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WWE Network Thread

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  • #7112
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,961 ✭✭✭cena


    Is still on here tonight


  • #7113
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    https://twitter.com/AETV/status/1383812707271397378

    Isn't this just on TV in the states and not the network?


  • #7114
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Brayden Careful Pensioner wrote: »
    Isn't this just on TV in the states and not the network?

    It is. But there are ways and means.


  • #7115
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    Monokne wrote: »
    It is. But there are ways and means.

    Oh yeah definitely :D was just wondering why it was posted in the network thread haha

    I'd be more interested in the lost memorabilia show. Can't see there being anything new in the Austin biography we don't already know.


  • #7116
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users Posts: 84,817 ✭✭✭✭JP Liz V1


    Brayden Careful Pensioner wrote: »
    Isn't this just on TV in the states and not the network?

    Is it not on Peacock, the Network :confused::o
    https://forumofgames.com/




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  • #7117
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    JP Liz V1 wrote: »
    Is it not on Peacock, the Network :confused::o

    Nah it's on the A&E network in the states.


  • #7118
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Brayden Careful Pensioner wrote: »
    Oh yeah definitely :D was just wondering why it was posted in the network thread haha

    I'd be more interested in the lost memorabilia show. Can't see there being anything new in the Austin biography we don't already know.

    "So Steve, I understand you used to beat your ex wife?"


  • #7119
    beakerjoe
    Registered Users Posts: 20,753 ✭✭✭✭beakerjoe


    Monokne wrote: »
    "So Steve, I understand you used to beat your ex wife?"

    Now Id love for them to at least address this. They wont.

    i shall have to wait for Dark side of the Ring to get involved I suppose.


  • #7120
    cena
    Registered Users Posts: 9,961 ✭✭✭cena


    Anyone watch the doc from last night. Nothing really new it but I still got goosebumps from it


  • #7121
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    Cancelled my Sub this morning. I already felt guilty keeping it after last year's Black Wednesday, but for them to have done it 2 years in a row? They can get fupped. I think I'll spend it on OTT and AEW instead.


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  • #7122
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Shiminay wrote: »
    Cancelled my Sub this morning. I already felt guilty keeping it after last year's Black Wednesday, but for them to have done it 2 years in a row? They can get fupped. I think I'll spend it on OTT and AEW instead.

    I don't really get this.

    Last year I thought it was awful they let people go when no-one could get any work.

    This year, by the time they stop paying these talent on the 16th July, all these people can go and work wherever they want given the US will be 100% open by then. What's the problem?

    They are all nice people, I am sure, but if WWE has no use for them, I don't think they owe them a job perpetually. Talent has to move out so new talent can move in. That is the business. Always has been and always will be.


  • #7123
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    They're not paying these people for the next 3 months, where did you get that from?


  • #7124
    Cherry_Cola
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Cherry_Cola


    Shiminay wrote: »
    They're not paying these people for the next 3 months, where did you get that from?


    Yes they are. It's a given in such contracts, they can sit out the 90 days and will get paid for it. They can challenge it if they wish but will forego any payment in that case and it would likely be costly for them in legal fees.


  • #7125
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    That's news to me! I had no idea, thanks for clearing it up. Certainly softens the blow somewhat.

    None of it makes for a particularly pleasant story though - citing budget cuts when you announce yet another year of record profits - takes a certain sickness of the soul to think any of that's ok.


  • #7126
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    I'm mixed on it. It's never nice for people to lose their jobs but entertainers don't generally get kept on 'just because'. Cassie Lee and Jessie McKay, the ladies behind the characters, seem like really nice people from whenever I have seen them interviewed but if I never ever see the Iiconics wrestle again or hear them do another promo it will be too soon. Should they just be employed in perpetuity even though WWE has decided they've no use for them?



    The 'budget cuts' excuse is weak and should rightly be criticised. WWE could literally afford to have a thousand wrestlers under contract but I still just wouldn't advocate it. Would these talent really be happy being paid to sit home, in the long run? Besides which, getting released is not always a bad thing. Plenty of talent have bettered themselves elsewhere or even done well on the outside and ended up back in.


