Does Anyone Watch Wrestling? (WWE, AEW, TNA, NWA, etc)

[m8h3r]

According to a lot of sites it's because in the UK Sky have the rights to PPV distribution throughout 2014 and 2015. WWE Signed that contract and they have to stick by it or BskyB would rightly sue them and it would be a no brainer for any court.

Which basically means if they want to launch within the next year in the UK they'll probably have to go through Sky, unfortunately.

 

[Liquid]

Rupert Murdoch:

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Great Raw last night I thought with a fantastic ending, best ending to a Raw show this IMO!

Is the Network live in the UK yet?, I know there was a delay last night which meant everyone missed Rusev winning the US title after the show..

 

[m8h3r]

I feel as though we'll be getting another lengthy delay.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Until further notice I've just read online because of on-going negotiations with Sky, WWE are on tour in the UK next week, I hope they don't do the '9.99' thing if we haven't had it by then as it wont go down well...

 

[m8h3r]

"You can get the network for just! ..........you suck vince....."

 

[Sanji Himura]

Randy Orton off to Hollywood for the next month. Orton was "injured" on RAW last night to film The Condemned 2 for WWE Films. This marks the second consecutive time that a talent was written off programming for filming by Seth Rollins (the first being Dean Ambrose).

Orton is expected to miss Survivor Series and WWE's upcoming European tour as a result.

 

[GTPVenomZombie]

Randy Orton off to Hollywood for the next month. Orton was "injured" on RAW last night to film The Condemned 2 for WWE Films. This marks the second consecutive time that a talent was written off programming for filming by Seth Rollins (the first being Dean Ambrose).

Orton is expected to miss Survivor Series and WWE's upcoming European tour as a result.

Aw man, was looking forward to watching Y2J vs Orton.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Orton might come back for one night at Survivor Series...

 

[MUSC4EVER]

So the European tour is well under way, they were at Wembley Arena last night, in Cardiff tonight and The Miz gave a live interview with Sky Sports News earlier..

 

[GTPVenomZombie]

Seth Rollins all the way. I hope his team wins at Survivor Series. I`m with the authority.

 

[m8h3r]

Strong rumours now that the network will be a Sky channel.

Bad move WWE. You can expect maybe a 50,000 subscriber bump. Not much more though, however the actual full network I'd expect maybe 200,000-300,000 bump.

 

[Liquid]

A Sky channel and therefore not an on demand service?

BULL:censored:! BULL:censored:! BULL:censored:!

As for the real reason the Network has been delayed:

Aw, son of a..

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Raw was from Liverpool last night and was pretty good, two more matches added for Survivor Series which is in two weeks and the teams for the main event tag team elimination match are more or less decided..

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

I have a feeling the authority is going to loose at SS.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

There were loud 'Where's Our Network?' chants last night, the show was filmed in the afternoon and broadcast at its usual time last night both in the States and here so it gave them time to edit the chants out which they did to an extent but you could still hear them during some of the promos, atmosphere was fantastic!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

So a few bits of news then, The Great Khali and Brad Maddox have both been released and its no surprise to see them both go, a few more might be released this week

Former German International Goalkeeper Tim Wiese made and an in-ring appearance for the WWE at a show in Germany as part of the Europe tour, he got involved in the Usos/Gold and Stardust feud

Grumpy Cat will be the guest star on Raw tomorrow, I'm not kidding....a cat will be a guest star!!

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Enjoyed Raw last night, the teams are confirmed for the Survivor Series main event and another match has been added for it, also a new IC champ was crowned last night

Grumpy Cat was pretty good despite the fact he didn't do anything, I liked the fact he had his eyes closed most of the time, says a lot for the WWE product these days!

 

[m8h3r]

Was surprised by the title changing hands. You'd never see the WHC or the WWE title change like that, maybe that's why the secondary titles are thought of as that, secondary.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

The only thing I didn't like about RAW was the crowd. That was one of the worst that I saw.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Completely agree, so quiet, very few chants..

 

[Ken]

Oh god. An inter species match had been added to Summer Slam. Adam Rose and the The Bunny vs. Tyson Kidd and Natalya.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

They have added another Divas match as well I believe..

 

[Danny]

They have added another Divas match as well I believe..

They have and it's a bizarre booking. Alicia is apparently now Face and Summer Rae and Layla are apparently now Heels. With zero explanation.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Maybe Alicia is now a face because Paige Attacked her some weeks ago....and Paige is a heel..

This match reminds of a tweet Jim Ross once sent out a little while ago, saying that matches that are put together without any explanation or back story to it are the most challenging to commentate on....he's got a point I think..

 

[Danny]

Maybe Alicia is now a face because Paige Attacked her some weeks ago....and Paige is a heel..

But they've literally spent most of the year building her up as a psycho-heel. I hoped when she was being aligned with Paige it'd be the push she's deserved for a long time...but no. They did a similar thing with Rosa, but no-one really cares enough.

The creative team can be so infuriating, sometimes.

 

[Ken]

The creative team can be so infuriating, sometimes.

Sometimes? All the time! Nothing really makes sense anymore except the horrible Authority storyline. That only makes sense because it's been done so many times before.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

So this is where Sting has been hiding.

 

[Liquid]

TNA has been picked up by some channel nobody watches.

 

[Ken]

Destination America