February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880287 The best part was when he was talking about the powerlifting guys talking shit about him calling himself the World's Strongest Man after being away from their scene for years and how it was the maddest he ever was. Plus Vince's reaction when he asked if he could go compete being "sure, but you better win it because I have no place for the second strongest man in the world" being a shit-just-got-real moment. All that topped off with him going in with only 3-4 months training and winning the thing after being away for so long made clear how scary a motivated and pissed off Mark Henry could be. It also made clear that he's probably one of the legit nicest people ever in wrestling. Clearly he's one of the very few folks that no one has a bad word to say about. How could you, after seeing how passionate he is about life and how he goes in 100% when he cares about something. Even the part at the end with him being the typical corny dad embarrassing his son made it clear anyone who's ever met the guy would love him.
February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880289 2 hours ago, sek69 said: The best part was when he was talking about the powerlifting guys talking shit about him calling himself the World's Strongest Man after being away from their scene for years and how it was the maddest he ever was. Plus Vince's reaction when he asked if he could go compete being "sure, but you better win it because I have no place for the second strongest man in the world" being a shit-just-got-real moment. All that topped off with him going in with only 3-4 months training and winning the thing after being away for so long made clear how scary a motivated and pissed off Mark Henry could be. It also made clear that he's probably one of the legit nicest people ever in wrestling. Clearly he's one of the very few folks that no one has a bad word to say about. How could you, after seeing how passionate he is about life and how he goes in 100% when he cares about something. Even the part at the end with him being the typical corny dad embarrassing his son made it clear anyone who's ever met the guy would love him. Yes! That story with him telling Vince that he still had something to prove in powerlifting was GLORIOUS - perhaps my favorite part of the doc, so I'm glad you brought it up. Everything about it rang true. Vince starts off asking if Mark is sure he wants to enter the competition. Then, when Mark doubles down, Vince gets real. "Well, you'd better win. Because there's no place here for the second strongest man." Tremendous. Flash forward to the comp, and big Mark is SPLITTIN' WIGS with his mind-blowing strength. Setting records, then instantly breaking his own records. Not only all that stuff with his momma, or his son... But there's also the relationship he had with his coach. Fuck, man. That one got me, too. And that HOF speech about how he did it all for his family was the perfect topper to cap it off. Honestly, it's no wonder this guy is universally loved by everyone. There's not a demographic or a single person with a pulse that something like this wouldn't reach or speak to in some terms. It's the best.
February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880290 WWE's not on the ball with this, but tomorrow's the 5th anniversary of the Network. I'd say it became much more of what I wanted it to be in the last year with the advent of the weekly hidden gems.
February 24, 20196 yr comment_5880320 15 hours ago, Matt D said: WWE's not on the ball with this, but tomorrow's the 5th anniversary of the Network. I'd say it became much more of what I wanted it to be in the last year with the advent of the weekly hidden gems. WWE has been teasing a new interface. It and the tiered pricing will likely come between now and the Summer. Hopefully, they will launch the new interface tomorrow.
February 25, 20196 yr comment_5880372 https://www.wwe.com/article/wwe-network-celebrates-5th-birthday-with-full-shows-and-throwback-lineup Looks like they're celebrating with a Best Of on the live feed primarily.
February 25, 20196 yr comment_5880374 They've put last year's Wrestlemania onto their YouTube in full as an anniversary commemoration as well
March 1, 20196 yr comment_5880744 On the Nigel doc they show the footage of Bryan Danielson yanking him head-first into the post and drawing hardway blood. A few weeks later, during the Phoenix Takeover, Shayna Baszler pulls Bianca Belair by the hair into the post and Nigel makes a comment about knowing how dangerous that can be. I thought it was a nice callback.
March 3, 20196 yr comment_5880844 I've gone back to watching Mid Atlantic and I'm at the post Starrcade 83 episodes, and I can't help but laugh at how hard they tried to make Kelly Kiniski a thing. Bob Caudle set him up to do a promo about whatever was going on in the territory and Kelly just goes off on how he's worked on his wrestling style and gets quasi-heelish toward Americans while babyfacing himself to Canadians like a weird, less charasmatic proto Bret Hart.
March 4, 20196 yr comment_5880933 Was that an actual promo meant to be seen by everyone or one of those interviews with the enhancement talent that was usually filled on TV by local promos?
March 15, 20196 yr comment_5882015 I watched the two new episodes of Photo Shoot with AJ Styles and Dolph Ziggler. No new information or grand revelations, just a fun trip down memory lane. I think this is one of the more underrated shows on the Network.
