Just watched the latest Monday Night Wars. Never seen the Hart/Goldberg match that eventually led to his stroke.

Holy ****, that kick to the head was nasssssty

confirmed coming soon to the network

Who had a stroke?

Bret Hart in 2002.

What was with the 80s and good guy/ bad guy car races in every cartoon?

Right and they think it was pretty much a direct result of the concussion suffered at the hands of Goldberg from that kick

Just up to the dog collar match now

Man, the Abdullah the Butcher vs Carlos Colon match was brutal, sticking each other with some spike thing, looked legit sore

Even the 2nd jobbery tag match had manager Gary Hart spike someone

Was early NWA wrestling always this brutal?

I have only ever watched 1987 - 94 WWF wrestling and there wasnt much blood in that span...

Crockett had a lot of blood in the early to mid-80s but it wasn't always that brutal. The WWF had a lot of blood in the early 80s too.

Didn't think this would happen. Very sad news.

Let's not forget that Vince put the actually main event of the show on at halftime of the football game. Imo, WWE is dying a very slow death. With the NFL back, I choose that every Monday over Raw and catch up on PVR after the game. I find myself fast forwarding through most of it. I can't tell you who won the Reigns vs Rollins match and frankly don't care. Am I alone on this? I can't be the only one who sees little to care about in WWE these days.

Somebody also commented that they were watching old Nitros on the Network instead of Raw. That speaks volumes to me as well.

Edit: oops. Thought iso's post was in the Raw/SD thread. Oh well, I think my reply still fits here.

Surely they cant scrap the idea now?

It will be a sad day when I have to go back to watching grainy you tube clips

Vince needs to read this article and take some notes

http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles...adoption-rates

I've worried about that very thing happening from early on. Hopefully it doesn't have any legs.

Not at all. The sad thing is I actually try to care.

Apart from some cool kicks, KENTA's in ring debut was pretty average. He makes Justin Gabriel look big. Hopefully they can do something interesting with him but I've already seen people calling MEHNTA.

There were 22 posts from the start of RAW until 4am est in the viewing thread. Half of those were probably LKJ and then two others sharing the other 11. I don't think you're the only one.

That post count has to be an all time low for a RAW. It's especially bad because Lesnar was guaranteed to appear.

This would be especially bad since I didn't watch more than five minutes of Monday's show.

What's the source on that "news"? Seems like a lot of rumors and speculation.

Per Shoemaker, the Vince being forced out story is BS (or was when it came out a few months ago). Nobody owns enough of the stock to do that.

The Network being sold story that popped up last week appeared to be somebody without a clue misunderstanding a licensing deal.

Giving away Seth/Roman might be dumb- but the booking being dumb is hardly evidence of desperation.

I copied and pasted the whole thing into google and apparently it's originally from this - http://www.inquisitr.com/1480745/wwe...gles-continue/

If you look at the most popular and featured articles, it should give you an idea of what type of site it is.

Just two of them were me.

I'd love for them to give me a reason to watch, but mostly these days I'm just left to drop snark here and there when I see that thread bumped.

Got email saying wwen will now have ads

There is some guy on reddit that is selling WWE Network subs for $60 for an entire year through a gift subscription. YMMV, it could be some sort of scam but I fell for it regardless. Basically you can only activate it on an account that has an expired subscription (which I did). Then I paypal'd him $60. According to him (or her) they get the network at a discount because they work with some sponsor that gets discounts with WWE products, and the WWE Network 12 month gift subscription is included. 12 months for $60 is even better than 12 months for $120! If there's a potential for a scam here I'm not too sure what it could be, and I guess I could always reverse the paypal payment if something goes wrong

Me too, pretty disgusting

Would there be anyway to block ads on the Playstation app for On Demand content I wonder?

Id pay an extra $2 a month to avoid any ads if I could lol

Maybe thats their plan

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As long as they keep ads at the level they've said and don't start interrupting programs/shows with them, I don't really mind.

Im up to Wrestlemania 2 now on my consecutive timeline watch of network content

A few observations from shows thus far

* Lol at WCW commentators calling suplexs, suplays

* Lol at all the little titles on the line in WCW early ppvs eg mid atlantic heavy weight championship

* Crazy how much blood on these early WCW ppvs there actually was, almost every match on Starrcade 85 had blood and seemed legit brutal

* Lol at just how cartoony 1985 WWF was, how anyone could suspend their disbelief at the antics going on is insane

* Lol that kayfabe was kept to so diligently when storylines and shows were so ******edly unbelievable

* You can really see the different approaches between Jim Crockett and Vince Mcmahon shine through, Crockett more realistic/sportish where McMahon was going for cartoon violence entertainment

* The patrotism of 80s USA was out of control, and everyone should rewatch the Hulk Hogan Real American music video for lols (Its on the 2nd Saturday Nights Main Event in 1986)

Now time to struggle through Wrestlemania 2 ughhh