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 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 Dysartes wrote:

 Sigur wrote:
Oh, now that I think of it - anyone of you seen anything WWE on Netflix yet? For Germany/Austria (probably Switzerland too) we have to wait until bloody mid-2026 for that stuff, because until then the rights for broadcasting are with a private German TV company....

New content begins with the RAW on Monday, Siggy, but I'm given to understand that quite a bit of back-catalogue stuff may be up already.

Not sure when we'd get it in the UK either, off-hand, but as I don't have Netflix I haven't looked into it.

It's all up and being advertised pretty heavily on netflix in the UK. Not only the new stuff, but huge portions of the vault of raw, smackdown and PPVs.

Nice! I don't expect for it to have all the libraries and maybe do that dastardly thing streamers do to switch out the programming at a whim. But let's wait and see.

Okay, I'm on the Harley-Cameron-as-a-babyface-train now.

 Sigur wrote:
Okay, I'm on the Harley-Cameron-as-a-babyface-train now.

Same!

She's really leaned into it - full speed ahead!

Yup. And you can tell she's a proper lady by the fact that she can rap, but chooses not to. Take the rapping away, get her away from QT Marshal (and improve the in-ring stuff a bit, for which I'm sure QT Marshal is actually useful behind the scenes) and there ya go!

Julia Hart got really good (or good enough at the very least) as a wrestler, I'm sure they can do the same with Cameron, but for the lower midcard. I could very much see her become the R-Truth of AEW, and I mean that with great respect and sincerity.

Collision!

Toni Storm.

I know it is a bit of a spoiler, but quoted for truth and for the fact that it made me laugh out loud!

Pretty sure there was none, pretty sure that getting beat up kinda fills her Timeless Meter until she turns Timeless?

Good stuff!

 Alpharius wrote:
I know it is a bit of a spoiler, but quoted for truth and for the fact that it made me laugh out loud!

Pretty sure there was none, pretty sure that getting beat up kinda fills her Timeless Meter until she turns Timeless?

Good stuff!

Cheers.

It's interesting, Collision really is getting lots of attention and becomes a show one's gotta watch. Here are my great suggestions for Tony Khan for booking the women's roster:


"Dear Tony Khan,

Hope you're well. Get the tbs title on Yuka Sakazaki already, get Moné into the title picture, bonk Toni Storm on the head again so she goes back to be rock&roll, get the title off Maria and put it on Hikaru Shida, Amber Moon (yeah, Billie Starkz becomes RoH women's champion!) or Julia Hart. Can be a transitional champion, if they want they can put the title on Moné soon again, just give her a different theme song, less dancing, and get rid of the CEO thing.

Thanks, lots of love,
Sigur


P.S.: I couldn't help to notice that you didn't reply to my last e-mails. Please confirm that this is the correct adress."

Hi, erm, *checks notes*……..kids?

I’m back in the WWE saddle.

I fear I’ve missed the glory days of The Judgement Day, in the best possible way.

If I had to sum up Dirty Dom, and indeed his Judgement Day?

All mouth, no trousers.

It’s a good show like, but their incompetent villainy escalates it. Match started off a bit humdrum, but it was a trick!

They're a good stable of antagonists, aren't they. They're like Dark Elves (including the colour scheme, come to think of it), and thus perfect recurring, but ultimately self-sabotaging villains.

Speaking of Dom, the other day I watched the 2024 Royal Rumble on Youtube, it's on the WWE channel, with commentary by the Judgment day, R-Truth & Damien Priest, The NXT guy, and Bron Breakker. Bron Breakker seems to be a nice man and incredibly boring in his whole "I'm a professional company man" persona. Anyway, interesting to see the match again, and the commentary is funny, especially so Dom and R-Truth. The latter is a given, the former really shows how much Dom has grown over the past years.

I try to get back onto the WWE train, but somehow I just don't watch as much wrestling as I'd like to in general.

 Sigur wrote:
They're a good stable of antagonists, aren't they. They're like Dark Elves (including the colour scheme, come to think of it), and thus perfect recurring, but ultimately self-sabotaging villains.

