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Post by shadowangel on Apr 16, 2010 9:08:34 GMT -5
Here in Germany we didn't have a wrestling weekend until the mid-90s If i remember correctly, in 1993 we got Monday Night War on Tuesday and Superstars on Thursday. Around that time WCW started, but i don't remember when it run - i think they showed Worldwide on Friday and Saturday Night on Saturday. Around 1996/1997 Saturday was indeed the Wrestling Night, we got WCW Nitro (complete) and WWF Raw (the 1 hour international cut) and after that was "World of Wrestling" with information of ECW, Japan and other stuff. When Thunder started they showed it fridays. Sadly WWF had a problem with it, they didn't want to share a TV Network with WCW, so they went out, i think from 1997 to 1999 we didn't had WWF at all. That's one reason why WCW was so popular in germany, they even made a PPV Event in Germany in 2000
All in all, we Wrestling Fans in Germany missed a lot of things, but it wasn't all bad. At least we had all the PPVs (WWF and WCW) for free from around 1990 til 1997 (at least Summerslam 1992 was shown live)
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Post by texan on Apr 16, 2010 9:14:34 GMT -5
We didn't have a satellite or cable TV, so we didn't get too many shows. I remember watching WWF Superstars and WCW Worldwide or Power Hour on Saturdays around 11 a.m. or noon. WWF Wrestling Challenge usually came on Saturday nights, I recall.
It always seemed like the times these shows came on changed unexpectedly; sometimes they would be shown on Sundays rather than Saturday. I used to get so pissed on Saturdays when I would go to channel 39 at noon expecting to see WWF Superstars and Soul Train would come on instead. My entire weekend would just be ruined.
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Post by crash1984 on Apr 17, 2010 6:25:48 GMT -5
For some reason never did really watch WCW that often when I first started watching wrestling. Anyway here was my wrestling schedule in 1993/1994.
Saturday at 10a.m.: WWF Mania Saturday at 6 p.m.:Some WWF program (don't remember what it was called but it came on Fox after American Gladiators) Sunday Noon-Superstars Sunday 1p.m.-Another WWF program on a local TV station. A lot of times it would have a match or two from superstars.
Also I remember real late on Friday night's/early Saturday Morning in about 1994 or 1995 WCW had some type of program. The only thing I really remember was that the majority of the commercial were for various 1-900 sex lines.
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Post by shadowforce420 on Apr 17, 2010 6:34:39 GMT -5
WWF Superstars WWF Wrestling Challenge WCW Saturday Night IWCCW had a show but I don't remember what it was called
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Post by bigjohnstudd on Apr 17, 2010 23:32:19 GMT -5
Saturday morning (11am on CHCH 11) was always WWF Superstars or whatever they repackaged it as to get it on Canadian TV (Maple Leaf Wrestling, I think). Eventually they gave up (probably to save production costs) and just showed it as the Superstars that everybody else got. For a few years, Maple Leaf Wrestling had matches taped in Toronto, Hamilton & Brantford for All-Star Wrestling, but I think that changed with the switch from Championship Wrestling to WWF Superstars of Wrestling in '86.
When they had unique matches on Maple Leaf Wrestling in the morning, they would air Superstars at 7pm that night.
I'd get to stay up late on those special Saturday night's every few months when a Saturday Night's Main Event was on, I'd get to stay up to watch the first couple matches, then once my parents figured out that Hogan's match was always first or second, they told me I could stay up until Hogan's match was over. They'd tape the rest and I'd watch it in the morning. Of course, those few SNME's in 1988 when Hogan was off filming No Holds Barred and wasn't on were glorious. I got to stay up for the whole thing because my parents never figured out from the opening intros that Hogan wasn't on the show.
In my later years, I would occasionally watch WCW Saturday Night, but I'm going to say that wasn't until 1994-ish when my interest was starting to fade.
Sunday was WWF Cavalcade, the repackaged for Canadian TV version of Wrestling Challenge. Both Canadian versions had Billy Red Lyons in the Event Center warning us with "Dontcha daaaare miss it!" as he ran off the seemingly endless list of Canadian dates coming up, which seems to be down to an annual trip North now.
I seem to think that I watched WCW Main Event a little bit on Sundays, but I don't have very fond memories of it. I think Dave Sullivan wrestled Kevin Sullivan while wearing Hulk Hogan's boots, and that's just about all I remember of it.
That was about all we got for wrestling in Ontario. Later I think we'd get RAW on Friday night's around midnight or 12:30 and I think Action Zone was on Wednesdays or something, but I wasn't really watching by that point.
