WWE Classics on Demand
Legends – More Ric Flair.So I guess the first batch of matches was pretty well received. This next batch of matches is available to watch until July 27th. More Ric Flair, but it’s more stuff I’ve seen before, and not particularly rare or exciting. Next week’s batch, though, seems pretty interesting.
Posts Tagged ‘24/7’
More Flair!
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010Tryout: Joe Collins
Sunday, July 25th, 2010Hey, not sure if you want this or not, but I reviewed some of the content From the WWEClassics channel. If you want to put it on your website, feel free. If you like it and run with it, I'll send you some more, and some of the original content, too.
Sure, although it just makes me sadder that I’m not allowed to subscribe anymore.
WWE Classics on Demand
Legends – Ric Flair.
On WWEClassics this month, the theme is factions, and since Ric Flair is was the leader of the most iconic faction even, the Four Horsemen, he is being featured with matches in the channels legends section. Let’s see what classics they’ve found for us so far…
No more 94 RAW
Saturday, May 29th, 2010Hey Scott,
I noticed this week that WWEClassics.com removed every episode of Raw from1993 and 1994. They also seemed to "PG" the site by removing all their matches involving blood. I don't think they gave us any notice on the removal of content. Granted I'm not the most active member so they might have removed these videos as often as a few months ago.
Considering it's only $4 a month and there's still like 1000 matches on the services do I really have a reason to get mad? At first I wanted to urge a boycott of WWEClassics.com until they returned the videos but there's still so much value I'm not sure its worth it.
What's your thoughts?
I gave up trying to understand their legal whims a LONG time ago. That being said, I wish had finished the 94 RAWs before they pulled them. Really my spare time has been eaten up doing retro UFCs for Heavy.com anyway, but I guess I could skip forward to 1995 RAW should I get some free time in the future.
Given they don’t have full PPVs available on demand and a lot of the content additions depend on who’s being celebrated that month, I’m not left with much to visit for now.
New Breed
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010Hey Scott,
Thought this might be something for the blog. I'm watching WWE 24/7 and catching up on old NWA shows. Back in 1987, the New Breed were a pretty good tag team. Yet within a year, almost completely vanished. Instead of looking it up, I figured I would let everyone chime in. My guess is something to do with Chris Champion. I remember him injuring his arm and wearing that ridiculous cast. I also remember Sean Royal being with the Sheepherders for a moment. But there has to be more to it than that.
Not really, you’ve pretty much got it. They were in line for a decent push and then Champion broke his arm and just wasn’t the same guy anymore after that. It’s not like they were spectacular workers, but I always marked for their “tag team literally from the future” schtick.
Stuck in Europe
Saturday, April 17th, 2010So the big story this weekend appears to be that the RAW and Smackdown crews are stranded in Europe and there might not be RAW or Smackdown this week as a result. Now we could make the obvious joke and say that they should just show a repeat from 6 weeks ago and no one would be able to tell, but let’s be serious with the speculation here. What should they do?
- Taped show of some kind? Do a tribute show to the last dead wrestler? Show something from WWE 24/7?
- Live show from a small free venue in Europe? Dunno if they could pull it off on short notice, but astonishingly there have been wrestling shows presented in venues other than giant arenas with pyro all over the world for 100 years now, so it might be worth a shot.
- Scrape together anyone on the roster who is still in the US and do a few LONG matches? Call up some Florida guys and dress them like John Cena and Batista?
- ECW invasion part two?
They’ll probably end up getting back to the US on time, but it’s fun to guess regardless.
WM repost time
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010OK, so it’s that time of year again (I think, I’m not sure of the actual date of Wrestlemania. If it’s the night after the UFC show on the 27th, sucks to be them because I’m fucking pumped for that UFC show)
Hang on, my parentheses got away from me there.
OK, so it’s that time of year again when I begin doing the WM reposts en masse, which raises the question: Are there any left that need redoing particularly badly? Here’s my running tally of what’s been done:
1: Done multiple times, pretty much definitive now.
2: Done recently, no desire to do it again.
3: Done definitively off 24/7.
4: I’ve said everything I want to say about this show.
5: Done recently off 24/7.
6: Done recently off the Anthology DVD.
7: Ditto.
8: Done multiple times.
9: Done recently off the Anthology DVD.
10: Possibly.
11: Done shortly after Bigelow’s death.
12: Done recently enough that I don’t think it needs a redo.
13: Ditto.
14: Ditto.
15: My ultimate Russo hate-rant and I don’t want to ruin it by redoing it while calm.
16: Done recently off the DVD.
17: Did it last year.
18: Possibly.
19-25: All done in what I consider my “modern era” where my writing style matches up with how I write now and I probably don’t need to redo them. Is there any desire for these shows? Maybe 19, but definitely not anything later, I’d say.
So by my count, that’s maybes for 10 and 18, and maybe 19.
Thoughts?
Vintage Macho!
Thursday, February 11th, 2010Hey man, I had to pass along this match that was aired on WWE 24/7 this month from a Toronto house show. Randy Savage defending his IC title in a No-DQ match vs. Tito Santana. It may be one of the best matches I've ever seen....and I love how crazy the Toronto crowd gets.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc3hts_tito-santana-vs-randy-savage-no-dq_sport
I wouldn’t call it one of the best I’ve ever seen, but it’s definitely on the high end of the Savage-Santana series, about ****1/4. But yeah, you just don’t get crazy crowds like that anymore. I loved them demolishing the ringside area, too.
Main Event #1
Friday, February 5th, 2010Hey Scott. Since you didn't redeliver on the "special surprise" that
was promised inside of the Royal Rumble 1988 recap, would you mind
reposting your rant for the 22nd anniversary of the epic Andre vs
Hogan "The Main Event" match held on February 5th, 1988?
22 years is a long time.
Here’s what I’m going to do because I dislike the original rant. I’m going to post both the original version, plus the versions from the more recent DVDs, so people can have both. Since it’s basically a two match show anyway.
More Best of Decade
Thursday, January 28th, 2010WWE Classics 24/7 recently debut a show called "10 Count" where host Matt Striker counts down a Top 10 on whatever the topic is that month. This month was "Top 10 WWE Matches of the Decade." They were selected based on crowd reaction, historical impact, excitement, and in-ring skill. They were:
Tryout Rant: Halloween Havoc 98
Saturday, October 31st, 2009The ‘Captain Hindsight’ Retro Review of Halloween Havoc 1998
By red29
This show was played on WWE Classics on Demand this past month and I remember being so excited for this Supercard back in the fall of ’98. The Monday Night Wars were still up for grabs although the tide was certainly turning to the WWF. I had been watching wrestling religiously for a year at this point (started oddly enough with Starrcade ’97 at a friend’s house). I watched this originally from my college dorm room on a live internet stream from WCW.com, using a login/password from some IRCnet chatroom I think. That was pretty big for 1998. The point of this review is to see how this holds up eleven years later using my cynical jaded wrestling eyes. . Actually I’m a pretty positive guy and I WANT to enjoy what I’m watching. Anyway, I rate matches on the typical 5 * scale with your average match weighing in at **1/2. I did not dig up Scott’s original rant on this from the 411 or Pulse archives so anything that sounds familiar is strictly due to osmosis from reading all his stuff for the last eleven years (started on Wrestline.com). Let’s cue up the 24/7 montage…
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