WWE to Netflix, Network presumably doomed

[Harry Wiseau]

5 minutes ago, Statto said:

My older brother (50 tomorrow) is happy, anyway. 

He'll be disappointed if he's hoping to see Piper v Bad News.

[DavidB6937]

2 minutes ago, TibBo said:

I would love to know the theory behind not putting the ppvs in chronological order? 
“Let’s go Survivor Series 2012, 1989, 1990, 2022, 1987…”

Where are they not in order? I looked on the app and it looks okay to me?

[TibBo]

3 minutes ago, Statto said:

My older brother (50 tomorrow) is happy, anyway. 

There’s a guy down my street that went to Wrestlemania 6. Has no interest in wrestling at all, but his kids wanted to go and dragged him there while they lived in Canada….

I was wearing a Bret Hart shirt and he just randomly said “I saw him in Toronto…”

So jealous of that guy

[TibBo]

10 minutes ago, DavidB6937 said:

Where are they not in order? I looked on the app and it looks okay to me?

iPad app is a mess for me. Can’t check the TV as kid is watching Gumball

[Harry Wiseau]

I just searched the word Raw and as well as the vault there's a bunch of things like Best Of Raw 2024, a classic Raw thing with Big E hosting and seemingly some countdown style things, I didn't get to watch anything as the poorly 3 year old was moaning but it looks like there's more than just the stuff that shows up under a WWE search, it seems a bit weirdly ordered. There's a WWE section but on my one there's hardly anything on it, I'll have a proper look when he's having another nap but seemingly it's more than I first thought 

[BigJag]

WWE up uploaded the whole of last nights NXT on YouTube. 

[Chili]

16 minutes ago, BigJag said:

WWE up uploaded the whole of last nights NXT on YouTube. 

It's not Superbrawl II so it's a pass for me.

[wandshogun09]

Yeah I’m gonna miss the Network and it’s definitely the WCW stuff I’ll miss most. My nephew’s had his Network set up at mine for ages now and while I never went on there that much, it was nice to have it there whenever I fancied watching Sting’s Squadron vs Dangerous Alliance from 1992 or something. I stuck a random Nitro on the other day from the day after Starrcade 96 that had Ultimo Dragon vs Jushin Liger, Chris Benoit vs Chris Jericho and Rey Mysterio Jr vs Dean Malenko. As well as the usual NWO silliness of the time.

I haven’t looked on Netflix yet but it sounds like there’s more older content on there than it originally seemed there’d be and they will probably (hopefully) add more over time. The Vault channel has softened the blow for me. 

Edited January 1, 2025 by wandshogun09

[simonworden]

40 minutes ago, Harry Wiseau said:

I just searched the word Raw and as well as the vault there's a bunch of things like Best Of Raw 2024, a classic Raw thing with Big E hosting and seemingly some countdown style things, I didn't get to watch anything as the poorly 3 year old was moaning but it looks like there's more than just the stuff that shows up under a WWE search, it seems a bit weirdly ordered. There's a WWE section but on my one there's hardly anything on it, I'll have a proper look when he's having another nap but seemingly it's more than I first thought 

I tried a few searches to see what was on there. Wrestling - found 'the wrestling classic' and 'ECW' returned 'December to Dismember 2006' which feels like a wind up being on there. 

Noticed NXT starts at 2014 which is a shame as I never got round to watching the first two years. 

[wandshogun09]

Just had a quick look on there. At least we’ve still got King Of The Ring 95. 

[LCJ]

Anyone who wants the archive of WCW and ECW that much might as well just get a Peacock subscription and a VPN. Not sure whether that content will ever make its way to Netflix.

[wandshogun09]

1 minute ago, LCJ said:

Anyone who wants the archive of WCW and ECW that much might as well just get a Peacock subscription and a VPN. Not sure whether that content will ever make its way to Netflix.

It’s not a big enough deal to where I’m gonna subscribe to Peacock or anything. I didn’t even subscribe to the Network it was just convenient that my nephew always left it set up and logged in at ours for when he stayed over. I’ll cope without it. It was just nice knowing it was there if the urge for some Chilly Willy and Balls Mahoney took me. 

[garynysmon]

While in every sensible metric its a great deal for WWE, given how many people have Netflix, for me its a bit of a disaster as the only things I was really interested in was the archive stuff from the 80s and 90s.

(How crazy is it that I consider most anything post 2000 a bit too modern for my tastes? 25 years ffs)

I suppose the torrent sites will see a few more sign-ups now.

Edited January 1, 2025 by garynysmon

[WyattSheepMask]

1 hour ago, garynysmon said:

While in every sensible metric its a great deal for WWE, given how many people have Netflix, for me its a bit of a disaster as the only things I was really interested in was the archive stuff from the 80s and 90s.

(How crazy is it that I consider most anything post 2000 a bit too modern for my tastes? 25 years ffs)

I suppose the torrent sites will see a few more sign-ups now.

I’m in a similar situation. I can watch the 90s stuff over and over, but modern day stuff I’ll watch once and that’s only if I get the time.

Ideally I’d have liked The Network to have survived as its own seperate archive and newer stuff go on there after a delay with whatever Netflix would’ve wanted, be that 30 days, 60 or whatever.

I suppose the WWE Vault YouTube is going to fill the void for people who want the older stuff. It’s mad to think that they’ll still have the tape libraries for WCW, ECW et al and just do nothing with them from here on out

[Devon Malcolm]

48 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said:

It’s mad to think that they’ll still have the tape libraries for WCW, ECW et al and just do nothing with them from here on out

How do you know that? Why do people keep saying that? This is only just happening, give them time to sort something out or for someone to sort out a comprehensive pirate site.