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Post by sonofblaine on Apr 7, 2013 8:21:47 GMT -5
Due to stuff going on in my life, I missed a couple of weeks of WWE programming at the beginning of March. Because I'm a stickler, I planned on watching them first instead of just watching what was current. That resulted in me completely missing ANY build up to Mania. With RAW's being a pain to find on streaming sites since WWE removes them, I've been too lazy to bother.
I'm not looking to catch up before tonight, as I can just catch Mania later in the week. But what's the best way to bone up on the best stuff that's been going on? I missed Fandango showing up, which I was interested in. I liked what was going on with Swagger and Dutch. Punk/Taker is the match I'm most interested in and hate I missed the one month Taker shows up every year. Don't care about Rock and Cena at all, unless there's been some interesting development.
Doesn't WWE have some hour long highlight show I can just watch the past month of? I'm more entertained visually so I'd prefer to see the stuff happen than just read a synapsis on a blog.
Back in '04, I started to forget to set up tapes when I went to work and after about a month of missing the show, I just didn't care and it led to an 8 year hiatus from watching wrestling. I'd kinda hate for that to happen again, as I have been enjoying watching again. But the amount of weekly programming is starting to take it's toll.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 8:27:41 GMT -5
Due to stuff going on in my life, I missed a couple of weeks of WWE programming at the beginning of March. Because I'm a stickler, I planned on watching them first instead of just watching what was current. That resulted in me completely missing ANY build up to Mania. With RAW's being a pain to find on streaming sites since WWE removes them, I've been too lazy to bother. I'm not looking to catch up before tonight, as I can just catch Mania later in the week. But what's the best way to bone up on the best stuff that's been going on? I missed Fandango showing up, which I was interested in. I liked what was going on with Swagger and Dutch. Punk/Taker is the match I'm most interested in and hate I missed the one month Taker shows up every year. Don't care about Rock and Cena at all, unless there's been some interesting development. Doesn't WWE have some hour long highlight show I can just watch the past month of? I'm more entertained visually so I'd prefer to see the stuff happen than just read a synapsis on a blog. Back in '04, I started to forget to set up tapes when I went to work and after about a month of missing the show, I just didn't care and it led to an 8 year hiatus from watching wrestling. I'd kinda hate for that to happen again, as I have been enjoying watching again. But the amount of weekly programming is starting to take it's toll. You can catch 1 and a half hour versions of Raw (that contain all the bits important to storylines, but edit out random matches with no purpose, pointless backstage segments etc) on Hulu plus, they offer a 2 week free trial. Providing your in the US (damn this board needs "location" to make a return) if your out of the US it can be done but is complicated as you have to obtain a prepaid us credit card to sign up (as billing address verification) which would mean you would have to put down some money for the free trial (you can then spend the money on the prepaid card on whatever you want on any countries version of amazon) and then use a dns or proxy service to access the site |
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Post by sonofblaine on Apr 7, 2013 8:35:41 GMT -5
Yeah. A definite cause of my missing so much has been that we had to cut off Hulu Plus to help toward paying for my wife's tuition. :/ And I don't think they let you do a free trial if you're already a member, but just shut off.
I've been looking around youtube and WWE.com for highlights. That'll probably have to do.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 8:55:51 GMT -5
Ahh that sucks.
It might be worth trying with a different paypal, credit or debit card and a different email address but they might also use the billing address to check, depends how strict they are.
There is another option and I have some invites to a great memebers only place, but I can't discuss it in the open on here without breaking the forum rules
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Post by sonofblaine on Apr 7, 2013 9:03:45 GMT -5
That's cool. I think I'll survive, but I appreciate it. The first I missed was March 11, and I'm going through all the highlights WWE.com has for that show. I think if I just check each shows highlights on their page, it'll probably be informative enough. Thanks though. EDIT: The only problem I'm seeing with WWE.com's highlights is that they seem to not put any promos, interviews, etc on the site. It's mostly clips from matches that involve run-ins, etc. Found the shows on a site. Time to get caught up and back into it.  |
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Post by Hawk Hart on Apr 7, 2013 12:10:41 GMT -5
WWE.com has highlight videos from different weeks of Raw, that might help since nothing important happens on any other show.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Apr 7, 2013 12:15:59 GMT -5
This is why I'll never forgive those guys that ran 'RAW in 5 minutes' off the net.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2013 12:19:31 GMT -5
What about WWE Afterburn, Bottom Line, or Experience?
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Post by sonofblaine on Apr 7, 2013 14:42:53 GMT -5
Found a site with all the shows and PPVs backlogged, so I'me just watching the Raws and SDs I missed (I can go back and watch NXT later) and I'm just skipping through to see promos, run-ins, etc. Managing about one show/30 minutes. That should get me nice and caught up for Mania, as well as give me a place to easily stay caught up.
Thanks for the help and suggestions guys. I really didn't' want this month to be the beginning of another long hiatus.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Apr 7, 2013 15:11:56 GMT -5
You could just watch last week's show, upon reflection. With the rate in which they run highlights/catch-up videos on any given show, you'll be on the pulse of product by the end of a single 3-hour RAW.
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Post by sonofblaine on Apr 7, 2013 16:15:12 GMT -5
You could just watch last week's show, upon reflection. With the rate in which they run highlights/catch-up videos on any given show, you'll be on the pulse of product by the end of a single 3-hour RAW. The problem is that I'm horribly OCD. I don't even like to miss the little stuff, not hear full promos, etc, otherwise, it would be that easy. But I'm skipping through Raws pretty quick. At this point, just the past two raws to watch (later tonight), then I can watch Mania at my leisure (probably tommarrow morning). |
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