SirSmUgly

It's all working perfectly on my PS4! Beach Blast '92, here I come!

My droid was streaming just fine last night AND playing VOD with no issues, oddly enough. Since I got home last night, the WWE app has been the best player for the network for me in terms of consistency, followed by my Roku XD, PS4, and my laptop in that order. My laptop was doing fine with VOD yesterday until it suddenly stopped playing anything on the Network at all.

Personally, I love the Wyatts, but I'm a guy who thinks Waylon Mercy and Mordecai are missed opportunities, so this mixture of backwoods creepiness and strange mysticism is right up my alley as far as gimmicks go.

I don't want to be too pessimistic, but I do not have much interest in the WrestleMania card. I don't really care for any of the matchups at all. I don't have stereotypical HHH internet hate, but I honestly could never see him wrestle a match again in my life and be just fine, and that includes rewatches of the HHH matches that I actually like. The rest of it, eh. Cena/Wyatt was the most interesting matchup they had, and that's probably shot now. The show was okay. Good performers, mediocre booking. This is the story of this company for the past four years.

This Goldust bit is great, but man, what an awkward character when looking back on it. Actually in retrospect, he's one of the most noble faces ever. He was on a mission to expose homophobes for being the douches that they were. Also, he threw sweet punches.

I have run the streaming smoothly on my PS4, my Android, and my laptop. I can't sign up for it. When I click either the link to sign up for the Network or the free trial, it takes me to the login/register page, I login, and it directs me to network.wwe.com where on top of the page it shows Fallacy's error. If I try on my Android phone, it tells me I need a WWE Network subscription in order to watch. I'm confused as to why it seems as though it thinks I signed up (I tried this morning at 9 when it first launched but wound up getting a timeout error on the last step), but I'm obviously not. This happened to me, too. So, what worked for me was to sign up for a WWE site account FIRST by signing in through Google and then linking the account to my email. After that, went into my account preferences and got into the sign-up through that. It worked for me after I took that path.

Is Jesse wearing a Malcolm X cap at Starrcade '92?!

I have run the streaming smoothly on my PS4, my Android, and my laptop.

I wonder why a gift order is 119.98 instead of 59.98. Does one have to gift a whole year?

The Wyatts are creepy/mystical/mysterious enough for me to accept them appearing inside the chamber, but yeah, having them just walk out instead of disappear again really killed the mystique and was illogical. Honestly, I don't even notice stuff like this because everyone always interferes in cage matches and the like in WWE. The very first cell match, of which the whole point was to keep HBK and Taker in a confined space with no chance for HBK to escape or DX to interfere, ended up having 1) HBK escape through the door anyway, and 2) when the door was re-locked with both men inside, Kane just ripped off the door anyway to kill Taker dead. I use that example to say that in WWE matches, it's almost like they use the cage as a gimmick to show how some of these guys are badasses for being able to circumvent it more than as a gimmick to keep two guys in a blood feud from being able to do anything but confront one another.

Streaming is working fine, but trying to play Starrcade '92 damn near blew up my PS4.

It finally took my credit card info! And I...have to go to work in an hour. But that's enough time to watch at least part of one of the early '90s Starrcades! I hope we get an ECW reviews thread going because of the Network because I have not seen a TON of that stuff, and I would love to watch it with you guys.

I can't even get to the sign-up page on WWE.com. Living on the West Coast really puts you at a disadvantage for signing up for things like this. People were already signing up before I was even awake.

WWE is just terrible at knowing how to book guys that get over on primarily the in-ring product. Even Reigns, who is ultra-charismatic, is charismatic physically more than as a speaker. WWE wants "larger-than-life" performers because that aspect, since Vince Jr. took over, has been more important than anything else. We just got lucky that Austin, Rock, and Cena were/are all awesome at delivering in the ring on top of it. Now they have about eight guys the crowd wants to see, and barring Bray Wyatt, all of them excel mostly in the ring rather than as a giant personality. WWE just sucks at booking guys as stars like those guys. They did it once out of necessity, and even then, Vince was trying to replace Bret Hart at every turn.

