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Damndirty 03-19-2012 10:53 AM

WWE Network, it was a good idea, but now a sign of fan-making failures.
 
I was really really excited to hear of the WWE Network, it's been a dream for me to have an all-wrestling channel. I waited... and waited... and waited... now the company acts like it never existed. WWE's been having a bad reputation with this lately; promising things that never happen, and promoting these promises almost every week, and then suddenly staying quiet about it. WCW did stuff like this before, perhaps... wrestling is just not a good enough trend to make enough money to keep what could have been money-making ideas going anymore. Suppose we could do something to add onto the network to help WWE, what kind of wrestling shows would you put on there?

Kane Knight 03-19-2012 11:04 AM

How is this not a St. Jimmy thread?

Damndirty 03-19-2012 11:08 AM

Because I'm not St. Jimmy.

Supreme Olajuwon 03-19-2012 11:08 AM

I thought the network launch just got delayed because they couldn't reach any deals with cable providers for the April launch. That doesn't sound like someone going back on a promise. That sounds like... um... a delay.

Damndirty 03-19-2012 11:10 AM

Yeah, but they don't even mention on TV anymore, which is why I am being skeptical. It's starting to remind me of that million dollar sweepstakes that WCW made before the death. The Brodus thing, though delayed, was mentioned on television afterwards, but the Jonah Hill thing died the moment the company knew it wasn't gonna happen.

Kane Knight 03-19-2012 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Damndirty (Post 3799987)
Yeah, but they don't even mention on TV anymore, which is why I am being skeptical. It's starting to remind me of that million dollar sweepstakes that WCW made before the death. The Brodus thing, though delayed, was mentioned on television afterwards, but the Jonah Hill thing died the moment the company knew it wasn't gonna happen.

Yeah, they should promote an uncertain release, because that wouldn't go wrong.

Damndirty 03-19-2012 11:31 AM

When they go all out and hype something like this as much as they have, it only makes them look like a company that doesn't even care if they have viewers, just that they're the top "wrestling" show.

Kane Knight 03-19-2012 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damndirty (Post 3799993)
When they go all out and hype something like this as much as they have, it only makes them look like a company that doesn't even care if they have viewers, just that they're the top "wrestling" show.

You mean, like always?

Damndirty 03-19-2012 11:52 AM

I don't see American Gladiators on television anymore.

Kane Knight 03-19-2012 12:10 PM

WWE is still on TV, though.

Schlomey 03-19-2012 12:22 PM

Vince obviously jumped the gun with the network commercial but so much had already leaked out it's not like he could just ignore it. Strike while the iron is hot. However it wasn't hot enough to be picked up by a cable provider..yet. It was smart of him to try while the fire was burning, in my opinion.

Damndirty 03-19-2012 12:31 PM

Thirty or so years strong, WWE is going, but many other shows have lasted longer and are now dead because people did not get into them anymore. I will admit that their live audience in the arena has quadrupled compared to what it was in 98, but as a "sport", the audience is laughable compared to football, baseball, and basketball, despite the fact that I myself can't sit there and watch those three sports. I want pro wrestling to survive, and I want it to be there forever, but I also understand that things I wanted to last forever just can't by any means.

Kane Knight 03-19-2012 12:41 PM

Wow, it's nothing compared to football? OMG that sounds bad.

A shame it's completely irrelevant to your ramblings.

James Steele 03-19-2012 01:08 PM

I saw a WWE Network commercial the other day, but it just said "2012" and not a certain month/date.

Rammsteinmad 03-19-2012 01:15 PM

I think they're waiting until they aquire the rights to air Chikara shows.

BizarroKing 03-19-2012 03:24 PM

They're saving up their money to buy out TNA so they can air Impact every weeknight.

XL 03-19-2012 03:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kane Knight (Post 3799982)
How is this <s>not</s> a <s>St. Jimmy</s> thread?


Kane Knight 03-19-2012 06:00 PM

XL also is right.

Indifferent Clox 03-19-2012 07:53 PM

As long as we are alive there will be people practicing pro wrestling. In some promotions you have the owners kids wrestling in matches by 14.

Its become a trade now. A trade a lot of people have invested in. Its captivated the world. It will always exist in some aspect foe the rest of our lives. It has always been a television staple.

CSL 03-19-2012 07:55 PM

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Kane Knight 03-19-2012 09:12 PM

By "promotions," he means "back yards."

Schlomey 03-20-2012 11:52 AM

and by back yards he means mid 20's fanboys who steal their mommas couch cushions.

Kane Knight 03-20-2012 12:02 PM

I have trouble believing anyone in Clox's "promotion" is more than 19.

Purgatory 03-20-2012 04:04 PM

Honestly, I hope the channel never materializes unless they'll be showing WCW Nitro and Thunder during the week. Then I might be excited

Kane Knight 03-20-2012 04:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Purgatory (Post 3801324)
Honestly, I hope the channel never materializes unless they'll be showing WCW Nitro and Thunder during the week. Then I might be excited

they'll run with with commentary about how inferior the product is.

Damndirty 03-26-2012 02:09 AM

Because, XL and Kane Knight, random bullshit is the trend of today, ya know! Wake up, you under-the-Rock-bastards!

Asmo 03-26-2012 02:47 PM

The only good thing that's come out of the Network so far has been it introducing me to Dubstep.

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Fignuts 03-26-2012 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damndirty (Post 3800047)
I will admit that their live audience in the arena has quadrupled compared to what it was in 98, but as a "sport", the audience is laughable compared to football, baseball, and basketball, despite the fact that I myself can't sit there and watch those three sports.

What the fuck does this have to do with anything?

DLVH84 03-26-2012 04:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BizarroKing (Post 3800240)
They're saving up their money to buy out TNA


That I wouldn't be surprised, if they did.

XL 03-26-2012 05:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damndirty (Post 3806067)
Because, XL and Kane Knight, random bullshit is the trend of today, ya know! Wake up, you under-the-Rock-bastards!

Slander!!

I have never, at any time, been under The Rock!

Damndirty 03-28-2012 06:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kane Knight (Post 3800053)
Wow, it's nothing compared to football? OMG that sounds bad.

A shame it's completely irrelevant to your ramblings.

If you're going to be a troll, at least be good at doing it, cuz I'm starting to think your hundreds of thousands of attempts at doing so proves you're a nobody and why I'm just going to do what everybody else on this site does and ignore you.

Damndirty 03-28-2012 07:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fignuts (Post 3806371)
What the fuck does this have to do with anything?

It means that it's not as popular as much as it is given credit for, and has shown in the past that it can be overshadowed by popular sports enough for people to quit tuning in, and in the mid 90s, it almost did go bankrupt, something I don't see happening with the major sports, which to this day, STILL overshadows professional wrestling. Personally, I don't like those sports, but billions of morons around the world apparently do, enough for for hundreds of thousands of fans in the audience to go to war with each other if they suspect their team not being treated fairly by the officials. In pro wrestling, people know it's staged and see no reason to start a big fight or protest over their favorite superstar losing, unless you're seeing a plant acting out. That's what the fuck it has to do with anything!

Damian Rey 03-30-2012 12:42 PM

Which pertains to the thread topic how? Thats what hes asking.

Big Vic 03-30-2012 02:02 PM

The WWE network should get TNA Impact on their channel when they can so they can legitimately own the competiton.


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