how did you watch ppv's back in the day?

[FromStLouis]

2 to 4 a year. Wrestlemania, Summer Slam, Bash At The Beach and maybe a random PPV now and then. Monday Night was always the next day anyway.

Which is why I say WWE should do weekday PPVs for RAW and Smackdown. You need Sundays for the 6-hour dual-brand shows but not for the Battlegrounds of the world. Take a week between PPV and Post-PPV. It's a smart move against the oversaturation of today's product.

 

[AKM-95]

I think it was great American Bash 99 but


My shyt was scrambled all night but that shyt went damn near 4K quaility for the 99 when Rick Steiner had those gotdamn dogs attack Sting backstage after the match

Fam, I just watched this for the first time in years and I about fell out my bed. WCW in 99/00 was so random

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

When I was real young I either had to do some chores and shyt and get that with my own money or beg my parents but that only worked for like WrestleMania or Starrcade.

Usually I had to wait for the VHS to come out

Later on we got a bootleg box and I was

After that I had a job and just bought them shyts until I stopped caring about the product.

Now I got the network of course

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

how far back you talking?

when you were a youth?

 

[JerseyBoy23]

Scramble Vision until 2003 then Streams. Eventually I got an after school job and ordered WrestleMania 25 with my hard earned cash because I didn't want to risk the stream dying on HBK/Taker.

 

[thenatural]

Cut grass for a few weeks until I could afford the 29.95 and called the number to buy it. Of course my pops was there with me.

Sidenote, I'll never forget I ordered SummerSlam '92 as a young pup. Pops was mad as shyt

 

[Jmare007]

With a 6 month delay on a Saturday, by the time chilean TV caught up with the product I was already watching via streams and lurking on SOHH

 

[NYChase718]

97 and 98 thru cablevision static


And in 98 the aftershow on home shopping network

Survivor series 98 corporate celebration wen rock won on home shopping network

 

[NYChase718]

We ate so fukking well during the MNW/RA era

I used to like watching boomerang old cartoons and wcw saturday night

 

[StarClout]

I used to like watching boomerang old cartoons and wcw saturday night

The Mothership

 

[Ben Ovabich]

When I was young we would randomly get PPVs for free because we had defective comcast boxes... Bash at the Beach 94 & Summerslam would randomly pop up on my screen..

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

With a 6 month delay on a Saturday, by the time chilean TV caught up with the product I was already watching via streams and lurking on SOHH

6 month delay?

 

[Jmare007]

6 month delay?

yup, most of the Attitude Era was shown with a big ass delay. RAW and SD were shown on the weekends on the international feed (1 hour each show aprox.). The internet wasn't accessible to most people till the early 00's so it wasn't as if we were filled with spoilers

 

[mannyrs13]

At first we had the black box. Used to get all the ppv channels and wrestling, as well as the channels which my little brother decided to tell my dad about this new channel we had discovered one random day. This was like around 98. A bit later, my dad got the hook up on the satellite dish cards and we ran with that for a while. I stopped watching shortly after the brand split. Except for random ppvs with a friend at a bar that showed them. When I got back into it years later I would watch it online. Firstrowsports was the go to. Then shortly after the network dropped and I got that the first day until earlier tonight when I cancelled it. I'll use kodi on a worst case scenario from now on.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Went to mh white Friend house