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So yeah I signed up for the seven-day trial and it's nice when 1) The stream works 2) I'm not navigating their horrible menu system to try to find the PPV I want. The live programming stream seems to work fine. A lot of the time PPVs don't load up or clearly have bandwidth problems where it starts stopping and skipping ahead at random, making matches unwatchable. As an aside, I should not have skipped from Backlash 2004 to Rumble 2013.
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njsykora posted:Maybe it's the PS3 interface being different but I'm not getting the complaints about the menu being bad. Pick promotion > Pick PPV > Pick year seems like a pretty solid way of finding PPVs. I ought to go look up the RR '13 thread. It's rare for a show to be that top-to-bottom bad. The top highlight of the entire show was Kane holding Bryan like a baby. That was the big takeaway.
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Feb 26, 2014 11:00
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The WWE network really exposes the crater in quality that many aspects of the product have taken. They have a bunch of guys there now who know their wrestling ABCs and can do a textbook wristlock, but almost nobody who appears to have any interest in/is allowed to do psychology, or especially brawling that doesn't look like choreographed, by-the-numbers poo poo. They have yet to find anybody for commentary since J.R. who can sell a match at all, really, though I suspect JBL could if Vince weren't barking in his ear. That and they find ways to constantly take focus away from the match and put it on their barely coherent banter. That is what I am getting from going through 2013 PPV by PPV, anyway. From reading a lot of thread aftermath I feel like I am not going to see many good shows and might want to go to a year that didn't suck.
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Feb 27, 2014 01:11
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To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania, we give you: a one-match card!
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Mar 3, 2014 03:48
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KungFu Grip posted:People called Batista "Kanye", South Park made a joke about Kanye being a "GayFish". Kanye Batista = Gay Fish is the joke. This is a stupid in-joke even by wrestling standards
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Mar 10, 2014 05:25
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MotU posted:30 days They don't even have anything from February up yet, which sucks.
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Mar 18, 2014 18:17
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Rock/Cena was such a boring series. Just bog-standard everything.
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Mar 24, 2014 04:25
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Justin Godscock posted:Their first match was pretty good, was surprised when Rock won it (and drat did he prove he still had it with promo/ring skills) and we haven't seen a literal year-long build since probably Sting/Hogan '97. They didn't put any work into making it anything but "both of us work a phony 1985 Hulk Hogan match." There's not a single creative spot in this entire match and a couple of dumb ones (a loving bearhug--let Brock Lesnar do a bearhug and maybe put a different move on a guy who is bigger than you.). The crowd is totally into it, which is good, but in terms of workrate it's just dull. Part of it is that they're just working the same. Exact. Style.
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Mar 24, 2014 04:52
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By the way, the NK show is really bad almost top to bottom, though there is a Japanese women's match that IIRC is the highlight of the show.
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Mar 24, 2014 23:57
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Justin Godscock posted:I always liked the part of the nWo formation where some fat mark (who probably thinks wrestling is real) jumps the barricade, gets into the ring and realizes how big Nash was and freezes. Then Nash/Hall knock the fan down, stomp on him for a bit until security arrives while Hogan is still doing his promo. I think this is the one where someone pointed out that Hall is doing worked stomps on the guy (creating noise with his other foot while legit stomping him), which is great.
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Apr 1, 2014 00:45
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Vintimus Prime posted:You get that vibe during the rivalries documentary with Brett. Some of the stuff he doesn't even remember Well according to Bret, Shawn was zoned the gently caress out on pills half the time, so that would make sense.
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Apr 5, 2014 01:06
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WWE.com was so lovely for so long. It's still kinda bad but not horrible anymore.
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May 29, 2014 02:07
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I watched Summerslam '92 on the network the other day because it has Bret's favorite all-time match of his career on it and some of the card looked interesting. The match is light years ahead of everything else on the card, which is good, because the card sucks poo poo. At the same time, though, today that match would be well-recognized as a complete carry job. I would still put it at about 9-10 years ahead of the rest of the WWF, though. The second best match, by a pretty wide margin, is the Ultimate Warrior/Savage match, which is overbooked with Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect trolling everyone and ends in bullshit.
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Aug 5, 2014 04:41
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The American Dream posted:Bulldog was allegedly on crack during the match. I don't remember if it was in Brets book or I read it somewhere else. Yeah Bret said he was completely tweaked and Bret was worried all night that Bulldog would ruin the match somehow.
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Aug 5, 2014 05:41
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Daniel Bryan posted:How did this company stay in business for another year and a half? IIRC Piper has never had a boxing match in wrestling that wasn't terrible.
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Aug 11, 2014 23:42
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Yeah I caught the Punk/Lesnar match yesterday on the live feed, and even though I saw it once and already knew the result, the match was still amazing.
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Aug 16, 2014 21:29
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TheJoker138 posted:I have no problem with Arquette winning the title either, honestly This was pretty much the worst title switch in the history of wrestling but OK.
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