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I got through the entire thing pretty much the day it came out. I actually recently read a book called Ringmaster, which chronicles many of the same events covered in the documentary.
While I'm sure much of the documentary was repetitive, and I knew most of what was covered, I still found it interesting to listen to. I don't think we'll ever get the truth about a lot of things. Too many wrestlers died too young, and too many people would probably also be implicated. Too many other people still have ties to WWE and have too much to lose for a true tell-all. Ironically, this whole thing was largely useful because it was intended to put WWE in a reasonably positive light before the latest scandal broke.
While I'm sure much of the documentary was repetitive, and I knew most of what was covered, I still found it interesting to listen to. I don't think we'll ever get the truth about a lot of things. Too many wrestlers died too young, and too many people would probably also be implicated. Too many other people still have ties to WWE and have too much to lose for a true tell-all. Ironically, this whole thing was largely useful because it was intended to put WWE in a reasonably positive light before the latest scandal broke.
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In the US, Raw is the only show going to Netflix. I don't believe they are getting the back catalogue, which remains on Peacock.
Internationally, all 3 main shows are going to Netflix in nearly every country. I have not seen any official confirmation that the back catalogue is moving too, but in Canada, we recently lost access to the parts of the back catalogue we had via Sportsnet+. We still technically have the WWE Network, but it's totally broken here. My assumption is we are going to get all of the back catalogue but YMMV depending on the country.
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After stumbling on this thread and subsequently seeing this as the first thing on Netflix, I started watching it.
And binged the whole thing. It is almost 4am, I am dumb. More than because I'm posting here instead of going to sleep...
I never really got into wrestling, not the way some of my friends were. They had action figures, wanted to wrestle in the yard, everything. It was their identity, basically, which was a bit odd considering I was in England and the whole Americana stuff didn't fit.
Good show though even as a non-super-fan. I'm real curious what's going to come off all the charges against him.
And binged the whole thing. It is almost 4am, I am dumb. More than because I'm posting here instead of going to sleep...
I never really got into wrestling, not the way some of my friends were. They had action figures, wanted to wrestle in the yard, everything. It was their identity, basically, which was a bit odd considering I was in England and the whole Americana stuff didn't fit.
Good show though even as a non-super-fan. I'm real curious what's going to come off all the charges against him.
I think WWE Network is gone here Jan 1. We are with Telus and they've confirmed they are removing it from their services.
I wonder what this means for Sportsnet though. WWE was a pretty decent block of their programming.
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I'm glad to hear this. If WWE Network disappears, it means Netflix must be getting the back catalogue, or else there's no way to watch it in Canada.
I've spoken with Sportsnet's support team a few times in the last couple of weeks because there have been all sorts of technical errors. They confirmed that they lose the rights to everything at the end of December. They either have already lost the rights to the back catalogue or they don't want to support it for the next 3 months (not sure what support it needs though; everything they had worked for me for the last year). They also said that you can no longer replay recent Raw/Smackdown/NXT/PLEs, so if you don't catch them live, you don't have another option (I've found there to be a bit of leeway within the week, but they certainly don't have multiple years worth of these shows anymore).
The crazy part is that, at the same time the PLEs disappeared, there started to be random technical issues that would kick me out of the app 2-3 times during a show, and there were 2 NXTs in a row where they would repeat all of the commercials, meaning that we would get the normal 3 minutes of commercials, and then we'd see the exact same commercials for another 3 minutes and miss whatever was happening. That seemed to correct itself this week, but it seems pretty wild how everything was working perfectly until mid-September, and then they just stopped caring.
So sounds like Rogers got unceremoniously dumped and I wouldn't put it past them to be spitefully shitifying the product on its way out.
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I'll never forget the most HILARIOUS segment where Vince was in the hospitalroom with a broken leg in cast, and Stone Cold was disguised as one of the doctors and started beating the crap outta him and went upside his head with the frying pan. Too funny
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Lol. Thanks for that Quagmire. U went and found the video for me and I laughed HARD
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Well, my girlfriend and I finally watched this over the course of a weekend. It was cool seeing all of the old performers out of character discussing the business side of things. I also didn’t realize how close Maryland was to the WWF/WCW line back when they were regional, so it makes sense that they were both kinda equally visible growing up.
It’s a damn shame about Owen Hart… and it was weird seeing Bret question whether or not it was intentional negligence since Owen was getting shafted after Bret left. I would have liked to hear from Mick Folley and some of the other old heads that jumped back and forth between federations.
It’s a damn shame about Owen Hart… and it was weird seeing Bret question whether or not it was intentional negligence since Owen was getting shafted after Bret left. I would have liked to hear from Mick Folley and some of the other old heads that jumped back and forth between federations.
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Yeah, it was pretty sad hearing about Owen. I remember I was a kid at the time when it happened, and I heard it being talked about on the radio station
I was listening to. Sad stuff. I recall Bret talking about it in an outside interview saying how "there's not a day that goes by where I don't think about my brother..."
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Yeah, it was pretty sad hearing about Owen. I remember I was a kid at the time when it happened, and I heard it being talked about on the radio station
I was old enough to remember watching the PPV live when it happened, and the moment they cut back to JR I knew it wasn’t a schtick, because at that point I had already “figured out” what wrestling was about. I remember even WCW was reluctant to use rappel lines for a while after that, because if I’m not mistaken… that’s when they were doing the Sting bit with the Crow makeup.
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Man, I love Sting. Steven Borden is the original and he is the GOAT
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I met him at a mall signing as a kid, he was really nice compared to Hawk and Animal, who were noticeably drunk and ready to leave.
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Dude, that's awesome.
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This was the early 90’s, back when he had his bleach blonde flattop and used the bright makeup. I’ll see if I can find the pictures, y’all will get a kick out of my mullet.