Speaking of Dom, the other day I watched the 2024 Royal Rumble on Youtube, it's on the WWE channel, with commentary by the Judgment day, R-Truth & Damien Priest, The NXT guy, and Bron Breakker. Bron Breakker seems to be a nice man and incredibly boring in his whole "I'm a professional company man" persona. Anyway, interesting to see the match again, and the commentary is funny, especially so Dom and R-Truth. The latter is a given, the former really shows how much Dom has grown over the past years.

I try to get back onto the WWE train, but somehow I just don't watch as much wrestling as I'd like to in general.

The commentary by Drew was also pretty funny, especially his decision of when to leave and stop commentating on it.

Oh yes, CM Punk wasn't bad either. His character seems to be incredibly close to himself. With Drew you know he's always in character now, and masterfully and cleverly so, with Punk it seems like he's in character too, but it also seems like he just is that guy. But as for doing the whole "in character despite internet silliness" in 2025, Drew McIntyre and Dom are really, really good.

Royal Rumble!

Watched the women’s and the tag team match live.

Women’s Rumble was superb. Some treat names on show, and Alexa Bliss has returned. Lots of nonsense, and a nice way for me, on my return to viewing, to see some new names.

Tag Team Match was odd. I really enjoyed the wrestling, but the crowd didn’t seem to give much.

Also, entrance music that isn’t rock music doesn’t sound right to me.

Rhodes vs Owens. Love a good ladder match, and this was that! Both guys gave an excellent showing. Definitely top class wrasslers, who know how and when to really sell a squelching.


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Men’s Rumble was also fun.

But please, enough Logan Paul, yeah?

So far I watched the women's rumble, tag match and the Owens/Rhodes slaughterfest. Men's rumble tomorrow night.

Women's Rumble:


Tag Match


Rhodes/Owens LADDER match




about logan paul: As mentioned above, I Haven't watched the men's rumble, but I hope it's just 29 dudes kicking the snot out of this twerp.

Both rumbles felt pretty authentic to me. And I dunno if it’s just I’ve been away for so long I don’t know who’s hot, who’s tepid, and who’s simply making up numbers, but they felt like anyone’s match at the right times.

Them trying to book Charlotte Flair as a face is certainly a choice when the champions on all three brands are really loved at the moment and it seems people are still a bit bored of Charlotte instantly getting to step into main event scene whenever she comes back.

It's kinda like when Cena came back from injury way ahead of schedule. Gets a momentary pop before the audience remembers they were fed up of super-Cena booking and returned to boos. Or when Roman returned from his leukaemia treatment and got a warm welcome before things returned to the pre-Tribal Chief status quo of boos.

Well, Charlotte getting a title shot more or less upon return, and Charlotte getting the title isn’t necessarily the same thing.

Sure, we’ve precedent. But that was during t’dark times. I’d say there’s a decent likelihood she’ll be champ. Or, it’s a way for newcomers to know she’s a big deal (and a bloody good wrestler), so her Wrestlemania loss helps get her over as Face or Heel, whichever way they play it.

Charlotte can be a good worker, but she also has a habit of checking out of matches, and throwing an in-ring fit when she feels like it (see: vs Nia Jax, and/or the silly title swap segment with Becky).

There were a good handful of women in that match that deserved the win over her.

Let Charlotte come back after the Rumble, derust, work and lose some feuds, and then win the 2026 Rumble? I might've been OK with that.

Her teleporting back in and automatically getting the prize? No yeet.

I'm a-okay with that to be honest. She's at a level at which she shouldn't have to lose in a feud against say Bianca Belair or anybody else. They shouldn't use her much on TV until Wrestlemania, maybe a lovely singles match at Elimination ´Chamber, but I think that Alexa Bliss, Lyra Valkyria and others can carry the day-to-day in-ring and promo stuff.

Of course Charlotte gets a big pop on her return, but she's a natural heel, that's true.



Just finished watching the men's rumble.

I'm going to jump in on this talk. I used to watch WWF back in the mid 90's through to about 2004, around the time I graduated high school heh.

