Does the WWE Network carry these old shows?
- Thread starter Black White Sox Hat
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No, they really need to carry wrestling challenge
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Not yet but there's a couple of Piff Youtube channels that do along with WCW Saturday Night and Worldwide
Superstars WAS the main show for many years. There was a time when cable was looked at like
. Syndication was more prestigious than cable back in those times. Superstars didn't become a jobber show until after Raw started and probably completely fell off by 1996. It used to have major angles.There's so many shows they don't acknowledge on the network right now. Superstars, Challenge, Action Zone, All-American Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, WCW Main Event, WCW World Wide Wrestling/WorldWide, WCW Power Hour... They all have degrees of relevancy, but all would be fun to watch again. They definitely need Superstars and Saturday Night. They were the A-shows at one point for each company. My guess is they view all these old rasslin shows as small-time shyt and they are a very low priority for getting uploaded compared to garbage like Ride Along and Holy Foley.
yep. Most likely.
That and Vince having a low priority for WCW.
I do wonder how much it costs to digitally host all this content. I doubt it's a free endless supply of space. But I bet if the Network had another million or so subscribers the voices would be louder and more effective at getting things added
JerseyBoy23
Veteran
Nah I don't think they're putting up any of the syndication shows
They might put Saturday Night up cause it came on nationally but I remember Meltzer or Mike Johnson saying that the syndication shows would be bare bones without the local promos they put in. The shows they put up would just be squash after squash basically.
Ironically all the tape libraries they've taken over the years are filled with syndicated programming.
Superstars WAS the main show for many years. There was a time when cable was looked at like
There's so many shows they don't acknowledge on the network right now. Superstars, Challenge, Action Zone, All-American Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, WCW Main Event, WCW World Wide Wrestling/WorldWide, WCW Power Hour... They all have degrees of relevancy, but all would be fun to watch again. They definitely need Superstars and Saturday Night. They were the A-shows at one point for each company. My guess is they view all these old rasslin shows as small-time shyt and they are a very low priority for getting uploaded.
They might put Saturday Night up cause it came on nationally but I remember Meltzer or Mike Johnson saying that the syndication shows would be bare bones without the local promos they put in. The shows they put up would just be squash after squash basically.
Ironically all the tape libraries they've taken over the years are filled with syndicated programming.
Well they've already digitally converted/uploaded a lot of these shows before during the WWE 24/7 years. I don't see why they can't just switch them over to the Network.
yep. Most likely.
That and Vince having a low priority for WCW.
I do wonder how much it costs to digitally host all this content. I doubt it's a free endless supply of space. But I bet if the Network had another million or so subscribers the voices would be louder and more effective at getting things added
I call bullshyt on that. Even Bruce Prichard has said on his podcast he doesn't understand why the shows aren't there. I don't remember there being enough local promos that would strip the show bare. Plenty of interview segments (Heartbreak Hotel, Brother Love Show, Barber Shop, Piper's Pit, Funeral Parlor, etc.) and angles to make Superstars worthy, which is the only syndicated show we're talking about. Challenge, Action Zone, All-American Wrestling, etc were all on USA.
NYChase718
Veteran
Superstars i remember coming on at like 1pm on fox 5 saturdays
Bob Loblaw
Superstar
Superstars WAS the main show for many years. There was a time when cable was looked at like
There's so many shows they don't acknowledge on the network right now. Superstars, Challenge, Action Zone, All-American Wrestling, WCW Saturday Night, WCW Main Event, WCW World Wide Wrestling/WorldWide, WCW Power Hour... They all have degrees of relevancy, but all would be fun to watch again. They definitely need Superstars and Saturday Night. They were the A-shows at one point for each company. My guess is they view all these old rasslin shows as small-time shyt and they are a very low priority for getting uploaded compared to garbage like Ride Along and Holy Foley.
Holly foley. It seems that way but They upload different vintage shyt every month, mega drops of like 2-3 years at a time. The only thing that was high priority was getting all of the raw and smackdown up. We'll see these shows any month now because Raw and Smackdown are done. They dropped 60 episodes of Midsouth last month and three years of prime time wrestling last month. They'll get to all this shyt breh 
El Poyo Loco
Akrassikauda = Black Scorpion
Right after cartoons.
This is where Vince fukked up once he went back to PG programming. Superstars should be on NBC or USA as a weekly highlight show with the matches they have on now at the same 12/1pm timeslot.
Superstars is already taped. Those dark matches the main event guys have could be for Superstars like it was back then.