was insane if you think about it. Its hard to even get your head around now, but there was a lad around our way who wore a Rikishi t-shirt? Rikishi was over enough to have lads knocking about rough areas of Sunderland wearing "A Piece of the Kish" on his shirt. What a huge period of business they were having over here. It would seem impossible to ever get that big again. Edited November 8, 2013 by IANdrewDiceClay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members CleetusVanDamme Posted November 8, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 8, 2013 Nitro was always on Thursdays after it moved to Bravo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTXRussomark Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 They did move WCW briefly to Thursdays for a period in 2000, I remember. It didn't last long, but around WrestleMania time when WWF had their CDs, t-shirts, videos and books in the top 10 in HMV and WHSmiths in every shop over here, Nitro was forced to move to Thursday. I can't imagine how battered they were getting on Fridays in 2000. They would have been getting destroyed in the ratings for far longer than that. Even by mid-1999 a huge number of people would have switched to Sky Digital and lost access to TNT. I know I had to convince my family to keep the old Analogue dish and box when we switched to Digital purely so I didn't lose access to Nitro. Kept it right up until TNT shut down and WCW moved to Bravo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum1993 Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 I can remember watching some sort of WCW programme on a Friday Night on Channel 5 at like half 6. Those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vamp Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 The presentation on that show was great with all the "BANG" graphics, snide comments and international objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forrest Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 (edited) WorldWide also had a really fun game called "Guess who's the World champion?" where the continuity announcers would say that one person was the champ, only for the commentators to then say someone else was the World champion, then they would show a clip from Thunder where another person was champion before looking online and finding out that the title had actually been vacated three weeks ago. Â When you're 11 years old, it was a really fun pastime. Edited November 8, 2013 by Forrest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted November 9, 2013 Moderators Share Posted November 9, 2013 Worldwide also had HEEL TENAY~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Lawrence Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 does anyone know if the paul roma shoot interview is anywhere online or how i may be able to watch it somewhere. cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members nfc90210 Posted November 9, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 9, 2013 Does any one have the download link for John Lister's Word template for the Wrestling Observer? I recall him posting a link to it years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted November 10, 2013 Paid Members Share Posted November 10, 2013 (edited) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-wKV_NLdS...dit?usp=sharing. Ctrl+S to download once the page has loaded (Google will try to create a preview, but it may be wrong.) Â Â That should be the one. If I remember rightly, you need to select and copy the new issue text from the website, then go into this word document, select all (CTRL+A) then paste (CTRL+V) to replace the text with the new issue. Should be formatted as you paste it, but if necessary, switch it all to 8 point Times New Roman. Edited November 10, 2013 by JNLister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgmilne Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I probably asked this a few years ago, but does anyone have a proper version of the WWF Uk/European Rampage theme from 1991/2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 I just listened to Dawn Marie's shoot interview in which she said she had relationships with two WWE superstars during her time there. Â Anyone know who the two lucky bastards were? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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