WWE Network Live Stream Discussion Thread - It's WAY over the top!

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Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I've seen WM1, but have absolutely no recollection of Mean Gene singing the national anthem, haha.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2014 23:03

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:51

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I guess they worked out a deal with Ventura. I also forgot about him calling Gorilla "Gino"

# ¿ Feb 24, 2014 23:08

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

That ref is taller than Bundy.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2014 23:16

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I haven't watched Main Event in a while, who is this on commentary?

edit: nevermind

# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 00:33

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

Brings me back to Arn Anderson doing spinebusters on WCW Main Event.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2014 00:54

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

triplexpac posted:

So this is the promo I was talking about a few days ago, where I swear the crowd noise is all fake. Heenan, Warrior & Andre on Brother Love's show

It's probably mostly fake, but I'm sure it was added at the time, not recently. Superstars and Challenge used to have lots of crowd sweetening, and it always sounded really high pitched, as opposed to the modern fake Smackdown pops which are only slightly more realistic. Even as a kid I was wondering why the crowd was always going loving bananas during otherwise unexciting segments like the Barber Shop, or The Brother Love Show.

# ¿ Mar 2, 2014 15:40

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I watched that MSG house show with Flair vs Hogan, and the way Vince and Alfred Hayes are praising Hogan, it seriously sounds like an improv comedy group trying to one-up each other with ironic praise for someone. Even for Vince, it was some of the most ridiculous commentary overselling I've ever heard.

"These people adore this man! They're completely enamored with Hulk Hogan!"
"He's a hero! They simply love The Hulkster, they've given their hearts to him!!"
"Hulk Rules!! Hulkamania lives forever!"
"Absolutely unbelievable response for this wonderful, fantastic man! Hulk Hogan!"

These are all fired off rapid fire, one after the other, while Hulk is posing to a reasonably excited crowd.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2014 14:54

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

Acrolos posted:

Can someone explain the history of the MSG shows? Were they broadcast nationwide, or was it localized in the New York area? Obviously they spent the money to create a polished (for the time) product, but I don't recall MSG shows being on tv when I was a kid.

They were essentially just house shows, right?

They were MSG house shows, and they were shown on the MSG Network, which is a channel in the NY/east coast area (they have more content now, but at the time it was pretty much just NY sports team games and wasn't a very big channel). There was very little consistency when they were air, I'd sometimes come across them just flipping through the channels on a Saturday afternoon.

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# ¿ Mar 3, 2014 15:21

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I guess they fast-forwarded through WM2.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 03:03

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

BigRed0427 posted:

Holy poo poo, Men On A Mission!

all American wrestling and WWF Mania were basically jobber shows, right?

Yeah, Mania was a recap show and All American was usually a mix of that week's matches from Superstars and Challenge, and maybe an exclusive match or two. If I remember right, it was the same matches from the syndicated shows, but with different commentary.

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# ¿ Mar 24, 2014 15:23

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:51

Cromulent: Dec 22, 2002; People are under a lot of stress, Bradley.

I'd love to see the NK shows without all the fake crowd noise. It must be surreal to wrestle to a silent crowd of 100,000+

# ¿ Mar 25, 2014 00:01

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