All-Purpose Wrestling Thread

He's worse than the Michael Jackson.

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Originally Posted by gamevet

Pro Wrestling died when the WWF changed to World Wide Entertainment. It was more entertaining when it was sold as a real wrestling match, even though we knew deep down inside that it wasn't real. The drama was there, the hatred between the opponents was there and the vast variety of opponents was there.

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I agree with this, though I'd put it a little bit earlier in 1993. Hulk Hogan (and Mean Gene!) leaving WWF pretty much coincided with my childhood interests in drawing/comics/games pushing wrestling off the plate, it was the end of that era.

I've never even seen an NWO match, I was just vaguely aware of what was going on from school friends from that point forward.

So apparently Jim Ross' wife was killed in a car accident earlier this month. Harsh news.

The WWE Network is pretty incredible.

I've been watching, like, six hours of old wrestling matches every day. Basically, if it's a match that happened on pretty much any wrestling TV program since the 70's it's on the WWE Network. You want to see Gorilla Monsoon wrestle in black and white? You got it. You want to see George the Animal Steele in a cage match? No problem. You want to see the only footage of Buddy Rogers vs Rick Flair? It's there. You want to watch ECW TV from the mid-90's when it was the best thing going? You can, but they edited out all the intro music instead of paying for it... Sandman comes in to some techno shit, it's absurd. You want to see punk as fuck Mae Young take a tiger bomb through a table at 70 years old? You better. The Monday Night Wars 24 episode TV series is also great. I was there, tuning in every week from 96 on, and I still found new information to mark out over. For fuck's sake, the amount of content is like a dream come true for any fan of wrestling.

I really hope they buy up some lucha libre and puroseu tape libraries, but even if they don't there are thousands of matches to watch. It seems like they're trying to make WWE Network like the library of congress for wrasslin, and I approve. They did blur out all tits, but if you want tits you go to the internet like everyone else.

It's currently free for a month, you sign up, jabroni, or you take a fucking walk.

There are some dudes on neo that are watching all of ECW in order, it sounds rad.

I was doing that with what I had on my hard drive for a bit. I only had ECW home video stuff and the ppvs. I'm not sure how that differs from ECW tv, other than there won't be any Rotten Bros matches, which is just fine.

ECW TV was what was aired on TNN I think.

Nah, that was only on for a minute. They were on a bunch of little rinky dink local stations for years before the TNN deal. There are hundreds of episodes.

I have a pretty good chance of spotting myself in the background in some 1999 episodes. Stoked.