VICE: The WWE Killed Wrestling with the WWE Network

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Before the Network I was watching all my old wrestling and ppvs on youtube and dailymotion... so how this is different?
they dont come in parts. there is live streaming content beyond all of the archived stuff. dont have to worry about shyt quality or logo blurs. dont have to worry about watching one part only to find out another part was removed...this is all coming from someone who has a free password and didnt pay for this shyt tho :manny:
 
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This new WWE Network is not a move to reach out to pop culture at large
WWE Network will not be supported by the casual viewers who show up in boom periods
Why not? It's not like only hardcore movie fans use Netflix. One stop shop for all things WWE seems pretty casual friendly to me. Now the TV business isn't dying anytime soon hence Raw and Smackdown not being on the network, but an internet channel isn't just a consolidation nor is the only audience for it smarks, not in 2014. It can easily be an expansion if done correctly.
 

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:patrice: Since when was WWE wrestling? :patrice:Why doesn't the reporter mention how WWE has brought in several collegiate wrestlers.:patrice: Do this person know there is a country called Japan.

Be it just me, but wrestling in the Sammartino days were becoming one of those passe things. Eventually the business would have come to this, Vince just grabbed the industry by the balls. Else Ted Turner would have done it with WCW.

But I suppose the headline will get this guy some daps, but not alot :smugfavre:

No..it's much more than that. Vince took Andre and Hogan and made it global with the WM brand. Marketing and the rise of what Hogan became in the AWA is how things blew up in the beginning. So it was gonna be bigger than anything from the Bruno days easily. Progression and the 80s were just the natural order of things.
 

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http://www.vice.com/read/how-wwe-really-killed-wrestling-the-wwe-network?utm_source=vicefbus



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And that is where they get you. Yes, you’re getting pay-per-views at a much lower price. But because each pay-per-view now comes as part of the package, they no longer have to sell themselves on their own merits. In other words, I’ve committed to ordering every disappointing pay-per-view event that WWE puts out this year at a reduced rate because I want to watch their old shows.

Somebody tell this guy, this has been going on for the past 5 years


By all accounts, April’s WrestleMania XXX is going to be a dump. The top matches have either been announced or are rapidly establishing themselves: Randy Orton versus Batista for the championship, Undertaker versus Brock Lesnar, John Cena versus Bray Wyatt, and Daniel Bryan versus Triple H. Each match is a disappointment when compared to other choices that WWE could have made. There’s no way that I’d pony up the old pay-per-view charge of $60 to watch this parade of flawed visions and missed opportunities, but I would happily pay $60 for six months of unlimited access to the more compelling WrestleManias of past years. The frustrating current product can therefore sustain itself on our nostalgia for the archive

I couldnt disagree more, this dude needs to shut up, or quit watching
 

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they dont come in parts. there is live streaming content beyond all of the archived stuff. dont have to worry about shyt quality or logo blurs. dont have to worry about watching one part only to find out another part was removed...this is all coming from someone who has a free password and didnt pay for this shyt tho :manny:

Sharing is caring :shaq:
 

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clearly :heh:

WWE killed wrestling by putting all the content in a single place for wrestling fans of their video archive....yea..ok

I wish WCW was still around for competition sake, but they rarely put out videos(vhs) of matches and the few they did (the NWO stuff) pretty much sucked.

I'm glad WWE has the their library of footage and literally every other territory that was of any importance. For the past decade I've wished for some type of ala carte DVD service from WWE that would alow us to pick matches from any ppv's or nitro, raw and make our own videos.

Now with the Network we have almost all of it avaliable at any time.....once they get it to work properly :patrice:
 
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