USWA/Global Wrestling Federation added

[Crappler El 0 M]

Listed under GWF, WWE added a USWA show to the Network. The episode uploaded is from 1990 and features Steve Austin. The content added lasts just 3 minute, so perhaps they are not finished yet or there's an upload error.

[Deleted]

Your current product sucks, add all of the nostalgia from my youth you desperate motherf***ers!

[andrew8798]

Too much stuff to watch

[Error]

So close to spending my waking hours trying to find younger self in the crowd at these shows.

[andrew8798]

Looks like the GWF stuff wasn't suppose to go up this early

[Crappler El 0 M]

Yes, they removed it. It was just a three minute clip from a USWA show that featured Austin v. Dundee, but not that actual match.

[andrew8798]

Back up with two episodes

[Crappler El 0 M]

They added it back [fixed] and a second episode from 1991. GWF and USWA were not the same company, though.

[andrew8798]

Looks like those episodes are from the USWA Texas Version

[Reflecto]

So with all of this coming up...is it safe to say that the deal for highlights and interviews with ESPN also included "WWE gets to put all the ESPN library on the Network?"

[cjh]

Dec 3, 2015 1:03:10 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

So with all of this coming up...is it safe to say that the deal for highlights and interviews with ESPN also included "WWE gets to put all the ESPN library on the Network?"

WWE bought the footage around 2011 from the family of Angelo Savoldi, who owned the Dallas footage from after Jerry Jarrett bought World Class in the fall of 1988 (the Von Erichs continued to own the earlier footage from the World Class era until WWE bought that, too).  It's the same deal as the AWA footage where ESPN has permanent re-broadcast rights since it aired on their network even though it now belongs to WWE.

So far, the USWA footage seems to be from the syndicated shows "Challenge" and "Main Event".  I'm not sure what the ESPN show was named.  Global Wrestling Federation footage is easier because "Supercard" was the ESPN show and "Major League Wrestling" was the syndicated show.

[Ron Woodsman aka Shempaholic]

I used to read about the USWA in the Apter mags as a kid but never got to see any of it until now. Awesome.

[Reflecto]

Dec 3, 2015 2:12:29 GMT -5 cjh said:

Dec 3, 2015 1:03:10 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

So with all of this coming up...is it safe to say that the deal for highlights and interviews with ESPN also included "WWE gets to put all the ESPN library on the Network?"

WWE bought the footage around 2011 from the family of Angelo Savoldi, who owned the Dallas footage from after Jerry Jarrett bought World Class in the fall of 1988 (the Von Erichs continued to own the earlier footage from the World Class era until WWE bought that, too).  It's the same deal as the AWA footage where ESPN has permanent re-broadcast rights since it aired on their network even though it now belongs to WWE.

So far, the USWA footage seems to be from the syndicated shows "Challenge" and "Main Event".  I'm not sure what the ESPN show was named.  Global Wrestling Federation footage is easier because "Supercard" was the ESPN show and "Major League Wrestling" was the syndicated show.

That makes sense, but it would be interesting if this plays a role- World Class gets more episodes, AWA from ESPN, and Global coming up and advertised over USWA. If the Network manages to pick up Abrams UWF, that'd be the full list.

[cjh]

Dec 3, 2015 2:31:33 GMT -5 Reflecto said:

Dec 3, 2015 2:12:29 GMT -5 cjh said:

WWE bought the footage around 2011 from the family of Angelo Savoldi, who owned the Dallas footage from after Jerry Jarrett bought World Class in the fall of 1988 (the Von Erichs continued to own the earlier footage from the World Class era until WWE bought that, too).  It's the same deal as the AWA footage where ESPN has permanent re-broadcast rights since it aired on their network even though it now belongs to WWE.

So far, the USWA footage seems to be from the syndicated shows "Challenge" and "Main Event".  I'm not sure what the ESPN show was named.  Global Wrestling Federation footage is easier because "Supercard" was the ESPN show and "Major League Wrestling" was the syndicated show.

That makes sense, but it would be interesting if this plays a role- World Class gets more episodes, AWA from ESPN, and Global coming up and advertised over USWA. If the Network manages to pick up Abrams UWF, that'd be the full list.

In the case of Abrams's UWF footage, if WWE wants it, they'll have to buy it from whoever owns it.  ESPN can re-air it, but that's it.

I don't know about the footage Savoldi had, but the Gagne family owned the ESPN footage of the AWA just like any other AWA footage.  It was included in what was sold to WWE in 2003.

[Hickster]

They've been focusing on episodes with Shawn Michaels and Austin. One of the Mid South had Michaels/Jake Roberts, I saw him vs OMG in WCCW, and some of the AWA is the Midnight Rockers.
If they put up all of the WCCW to USWA I will be beyond happy. I used to stay up really late to watch the KTVT show on the weekend. I want to rematch Kerry/the Punisher for the Texas title.

[Allie Kitsune]

Dec 2, 2015 22:12:50 GMT -5 @akeem said:

Your current product sucks, add all of the nostalgia from my youth you desperate motherf***ers!

I've really never quite understood this line of thought; as if because Raw sucks, that somehow means they shouldn't put the old footage they own to use on the network.

[WoodStoner1]

So it's the straight USWA eps. as opposed to GWF's "Legends of Professional Wrestling" repackaging? I saw a mention that this was a KVTV airing...which would be interesting if WWE owns these runs. The one GWF show they had for Black History Month was also Major League Wrestling, as opposed to ESPN Supercard. Do they have the very end of the company, I wonder? As in 1993-94 when all that was left was the syndicated GWF?

[Hickster]

Dec 3, 2015 9:23:54 GMT -5 WoodStoner1 said:

So it's the straight USWA eps. as opposed to GWF's "Legends of Professional Wrestling" repackaging? I saw a mention that this was a KVTV airing...which would be interesting if WWE owns these runs. The one GWF show they had for Black History Month was also Major League Wrestling, as opposed to ESPN Supercard. Do they have the very end of the company, I wonder? As in 1993-94 when all that was left was the syndicated GWF?

I'm pretty sure this was KTVT, as I saw it when it aired. If it wasn't, I wouldn't have been able to watch, as KTVT was a "superstation" that I got on my parents' huge satellite dish.

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RONNIE P. GOSSETT!

[Steveweiser]

Yeah, all the episodes that are up so far are actually USWA Dallas, which was a separate company to the GWF. It just so happened that the USWA left Dallas right as the GWF was starting up, and there was kind of a handover of talent. They could have easily stuck these episodes into the WCCW bucket, as it's pretty much a continuation of the same lineage.