  • #7127
    Shiminay
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    I get the Iiconics aren't everyone's cuppa tea, but I really enjoyed what they did and I still struggle to understand why they were broken up only for them to go nowhere and here they are now, being released because "creative has nothing for you" when creative are the reason they're no longer a part of a successful and well-liked team. See also: Heavy Machinery - at least Otis has something going.


  • #7128
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    Right but you'd hardly suggest that even when they were together they were an integral part of the show?

    They had a run, it ran its course, and now they are done.


  • #7129
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    cena wrote: »
    Anyone watch the doc from last night. Nothing really new it but I still got goosebumps from it

    I turned it off after half an hour (the Austin doc). The same stories I've heard 50 times before and told in the exact same way.


  • #7130
    PTH2009
    Registered Users Posts: 37,712 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Enjoyed the Austin documentary. He was a lot more athletic than I thought. Reckon he had to work off all that drinking

    The way he retired was fitting and he wasn't egotistical about it in terms of send off matches/tours


  • #7131
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,679 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    Watching the austin doc, man Vince mcmahon sounds unwell these days, I know he's 75 but jesus.


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  • #7132
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,273 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Vince over doing the Botox and fillers as well trying to stay young looking.


  • #7133
    Monokne
    Registered Users Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭Monokne


    PTH2009 wrote: »
    Enjoyed the Austin documentary. He was a lot more athletic than I thought. Reckon he had to work off all that drinking

    The way he retired was fitting and he wasn't egotistical about it in terms of send off matches/tours

    Did you torrent it or where did you see it?


  • #7134
    montyrebel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭montyrebel


    not network per se but most wanted treasures is a nice easy watch, pretty much just a wwe version of american pickers etc but passes the time easily


  • #7135
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,273 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    How many episodes will feature Conrad and his collection I wonder.


  • #7136
    montyrebel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭montyrebel


    yeah will defo see the same faces a few times over the series


  • #7137
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    I'm actually surprised by how much I'm enjoying 1992 WWF Superstars episodes.

    Every match is just a 2-3 minute squash with promos in between but it's an easy watch for 45 mins. Really makes me hope now that they can settle the issues with not being able to put Superstars episodes from the late 80's/early 90's on there.

    What was the A show in the 80's/90's? Wrestling Challenge or Superstars?


  • #7138
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,415 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Brayden Careful Pensioner wrote: »
    I'm actually surprised by how much I'm enjoying 1992 WWF Superstars episodes.

    Every match is just a 2-3 minute squash with promos in between but it's an easy watch for 45 mins. Really makes me hope now that they can settle the issues with not being able to put Superstars episodes from the late 80's/early 90's on there.

    What was the A show in the 80's/90's? Wrestling Challenge or Superstars?

    Didn’t that guy who owns the right to the name superstars die ?
    Superstars was the A show until raw came along in early 1993.


  • #7139
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Didn’t that guy who owns the right to the name superstars die ?
    Superstars was the A show until raw came along in early 1993.

    I'm not sure tbh. I know they haven't been able to get the rights to it though. Shame not having the weekly show for one of their golden eras (86-91) on the network.


  • #7140
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 53,823 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    montyrebel wrote: »
    not network per se but most wanted treasures is a nice easy watch, pretty much just a wwe version of american pickers etc but passes the time easily

    Just watched it there

    It's okay but Vince looks brilliant for his age


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  • #7141
    Brayden Careful Pensioner
    Posts: 0 ✭ Brayden Careful Pensioner


    I just thought the items were crap on the treasures show except for the original Mankind shirt.

    A random Mr Socko and they were looking for a Cactus Jack flannel but got one that Mick wore in a few segments in 2004. Hardly a Cactus Jack original. Then the lad gets to take a burnt barbed wire 2x4 supposedly from Rumble 2000 even though they didn't use fire in that match?

    Maybe I'm taking the show a bit too seriously :pac:


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