omg, I just looked at the card. Wow that's bad. My favorite part is that Dandy Randy Orton has been talking trash on twitter to rappers about how wrestling ain't fake, and he's booked to fight tiny pixie woman Alexa Bliss. Truly hilarious.
Also, someone posted about the Peacock/WWE promo deal and I just signed up. $10 for 4 months to start, so that's nice at least. Plus Parks and Rec access.
And lastly, for you pro wrestling / tennis crossover fans, WWE network has Wrestlefest '92 up while it lasts.
I don't know much about its history, but in watching it it appears to be one of those coliseum home video compilation tapes they used to make. The show is hosted by Mean Gene and Bobby Heenan on a tennis court with the storyline being Mean Gene is teaching Bobby how to play. It's pretty good.
On I guess the bright side, they did add 10 episodes of 1993 WCW Saturday Night on day 1 of Peacock that weren't on the WWE Network previously. I'm just watching like a hawk in hopes that they're going to not only migrate everything over, but also continue uploading classic content, as I've feared them not bothering once they're on Peacock.
The fact that Apple TV interacts with Peacock is a bonus, there's that. When I'm watching series chronologically like I have been with Wrestling Challenge, World Championship Wrestling, and WCCW from 1986, it will be nice to just have those populate on "Up Next" alongside other TV shows I'm watching.
On I guess the bright side, they did add 10 episodes of 1993 WCW Saturday Night on day 1 of Peacock that weren't on the WWE Network previously. I'm just watching like a hawk in hopes that they're going to not only migrate everything over, but also continue uploading classic content, as I've feared them not bothering once they're on Peacock.
The fact that Apple TV interacts with Peacock is a bonus, there's that. When I'm watching series chronologically like I have been with Wrestling Challenge, World Championship Wrestling, and WCCW from 1986, it will be nice to just have those populate on "Up Next" alongside other TV shows I'm watching.
Yeah, same with Comcast. Not having to go through my xbox will be a nice feature to have
It's funny, I remember this first episode of Saturday Night they have on here (Steamboat/Regal, Sting-Rhodes/Harlem Heat) but I do not at all remember the SNLesque opening here.
Yeah I haven't actually touched any of the 1993 WCW Saturday Night yet, so I'm not sure what all is on there (even though it's supposed to be great stuff), I've started watching forward from the point of Wrestling Challenge debuting in 1986. Though that stuff isn't on Peacock, so I may be on pause for a bit. At least I'll have my on-demand access to The Office back.
The archive on the Network goes back to April 1992 for WCW Saturday Night; that stuff has been up for a while, and these 10 episodes are the new stuff they just added. That prior stuff just hasn't made it over from the Network yet, and may take a bit. But it's available on the Network right now for the rest of the month.
I always thought that Chyna and HHH were a very weird match when he was the blueblood character. The short-term pairing with Mr. Hughes made at least some sense because Hughes was supposed to be the rich dude's butler who secondarily acted as his bodyguard because he happened to be huge, powerful, and scary. Then suddenly he disappears and HHH is paired with Chyna, who is only a bodyguard even though HHH wasn't particularly the sort of puny weakling heel you would give a dedicated bodyguard to.
And then, without giving the character a drastic shift, they just sort of transition him from snobby blueblood to DX. WTF? Dude enters the September 1997 One Night Only PPV to "Ode to Joy." Within a couple of months he's entering to the DX theme and crotch-chopping incessantly. I was a fledgling internet smark at the time and knew about the existence of the kliq backstage, so HHH getting paired with HBK didn't surprise me, but I would expect it seemed weird as **** to a bunch of fans who weren't smartened up.
I never watched IYH: DX, so I just clicked into it for confirmation that HHH entered to the DX theme here (he did). He was facing Sgt. Slaughter in a one-on-one match. I was caught off-guard that Slaughter entered to Kurt Angle's theme song, "Medal." So Angle was at least the third person to get that theme as a hand-me-down? Surprising that something that was just kicking around as a generic theme song became iconic once it landed with Angle. Guess it goes to show that the talent elevates the music too.