I also want to say that I like Big E's offense making sense. There were a lot of little things on this show that made my favorite matches work for me. First up was Big E's relentless targeting of Swagger's ribs with spears and shoulderblocks that led straight to the Big Ending. Second was Seth Rollins surreptitiously pulling Luke Harper back into the corner by his shirt corner as Harper tried to fire out past Dean Ambrose. The ref never had a chance to see it. Third was Christian wrestling logically with stick-and-move offense and trying to steal pinfalls at every opportunity, which fit in with his "desperate vet" persona quite nicely.

I'll try to find a smaller sig picture. Is there a specific size limit that you guys want me not to exceed? I don't want to put something up that you guys have to waste time killing.

The great thing about the Wyatts is that I can detach myself from being too critical about them in the sense that they are heels that I boo and hate to see win when they are wrestling. They're not cool heels. I'll not cheer them. But when the show is over, I appreciate how fucking awesome they are. That goes triple for Harper because that dude is amazing. I really got into anything they did tonight. When their music hit during the EC, it got me spitting venom at them even though I knew it was probably coming.

Batista-ADR was train-wreck-style fun. I cannot imagine that Orton makes it through the next month as the champ. WWE might be stubborn, but they're not THAT stubborn.

I bit on the first RKO as the finish. I thought Shield/Wyatts was out-of-this-world awesome. Rollins had some nice FIP work and Reigns getting in the ring = serious shit is about to go down, or at least that's always how it feels. I think Luke Harper is insanely awesome, also. The Wyatts feel unbeatable to me right now. Big E/Swagger was alright. Big E's spear through the ropes was SIIIIIIIICK. Those guys beat the crap out of one another. Also, everyone in the crowd being devastated was amazing. I knew it was coming, but when he kicked out of the first RKO, I was like MAYBE PLEASE COME ON OH NOOOO noooo noooo tell me it'll all be alright...

Okada and Tanahashi need to be in at the very least. Ishii too. I don't watch a whole lot of New Japan, but I have seen most of the major shows, and even if I'm not the biggest fan of any of those guys, they clearly should be in a tournament like this. I don't watch much from Mexico, but I should. I just never know where to get started. I should visit the Lucha folder. I welcome a chance to get started via this tournament, though. I hope at least two or three of the best Lucha guys are in. This should be an opportunity to find out more about the great wrestlers we don't know about, not to vote against people we don't know because we haven't heard of them. Also, I think Cesaro has a legit chance at winning. Don't know how I'd vote on Bryan/Cesaro right now. I hope they're on opposite sides of the bracket.

I feel like the TNA entrant should just be put up against Bryan or Cesaro to get it overwith. Spud or Aries is my vote, however, as when I see TNA, those are the only two guys I care about.

From the article: This brings up an interesting question: If the WWE allowed their next TV partner to air WrestleMania live OTA, would the ad prices for that show alone raise the worth of the WWE TV package enough to justify taking the show off PPV? For argument's sake, let's ignore that the show will also be available to stream on the WWE Network for now and just consider the TV/PPV tradeoff.

Cesaro is the best, guys. THE BEST.

I don't dislike Sheamus, but he does nothing for me. I still honestly think his best matches are those ECW ones with Goldust. He's technically fine in the ring and is pretty good at clubbering, but nothing else about him stands out.

Fantastic idea. Plus, Punk and Bryan have good chemistry and would have a good match at WM together. I'd rather see it for the gold with Bryan as champ this time around, but yeah, that would be great to just utterly conflict the crowd. I doubt it will happen, but who knows? I'm kinda hoping that Ben shows up and somehow injects Bunkhouse Buck into the Elimination Chamber because I always end up watching Bunkhouse Buck matches from Worldwide and Saturday Night and thinking, "Hey, yeah...this could work."