WRASSLIN'! (let's talk wrestling here?)

TenderLovingKiller® said:
Live events are insane these days.
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It's madness.
If I could find anything $100 or less I wouldn't have hesitated for a moment, and probably could've talked myself into going as high as $150, but with travel and everything I'd be looking at over $300 to see a pay-per-view from a WWE that I don't even follow or have a favourite in. I'm sure the experience would be stellar either way, but that's just too much.
 
avecigrec said:
It's madness.
If I could find anything $100 or less I wouldn't have hesitated for a moment, and probably could've talked myself into going as high as $150, but with travel and everything I'd be looking at over $300 to see a pay-per-view from a WWE that I don't even follow or have a favourite in. I'm sure the experience would be stellar either way, but that's just too much.
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Yah, they start with really high prices then drop them as the show approaches. But it's a hot enough ticket right now that a lot of the shows are selling out at the higher price points.
 
avecigrec said:
Anybody else watch this yet, or plan to?

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i did. maybe for someone who hasn't followed as closely over the years as i have it was informative (and hopefully eye-opening), but there was nothing in here that hasn't been presented before in other avenues or that was surprising. it really felt like it was more a history of mcmahon's wwe than a history/exploration of mcmahon. it was worth watching, sure, especially for the vince interviews where he puts his own words to things we know of him from other people (that show just how strange and gross he is), but beyond that it wasn't much more than a basic history.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Nice! I haven’t looked if that is the same in the US. It was my understanding here was that all the PPV content new and old was gonna stay on Peacock.
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Interesting. I don't think we have Peacock up here, so that night be why we get the PPVs on Netflix. Either way, I'm friggin' stoked. Watched about 3/5 of OG WrestleMania last night for the first time in over 35 years.
 
avecigrec said:
Interesting. I don't think we have Peacock up here, so that night be why we get the PPVs on Netflix. Either way, I'm friggin' stoked. Watched about 3/5 of OG WrestleMania last night for the first time in over 35 years.
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Yeah, just checked and it’s still all on Peacock here.

Dude, it’s fantastic. During Covid I went through and watched all the WWF PPV up through 2000 then I watched all the PPV and many Nitro episodes for WCW from The Outsiders first appearance through 2000. I haven’t ventured to anything newer than that but I did just watch the Mr. McMahon Series on Netflix which was really interesting (who knew Vince was into poop play) and now, with football winding down I am getting the itch to dive back in.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, just checked and it’s still all on Peacock here.

Dude, it’s fantastic. During Covid I went through and watched all the WWF PPV up through 2000 then I watched all the PPV and many Nitro episodes for WCW from The Outsiders first appearance through 2000. I haven’t ventured to anything newer than that but I did just watch the Mr. McMahon Series on Netflix which was really interesting (who knew Vince was into poop play) and now, with football winding down I am getting the itch to dive back in.
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I remember your PPV revisit a bit. It was inspirational. I was tempted to jump right to the Invasion era stuff, which was the beginning of my last big dive into fandom, but it's great to go all the way back. I'm half tempted to jump straight from 1 to 40 just go get the biggest possible contrast in production, but imagine I'll wind up going year by year instead.
 
avecigrec said:
I remember your PPV revisit a bit. It was inspirational. I was tempted to jump right to the Invasion era stuff, which was the beginning of my last big dive into fandom, but it's great to go all the way back. I'm half tempted to jump straight from 1 to 40 just go get the biggest possible contrast in production, but imagine I'll wind up going year by year instead.
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It gets to be a bit much by the late 90s when they were running a PPV every month but the 80s and the beginning of the 90s it’s a pretty nice clip, Wrestlemania, Summerslam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble, the Big 4 are great fun and give you a nice time capsule from each era. Once the “In Our House” PPV start up, things get a bit dire for a worthwhile 3+ hours PPV. There are some awesome individual matches but you end up fast forwarding through a lot of stuff.
 
I think I may try some newer stuff this time but the McMahon doc glosses over much of the post attitude era as a bit less enthralling than what came before. Personally, the extreme misogyny of the late 90s is a bit much for me so I would look forward to less of that aspect. I wasn’t around for the rise of John Cena but to me his character seems really dorky, Eminem wannabe that will be tough for me to get behind but we will see.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, just checked and it’s still all on Peacock here.

Dude, it’s fantastic. During Covid I went through and watched all the WWF PPV up through 2000 then I watched all the PPV and many Nitro episodes for WCW from The Outsiders first appearance through 2000. I haven’t ventured to anything newer than that but I did just watch the Mr. McMahon Series on Netflix which was really interesting (who knew Vince was into poop play) and now, with football winding down I am getting the itch to dive back in.
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Yah on peacock til the end of 2025. Sad part is that Netflix will not be taking nearly as much as what peacock has, and peacock doesn't have nearly as much as the wwe network has.

Heck, when they launched the network they bought old tape libraries that they've never made available anywhere.

"Don't know what you got, til it's gone!"
 
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