WWE Network stuff

[King Kamala]

https://www.facebook.com/143802942380921/posts/3751148774979635

Haha. A day after I wondered what the hell APA’s connection was with Yokozuna, WWE Network announces APA is next week’s Untold episode following WWE Untold: Yokozuna.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1351212762391842818

Hell yeah. Catering me and my fellow New Generation kids after the Rumble.

Hogan pretending to be sorry for politicking himself into a title run amused me.

Good watch, but a bit odd they built up so much before Mania 9 and then blew through everything else with little mention of anything wrestling wise. The Vader leg break angle, his run with Taker, his title runs with Owen, and his last appearance at Survivor Series 96 seem noteworthy.

I also enjoyed seeing crystal clear AWA footage, and hope that stuff escapes the vault some day.

 

[King Kamala]

I like that even Bruce had to sheepishly admit that the ending to WrestleMania IX's main event was straight garbage. I feel like that moment completely ruined what should have been the New Generation's coming out party.

 

[Tino Standard]

Haven’t watched the Yoko network special yet, but on one of Bruce’s podcasts a few years ago, he tried to explain that they had to put the title on Hogan because there was a European tour coming up after WM9 that they needed to have him headline as champion. Conrad pointed out that Hogan never ended up even wrestling on the tour, so after somehow dragging this out for 10 minutes of twisted logic and pure bullshit, Bruce finally gave up and basically said, “Yeah, I don’t know.”

 

[BruiserBrody]

Haven’t watched the Yoko network special yet, but on one of Bruce’s podcasts a few years ago, he tried to explain that they had to put the title on Hogan because there was a European tour coming up after WM9 that they needed to have him headline as champion. Conrad pointed out that Hogan never ended up even wrestling on the tour, so after somehow dragging this out for 10 minutes of twisted logic and pure bullshit, Bruce finally gave up and basically said, “Yeah, I don’t know.”

That's kind of whack as they said the same thing on the doc and showed a pic of Hogan coming to the ring to face Yoko, allegedly from that tour.

 

[King Kamala]

Hulk Hogan DID face Yokozuna on an European tour but it was in July/August '93 after Hulkster lost the title.

I *think* Hogan's logic was that Yokozuna would get the rub by beating him twice but most wrestling fans would have only seen the WrestleMania IX matches and not the rematches. And besides I think he won those European house show matches by DQ...

 

[Valeyard]

Gonna watch the doc today, but as maybe the biggest fan and defender of Wrestlemania 9, that was bullshit to a hilarious degree. From Bret telling Hogan to go fight Yoko to the finish itself, it's the best double-kill in wrestling history. But with that being said it hurt Yoko a LOT more than it should have because Hogan didn't appear on TV in person between then and KOTR. If Hogan at least made it seem like he was around, that he gave a shit about being the champion and that he knew he had a monster after him, even if it was the same promo he'd cut for five years, it would've made Yoko more of a threat in my eyes.

 

[King Kamala]

Weird thing is Hogan WAS actually semi-regularly doing house show main events in the Spring of '93----with Brutus Beefcake against Money Inc (with Sgt. Slaughter as referee occasionally) in a rematch for the WWF Tag Team Titles. Which makes the whole thing even worse!

 

[Valeyard]

I know the matches would be some of the worst ever, but man if he had to pull that overshadowing bullshit it should've been with Taker and Gonzalez. He would've seriously put one of them over, too.

 

[BruiserBrody]

18 min mark has clips of Yoko vs Sarge in the AWA. Sarge is shirtless, which makes him look as fat as I've ever seen him.

 

[King Kamala]

I know the matches would be some of the worst ever, but man if he had to pull that overshadowing bullshit it should've been with Taker and Gonzalez. He would've seriously put one of them over, too.

They teased a Hulk Hogan-Giant Gonzalez feud during a Money Inc-Mega Maniacs lumberjack match dark match main event for the set of TV tapings after KOTR '93. Thought of how funny bad a '93 Hulkster-Giant Gonzalez match would be makes me salivate.

 

[Tino Standard]

So, what else happened during Hogan’s title reign after WM9? Welp... From May 1993:

 

[King Kamala]

God, is there any babyface more insufferable than '92-'93 Hogan?

Literally any other wrestler who shits on a title like that would have been punished.

 

[Brocklock]

God, is there any babyface more insufferable than '92-'93 Hogan?

Literally any other wrestler who shits on a title like that would have been punished.

94-July 96 Hogan is up there

 

[King Kamala]

Yeah. I almost said '92-early '96 Hulk Hogan but at least, Hulk Hogan briefly seemed less annoying when he switched companies before everyone realized "Wait. WTF? Now he's ruining WCW."

But I would go as far back as late '91 for start of Hogan's most annoying period. He threw Undertaker's parents ashes in his face!

 

[Valeyard]

They teased a Hulk Hogan-Giant Gonzalez feud during a Money Inc-Mega Maniacs lumberjack match dark match main event for the set of TV tapings after KOTR '93. Thought of how funny bad a '93 Hulkster-Giant Gonzalez match would be makes me salivate.

Gonzalez was Hogan's dream kind of opponent. Too bad that didn't materialize. Gonzalez would've been the PERFECT Dungeon of Doom guy.

Did Brutus ever get back on TV when Hogan went on hiatus?

 

[AA484]

Gonzalez was Hogan's dream kind of opponent. Too bad that didn't materialize. Gonzalez would've been the PERFECT Dungeon of Doom guy.

Did Brutus ever get back on TV when Hogan went on hiatus?

Checked historyofwwe.com and Beefcake's last televised appearance for WWF was on the May 2 Wrestling Challenge show where Hogan was being interviewed on the set of Thunder in Paradise. He had no appearances between then and WM IX.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

More WWF Superstars are coming in this moth.

 

[Epic Springs]

This looks interesting.

 

[King Kamala]

I saw that trailer earlier today. Seems like horrible timing for WWE Network to branch into non (pro) wrestling programming but whatcanyado?

 

[Hawk 34]

I would argue it’s better if it means something like that can be billboarded on Peacock and since it’s not RASSLIN, you might get more eyes on it. Is there a market for documentaries on female high school wrestlers? Possibly not, but you don’t know what you don’t know.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I would argue it’s better if it means something like that can be billboarded on Peacock and since it’s not RASSLIN, you might get more eyes on it. Is there a market for documentaries on female high school wrestlers? Possibly not, but you don’t know what you don’t know.

Women empowerment brah. Girl wrestles boys and wins a state title? She'll get a parade on MSNBC.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

I just heard that this month, they're adding some more WCW Saturday Night. It's about damn time.

 

[BruiserBrody]

They tossed this on Youtube anyway. I'll give it a go this week.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

Okay, for some reason my WWE Network is not working. I don't know if there's online traffic problems, but this sucks. How will my mother and I be able to that WCCW binge when our food gets here?

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

Okay, it's working again. It was probably some sort of glitch in their system.

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

Does anyone know whether or not there will be any new classic content will be uploaded?

 

[King Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1516148416694439940

Not sure what classic content is coming up but hey, Table for 3 is back!

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

Speaking of WWEN on Peacock, how about opening a sub-forum for the Network on this forum for WWEN stuff like we did a few years ago when the Network initially started?

 

[Mental Lee ILL]

Does Vince or WWE own the late Eddie Graham's CWF video library and Col. Robert Fuller's GCW video library. If so, can they be added to WWEN on Peacock?