|
|
Post by maddog1981 on May 7, 2014 19:29:59 GMT -5
To add to my last post, his gut popped out on tv and Vince went "ewww" while watching backstage and that was it for Gangrel's push.
|
|
|
|
Post by superecwfan1 on May 9, 2014 22:17:05 GMT -5
For you classic old fans of NWA/WCW , the WWE Network has added all 35 Clash of Champions to the Network. They have also added 30+ more episodes of ECW. Bumping it to 1994-1995 basically.
- The 1st Clash of Champions is famous for the show that "Made Sting" basically. The show took a mid-carder like Sting and elevated him in a draw with Ric Flair.
|
|
|
|
Post by maddog1981 on May 9, 2014 22:32:31 GMT -5
There's also a great undercard on that show with Fantastics/Midnights and Luger/Windham vs. Anderson/Blanchard.
|
|
|
|
Post by superecwfan1 on May 10, 2014 9:14:15 GMT -5
What is sad about that show is...look at how hot that crowd was. They were fantastic for that show. It goes back to what Ric Flair brought up in his book. Crockett was doing dynamite business East of the Mississippi but when they went to the West (and the UWF deal) they didn't do well at all. The UWF deal is the one that ended his ownership. He ended up paying Bill Watts $1.5-$2 million for the UWF.
|
|
|
|
Post by superecwfan1 on May 11, 2014 19:29:27 GMT -5
This Thursday , NBC is expected to announce their cable network upfronts for Advertisers and all. Its been reported by F4Wonline.com that many TV insiders believe the WWE has already agreed to a new deal with NBC/Universal and are waiting for NBC to make their cable upfronts before announcing the new TV deal .
|
|
|
|
Post by Kan-Man on May 14, 2014 21:30:20 GMT -5
As I mentioned on another thread, I have two boys ages 10 and 6 and they love wrestling, especially the older one. My house is filled with wrestling toys, shirts and hats, they play the WWE game on PS3, they watch Raw, Smackdown and The Main Event and used to watch Saturday Morning Slam when it was on. They've downloaded the walk-in music from their favorite wrestlers and we subscribed to the WWE Network for them. I've even taken them to a couple of live shows at the Nassau Coliseum where we saw steel cage matches featuring Cena vs Ziggler and Cena vs Orton. And they met Zack Ryder at a car show once and got their picture taken with him.
The only rules I set for them is no attitude era stuff and they can't watch anything featuring Benoit.
The interesting thing is they discovered this all by themselves. I was never a wrestling fan and so it was never on in the house.
By the way, I just found out through one of my cousins that my Uncle once wrestled Killer Kowalski.
|
|
|
|
Post by superecwfan1 on May 21, 2014 16:15:49 GMT -5
In a wrestling update.....the WWE seems to be building Wrestlemania 31 potentially around Roman Reigns . Its expected Reigns big face push will start there and build to Wrestlemania 31. The Rock is being mentioned as the guy to face Reigns as he has reportedly told Vince backstage he wants to work with Reigns before he does retire .
|
|
|
|
Post by Deleted on May 21, 2014 17:12:03 GMT -5
In a wrestling update.....the WWE seems to be building Wrestlemania 31 potentially around Roman Reigns . Its expected Reigns big face push will start there and build to Wrestlemania 31. The Rock is being mentioned as the guy to face Reigns as he has reportedly told Vince backstage he wants to work with Reigns before he does retire . They're cousins in real life so it's obvious Rock wants to lay a good foundation for him. I'm not yet convinced he's the next superstar...I saw it in Brock years ago, even Kurt Angle and Batista when they came in...but Roman still has to grow on me. He should work on his mic skills. Brock is lousy on the mic but makes up for that by coming out with Paul Heyman, who makes the mic glow. In a one-on-one fair confrontation, could Roman beat Shemus? Undertaker? I doubt it...and it's obvious Triple-H tries to 'sell' his beatdowns. Jez, who's yet to see the potential... |
|
|
|
Post by maddog1981 on May 21, 2014 17:29:57 GMT -5
Chikara returns this Sunday!
|
|
|
|
Post by gmiller on May 27, 2014 1:48:43 GMT -5
So, I thought it would be fun if we posted the WWF/WWE/WCW/ECW events we have attended, and the main events of each one:
WCW New Blood Rising - August 2000 - Booker T .vs. Jeff Jarrett - WCW Championship
WWF RAW - January 2001 - Kurt Angle .vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin - WWF Championship
WWF Smackdown - January 2001 - The Rock .vs. The Undertaker .vs. Kane .vs. Rikishi
WWF House Show - May 2001- Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit .vs. Stone Cold & William Regal - WWF Tag Team Championship
WWF RAW - July 2001 - Booker T .vs. Buff Bagwell - WCW Championship
WWF Smackdown - July 2001 - Booker T .vs Diamond Dallas Page - WCW Championship
WWE RAW - August 2002 - The Rock & Booker T & Goldust & Undertaker .vs. Triple H & Lance Storm & Test & Christian
WWE Smackdown - August 2002 - The Rock .vs. Chris Benoit
Wrestlemania XIX - March 2003 - Kurt Angle .vs. Brock Lesnar - WWE Championship
WWE RAW - March 2003 - Lance Storm & Sean Morley .vs. The Dudley Boys .vs. Rob Van Dam & Kane - World Tag Team Championship
WWE House Show - May 2004 - Chris Benoit .vs. Kane - World Heavyweight Championship
|
|
|
|
Post by Jasoomian on May 27, 2014 2:10:43 GMT -5
No it starts in the late 1800s/early 1900s with Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Moves into the 20s and 30s with Ed "Strangler" Lewis and Jim Londos which goes into Lou Thesz in the 40s and 50s. Then things splinter out as the 60s dawn and you get Verne Gagne in Chicago, Bruno Sammartino in the Tri-State area and Thesz still at the top of the NWA. The 70s get more complicated as you have Pedro Morales and Bruno Sammartino as the top of the Tri-State area with Bob Backlund taking over at the end of the decade. The Chicago area was Verne Gagne and Nick Bockwinkel for most of the decade with some Mad Dog Vachon thrown in. The NWA was Dory Funk Jr., Terry Funk, Harley Race and Jack Brisco throughout the decade with guys like Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair starting to climb the cards. In Japan you had Rikidozan pave the way for Giant Baba and Antonio Inoki who then lead to the Great Muta, Mitsuhara Misawa, Kenta Kobashi and several other guys. You forgot the Inter-Gender Wrestling world champ:  |
|
|
|
Post by Kan-Man on Jun 3, 2014 10:28:01 GMT -5
I was reading the articles about how much money McMahon lost recently ($350 million in one day, $750 million in one week, etc) and they attributed much of that to soft subscriber numbers for the WWE Network. Which I found interesting because the initial reports suggested the numbers were very strong but I wonder if it's analogous to what the film industry always says about comic book movies - if only comic book fans attend them, they'd all bomb. In other words, they need broader appeal. Is it possible the die-hard wrestling fans who signed up during the first few months are the only ones interested in the service?
They must have been doing something right because I think the NFL hired away the developer of WWE Network within a month or two of its launch.
|
|
|
|
Post by wildfire2099 on Jun 3, 2014 20:25:21 GMT -5
I guess Batista has "quit" so he can really go market his Guardians of the Galaxy movie...but I did not see that angle with Seth Rollins coming...maybe because I missed the (uneventful) PPV last night. RAW was boring me to tears tonight but the last few minutes gave it some redemption. Same here... I actually missed it.. I shut off raw about 10. Good move, though.. very surprised it wasn't Ambrose. |
|
