Doctor Whos Next Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 (edited) What I'm disappointed about is the lack of WWF weekly tv (bar the Prime Time Wrestling episodes) from the pre-1993 period. It would be nice to have the whole run of WWF Superstars episodes on there and they would only be 40 mins long so a handy bite sized watch. Do official, definitive episodes of those shitty syndicated shows exist? I thought they were localised. Surely people in Texas and the U.K. weren't getting the episodes where 30% would be taken up by crap promos and shills for a house show in New Jersey etc. I suppose the closest you could get is versions of that archive show that used to be on Sky Sports - I want to say Vintage Collection? Matches from a specific episode of Superstars or Challenge with new inserts. Perhaps with Sean Mooney and Todd Pettingil as well as Gene Okerlund hosting to break it up a bit. But then that defeats the purpose of archive cotnent Edited December 3, 2015 by Doctor Whos Next Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 (edited) Some USWA been added now too.I didn't even realise that they had that in the library. They've also added three episodes from Stampede Wrestling Edited December 3, 2015 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted December 3, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2015 What I'm disappointed about is the lack of WWF weekly tv (bar the Prime Time Wrestling episodes) from the pre-1993 period. It would be nice to have the whole run of WWF Superstars episodes on there and they would only be 40 mins long so a handy bite sized watch. Do official, definitive episodes of those shitty syndicated shows exist? I thought they were localised. Surely people in Texas and the U.K. weren't getting the episodes where 30% would be taken up by crap promos and shills for a house show in New Jersey etc. I suppose the closest you could get is versions of that archive show that used to be on Sky Sports - I want to say Vintage Collection? Matches from a specific episode of Superstars or Challenge with new inserts. Perhaps with Sean Mooney and Todd Pettingil as well as Gene Okerlund hosting to break it up a bit. But then that defeats the purpose of archive cotnent It wouldn't matter if they were localised anyway. The crawlers advertising shows are 25 years out of date so the location is irrelevant. The promos were for specific shows but 99.9% of them related to matches that were doing the rounds nationwide and feuds that were well established so they aren't going to go over anyone's head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 3, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2015 They also did generic versions of the syndicated shows where they'd have Event Centre, but the wrestlers would speak in general terms about the feud they were in rather than hyping a specific date and location. That's the version we got on Sky most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 They also did generic versions of the syndicated shows where they'd have Event Centre, but the wrestlers would speak in general terms about the feud they were in rather than hyping a specific date and location. That's the version we got on Sky most of the time. Ah! That sounds like the ones to go with. Were there many feuds from 90-93 that did TV angles but never had an on-camera match? I know stuff like Warrior vs Jake never led to matches because Warrior left, but for Warrior-Undertaker there's an MSG match at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted December 3, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 3, 2015 You had a few of the lower-card ones where the only TV stuff was being on opposite teams at Survivor Series, or where they had the initial TV match to set off the angle but didn't televise the payoff. The big example would be in 1992 where Vince panicked at how badly the summer house shows were doing and ditched all the main programmes when it came to SummerSlam, so you had stuff like Warrior-Shango, Undertaker-Berzerker, LOD-Natural Disasters and Davey Boy-Repo Man that didn't have the big matches on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Didn't Bulldog and Repo have a TV one? Or was that just the opener to the angle where he knocked him about with that rope? I remember that summer well though - I used to get tapes off my Dad's mate who had Sky with a few weeks telly on, and after watching a big May bulk with some heavy duty pushing of Beverly Bros/LOD, Taker/Bezerker, Shawn/Bret, Flair/Savage and Warrior/Shango, the next thing I got was Summerslam and I was badly missing context for half of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_3165 Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 I'd love to see a UK section with all the UK old school shows like battle royal at the Albert hall, European rampage etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members DEF Posted December 6, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted December 6, 2015 No idea when they went up but found out Tough Enough seasons 3 & 4 are now on the network. Was news to me. Season 4 is just the doc they put on DVD. A couple of things struck me. A) I have no memory of The Miz and Daniel Puder having a boxing match on PPV. B) Bob Holly shooting on Matt Capatelli (sp?) is still horrific. Matt looks really frighteningly abused after it and the bizarre backwards justification they use is utter bullshit. Otherwise Season 3 is a great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 They've started adding Raws from 2000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Some of you may have noticed that the Stampede Wrestling section has disappeared. Bret Hart put the boot in on that as he owns the rights to all Stampede footage that features him. According to Meltzer, he contacted Mark Carrarno who said that WWE owns all Stampede footage due to a deal between themselves, Ross Hart and Bruce Hart. Bret then contacted Vince directly who has sId he will look into the matter, so all Stampede is off the network until the issue is resolved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King of Hamptons Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 B) Bob Holly shooting on Matt Capatelli (sp?) is still horrific. Matt looks really frighteningly abused after it and the bizarre backwards justification they use is utter bullshit. Otherwise Season 3 is a great. Which episode is this in ? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Clint Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 The Austin podcast with Michaels goes out after TLC tonight on the Network. Although this interview has been pre-recorded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dart Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 I wonder if they decided to pre record them because Austin and Lesnar trying to arrange a date to go hunting together was as interesting as Austin talking to a chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Pitcos Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 We'll know if the Shawn Michaels one has the same boring "let's go hunting" conversation, or if it's been cut out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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