YouTube has blackballed WCPW; can no longer stream on YouTube

[John Reena]

Live stream on Twitch. I seriously don't understand why wrestling promotions can't cash in on the Twitch hype. The damn site has live streams of dudes eating food. Wrestling promotions would fit right in like a glove.

You'd think 99% of these Feds would have SOMEBODY who would clue them in on this.

 

[Rack4K]

Y'all don't see the bigger picture of wrestling-related content getting no ad revenue over your hatred for indie wrestling or What Culture?

As long as daddy Vince gives them mediocre television several times every week, they're satisfied. These are WWE fans, not wrestling fans.

 

[THEREALBRAND]

Where does it say that wrestling can't be monetized? It seems like this particular channel has been affected, and they're trying to paint it as YouTube vs wrestling to get support.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

I didn't even know What Culture had its own promotion until now.

*edit: I just googled and this came up...

Windy City Pro Wrestling

windy city pro wrestling used to be lit

rvd and some other ecw members used to pop up on there sometimes

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

As a young cub growing up in Chicago I used to follow WCPW. It used to be called WCW (Windy City Wrestling) which threw me and others off when you found it on channel 25 (I think). Christopher Daniels, RVD and a couple of others stopped through. Decent to solid regional fed.

yeah it was either 25 or 23
i remember rvd being on there a lot

 

[TheGodling]

windy city pro wrestling used to be lit

rvd and some other members used to pop up on there sometimes

I never heard of it, I just think it's hilarious that's the Google highlight for WCPW.

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

That poor kid Dalyxman or whatever the fukk his name is probably ready to commit that since wrestling is able to be monetized anymore

Dude is 26 and looks 40

Ugly ass nikka but i did subscribe years back

 

[AquaCityBoy]

As long as daddy Vince gives them mediocre television several times every week, they're satisfied. These are WWE fans, not wrestling fans.

The funny thing is most of them gladly boast about how they barely even watch WWE, so I don't know why they even care about this.

 

[rabbitfood]

How many other wrestling companies have talked of being demonetized? I've heard nothing about the international ones, WWE, Impact etc.

Also, can't say I'd feel sorry for Bruce Blitz and some of the wack cats like him or those "YouTube Shooters" catching strays. (Don't ask me how)

 

[DoubleJ13]

Where does it say that wrestling can't be monetized? It seems like this particular channel has been affected, and they're trying to paint it as YouTube vs wrestling to get support.

Wrestling got it for the violence. Other indies caught it too like Beyond & AIW, WCPW is the one that decided to go about it by publicly poking at YouTube. WWE still has the ads because they have a deal with YouTube.

 

[Konnan]

Wrestling got it for the violence. Other indies caught it too like Beyond & AIW, WCPW is the one that decided to go about it by publicly poking at YouTube. WWE still has the ads because they have a deal with YouTube.

Im sure youtube is shook that WCPW is going at them










:loljordan:

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Where does it say that wrestling can't be monetized? It seems like this particular channel has been affected, and they're trying to paint it as YouTube vs wrestling to get support.

Another promotion called Beyond Wrestling has complained about the lack of ad revenue and a lot of wrestling reviewers / podcasters have been affected as well.

Wrestling is on the restricted part of YouTube except for WWE and maybe TNA.

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

Man the wwe providing so much for us with the network we good.

LU is the only viable option truthfully.

 

[mrken12]

WCPW Appeals YouTube, Full 'Fight Back' Show Back On Their Site - WrestlingInc.com

As noted previously, this year on YouTube there have been some controversial videos regarding social relations that has caused large advertisers to back away from the site. This has also forced YouTube to be much more strict on their viewing restrictions, which includes pro wrestling. This change in policy has severely hurt revenue streams for independent promotions, causing some to adjust their plans going forward. In May, WCPW was forced to cancel a number of their upcoming Loaded shows due to these changes.



Their most recent show was entitled Fight Back and used a logo similar to YouTube's logo. WCPW ended up receiving a "Strike" on their account and YouTube also took down the full Fight Back show over the weekend. In response, WCPW released a video of WCPW General Manager, Adam Blampied, giving a passionate speech about what has been going on and how wrestling brings people together. The video has been seen over 136,000 times and it looks like YouTube took notice. Via Blampied's Twitter:




YouTube returned the full event to its website, while also removing the "Strike" they gave to WCPW. The full event can be seen at the top of the article

 

[Vinny Lupton]

They saw how they treated the Maharaja, realized how powerful he was, then YouTube made that move

The Maharaja had all the IT tech support in the motherland ready to DDoS attack YT.

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