I haven't had cable or anything where WWE has been broadcast so this new thing where RAW is on Netflix seemed like a good way to catch up on stuff.

I tried to watch the first episode of RAW that aired on Netflix and I was like "..... this is boring". I'm personally used to RAW being 50 minutes long, 4-6 matches during the show. I THINK the first episode on netflix was close to 3 hours long? And only had 4 matches? I seriously counted the time that The Rock spent on screen before he started talking and it was like what.. 5 minutes? 10 minutes?

And while I didn't watch wrestling when it was the era of John Cena, I know who he is because of the pop culture bleed, but I don't know who this Roman Rains guy is. His story seemed kinda boring to me. I saw they mentioned he had "the most wins ever" as a champion or something like that, and that doesn't make for an exciting story if you know the guy is going to win every match.

There's just so many pacing problems going on. I don't know if I'm going to watch any more of the new episodes of RAW.

One thin I did enjoy was I saw there's old archived RAW episodes available to watch, I have watched three of the first episodes of RAW that are available on Netflix. I got more action and excitement in a 50 minute episode of the archived RAW episode than I got from the new episode, so I think I will keep watching those.

What I hope will happen is that more of the archive becomes available on Netflix, like the golden age from the 80's, and everything from the 90's, and I hope they put out the NCW Archive? The alternative wrestling company that Macho Man and others who quit the WWF joined. That dominated over the WWF for many years, and it was eventually purchased by the WWE, so they could show the archive of those episodes and it would be excellent.

I also hope they make the PPV event archive available on netflix.

EDIT: WCW, that's what I was thinking of, man it'd be great to have that on netflix.

They had all of that on their own streaming service. IIRC rumours are that eventually WWE will slap a bunch of their own stuff onto Netflix as well (but knowing streaming services it'll be made available and taken down again at a whim, so very unreliable), but not anything by other brands, even if WWE own the video libraries. WWE right now is on a major high again since HHH took over. The way he and his people book shows is very different, (most of all PPVs), but very effective. Very much story-focussed though. Especially that first Netflix episode was meant to introduce new or lapsed fans to the product, so I think after that you'll probably see more matches again and be shown why somebody might be impressive rather than being told why they might be impressive.

Checking out WWE's Vault Youtube channel might be worth a look; I hear they currently put lots of old stuff on there for free.



It might be worth checking alternatives to WWE, if you prefer more matches, like AEW, New Japan Pro Wrestling, TNA or GCW. There currently is a huge array of televised wrestling to choose from.

Charlotte made an appearance on NXT last night, confronting Bayley, Roxanne Perez and NXT Champion Guilia. Worth a watch if you can find it online somewhere. Also...

‘WWE Evolve’: WWE and Tubi Launch Wednesday Night Wrestling Program to Highlight New Talent - Variety

For the future of wrestling, WWE is looking to the past. WWE and Tubi announced the launch of a new weekly wrestling show, “WWE Evolve” which will premiere Wednesday March 5, at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. “Evolve” gets its name from the defunct wrestling promotion Evolve, which was purchased by WWE in 2020 following a five-year partnership.

“WWE Evolve” relaunches as a showcase of in-ring action for up-and-coming WWE prospects, including talent from the recently established WWE ID program, a developmental program that works to provide indie wrestlers a more seamless transition to WWE.

So NXT when NXT was NXT, before it became NXT?

Excellent. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, when I first got WWE Network, it was NXT that really appealed to me. Smaller crowds, talent hungry for the opportunity.

BanjoJohn wrote:
I'm going to jump in on this talk. I used to watch WWF back in the mid 90's through to about 2004, around the time I graduated high school heh.

I haven't had cable or anything where WWE has been broadcast so this new thing where RAW is on Netflix seemed like a good way to catch up on stuff.

I tried to watch the first episode of RAW that aired on Netflix and I was like "..... this is boring". I'm personally used to RAW being 50 minutes long, 4-6 matches during the show. I THINK the first episode on netflix was close to 3 hours long? And only had 4 matches? I seriously counted the time that The Rock spent on screen before he started talking and it was like what.. 5 minutes? 10 minutes?

