WWE NETWORK GENERAL DISCUSSION THREAD

[Matt D]

Which again makes you wonder how many more of those we haven't seen yet.

[Buy Me a Burrito]

I heard from a friend of a friend that the network does have all of the Omni shows from the 90s that they taped but never aired. 

[paul sosnowski]

I would like to see Backlund vs Flair from the Omni from 7/4/82.    If they found this, maybe anything is possible!!!

[Matt D]

I take a look at the Houston results all the time to see what else we might be getting on NWA Classics (like the two Bockwinkel vs Slater and the Bockwinkel vs Rich matches). I am not nearly enough of an idiot to troll the Omni results for things I might want to see though. That's a fool's errand.

[Pete]

3 minutes ago, Matt D said:

I take a look at the Houstin results all the time to see what else we might be getting on NWA Classics (like the two Bockwinkel vs Slater and the Bockwinkel vs Rich matches). I am not nearly enough of an idiot to troll the Omni results for things I might want to see though. That's a fool's errand.

I'd love to see Da Crusher's Georgia run just for the sheer weirdness factor of him feuding with Heenan at the Omni of all places.

[Curt McGirt]

Hey, that Mediafire joke wasn't really a joke...

[Ramsey]

I'd be all for the Harley Race vs. Mr. Wresting II from the Omni...80 or 81. If it exists, I want to see it. Also, there's got to be more top shelf Barry Windham/Ric Flair battles out there.

[Pete]

That's the thing- the "Collection" gives you all sorts of options. I would love a "Before they were Superstars" collection of guys working as enhancement before they hit it big. See Mick Foley get his jaw broken by the Bulldogs! See Michaels get nuked by Kamala in MSW!

[Go2Sleep]

So I watched the Thesz/Gunkel '51 match for the sheer novelty of seeing a match that old. I wouldn't say it's particularly exciting (there's a lot of 5-minute holds), but it's neat when you take a historical/academic approach. In some ways, it shows how timeless a lot of wrestling tropes really are. Gunkel works as the upstart babyface and Thesz works as the semi-heelish grizzled vet that's caught off guard by a lower-ranked opponent. Gunkel controls most of the mat action, while Thesz resorts to body punches in the ropes to get most of his advantages. Gunkel gets the first fall after wearing Thesz down with headlocks and body slams. He controls a lot of the second fall too, until Thesz hits a standard powerbomb which might as well have been an avalanche burning hammer in the context of this match. They sell the move like death, to the point where the ringside doctor won't let Gunkel continue to the third fall giving the Thesz a TKO win to retain his belt.

 

[Matt D]

Just of the stuff we've gotten in the last month, I'm not convinced that Buzz vs Rich was all that better than Michael Hayes vs Doc in the cage. They're real close.

[hammerva]

Watching Samoa Joe vs Regal from UPW and man this developmental actually makes Deep South look professional.   It looks like they were running in a night club with the weird seating and horrible lighting and the announcers doing commentary during the match that everyone could hear.   I mean at least it was a good crowd unless Ohno vs Rollins FCW match which was probably in front of 75 people.  

 

[odessasteps]

I think this is the kind of stuff the network should be doing more often, to appeal to the lapsed fans not watching the current stuff. Their money is just as good as people watching nxt or main event.

[Wyld Samurai]

I'm pretty sure it's their end goal of having the WWE Network be a digitized wrestling museum. Vince soent decades accumulating libraries and now they have the technology to make money off it - and doing so are preserving a lot of history thst would have otherwise been lost to time.

[kafkonia]

If I could get the Network without having to either sign up for cable or find a VPN, I'd probably be giving them my money every month. But living in Canada, those are my options.

[Wyld Samurai]

Last night I came across a fun tag match that just goes to show how far guys today have fallen. 

Strike Force vs The Bolshevicks in a Best 2 of 3 Falls. A match I vaguely remember seeing when it was originally broadcast in 1987.

[PetrolCB]

When was the last time they even ran a 2/3 falls match? Single or tag. 

[(BP)]

4 minutes ago, PetrolCB said:

When was the last time they even ran a 2/3 falls match? Single or tag. 

There have probably been a few since, but Del Rio had two with Mysterio and Orton respectively. 

[NintendoLogic]

The Revival and American Alpha had a 2/3 falls match a couple of months ago. If you want to limit it to the main roster, Sheamus and Daniel Bryan had one at Extreme Rules 2012.

[PetrolCB]

I totally blanked on the AA/Revival one. Was that on regular NXT tv or a special?

[NintendoLogic]

July 6 episode of NXT.

[PetrolCB]

Thanks. 

[Hamhock]

I'd like to see either of the first two Ole/Dusty vs. Assassins tag matches from the Omni in 1980.

[Go2Sleep]

Zayn and Joe had a 2/3 falls match earlier this year.

Ziggler and Cesaro had one a couple years ago.

 

[Matt D]

The fact of the matter is that they've apparently been sitting on this for years if not decades. On the one hand, I'm glad they gave it to us, but if we get a "Hidden Gems" sort of collection more than once a year, I'll be amazed. They'll probably get six times more watches by putting out another collection of Randy Orton's greatest matches.

[mysterious_w]

I stopped watching the Battle of Atlanta halfway through Ole and Ellering. I stopped caring real early in for Sawyer and Rich, even with intro promos. A failed grail.