Saturday Morning Slam likely canned...

[Malcolm]

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It would appear that WWE's kid-friendly program, Saturday Morning Slam, is through as it is no longer listed as an active show on the company website and the new television season has begun without it airing.

According to this week's issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, there are rumors of creative differences between CW executives and WWE officials as executives at the network apparently wanted WWE to alter the program's format from taped matches to a news magazine—similar to NBA Inside Stuff—negotiations fell apart from there. For the time being, it's a subject that nobody is officially discussing.

The show is rated TV-G (one level lower than WWE's general TV-PG rating), and due to being aimed specifically at children, it does not feature any moves or holds aimed at the head or neck due to what is seen as their violent nature.

Why does everything I get interested in get yanked from me?

[The Scuba Guy]

I'm only upset about this because that Inside NBA idea sounds awesome.

I'm blaming this on the WWE.

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Oct 8, 2013 21:21:48 GMT -5 The Scuba Guy said:

I'm only upset about this because that Inside NBA idea sounds awesome.

I'm blaming this on the WWE.

Idk. I'd rather see matches, than a "news magazine" show. Having that show around allowed talents who wouldn't normally get to wrestle on any of the other shows have a chance to get TV time. OR if SMS were still around, we wouldn't have guys like Kofi or Ziggler being bumped to Superstars and being forced to take a spot from the Superstars regulars.

That sucks.

I liked Saturday Morning Slam, because it gave us matches that we wouldn't see on any of the other shows. You never got face vs. face matches between midcarders on the main shows, but SMS gave us that with Zack Ryder's matches against Kofi Kingston, Justin Gabriel and William Regal.

Plus we got fun moments like Tyson Kidd rolling Daniel Bryan around in a ball, or Curt Hawkins trying to start a You Still Got it chant for himself.

Plus we can never forget this.

[misconduct was wrong]

The way the camera kept cutting to the commentators for ANY impact moves just broke me.

[Friday Night SmackOwn]

Was "Slam" the show where Daniel Bryan went on a tangent about how much he loved bears?

[xCompackx]

Oct 8, 2013 21:30:34 GMT -5 misconduct was wrong said:

The way the camera kept cutting to the commentators for ANY impact moves just broke me.

Yeah, same. I really did want to like SMS, but that camera stuff just killed it for me. Worst part is they had guys like Randy Orton whose finisher they couldn't even show because it was an impact move.

[________ has left the building]

Oct 8, 2013 21:53:29 GMT -5 Friday Night SmackOwn said:

Was "Slam" the show where Daniel Bryan went on a tangent about how much he loved bears?

Yes it was. You're not a man if you haven't wrestled a bear.


I don't blame WWE for saying no to a NBA Inside Stuff type show. SMS did segments like that in between matches. The show was a throwback to the old WWF Superstar Challenge format except without headshots. Which made wrestlers to find new ways to perform and showed they could work any type of match. I'm going to miss it.

[wildojinx]

Can Rey at least keep his SMS version of the 619? (where he would hit it on the back of the wrestler as opposed to in the head). I thought that was kind of nifty.

[Deleted]

YOU THINK THAAAAAT'S BAAAAAAD.....

I was a Chosen One Drew McIntyre fan, Heel R-Truth fan, AND a Lord Tensai fan.

SMS was cool though, only saw a couple of episodes but I enjoyed the concept. Saturday at 10 a.m. usually doesn't happen for me though.

[Drillbit Taylor]

Does NBC have ties to a family friendly network? Qubo or something like that? Throw Slam there or part of NBC's Saturday morning block.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

R.I.P. Randy Orton's butchered theme and Curtis Axel running the ropes over a commercial break.

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Oct 8, 2013 22:50:14 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

YOU THINK THAAAAAT'S BAAAAAAD.....

I was a Chosen One Drew McIntyre fan, Heel R-Truth fan, AND a Lord Tensai fan.

I was a "Hi, I'm Dolph Ziggler" fan.

[ayumidah]

[Toates Madhackrviper]

I don't get why the network would want it to be changed to a News Magazine style show? Like if anything I'd have expected that argument to be the other way, WWE deciding they needed a news magazine style show and wanting it to be Saturday Morning Slam, and NBC demanding that the show continue to have matches. This situation is just so odd to me I don't get it.

[Toates Madhackrviper]

Oct 8, 2013 22:50:14 GMT -5 @lovehater said:

YOU THINK THAAAAAT'S BAAAAAAD.....

I was a Chosen One Drew McIntyre fan, Heel R-Truth fan, AND a Lord Tensai fan.

SMS was cool though, only saw a couple of episodes but I enjoyed the concept. Saturday at 10 a.m. usually doesn't happen for me though.

I was a fan of all those things too friend.

[Abdullah]

...Why would WWE be so against a news-magazine type show? Are they so vehement in their belief that each of their lesser-programming eventually devolvess into meaningless matches, that no matter how good, never really get referenced?

I liked the guest commentary though. I'll never forget the show where Ziggler declared his love for Primo and talked about how smooth he was.

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Oct 9, 2013 1:59:48 GMT -5 Toates Madhackrviper said:

I don't get why the network would want it to be changed to a News Magazine style show? Like if anything I'd have expected that argument to be the other way, WWE deciding they needed a news magazine style show and wanting it to be Saturday Morning Slam, and NBC demanding that the show continue to have matches. This situation is just so odd to me I don't get it.

Makes sense to me. Telling two guys to go out there and wrestle for 10 minutes requires much less effort by the WWE than putting together a news magazine show.

[Deleted]

Whilst it sucks that the show was cancelled, I can now proudly say that I was at the last ever Saturday Morning Slam tapings.

[Instant Classic]

It sucks, I loved watching SMS. The best match they had was Sheamus vs Michael McGillicutty, funniest thing ever.


I can also say I was at a taping.

[Toates Madhackrviper]

Oct 9, 2013 5:19:43 GMT -5 @noggy said:

Oct 9, 2013 1:59:48 GMT -5 Toates Madhackrviper said:

I don't get why the network would want it to be changed to a News Magazine style show? Like if anything I'd have expected that argument to be the other way, WWE deciding they needed a news magazine style show and wanting it to be Saturday Morning Slam, and NBC demanding that the show continue to have matches. This situation is just so odd to me I don't get it.

Makes sense to me. Telling two guys to go out there and wrestle for 10 minutes requires much less effort by the WWE than putting together a news magazine show.

Exactly though. Like it would make sense for the WWE to want that, but I dont get why the network would.