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Pope Corky the IX posted:Depends on whether you pronounce "wrestling" as two syllables or three. I guess you could also shorten "W" to "dubya" and that works as well. Dubya-See-Dubya
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Mercury Crusader posted:WWF, WWE, and World Wrestling Federation are all the same number of syllables so I don't see why they don't just keep saying "World Wrestling Federation" in regards to the past. Probably because they'd have to use the word wrestling. And if there's one thing I've learned from that Steve Austin/McMahon interview, and years of Jim Cornette talking poo poo about Kevin Dunn*, it's that WWE doesn't consider themselves wrestling. *WWE Executive Vice President, Television Production; Bucky Beaver Motherfucker
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Mercury Crusader posted:I guess you could also shorten "W" to "dubya" and that works as well. Somehow Jericho of all people became the best at doing this. If you listen to any of his promos from his last few runs, he pronounces "Dubyudubyuee" smoother and faster than pretty much anyone else.
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Mercury Crusader posted:I guess you could also shorten "W" to "dubya" and that works as well. The Duya-See-Dubya
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Just got this for the trial. Everyone raves about NXT, so where should I start with that?
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Unlucky7 posted:Just got this for the trial. Everyone raves about NXT, so where should I start with that? Watch the recent specials - NXT Takeover, Takeover: Fatal 4-way, and Takeover: Rival (and optionally the recap episodes before them to be filled in on the feuds going in) and you'll be mostly up to speed with the current roster and feuds. From there if you really like what you see you could watch the weekly shows from Rival to present and be fully caught up, or other people could recommend a few highlight episodes from recent weekly shows as some can be pretty forgettable.
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Blasmeister posted:Watch the recent specials - NXT Takeover, Takeover: Fatal 4-way, and Takeover: Rival (and optionally the recap episodes before them to be filled in on the feuds going in) and you'll be mostly up to speed with the current roster and feuds. From there if you really like what you see you could watch the weekly shows from Rival to present and be fully caught up, or other people could recommend a few highlight episodes from recent weekly shows as some can be pretty forgettable. Yo don't forget about the greatest of them all, Takeover: R-Evolution (also the worst named) 21 Hoot Salute fucked around with this message at 01:22 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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All of the Takeover specials are excellent, so yeah, watch those. Track down the Sami Zayn/Cesaro series too. I think those all happened on NXT TV. [edit]except the last one, which was Arrival. sticklefifer fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Apr 19, 2015 |
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21 Hoot Salute posted:Yo don't forget about the greatest of them all, Takeover: R-Evolution (also the worst named) poo poo, I did forget that one. I deliberately neglected to mention ArRival, as that has very few people still in NXT, and I think Cesaro/Zayn gets recapped elsewhere anyway
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I know they are probably terrible, but I wish they'd put the old NXT episodes on the Network. Can you still watch them all on Hulu?
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Yea, the first Hulu show is the February 23, 2010 edition of NXT. So it goes back a long time.
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CaligulaKangaroo posted:Probably because they'd have to use the word wrestling. And if there's one thing I've learned from that Steve Austin/McMahon interview, and years of Jim Cornette talking poo poo about Kevin Dunn*, it's that WWE doesn't consider themselves wrestling. World W Entertainment
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Mercury Crusader posted:World W Entertainment World WSportsEntertainment Entertainment
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Mercury Crusader posted:World W Entertainment Are they still World Wrestling Entertainment? I thought they pulled a KFC and WWE no longer stands for anything.
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See also TLC, MTV, VH1, AMC...
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wagnike2 posted:Yea, the first Hulu show is the February 23, 2010 edition of NXT. So it goes back a long time. I actually don't see the first shows at Full Sail on there. Looks like the first Full Sail show was June 20, 2012. On Hulu... Season 5 Ep 26 ends on June 13, 2012. Season 6 picks up at the Sept 26th, 2012 show.
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I want more ECW exposed stuff. The two episodes of it I saw were pretty light on content but I want more Heyman and Styles screwing around on a show Vince probably doesn't even know exists.
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I first bought the network shortly after launch and since then made an effort to watch every episode of Raw from the start. Got to May 1996 and now that they've finally put up Attitude Era Raw I've gone against my plan and skipped 18 months to December 97. I'm entrigued to see if it holds up after all this time because 13 year old me would be gutted. I love how the start of the era, they are clearly still torn whether or not to go fully into it. Seeing The Sultan ten minutes after Marc Mero's domestic abuse angle baffles me. NXT and Attitude Raw are worth 9.99 alone.
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I've been watching that Monday Night Wars mini-series documentary, knowing full well how biased it was going to be. Namely, I knew they were just going to glaze over the whole Black Saturday thing like it was some kind of misunderstanding. When WW It's just funny to see how they interpret certain events. History is written by the victors and all that.
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Shinjobi posted:I want more ECW exposed stuff. The two episodes of it I saw were pretty light on content but I want more Heyman and Styles screwing around on a show Vince probably doesn't even know exists. Joey Styles either legitimately somewhat hates Paul Heyman, or he's a really good actor. He looked like he was 2 seconds from exploding with an angry rant at Paul the whole time.
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Mercury Crusader posted:I've been watching that Monday Night Wars mini-series documentary, knowing full well how biased it was going to be. Namely, I knew they were just going to glaze over the whole Black Saturday thing like it was some kind of misunderstanding. When WW Other than Ole the owners of GCW wanted to sell to Vince, they were sick of business going down. It was a shocking thing when it happened but much less hostile than most of Vince's moves.
