Drakkhim

I've been looking for an excuse to cut the cord for years, but the only thing that kept us subscribed to DirecTV was my love of Sunday Ticket. It's just too convenient. I was always able to call in and get the package for 50% or more off just by haggling. We haven't had TV since February and the time is approaching where I'm really going to miss Sunday Ticket, but it's not hard to find streams for games. They're a pain in the ass sometimes, but I'd rather save money. We were paying $1600/yr+ for TV/Sunday Ticket, and that was without any other premium subscriptions.

Yes sir.

Santino is money every Monday night.

Nice definition for extortion. Again, that is what Hellwig did. He threatened McMahon that if he didn't pay, he wouldn't show up to wrestle. According to the definition, that would cause reputational harm as the company was building up this match for months.

Before his match at Summerslam 1991, Hellwig demanded that McMahon give him a large amount of money or he would not participate in the match. Being the business man that McMahon was, he ended up paying him the sum of money. Now, Hellwig claims the money he was asking for were bonuses from Wrestlemania VII. I don't believe it for the simple fact that the WWF wasn't choking on the nut by any means at the time. If they owed him money, considering the fact he was their #1 draw, he would've paid him. McMahon is not that stupid. So in that one instance to me, Hellwig was an extortionist.

I wonder how much that promotion is paying Hellwig to wrestle. Considering the fact that he's an extortionist and has always been WAY overpaid.

Every week when I watch wrestling I am constantly ****ing out loud about how the champions don't wear the belts. It's not a trophy to be waved around in your hand nor something to throw over your shoulder. You wear belts around your waist. I wish that the WWE and TNA would make it mandatory to wear them. I think that it would help to even the smallest degree to bring validity to the non-World Title belts because they aren't really cared about anymore, especially in the WWE. Wear the belts, douchebags.

I've had my eyes on Cherry for quite a while. What a hottie.

To the WWE, web traffic hits are more important than having the best solo PBP announcer in wrestling history try to keep a show interesting and afloat. Mike Adamle is garbage. 300K a year to SUCK.

Grrr... spoiler...

By the mid-80s, you could see the WWF on many cable networks across the country. Vince was sending tapes of his product to hundreds of local television stations to increase his exposure as well as investing money in TV time all over the US. By doing this, he could run shows anywhere in the country, draw good crowds and make money. The NWA/Georgia product ran from Florida up to WV & Ohio up until the mid-80s. What you saw on TBS on Saturday evening at 605pm post-1984 was the Georgia product. Vince couldn't draw near the amount he was accustomed to when booking shows along the East coast as this was Crockett territory. Crockett trying to make money and run their biggest yearly event in Chicago, clearly a Vince town was a terrible decision. Starrcade 1987 was a financial death-knell for Crockett as they lost a considerable amount of money. They also lost money on the UWF buyout which really did nothing more than bring in about a dozen guys that were over in the Mid-South to Crockett. By 1988, Crockett was about bust and that is when Billionaire Ted came in to save my beloved NWA and turn it into WCW.

Starrcade 1987 was doomed from the get go. 1987 was a big push year for Crockett as they really wanted to try and make a presence in Vince-run areas. Crockett purchased the fledgling UWF and thought that running Starrcade 1987 in a non-NWA town would be a good move. Most of the cable systems were strong-armed into showing Survivor Series and not Starrcade which doomed Crockett when it came to making any money on the show. Vince did such an incredible job at marketing his product across the US and globally. By late 1987-1988, the damage was done.

Magnum TA was so over. There were so many big plans for him. It was supposed to Magnum TA vs. Ric Flair for the NWA World Title at Starrcade 1986 and Magnum was going to get the strap. It would've been so huge.

I currently own about 1100 wrestling DVDs going back to the 60s. I probably have 200-300 hours of GCW and NWA TV from the late 70s through the 80s. All really nice quality from low gen VHS/film as well. However, getting these shows in a digitally remastered format would be epic.

I watched the announcement of Gordon into the HoF on ECW last night. They showed so many great clips of him in the territory days and the footage looked so good and crisp. I was thinking to myself that when Blu-Ray really hits and the cost to produce them come down, the WWE has to start releasing runs of TV. With the amount of data that a Blu-Ray disc can hold, you could put the entire 1980 run of Georgia Championship Wrestling TV onto 5-6 discs. People would eat that up and the WWE would make mad money. The only real issue that I could see would be if every wrestler shown (jobbers included) would have to be compensated.