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I should have been clearer. It doesn't seem to have met their expectations outside of Japan.
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March Wrasslin' |OT| Forecast for Wrestlemania...cloudy with a heavy chance of Reigns
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I should have been clearer. It doesn't seem to have met their expectations outside of Japan.
Yeah I figure that
. You got to factor in the demographic that's actually a fan of NWA and majority of those people probably don't even care for streaming, while that certain percentage would jump on the service. The only way the idea would succeed if there was a online wrestling distributor that''ll be like 'fuck it, I'm creating an all wrestling stream", where indy promotions and historic promotions like NWA put their videos on demand for hardcore wrestling fans to view. It would be glorious but unrealistic. This is why I miss territories because there was a unity despite egos being in the way.
avengers23
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Given the time difference, I wouldn't be able to watch the PPVs live anyway, so a delay doesn't hurt that much. It still beats the old days when you weren't sure you could see the shows at all.
If I could quickly photoshop a tear on your avatar...
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Yeah I figure that
It would be glorious but unrealistic. This is why I miss territories because there was a unity despite egos being in the way.
I wonder what laws are in place that you can't be a middleman business that sells the "ultimate wrestling pass" and signs people up for all of them, adds $5 on it so they don't have to manage it (and so you get paid) and keep people with access to everything out there.
I think they announced they had 20k subscribers a month ago. So if they want 30k in a year they seem well on track.
avengers23
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That's the one thing I wish Landis's "Wrestling Isn't Wrestling" had covered: how Triple H became the darling favorite through NXT.
Yep, I wish Landis would have hit upon HHH vs Punk and HHH running NXT
You'd think a dude's legs would get huge just from hauling around a heavy 7-ft skeleton, heh.
admitting to piracy? i'm watching you, friend
I'm not entirely sure it's piracy when you can't have legal access to whatever it is you're pirating.
How can you steal something that technically doesn't exist where you are, you know?
I do, in fact, pay for everything I can come to think of it. I sub to Hulu, Netflix, the WWE Network, NJPW World and a Dutch Pay-TV sports channel for Formula 1 too.
The big drawback of all these online services is that they're fractured. UFC for the first time ever had a PPV on Dutch TV last weekend, but it was on another Dutch Pay-TV sports channel than the one that has the F1 rights, that's a bitch.
I am waiting for the ISP's and content providers to get their act together and offer a flat fee access to online streaming services (preferably worldwide), like cable packages are now, basically. Maybe something where you can pick 10 "interests" and get those services for a flat fee and not the rest you're not interested in.
Anything really that avoids spending money on 100 different subs to watch the shit you like would be good.
Smash Wrestling also launched a streaming service for their content. It's $7.49 but they usually have one show a month and not much in the way of a back catalog so I don't think its really worth it. Its cool to see them being ambitious, but they don't have the content to justify it right now. If they could band together with some other indies and use it as a catch all service it would be a lot more attractive.
¡HarlequinPanic!
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augh @ talk is jericho's friend "Speewee".
What a total douche,
guess I can see why jericho likes him~
What a total douche,
guess I can see why jericho likes him~
Mr. Luchador
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NJPW World added Paypal payments yet?
Heel Trailer - Wrestlemania 31 - this one's great.
This is the dream, but it will never happen. Everyone would rather compete for your $10 than partner up for a service and maybe get $3 each from more people, which is a shame.
Straight Outta Blackpool should have happened.
Fat Mysterio is genius.
All of this is genius.
StevieWhite
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Adam Bomb was the secret best wrestler of the new generation era.
https://youtu.be/WYstra7gNm4
I miss old school Superstars.
https://youtu.be/WYstra7gNm4
I miss old school Superstars.
StevieWhite
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My dream is for wifi to be country wide. Philly was supposed to do that a long time ago but the mayor backed down from the decision.
I was on Philly's "citywide" wifi network back when I fist moved here in 2007. It was absolutely atrocious. I, for one, appreciate all our corporate overlords at Comcast have done for us.
:/ :/ Comcast.
I always wanted to use their service until I moved to Savannah and discovered a thing called bandwidth caps.
Fuck them greedy asses.
I kinda miss Rick Rude.
You could never ever have this kind of a setup today. Every dickhead smark within earshot would be trying to hockey chant into the mic and take swings at Rick. It's a shame, because this is a basic-ass storyline that needed five minutes to set up and they were off from there.
You could never ever have this kind of a setup today. Every dickhead smark within earshot would be trying to hockey chant into the mic and take swings at Rick. It's a shame, because this is a basic-ass storyline that needed five minutes to set up and they were off from there.
Host Samurai
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Is TNA in the North East right now? Because I'm 99% sure I matched up with Brook Tessmacher on Tinder and have been talking to her. I'll post pics when I get home. I hope it's not a catfish
lovely ladies
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She called it quits with the dude from TNA? They were on Amazing Race together.
British Monsoon
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Check out these cards for some of the master tapes Tharpe-des has for NWA Classics;
Everything's small-time compared to WWE, so...?
Everything's small-time compared to WWE, so...?
$7.49 for Smash Wrestling when ROH's Ringside Membership is about $5 a month and includes a good amount of content in the VOD section? Yeeeaaaah. Mind you, ROH doesn't provide their latest shows for free, but puts them up about a year later.
I'd be hitting the $5 a month mark if I were an indy for back catalogs and the latest shows.
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Wow. I'm dying to see these now. Fuck, those look incredible.
So many giffable kids' faces during his ring entrance.
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um...guys...a Dreamcast theme for the 3ds is coming?
um...guys...a Dreamcast theme for the 3ds is coming?
meh...waiting for my Sega Saturn themed Vita.
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Ah, the "Failed Systems Collection"
British Monsoon
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Nope, these are from Paul Boesch's Houston promotion, whereas Jim has a ton of rare Mid-Atlantic tapes;
http://jimcornette.com//store/mid-atlantic-wrestling-films-lost-classics
Fuck, every time I look at that page I get tempted. Hnnnggg, goddamnit.
lovely ladies
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um...guys...a Dreamcast theme for the 3ds is coming?
That mock disc read noise the theme plays might be one of the greatest things ever.
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I think fan wise, the best thing to do for these is sign up for a month, binge on what you want, then cancel and re-up when there's a decent backlog to get through.
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Oh are you fucking serious they have the disc read noise?!
I'm buying this fucking cunt of a theme
aye...Sega Saturn was far from a fail...it was misunderstood and came out at a time when Sega was going bat shit crazy.
Saturn>>>>>PS1.
provided it makes it over here, which it probably won't
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Saturn > PS1
Dreamcast > PS2
Sega always had the upper hand. But the plebs wanted their shitty Sony brand.
This was splendid. Thank you. Between this and Wrestling Isn't Wrestling, my faith in the creative powers of wrestling fans has certainly grown.
I wonder if Sega would have came out with a superior handheld to compete against the psp if they were still in the hardware business...
wife is going to kill me if I buy another gaming related purchase...fuck!
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true on all counts, but the look!
Stu Stone's great. i think he turned babyface sometime recently though, which is pretty weird. he was still doing distractions and stuff but both times it costed his dudes the match, so that was probably the point.
As an ROH fan, I'd pay $10 bucks a month if they gave me their entire back catalog and the monthly shows. Right now, I'm paying $60 a year for a decent chunk of their back catalog and some extra discounts on shirts and things that I'm not really using...so I'm basically paying the $60 to watch old stuff on VOD, which isn't a bad deal. I just wish there was more of it.