March 16, 20196 yr comment_5882063 On 2/23/2019 at 5:51 PM, SomethingSavage said: Guys. Hey, guys. That Mark Henry documentary was fucking aces, y'all. It was moving. It was inspiring. It was engaging. It was excellent. It was, well... Everything their usual TV isn't. I mean, I watched the Nigel doc awhile back. And it was good, too. But this - THIS - was a rollercoaster. This was the world's strongest segment. This was the greatest vignette never made. I concur with all of this. Finally watched the Mark Henry doc last night, and man oh man, it was awesome. I need to watch Nigel's at some point, but I know that one is going to be heartbreaking and hit close to home.
March 17, 20196 yr comment_5882113 On 1/25/2019 at 6:17 AM, Zoo Enthusiast said: FWIW, I have had the Network and Fight Pass and thought the Network blew Fight Pass away in terms of reliability and functionality. Haven’t had it for several months now but it always worked well for me. I have Fight Pass at the moment and their Roku app is trash. I don’t understand how Fight Pass hasn’t fixed their amazon app after years of complaints! You can’t resume anything and the fast forward function is trash. Only app I pay for that I’d rather watch on my smart phone than on my tv
March 20, 20196 yr comment_5882340 They just dropped the rest of Thunder in 1999 (and the January 2000 episodes as well) to the Network, including the infamous Nash commentary episode.
April 17, 20196 yr comment_5885697 Oh my goodness, the shows from 84 include Adrian Street showing up I can't think of a more perfect gimmick/promotion combo than that.
April 18, 20196 yr comment_5885754 On 2/18/2019 at 12:03 PM, ...TG said: They dropped a bunch of WWE Confidential today. This came out during my dark period ('02-'09 or so) - is it worth checking out? They did their version of WWE Cribs which is kind of cool. Specifically the Al Snow one where they show all of his hockey jerseys that he owns & he puts them all on at once.
April 20, 20196 yr comment_5885938 On 4/17/2019 at 3:19 AM, sek69 said: Oh my goodness, the shows from 84 include Adrian Street showing up I can't think of a more perfect gimmick/promotion combo than that. Following up on this, after watching a few episodes he's in (previously I've only been aware of him via magazines) I wonder if Dustin Rhodes pays him royalties since Goldust is basically this gimmick + movie references. I've heard people say it before, but watching it in action it's apparent as hell.
April 26, 20196 yr comment_5886459 10 minutes ago, flyonthewall2983 said: What's this I'm hearing about a relaunch? They are planning on launching a tiered service at some point, details are sketchy on what that will mean.
April 26, 20196 yr comment_5886522 I'm really curious about the tiered approach. I'm happy with what they offer now for the current price point, though the app itself is definitely in need of repair and upgrades. I don't know what they could possibly offer to make me pay more. And if they take things away from it - for example, if PPVs are put on delay (meaning, for $9.99 you still get every PPV but its a week late), I'm either going to cancel or stick with whatever the lowest tier is (which I assume would be what they offer now). I certainly wouldn't be pay more to watch stuff live when, for the most part, I end up watching stuff a couple days after anyway. I have a sneaking suspicion that many fans are like me too. The Network is really convenient, but if you're savvy enough (or visit the right porn sites), you can usually find these shows within hours of them airing anyway. Eliminating stuff from the app is more likely to convince me to cancel outright than to ever pay more.
April 27, 20196 yr comment_5886572 If they launch a live feed of just nothing but old stuff I would pay for it.
April 27, 20196 yr comment_5886573 Obviously I'm a huge wrestling fan, as we all are. And I'm of course a current WWE Subscriber, as I'm sure most of us are. However, I also have Amazon Prime Video, Hulu Premium & Netflix. It's going to be hard to justify keeping WWE Network if they raise their prices or reduce their content for the tier that is the current price. At this point, streaming services are combining to be what it was to keep cable in the first place price wise. Which I feel like the continual raising of prices is a big reason for all of the cord cutting. So I really hope that the new tiered format offers what we currently get content wise for what we currently pay. If they add other tiers below that, fine. But I'm not going to pay more for what I already have or get less for what I currently pay for.
April 27, 20196 yr comment_5886580 If there's a tiered subscription, the more expensive options are probably going to be for more current content which is the absolute opposite of what I want. Sadly, I (and probably everyone on this board) am probably in the minority with that but you'd hope that a more expensive, tiered subscription saw more efforts made to archive, restore and present older footage in addition to their own terrible original content. Basically, if they're asking us to pay more, they need to deliver more.
May 2, 20196 yr comment_5886909 On 4/25/2019 at 8:45 PM, sek69 said: They are planning on launching a tiered service at some point, details are sketchy on what that will mean. They've been planning this seemingly forever. I wonder why there has been such a delay.
May 2, 20196 yr comment_5886934 9 hours ago, Charles (Loss) said: They've been planning this seemingly forever. I wonder why there has been such a delay. I think Disney announcing their service is only going to cost $6.99 a month has put a lot of pressure on the other streaming services to keep prices in line as there are now so many services people are paying for. You really need to make sure you have an audience willing to pay a premium for content.
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