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TNA Total Access! What is it? TNA’s version of the WWE Network. Only available in UK/Ireland at the moment (it will be coming to more countries) £5 or €6/month What platforms? Android (Google Play), iOS (Apple Store), Apple TV, Amazon FireTV and your PC. Three screenshots from my phone put side by side. What do they have? The last 3 impacts, all the …
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Punk fought his first real fight last night. Quick Recap: Punk left WWE the night after Royal Rumble 2014, citing burnout, injury and not being booked/compensated as well as he felt he deserved. Amidst silence, he was suspended for 2 months and wasn’t really mentioned in WWE (as they expected to work things out, e.g. keeping him in the WWE/Flintstones movie). He was served …
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NXT Takeover Brooklyn II August 20, 2016 Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, New York Austin Aries vs. No Way Jose – Jose’s tee is “No Way -Jose”. That friggin’ hyphen. Does Jose say “No Way” a lot? 😛 I’m not a fan of his dance spot, it’s real house show gimmick and he got Aries to do it (at the Dublin house show anyway) …
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On June 22nd, WWE announced a WWE Network-exclusive new show, Cruiserweight Classic (CWC) that’ll air for 10 weeks every Wednesday after NXT, culminating with a live 2-hour special on September 14. A quick 3 weeks later, let’s see how their innoggeral episode went down! Format & Setup: 32 man single-elimination tournament. This week was 4 random 1st round matches. Filmed at Full Sail University …
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NXT Dublin 14 June 2016 Yo! Here’s a quick write-up about last night’s NXT event at the 3 Arena. Thanks to James at MCD who comp’d our tickets! I’m no good at numbers but probably 4,000 were at it — not being full was great as in general you could get in and out in a few minutes. WWE have a deal with Three so …
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Yo! Here are my thoughts on WWE’s latest and RAW the next night afterwards. Pre-amble is in italics, and credit WrestlingDailyNews for the gifs! PRE-SHOW: Dolph Ziggler vs Baron Corbin Mauro is calling it with Byron – it’s not news but it’s so great to hear him call moves and his general high quality commentary. Ziggles is the most overexposed wrestler on the roster, in that he’s …
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Continued from Part 1 Funaki, part of the Japanese announce team, botches his one line and the camera moves away. It was so hilarious, even funnier than if he got his “#1 announcer!” line correctly. JERICHO vs DEAN AMBROSE Jericho’s such an entertaining heel troll. He’s quite funny on Twitter. Love his douchey aging rockstar heel-garnering look of a long scarf and dinner jacket …
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Table For 3 is an edited roundtable conversation between 3 wrestlers. It’s shot and lighted very well with a documentary-style three-camera setup. The shots are always slightly panning and they splicey only a few seconds of relevant footage, which is a little jarring. This edition with Arn Anderson, Ric Flair and Tully Blanchard was recorded WrestleMania weekend. Interestingly, it’s Arn and not Flair …
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UR Fight (pronounced “your fight”) The Celebrity Theatre, Phoenix AZ 20 March 2016 An iPPV designed to promote the web-TV channel “URshow.tv”. It’s pitch was a broad nostalgia hodge-podge of worked pro-wrestling and shoot MMA/boxing bouts with older and/or disgraced personalities. Ken Shamrock was originally scheduled to fight Dan Severn (the match I was most looking forward to, that we never properly got …
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WWE Roadblock March 12th, 2016 Ricoh Coliseum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Isn’t it great to have a WWE live event on a Saturday? WWE decided to televise the Toronto house show, as they’re looking to increase their live content on the Network (and more reasons to subscribe) as they continue to move away from traditional PPV. It also serves as a stop-gap in storylines between …