March 1, 20187 yr comment_5833965 Titans needs to make a comeback now. Who wants to play Parv? Another Brit maybe?
March 2, 20187 yr comment_5834069 Oi sum chav nicked me microphone out me car round the Tesco. I'm right mental about Chief Jay.
March 2, 20187 yr comment_5834071 Like I said above, they should add Complete Feuds section. Pick a feud and have every promo, angle, and match in chronological order in it. Like an expanded Collections section. I would love this if, for WWF feuds that had matches from MSG or the Spectrum or other house shows that were taped, if they included the local promos for those specific matches that only aired on the syndicated programming in the NY or Philly or whatever area. One of my favorite things to watch growing up was the promos for the local house shows on Superstars or whatever, and I always feel like that is missing from the Network and from the DVDs they have put out.
March 2, 20187 yr comment_5834101 Like I said above, they should add Complete Feuds section. Pick a feud and have every promo, angle, and match in chronological order in it. Like an expanded Collections section. I would love this if, for WWF feuds that had matches from MSG or the Spectrum or other house shows that were taped, if they included the local promos for those specific matches that only aired on the syndicated programming in the NY or Philly or whatever area. One of my favorite things to watch growing up was the promos for the local house shows on Superstars or whatever, and I always feel like that is missing from the Network and from the DVDs they have put out. It's not to that level of detail, but it's sort of an approach they tried with the first HBK and Flair DVD sets, which were some of the first career ones they put out. Rather than what would become the standard of having a disc as a documentary and then another disc(s) as matches, they had a series of matches and then for each would include five or six angles/interviews/build up packages/TV promos/spots that lead up to the match so that you had some of the context. I thought it worked well.
March 3, 20187 yr comment_5834163 WWE.com teaser listing for the All Star collection lists an episode with a Roddy Piper match from 1979. Only other Piper 79 footage floating around is a pre-match bagpipe segment from a Championship Wrestling episode and a few seconds clip from a newscast on that nights MSG show so it looks like the dump isn't just recycled stuff from what was posted to 24/7 some years back and there may be other hidden gems that are "new" in there.
March 3, 20187 yr comment_5834165 "Tonight's final bout is for the Intercontinental heavyweight championship, scheduled for one fall or to curfew"
March 3, 20187 yr comment_5834199 I thought Mel Philips was edited out of the wwe network ? Or at least terry funk beating him up was. He's there in a 1982 MSG show in full view at the start doing the announcement of the judges, doctors, referees etc.
March 3, 20187 yr comment_5834204 WWE.com teaser listing for the All Star collection lists an episode with a Roddy Piper match from 1979. Only other Piper 79 footage floating around is a pre-match bagpipe segment from a Championship Wrestling episode and a few seconds clip from a newscast on that nights MSG show so it looks like the dump isn't just recycled stuff from what was posted to 24/7 some years back and there may be other hidden gems that are "new" in there. Whats exists for the Piper/Flair feud in the 70s - early 80s?
March 3, 20187 yr comment_5834253 WWWF All Star drop looks like it will be 92 episodes It's only one 1975 epsisode up to September of 1980. This one might be hit a little harder by the "technical difficulties from the original source" hammer as some are going to be less than 30 minutes. Still, looks to be a pretty fun drop and it's the earliest TV they've put up so far.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834263 I mean the shows are going to be mostly terrible, most non-Memphis TV of that era wasn't enthralling and New York was really rough. That said, I'm going to enjoy the hell out of digging through this history and finding gems.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834270 I wonder if this is all they have from that era, or if they actually chose a bunch of random episodes mostly featuring familiar names like Hogan, Piper, & Andre.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834284 Oh, the TV isn't some great batch of matches. But it's an amazing look at what the TV was at that time. And a lot of it is still fucking fun.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834285 It can't possibly be duller than the AWA 1981 TV they showed on Classics I thought the 1979 show with Piper would be the earliest footage of him but there are a few 1977-1978 Portland and LA stuff out there on Youtube.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834286 First match I'm watching.All Star Wrestling 06/03/1978Bob Backlund defends the WWE Championship against Strong Kobayashi in a memorable bout.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834324 The Great Hussein Arab of Iran shows off his ironclad abilities against Johnny Rivera. Slow clap
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834360 Oh, the TV isn't some great batch of matches. But it's an amazing look at what the TV was at that time. And a lot of it is still fucking fun. This is my viewpoint on this too. I'm beyond excited to see some more nice quality WWWF TV. I've grown a major soft spot for 70s WWWF in recent months and have wanted more.
March 4, 20187 yr comment_5834369 Oh, the TV isn't some great batch of matches. But it's an amazing look at what the TV was at that time. And a lot of it is still fucking fun. Exactly. You have to appreciate it in context. I only started watching WWF TV in the early 80's and even then, the shows were pretty much nothing but the big names against enhancement talent and lots of interviews with the occasional good match thrown in. And even in those cases, it was usually done to start or advance a feud or story of some kind. I never watched the weekly shows on Saturday morning expecting to see good matches. But those shows did sell me on going to Maple Leaf Gardens every three weeks, for years. It's actually quite interesting how the whole business model of wrestling has changed over the years, where the main purpose of TV used to be to get people to go to house shows, where they could see the real matches. Now they give away practically everything for free on TV or for a minimal charge on the Network. I'm amazed they get any house show business at all.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834387 80s TV is why we'd lose our shit as kids when Saturday Night's Main Event would come on. Matches between stars! Hulk Hogan wrestling on TV! That was mind blowing stuff at the time.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834390 Exactly. Its why when the eighties boom happened, and I started seeing tv with some good matches, like Mid South and World Class it blew my mind. Crockett would occasionally throw ya a bone, but the promos were so good you dont mind.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834398 Memphis people. In 81-84 you were getting hot Nitro/Raw caliber stuff every week. The highest local TV ratings for wrestling ever. But they had the benefit of each TV being used to build to a specific show that week and being able to do hot angles and promos instead of doing more general TV with different loops running. But yes this drop tomorrow will be great, we'll have to start a thread for hidden gems.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834406 Crockett would occasionally throw ya a bone, but the promos were so good you dont mind. That was even more frustrating in Canada, because when I did see a good match on an NWA show we never got to see the end because WE'RE OUT OF TIME FANS! And they didn't run house shows here, so I didn't see my first NWA show until 1990.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834409 No one loves Memphis tv at that time more than me, but a lot of the studio matches were just typical tv job stuff. The promos, angles, and cut highlights from the big shows were the meat.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834444 According to the twitter account WWE network updates all star wrestling has started to be added to the network and it's starting with 1980.
March 5, 20187 yr comment_5834453 It's what you would expect but I'm getting a kick out of Vince in the Lance Russell role jousting with heels during promos.
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