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I sold my tapes back in 2001 to a friend knowing they'd be pretty much redundant in the years to come. If I still had them I very much doubt I'd bother trying to watch them due to the sheer amount, the lack of labelling on some and the quality of some of the ones that I got through trading over the years. So much easier now to watch some on HDD's, YouTube, The Network and DVD. We're spoilt nowadays.

When motivated Orton is great fun. Shame that these times are few are far between. He'd be best served to take a sabbatical, but I highly doubt that will happen unless he picks up an injury.

I'm very much looking forward to this. Are the same guys doing an R&R doc too?

I never really understood the appeal of the 6 sides ring personally.

"We haven't even talked about the kitty litter and milk segment". It's come to this.

It lost far less money, so if we're using that as a gauge for success, then yes.

Crowd was a reported 3000, but TNA are good at making that look a lot more on TV, plus they were a hot crowd which helped.

I never knew that it was reported that The Road Warriors would debut in WWF as heels.

I think now more than ever WWE have to create a star who doesn't just appeal to the american audience, which is going to be inherently harder.

Some actual good points, I guess I am not thinking that far back, but I concede that in many places one territory had a monopoly pre '84.

So, don't do two of the things that were hugely significant parts of the last "boom"? Because for better or worse, they were. Were there really ? Take Steve Austin and The Rock off the equation, and all you got is stupid insider references and shitty comedy. And that was basically WCW in 2000. Just a thought, don't mean to derail the thread, however do people think if the internet didn't exist in the form it did in 1998 onwards then WCW would still be around as booking for the "smarts" wouldn't of occurred in the way it did, which was a reason they tanked?

Any magazine that has Bix, Mookie and Magnus writing for them has to be the winner. Sorry PS.

History has taught us that previously wrestling has been cyclical, but that was with competition and other facts that are just not their anymore. Tough to say that's 100% the case still.

I wonder how many people simply asked their CC companies to stop payment? I can't imagine anyone being *that* dissatisfied with the Network already, to take that kind of action. But... Back in the old "900" number days this was a major issue, people would run up charges and simply not pay them. The local phone companies in most cases didn't enforce payment because we they didn't want to lose companies. I had a few friends than ran 900 numbers for their businesses and it was a huge lose. This may be comparible to WWE's problems today, the bill is not tied to your other bills so no one is accountable. I have a friedn that subscribes, and he is disabled so he is on a fixed income. He got a Visa cash card from a check cash place and and uses that, nothing ties that money to anything. He puts money on it to use for online purchases etc. It could be an issue due to WWE's lower economic audience. Bryan Alvarez brought up the same reason why he shut down his 900 line back in the day.

I tried to watch Impact last night. I really tried but I lasted less than 10 minutes. Robbie E running away scared of balloons attached to his trunks was just cringeworthy.

This is the most ill informed post I've read on here.

Fin's total blinkered views on Cena can get a little tiresome. PowerSlam and its forerunner SuperStars Of Wrestling did to their credit have great photo's each month in the 90's courtesy of Wally Yamaguchi from Japan and George Tahinos from ECW. The magazine to me went downhill when they lost Rob Butcher and Lister as writers on a regular basis. PowerSlam was a gateway magazine for discovering none commercial tapes through tape traders and then Meltzer etc. For that, thanks Fin.

I haven't posted in what feels like eons. I miss this place and the debates that take place. I will be making a big effort to get back in to the swing of things.

Put the proxy settings in your router and you should be good to go on your apple TV etc.

Welcome to the fifth episode of the Wrestling Eye Podcast! I am kindly joined on this episode by former British Wrestler Stevie Knight who has recently starting his own podcast interviewing friends he has within the business. In recent episodes he's spoken with Magnus, Marty Jones, Spud and coming up he has interviews with Doug Williams, Danny Boy Collins, Adrian Street and Joe Legend. We will be talking how Stevie entered the business at 14! His career highlights including working for the UWA on the L!VE TV shows, working abroad, wrestling people such as Mitsuharu Misawa and many many more stars of UK and international wrestling, working for Brian Dixon and what it was like doing the camp circuit, promoting his own shows, Being on Deal or No Deal, and some great stories from his varied and very interesting career. A really fun, enjoyable show with Stevie, so check it out! LISTEN HERE!! You can find Stevie's podcast on iTunes by searching for Stevie Knight, on his website at www.StevieKnight.info, his Facebook https://www.facebook.com/itsknighttime as well as his twitter https://twitter.com/Knighthasbeen Follow us on twitter @wrestlingeyepod Subscribe to the Wrestling Eye Podcast: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/wrestling-eye-podcast/id793458725 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wrestling-eye-podcast You can also find us on Blackberry Podcasts, Microsoft Podcasts and our website http://wrestingeye.libsyn.com

YES! I'll be back listening. I met Cornette last week and I told him Alice was a negative on the show. He just smiled and laughed.

I'll put good money on the fact we won't be seeing Kevin Wacholz anytime soon.

"We got stars for sure, we got stars galore, you gonna see a show like never before, we're bringing the action and you know when, cause we all gonna rock Wrestlemania Ten". My highlight of his run as Mabel was the WrestleMania X rap.

I have not really been online much over the last few days, and it seems I have entered a whole new world.