The good old days

[Riley Escobar]

Brutha comes in here reminiscing about better days, tells no lies, and y'all attack him like a pack o' dawgs!

Damn right, @channelblond those were better days.

I'm from the same country and fukking CITY as TS as well but we never had cable so I had no clue

All we got regularly on basic TV was Nitro and Thunder (1999/2000 WCW no less) on a Friday night and an edited Sunday Night Heat on Sunday afternoons

 

[Riley Escobar]

That year they had the Rumble live on Channel 4 for free, though

First PPV I ever watched and still my favourite, still got the Channel 4 VHS recording somewhere

Mae Young getting her t*ts out ruined everything though as they got out of the contract ASAP after that

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I'm from the same country and fukking CITY as TS as well but we never had cable so I had no clue

All we got regularly on basic TV was Nitro and Thunder (1999/2000 WCW no less) on a Friday night and an edited Sunday Night Heat on Sunday afternoons

Sounds like a 4 course meal, when at the start of the 90's on free TV, all there was WCW worldwide, which varied on times but was between 1-5am on a Sunday morning. Then ITV became bit more generous in 93-95 and put WCW worldwide during 1-4pm Saturday afternoon slot to which Co insider with Thunder in Paradise and Seaquest. I didn't get satellite TV till 95.

 

[Beautiful Bobby Eatin]

Friday Night Raw


Kingdom Rumble was the GOAT gimmick match, now they've watered down so much

LuchaMania was a giant spectacle were long feuds came to an end, now it's a bunch of cameos from part timers

This thread about to be a classic

Summerfest was my shyt breh! I remember watching live every year on the last Wednesday in August. Remember when the Final Fighter beat the Tonka Truck Man for the Inner Continental title?

 

[Amor fati]

I can confirm this to be true.

So once upon times in the mid 90's
Raw use to be on Friday's on the UK, for years and years. An edited showing at 5pm and then a second at 9/10pm. This is when Raw was an hour show.
Basically in the old days in the UK, Friday was the wrestling days, you had WCW on TNT which started at 7, then Raw would come on at 9/10. Before TiVo/Sky+ you had to decide whether to watch the rest of Nitro or switch to Raw. And then later on in the night you had ECW on Bravo. The most frequent wrestling in the UK was actually Japanese on Eurosport, probably shown 3/4 times a week.

And yes I'm

I swear Sky only began showing WCW in 2000 not in the mid 90's.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I swear Sky only began showing WCW in 2000 not in the mid 90's.

It was on TNT, which didnt start as a channel till 7pm, because the Cartoon Network had the channel from 7am till 6:59pm. When Sky began to switch from analogue to digital in the late 90's, the digital didnt have TNT, it was replaced with TCM instead. Sky and cable back in the mid 90's also had free access to German sports channels like ZDF which showed both WWF & WCW PPV's, Raw, Nitro & Thunder on a 4-6 week delay, which was great, because there was no other way to wtch WCW PPV's, otherwise. These use to come on at 1am on a Sunday morning But those channel like TNT were lost on the switch over to digital. Once the switch over was complete to digital in 99/00, Bravo bought the rights to show WCW in the UK.

 

[NYChase718]

Raw was on friday or saturday nights on UsA network due to the westminster dog show would replace it on mondays for some reason
Always in september

Wen rock n mankind won their first tag titles together it was on a friday night show due to that dog show

They called it friday night main event in 97 i believe
It was vader or patriot vs bret in a flag match

 

[Amor fati]

It was on TNT, but when Sky began to switch from analogue to digital in the late 90's, the digital didnt have TNT, it was replaced with TCM instead. Sky and cable back in the mid 90's also had free access to German sports channels like ZDF which showed both WWF & WCW PPV's, Raw, Nitro & Thunder on a 4-6 week delay, which was great, because there was no other way to wtch WCW PPV's, otherwise. These use to come on at 1am on a Sunday morning But those channel like TNT were lost on the switch over to digital. Once the switch over was complete to digital in 99, Bravo bought the rights to show WCW in the UK.

Nice one, I had no idea Sky had free access to German sports channels during the analogue period. Thanks, this was very informative indeed, at the time I had no Idea what TNT was although I knew of TCM showing boring old films. I was aware that WCW aired on Bravo my uncle's used to flip there on a few occasions but I would mainly be on Sky Sports to watch E at the time.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Nice one, I had no idea Sky had free access to German sports channels during the analogue period. Thanks, this was very informative indeed, at the time I had no Idea what TNT was although I knew of TCM showing boring old films. I was aware that WCW aired on Bravo my uncle's used to flip there on a few occasions but I would mainly be on Sky Sports to watch E at the time.

This goes into a bit more detail, to what I was talking about.

WCW to TCM

WCW Television Update

 

[Amor fati]

This goes into a bit more detail, to what I was talking about.

WCW to TCM

WCW Television Update

Thanks mate.

 

[Amor fati]

This goes into a bit more detail, to what I was talking about.

WCW to TCM

WCW Television Update

How often would WCW tour England in the mid to late 90's?

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

How often would WCW tour England in the mid to late 90's?

Nothing after 94. They toured 4 times in the 90's, 91, 93, 93 & 94.

This will cover everything on WCW on UK TV in the 90's.

Any WCW fans on here?

 

[Amor fati]

Nothing after 94. They toured 4 times in the 90's, 91, 93, 93 & 94.

This will cover everything on WCW on UK TV in the 90's.

Any WCW fans on here?

Pretty much then the UK market wasn't feeling WCW, I read on a forum that their 2000 tour in the UK was absolute shyt.

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Pretty much then the UK market wasn't feeling WCW, I read on a forum that their 2000 tour in the UK was absolute shyt.

WCW was dying by that stage and the fact that, the UK was a WWF stronghold, because of SSlam 92 and being on Sky Sports, at the time when more homes were having satellite & cable installed to watch the Premier League. Also factor in WWF ran regular shows in europe, twice a year during the MNW's, WCW never did. Even tho Nitro did pull in good numbers in the UK, they didnt make themselves marketable to the UK/Europe fans for them to actually give a fukk in the end. If they did, they would of gotten more love, its just at the time, UK TV beside SKY didnt understand how to market US wrestling properly and they still dont know how to market wrestling (then again nor does the US channels, TNN, etc). And you have to remember World of Sport had been dead since mid 80's, that was TV companies view of wrestling, not the US steroid (bigger, quicker, flashier) product of wrestling, excuse the pun.

 

[GiantGonzalez]

op is an alien