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Post by Janitor From Mars on Apr 17, 2010 23:47:02 GMT -5
Usually in this order: WCW Power Hour (Saturday morning) WWF Superstars of Wrestling (usually Saturday afternoon) WCW Saturday Night (I don't remember when this usually aired; can someone help?) WWF All-American Wrestling (Sundays at noon) WCW Worldwide (sporadically on Sunday afternoons, but usually pre-empted) WCW Main Event (Sunday nights) Lots of WCW on TV back then, yet somehow I was a die-hard WWF fan. Oh, I liked WCW enough to follow it, but if I had to choose, it was the WWF all the way. Pretty much what I got as a youngster but if you count Fridays, WCCW came on Friday afternoons on ESPN. Also, throw in Maple Leaf Wrestling as I lived pretty close to Quebec and got Canadian stations.
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Post by Triple Kelly on Apr 19, 2010 1:42:08 GMT -5
I was unfortunately deprived of cable television as a young one so I just watched what the local NY channels had to offer. WWF "Superstars" and "Wrestling Challenge" aired on the former WNYW station that became Fox 5.
NWA/WCW had "Worldwide Wrestling" on NBC channel 4 late on a Friday night and "Pro Wrestling New York" on WPIX channel 11 with Jim Ross and Paul E. Dangerously on Saturday mornings (what I'd give to find some episodes of that one).
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Post by bwolvert on Apr 20, 2010 7:29:59 GMT -5
In the summer of '91 when I started watching, I had:
WCW Pro on WGN on Saturday mornings WWF Superstars on the local NBC station starting at either 12:00pm or 1:00pm WCW Saturday Night on TBS at 6:05pm (following Captain Planet!) WCW Main Event on TBS at, I think it was 10am on Sundays at that point, but might've been 6:05pm too All American Wrestling on USA Sundays at 1 Prime time Wrestling on Mondays on USA at 9 (right after Murder She Wrote) Global Wrestling Federation on ESPN at 4pm Monday-Friday And, briefly, Hulk Hogan's Rock n Wrestling on WGN at 4pm monday-friday
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2010 9:37:29 GMT -5
WCW Power Hour (Saturday morning) WWF Superstars of Wrestling (usually Saturday afternoon) WCW Saturday Night (I don't remember when this usually aired; can someone help?) WWF All-American Wrestling (Sundays at noon) WCW Worldwide (sporadically on Sunday afternoons, but usually pre-empted) WCW Main Event (Sunday nights) Same here, but I remember WWF Wrestling Challenge coming on really late at night, too. I'm not sure exactly what time it was (maybe around midnight-ish?), but I remember that if I got to stay up unusually late on a Friday or Saturday, I might get to see it.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Apr 20, 2010 13:23:03 GMT -5
On Saturdays about 11 Superstars was on. Then just before HNIC, at about 4 Maple Leaf Wrestling was on. Sundays, I'd usually catch All American Wrestling or any of it's later incarnations, which I don't even recall all the names of.
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Post by sabretooth on Apr 20, 2010 15:34:34 GMT -5
Saturday 11am USWA/CWA Memphis 12pm WWF Superstars 5:05 NWA/WCW 11pm WCCW
Sunday 1am A fed out of Jonesboro, AR 11am WWF All American
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Post by The Warsman on Apr 20, 2010 17:32:13 GMT -5
Northern Indiana mid to late 80's
Friday Night WWF Wrestling Challenge 11:30 PM
Saturday NWA Power Hour 11:00 AM Roller Games!! either 12:00 or 1:00 Pro Wrestling This Week (for like 3 weeks) with Joe Pedicino 10:30 AM NWA WCW Saturday Night 6:05 PM Eastern WWF Superstars of Wrestling 11:00 or 11:30 AWA Craptacular Wrestling 11:00 or 11:30 GLOW 1:00 AM
Sunday WWF All American Wrestling 10 or 11:00 AM NWA Main Event 5:05
Monday WWF Prime Time Wrestling 9:00
It was a GLORIOUS time!!
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Post by ToyfareMark on Apr 20, 2010 18:36:38 GMT -5
Lets see here.
Saturday.
8 AM Power Hour 9 AM WCW New York 10 AM WCW Chicago 11 AM WWF Superstars 12 PM USWA Championship Wrestling 1 PM WWF Wrestling Challenge 5 PM WCW Saturday Night
Sunday
10 AM All American Wrestling 12 PM WWF Wrestling Spotlight 5 PM WCW Main Event.
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Post by Timmy8271 on Apr 20, 2010 21:28:22 GMT -5
The farthest I remember is 1997 as a wrestling fan
Friday 2 am: ECW
Saturday: 9 AM: WCW Pro(I think that was the name of it) 10 am: Livewire 6:05 pm: Saturday Night 11 pm: Shotgun Saturday Night
Sunday: 11 am: Superstars(when I wasn't at church) 5 pm: WCW Main Event
Monday: Raw, Nitro
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