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Yeah, my main complaint about Mid Atlantic after going through a half dozen episodes is that everybody seems to be feuding with everybody and nothing stands out. Sgt. Slaughter's progress from debuting, quickly winning the US title, and then recruiting Jim Nelson and doing the full drill sargeant routine on him is a ton of fun though

Looking at the results it seems they were finishing up programs and starting new ones around this time.

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Some 1985 World Class seems to getting added today. I haven't been keeping track so I don't know if it's the beginning of a new drop, or just filling in gaps on a previous one.

 

 

World Class was dropped earlier, so it's filling the gaps.

 

 

It was also noted by the WWE Network News site that there was already confirmed to be a new drop scheduled for February so perhaps it will be the long awaited Thunder drop.

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No one here is looking forward to it I'm sure, but there seems to be a lot of folks who were kids back then who have some weird nostalgia for it.

 

 

Another takeaway from watching Mid-Atlantic: Did Blackjack withold food from his boys until they were in their 30s or what? Barry as BJ J.r looks like Kendall with a porn stache.

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I think Mid Atlantic TV in 1981 comes off far more polished than WWF, WCCW and AWA and several other territories for sure. Actually, I think you could make the argument that overall--talent, in-ring, promos, business, TV--Mid Atlantic was the most well rounded territory going at the time

 

Ok, it's not just the music. Look, I'm watching the Oct 31, 1981 episode. Landell just beat Fulton by reversing a corner whip, hitting a back body drop, and landing a gutwrench suplex, right? The replay? It shows the two corner moves that Fulton hit as his last bits of offense (a shoulder thrust and a knee in the corner) and the very start of the whip reversal before they cut to commercial even before the back body drop. They would have been far better off with no replay at all.

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The Bruno and Bob in the shorts talking about their MSG history is a great little taster.

I enjoyed this but what a tease. Together they held the WWE championship for 17 years and yet no documentaries on either guy hasn't been made which is a crime. A 10 minute interview with these legends is an insult.

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I thought there was a DVD on Bruno from a couple years ago. but I don't see anywhere so either the idea was scrapped or it was just a pipedream. There are some brief interviews in his collection but yeah you can do 2 hours on him easily.

 

A Backlund documentary/DVD would be interesting but I wonder if the main reason they haven't done one is because they don't know which Backlund they are going to get. The one on the short who while excitable is controlled or the one at the Hall of Fame and most of after 1994 that is just bat shit crazy

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Does Thunder really warrant being "long awaited"? I don't recall too many stand out moments from the first year or so I watched in real time

The first 6 months it did yes.

 

Wish they would hurry up with it as it should of been on there by now considering Raw and Smackdown are.

Its probably more to satisfy the AE completists out there.

 

Granted there is still Saturday Night (especially the last year or so where Jimmy Hart essentially made it like a separate promotion from Nitro/Thunder/PPVs!), Heat, Shotgun Saturday Night, etc still untapped on the Network, but WCWs intended B-Show to battle Smackdown still has significance to the main storylines of WCW towards the end.

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WCWs intended B-Show to battle Smackdown still has significance to the main storylines of WCW towards the end.

Thunder actually started over a year *before* Smackdown. It was more like WCW needlessly jumped into an extra 2 hours, then a year later when Raw was firmly on top, WWF realized they could win at that too. (And UPN really wanted the ratings.)

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