I've admittedly been watching Professional Wrestling for a long (long!) time, but was RAW ever only an hour long?

I'll also admit that there are pacing issues at times these days, but they 'need' to pump out the content (per their contracts, I'm sure!), but yeah, most wrestling weekly shows probably should max out at 2 hours.

 Alpharius wrote:

BanjoJohn wrote:
I'm going to jump in on this talk. I used to watch WWF back in the mid 90's through to about 2004, around the time I graduated high school heh.

I haven't had cable or anything where WWE has been broadcast so this new thing where RAW is on Netflix seemed like a good way to catch up on stuff.

I tried to watch the first episode of RAW that aired on Netflix and I was like "..... this is boring". I'm personally used to RAW being 50 minutes long, 4-6 matches during the show. I THINK the first episode on netflix was close to 3 hours long? And only had 4 matches? I seriously counted the time that The Rock spent on screen before he started talking and it was like what.. 5 minutes? 10 minutes?

I've admittedly been watching Professional Wrestling for a long (long!) time, but was RAW ever only an hour long?

I'll also admit that there are pacing issues at times these days, but they 'need' to pump out the content (per their contracts, I'm sure!), but yeah, most wrestling weekly shows probably should max out at 2 hours.

raw has been at least two hours for my entire lifetime, but back before the attitude era, it was a single hour

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
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Excellent. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, when I first got WWE Network, it was NXT that really appealed to me. Smaller crowds, talent hungry for the opportunity.

It's also extremely interesting to see newer wrestlers learn fundamentals and get better in the ring. Extremely refreshing if the alternative is watching trained-to-perfection WWE style wrestling.


Just a shame nobody's got the time to watch indie wrestling with all that stuff around now.

Hopefully this time we won’t see promising new talent in NXT utterly wasted on RAW or Smackdown.

HHH knows his onions, and if memory serves was the power behind NXT’s throne. So I’ve hope!

 Ghaz wrote:
Charlotte made an appearance on NXT last night, confronting Bayley, Roxanne Perez and NXT Champion Guilia. Worth a watch if you can find it online somewhere. Also...

It's probably not the whole thing, but there's at least a partial clip of it on the WWE page for that episode of NXT.

 Alpharius wrote:

BanjoJohn wrote:
I'm going to jump in on this talk. I used to watch WWF back in the mid 90's through to about 2004, around the time I graduated high school heh.

I haven't had cable or anything where WWE has been broadcast so this new thing where RAW is on Netflix seemed like a good way to catch up on stuff.

I tried to watch the first episode of RAW that aired on Netflix and I was like "..... this is boring". I'm personally used to RAW being 50 minutes long, 4-6 matches during the show. I THINK the first episode on netflix was close to 3 hours long? And only had 4 matches? I seriously counted the time that The Rock spent on screen before he started talking and it was like what.. 5 minutes? 10 minutes?

I've admittedly been watching Professional Wrestling for a long (long!) time, but was RAW ever only an hour long?

I'll also admit that there are pacing issues at times these days, but they 'need' to pump out the content (per their contracts, I'm sure!), but yeah, most wrestling weekly shows probably should max out at 2 hours.

Looks like around 1996 is when they switched to 2 hours, but man, watching these 1 hour long archive RAW episodes on netflix makes me think they should have stayed at 1 hour.

I just realized that the reason I don't remember 1 hour RAW was that was the period of time I gave up on Wrestling - I picked it back up after moving to California in...1997!

The more you know - and thanks for the history lesson!

BanjoJohn wrote:

What I hope will happen is that more of the archive becomes available on Netflix, like the golden age from the 80's, and everything from the 90's, and I hope they put out the NCW Archive? The alternative wrestling company that Macho Man and others who quit the WWF joined. That dominated over the WWF for many years, and it was eventually purchased by the WWE, so they could show the archive of those episodes and it would be excellent.

The whole back catalog is available on Peacock in the USA.