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Does the Network have a place for Coliseum Video stuff that isn't attached to a TV show or a pay-per-view? I just read about Bret Hart's first title win in his book, which was taped in my hometown arena in Saskatoon on October 12, 1992, exclusively for a VHS release called "WWF: Smack 'Em Whack 'Em". I would be interested to see the rest of the card from that night, or barring that, the matches that were on that Coliseum Video tape, and thought maybe the Network might have them tucked in somewhere. The Hart vs Flair match itself is easily found on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k44A2oDGO4A I found a couple of records of Superstars episodes that were shot the same day (ugh, this sounds like a stinker of a card): http://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=12618 And finally, the list of matches that were on that tape: Berzerker vs. Crush Repo Man vs. Earthquake Bret Hart vs. Ric Flair (WWF title) Bret Hart vs. Shawn Michaels (ladder match) -- this has to be Summerslam '92 Bret Hart vs. Kamala Razor Ramon vs. Undertaker Any chance the Network would be able to solve either of my questions?
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I'd like to call attention to the December 7th, 1998 edition of Monday Night Raw. The episode in which Austin gets crucified by the Undertaker. Why is the commentary team King and Cole when you clearly see King and JR at the announce table? What gives? What other noticeable things have "they" changed and for what sinister purpose?
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Bemon Lime posted:I'd like to call attention to the December 7th, 1998 edition of Monday Night Raw. The episode in which Austin gets crucified by the Undertaker. Why is the commentary team King and Cole when you clearly see King and JR at the announce table? What gives? What other noticeable things have "they" changed and for what sinister purpose? That was probably a taped show right after his Bells Palsy flare up. They would have the announcers at the desk but then record commentary later on.
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Didn't they also have to redub the VO for that episode to refer to it as a "Symbol" instead of a cross or something stupid? Why the gently caress do I remember small things like this from almost 20 years ago...
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I really wish I knew why only Old WCW PPV's freeze constantly for me!
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Astro7x posted:Didn't they also have to redub the VO for that episode to refer to it as a "Symbol" instead of a cross or something stupid? they never called it a cross on TV, they called it a symbol since it was, quite literally, an undertaker symbol
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I've been watching old wccw episodes on the network and man I really love these. There just isn't anything produced like this anymore. I'm also a mark for anything with the great Kabuki.
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The_Rob posted:I've been watching old wccw episodes on the network and man I really love these. There just isn't anything produced like this anymore. Closest thing these days to the old territories is CWF Mid-Atlantic but it's certainly more Carolinas than Texas.
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Doomsday Jesus posted:I really wish I knew why only Old WCW PPV's freeze constantly for me! Yet another way for Vince to gently caress with WCW
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those wccw eps were probably the first thing i marathon watched on the network. the world class doc does not lie when it states that the show was top of the line for its time. michael ps hayes does not lie -- watch the tapes.
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Bemon Lime posted:I'd like to call attention to the December 7th, 1998 edition of Monday Night Raw. The episode in which Austin gets crucified by the Undertaker. Why is the commentary team King and Cole when you clearly see King and JR at the announce table? What gives? What other noticeable things have "they" changed and for what sinister purpose? MRT is right, but to expand. Raw was taped a week earlier because WWF went on a UK tour. They ran a UK PPV on the 6th which is when JR had a recurrence of Bells Palsy. JR couldn't redub any lines, so they just put in Cole.
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I've been going back and forth on whether to resubscribe to the Network for a second month. I don't love it or use it that much but there's enough I'm mildly curious about along with NXT that I could justify giving it at least one more month. But my main problem is that the qualify of the streams seems to be so unstable. Right now I'm staring at a really terrible quality play of an old NXT episode that makes it almost worth not watching. Its also paused/buffered once already and I've had a number of cases where that happens so much that I just can't watch. Meanwhile Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO On Demand, etc are all working fine so it very much feels like a WWE Network issue instead of my internet or whatever. Is this common or am I just having terrible luck? It seems really weird that archived stuff would be this finicky this consistently when the Network's been going as long as it has. Also, there doesn't seem to be any easy way for me to watch episode to episode. I have to go into NXT each time and scroll to where I left off. That's not a massive problem but it seems like a weird flaw that like every other streaming service has addressed. Am I just missing something?
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I have the exact opposite problem. My stream has never been anything but perfect but I feel like I've watched almost everything I want to watch. I wish they had a more regular slate of new content that came online regularly beyond just the PPV's and things. It's such a complicated process to re-sub though that I mostly keep it out of convenience now.
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Hulu Plus is a good alternative if you just want to watch NXT. It's 2 bucks less per month and includes a ton of shows and movies.
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Guignol posted:Does the Network have a place for Coliseum Video stuff that isn't attached to a TV show or a pay-per-view? I just read about Bret Hart's first title win in his book, which was taped in my hometown arena in Saskatoon on October 12, 1992, exclusively for a VHS release called "WWF: Smack 'Em Whack 'Em". I would be interested to see the rest of the card from that night, or barring that, the matches that were on that Coliseum Video tape, and thought maybe the Network might have them tucked in somewhere. None of that's been added as of yet. The Hart vs. Michaels ladder match is, upon checking, only on the Hart vs. Michaels Greatest Rivalries DVD set. It was only taped for that VHS originally, and an attempt to show management how a Ladder Match works, a full year and a half before it was used for the Michaels vs. Ramon Wrestlemania X match.
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That set and a shitload of other ones were $6.99 on bluray at FYE recently if you have one near you.
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STAC Goat posted:Its also paused/buffered once already and I've had a number of cases where that happens so much that I just can't watch. Meanwhile Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO On Demand, etc are all working fine so it very much feels like a WWE Network issue instead of my internet or whatever. What are you watching it on? The 360 is terrible. My Amazon FireTV Stick and Computer work fine.
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