It does, yes.

Well I suppose that's a relief to know the embarrassingly bad edit was a WWE deal and not an NBC one . 

So, I get their stance on shit like that, as it pertains to race relations & what not. That's not OK and it's justifiable to me. It's always kind of been a black cloud hanging over pro-wrestling.

How are they going to approach violence and sexuality though? Like I imagine The Katt taking off her top will be censored but what about all the thong upskirt shots from ECW or Godfather's women? What about bloody matches or extreme matches with barbed wire & what not? What about man on woman violence, especially in older content? Dark Journey eating the DDT from a blind Jake Roberts with the crowd losing their minds is a good moment in history but, does it hold up now or is it too much?

It's going to be interesting in that regard. 

Well, they didnt edit out Pillman's "You know what a mark is?" promo from Cyberslam 96, so they arent going completely crazy with censorship. Wonder how they'll handle Heat Wave 99.

I’m surprised they don’t have a premium tier where everything is uncensored and charge extra for it. 

Personally, I hope all the footage has to be edited to the point where it becomes completely unwatchable and it ends up being a huge black eye for both NBC and WWE. It's what they deserve.

For those that have signed up for the ad-supported Peacock, how prevalent are the ads?

23 minutes ago, WingedEagle said:

For those that have signed up for the ad-supported Peacock, how prevalent are the ads?

Aside from Fastlane (which had no ads live except for the ones WWE had already built in), I've only watched The Broken Skull Sessions with Randy Orton so far. Other than the show not really being formatted for ad breaks, it was fine. Maybe 5-6 ads, about 30-60 seconds each - not bad at all.

Edit: Same for the Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster revivals, except there are obviously going to be less ads in a 24-minute episode than there would be in a two-hour Broken Skull Sessions, and those shows are formatted specifically to take ad breaks into account.

Thanks, that doesn't sound too terrible.  Tonight I got the email that my network subscription is done as of tomorrow, so I'll probably try the deal they're offering for the ad-supported Peacock and see how that goes.

I think this is probably going to end up being overblown. They've got ECW and Attitude Era stuff up untouched. If the line is blackface and the N-word then that's not going to have a huge impact on footage.

I had Royal Rumble 2000 on today and Bubba Ray taking a chairshot to the head, Triple H bleeding all over the place, and the Bikini Contest/Mae Young segment aired pretty much untouched from what they were on the WWE Network, so I really do think a lot of people are unnecessarily sounding the alarm because of the two instances of editing so far. 

Hey, that's a good sign.

Peacock Premium Plus, or whatever they call the ad-free version, is the same price as the Network was before, or 25% off if you use the 4-month promo code ("PEACOCKMANIA"). And if you are a cable subscriber, you probably already have access to the Premium tier.

For me the censored stuff isn't as much of a concern as the slowwwwwwwwwwwwww trickle of the vault stuff.  Is every single RAW and Smackdown even up on Peacock yet?  The old stuff is the only reason I ever bothered with the Network to begin with so I feel like I shouldn't even bother with this until the apparent August deadline which to be honest, I'm extremely skeptical of.

I've been skipping the Piper/Brown match for decades. I didn't even like the match when I was a kid and gladly watched Skinner squash matches. 

Still, I'm torn on the precedent this sets. I do think it's a slippery slope when it comes to deeming what is and isn't acceptable for consumption, especially in an era where it seems like some people are looking to find fault in almost anything.

But, I agree with those who are saying that the Network then and now (and maybe forever?) wasn't intended to be a permanent historical archive. Hell, content leaves other streaming platforms every month. In that sense, we got spoiled that relatively little content left the network over seven years. Moreover, NBC shelled out the bucks for the rights to the content, so it's their call on how they want to handle it. 

Most of the time stuff leaves streaming platforms is because it's licensed for a set period, though. One of the key benefits of WWE Network is/was that it owned all the footage so there's no need to remove it.

On 3/28/2021 at 2:15 AM, PhilTLL said:

And if you are a cable subscriber, you probably already have access to the Premium tier.

Cable subscribers get the $5 plan with ads for free. I think it's an extra $5 if you want to upgrade to the one without ads.

4 hours ago, C.S. said:

Cable subscribers get the $5 plan with ads for free. I think it's an extra $5 if you want to upgrade to the one without ads.

Yeah for some reason the middle tier is called premium and there's not a catchy name for the actual premium tier other than "ad-free".

Interestingly, this has become news and perhaps drawn some attention to WWE's past. The removal is getting coverage in the NY Times!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/arts/television/wwe-peacock-nbc-streaming.html

44 minutes ago, PhilTLL said:

Yeah for some reason the middle tier is called premium and there's not a catchy name for the actual premium tier other than "ad-free".

It's Peacock Premium Plus.

Which is a bit odd as the only difference is something (ads) being taken away.

On 3/28/2021 at 1:41 AM, CarpetCrawler said:

.  Is every single RAW and Smackdown even up on Peacock yet?  The old stuff is the only reason I ever bothered with the Network to begin with so I feel like I shouldn't even bother with this until the apparent August deadline which to be honest, I'm extremely skeptical of.

RAW only from 2008 on, SD from 2019 on.

Reportedly, Titus O'Neil will be getting the Warrior award this year.

1 hour ago, JRH said:

Reportedly, Titus O'Neil will be getting the Warrior award this year.

That's a hell of a bribe honor

Hey Titus, to honor you for hosting Mania with the racist guy, we'll give you the award named after the homophobic guy.

1 minute ago, El-P said:

Hey Titus, to honor you for hosting Mania with the racist guy, we'll give you the award named after the homophobic guy.

Yours Truly,

The Old, Rich White Guy

I watched Wrestlemania 3 last night. since I was feeling nostalgic and that was the show that cemented my WWF fandom at he time. It was interesting looking at it in a booking/layout aspect to see how poorly agented it was. There were at least three matches with a "heel does the Stevens/Flair flip over the turnbuckle spot"  nearly back to back, and  nearly every match with the heels winning had the same "babyface attacks the heel and looks like a poor loser" spot afterwards.  I'm also pretty sure Jimmy Hart took more bumps than anyone on the show since he got manhandled in every match his guys were in. 

Plus in light of the editing Peacock was doing, it was interesting to hear Gorilla describe Alice Cooper's leather jacket as "something Adrian brought with him out of the closet" which was both homophobic and dumb considering it looked more like something Adrian would have worn prior to the Adorable gimmick.