Professional Wrestling (WWE, TNA, ROH, etc)

[Andrew]

WWE Network Available Internationally Next Month, In UK By October

The Company plans to make the U.S. version of WWE Network available on an over-the-top basis starting August 12th in over 170 countries and territories, including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, Spain and the Nordics, among others. The network is expected to be live in the U.K. by October 2014. Plans for the network in Italy, UAE, Germany, Japan, India, China, Thailand and Malaysia will be communicated at a later date.

[PepsiWithCoke]

Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse....

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[[Q]]

It rivals the artistic symphony that is the Right to Censor theme

[JaoSming]

It rivals the artistic symphony that is the Right to Censor theme

ah yes, the "let's see whats on WCW for a few minutes" theme

[Andrew]

That said, RTC was probably one of the better gimmicks that was created out of sheer spite.

[JaoSming]

enjoy h8rs

http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/c ... _volume_1/

TNA’s Initial Hardcore Justice event was opened with commentary by Tenay in which he said that they couldn’t use the term “ECW” due to copyright issues. The term “ECW” was used more than 7 times that night by Tenay, Taz and the talent.

TNA once featured a show that had 15 minutes of actual wrestling in it. To put that into perspective, that’s 5 minutes of wrestling, 40 minutes worth of promos, and 15 minutes of commercials each hour. Ironically, Hogan cut promo at the beginning of the show stating "this is the show that brings you more wrestling."

Eric Bischoff once forgot the name to the "Ultimate X" match, and dubbed it the "X Division" match.

[JaoSming]

http://imgur.com/a/T99yX gif recap of Wolves vs Hardys last week

And a WWE reply to the TNA thing above
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/c ... wwe_vol_1/
(nowhere near as good, just butthurt)

aaaand WCW
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/c ... _volume_1/
friggin gold

oh, and PGW
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/c ... pwg_vol_1/

[[Q]]

Dang that hardy wolves match looked pretty awesome

[JaoSming]

worth checking the whole match (and again Impact has been damn good the past couple weeks) http://watchwrestling.ch/tna/

but here are highlights via TNA themselves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GC_hDMfkMY

[PepsiWithCoke]

Heath Slater just pinned Seth Rollins.....

brb riding a flying pig.

[shadowgrin]

Was a shovel in sight?

[JaoSming]

he's on a winning streak i believe, won on Main Event over Tyson Kidd

[JaoSming]

wow, I really missed out on some of the good stuff from WCW, I really need to watch those docs
http://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/c ... _volume_2/

• They went a step further by having a funeral for Flair which, you'll not be surprised to hear, featured Kevin Nash coming out of Flair's casket and taking the WCW title which had just been handed to Jeff Jarrett. To make things worse, Nash had trouble getting out of the casket. That set up the following:
• Nash took on Jarrett to decide the vacant title. Russo ran in and Nash went to powerbomb him in the aisle. The Vampiro blood came down from the ceiling and MISSED AGAIN! Nash covered for this by moving into the blood, getting it on himself and Russo. For a reason never explained, the blood incapacitated Nash. Even more bizarre, it had no affect on Russo at all. Jarrett subsequently pinned Nash and won the title.
• As if the above wasn't bad enough, the title went to Nash on the following Thunder and then on the next edition of Nitro the title changed hands twice in one night. Within a week the title had gone from Jarrett to being vacant, to Jarrett to Nash. Then Nash gave the belt back to Flair who had never lost it and on the same night Flair lost the belt back to Jarrett. Confused? You're not the only one.

[Andrew]

I remember that from "The Death of WCW" by R.D. Reynolds and Bryan Alverez. Definitely a fun and interesting read.

[formx]

https://mobile.twitter.com/HeelWillMaho ... 68/photo/1

Apparently Smackdown is coming to Thursday nights I guess.

[PepsiWithCoke]

Wow, They really were serious about the budget cuts....

In a move that shocked everyone we've heard from, longtime WWE timekeeper and production worker Mark Yeaton was let go by WWE this week. Yeaton had been with the company for decades and his departure was described to me as a sign that "no one was safe" from the company cutbacks

[koberulz]

[formx]

So Del Rio kicks someone's ass and gets released lol.

[Andrew]

Looks like Albert Del Rio is gone, though the announcement on WWE.com was a little different than usual. Probably not a work, but it'll be interesting to get some more details on the situation.

[bowdown]

Damn is that Stephanie McMahon in the above pic? She looks very top heavy.

[[Q]]

Damn is that Stephanie McMahon in the above pic? She looks very top heavy.

She's always been top heavy since she got her boob job. I thought she looked way better before that

[Andrew]

Reports of Del Rio's backstage altercation are supposedly true, but apparently it wasn't The Miz.

Alberto Del Rio got into an altercation with someone on WWE’s website/social media staff at a recent television taping, which ultimately resulted in his release. As for why the company didn’t follow protocol by “wishing him the best in his future endeavors,” it’s because of nuclear backstage heat.

[koberulz]

So it's the afternoon of August 12th, and still no Network. Did someone in WWE forget that timezones are a thing? Or is the international launch some kind of hoax? There's a page buried in the Help section which mentions it, but there's no other information anywhere on the website at all.

Meanwhile, WWE apparently managed to get "Claire Lynch" to trend on Twitter. I'm not sure whether TNA should consider that to be a good thing or a bad thing.

[Andrew]

Probably a timezone thing. Hopefully a timezone thing. As I said before, I'm willing to give it a shot.

[koberulz]

It's also been August 12 in the US for three hours. The complete lack of information is not exactly encouraging. Attempting to sign up for the Network (why do I even have that button?) just takes me to a 'select your country to see how you can view SummerSlam' page, which for Australia lists only Foxtel and Optus. Nothing about the Network being available even 'soon', much less at a specific time.

Didn't the US version launch at 9AM or something like that? That'd be 9PM over here, which would be pretty pathetic but at least understandable. Although it'd also be 1AM August 13 in New Zealand.

And I'm assuming it'll be $9.99 US wherever you buy it from, but I'm basing that solely on the fact that there's nothing contradicting it, rather than the fact that they've given any pricing information whatsoever. The whole thing seems very rushed; if they'd had more subscribers in the US in time for their shareholder conference call I doubt it'd be available here until next year some time.

EDIT: Confirmed, 9AM Eastern US time, 11PM AEST, 1AM NZST tomorrow. Will cost an amount of money to be determined later. Unimpressive.