Hello SquaredCircle! Welcome to our Weekly Discussion Thread!
What have you watched lately? Seen any great matches? Have suggestions for things to watch? Anything not getting covered in other threads that ya wanna fill people in about? Questions about promotions, wrestlers, ‘the business’ or more?
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(Reminder, this thread can and will contain spoilers for possibly any show. Spoiler tags are not required in here, but if the show just happened try and keep spoiler talk it to its respective discussion thread for the first day).
i don’t know whether or not to make this it’s whole thread or not but it’s got be thinking; with all the talk about rights deals expiring for nxt, smackdown, and raw on various streaming services can we talk about how bad it is that one company owns close to the entirety of pro wrestling history, at least in america.
not even about the current shows but the whole wealth of history from nwa and the territories now at the whim of media companies and wwe who will pull it for cost reasons but also issue takedown notices for those who put clips up on youtube. it’s sad how much we have lost from this when digitisation should have been great for wrestling nostalgia.
Same thing applies to the whole entertainment industry. I was hoping the one up side in Disney and WD gobbling up other studios was going to be throwing everything they own on their respective streaming service. Instead they pull stuff to save a couple bucks on residuals and up their prices to butter up shareholders and make their CEOs feel like they have big peepees. I can’t wait until my kids are old enough to be trusted to pirate stuff without nuking the computer.
It could have been a whole thread, because I’m concerned once the Peacock deal ends, that the network idea is dead, that even more of the history is locked in some server in the WWE warehouse never to see the glow of a screen again.
This is why things like XWT are needed. If I had known one day I’d want those tapes back I’d never have gotten rid of them. We all may have to go back to tape trading, USB trading? some kind of trading if they put it all back in the vault.
Tell me about it (<sad Doctor Who noises>).
Worst is we’re also now well past the point where it’ll ever change for the better. At best we coulda maybe had Shane buy out Vince (and/or kill him lmao), take the company private and choose to do something altruistic with all their footage but now in a post-Vince WWE that shits going nowhere until the day TKO folds which is in our dreams.
the best thing you can do is utilize yt-dlp and archive your own when you can find it on youtube but even then. they don’t have everything. :/
yt-dlp
*reads comment while ripping 32 videos off the NHK website with yt-dlp* yup! lmao
For anyone who really loves to watch a ton of shit, this weekend seems to be loaded as fuck my dudes.
https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&view=cards
Noah/Defy/Progress, Bad Blood, Hoodslam, some NJPW, AAA and a ton of indies depending if people are local.
can you believe that jim cornette and eric bischoff were 100% wrong about aew’s tv deal?
We’re back with a special and riveting 83 Weeks… why WBD is wrong and this AEW deal is super bad for wrestling… with special guest commentator to talk about how shitty the IWC and AEW have always been… Jim Cornette… special shout out to sponsor Blue Chew! The official sponsor of Jericho Cruises and 83 Weeks!
Well that was a wonderful 3+ hours of my brand new 31 day old router taking a shit, refusing to respond, not allow any data transfer at all, refusal to properly reset, refusing to properly set up once I did, giving me numerous false positive results when troubleshooting and then after giving up hope and cosigning myself to heading out and buying a new one again before it suddenly, randomly starts working with zero issues and is as good as new.
Guess I’ll go post those 800 things I wanted to earlier now lmao
WWE Hall of Famer Pete Rose passes away at age 83
He doesn’t deserve a thread. Rest in piss.
At one point I thought it was stupid he wasn’t able to go in the HoF cause of gambling, in a world where MLB now advertises Draft Kings.
Then I learned like 12h ago that he’s also apparently a pedophile piece of shit so yeah fuck him lol.