TLC 2013 Pulled from Network

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Cultaholic reported it today, but it's also confirmed by searching. The show has been removed with no explanation. Some thinking it may have had to do with the 3-on-1 match with Punk against The Shield, but nothing is certain currently.

[Instant Classic]

Wouldn’t make sense to do with Punk but they got all this stuff with Benoit.

[wildojinx]

Yeah, probably nothing to do with Punk, likely either a music rights thing or there was a technical error on the broadcast.

[Chiral]

Turns out Regal had another wardrobe malfunction on the show that no one noticed until now.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

There was actually a class-action lawsuit brought against the company for how bad the R-Truth vs Brodus Clay match was, this was probably the settlement.

[cjh]

It's back up now.

Oddly, even though the Network version skips the 22-second-long WWE Signature opening that the DVD has, the gap in length between the two is well under 22 seconds by the end of the show.  Either the Network version has something the DVD version doesn't or they're played at slightly different speeds.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I love this speculation that it's about a Punk vs. Shield match.

Punk worked on a show of theirs a few months ago. I know his Twitter's been pretty wild, but it was even before that.

[chazraps]

I hear it was taken down because of Richard Jewell.

[Spider2024]

Dec 18, 2020 2:12:07 GMT -5 chazraps said:

I hear it was taken down because of Richard Jewell.

It was Snitsky's fault, actually.

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Nov 27, 2020 16:24:45 GMT -5 Chiral said:

Turns out Regal had another wardrobe malfunction on the show that no one noticed until now.

Who is he John Ritter?

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

Likely has nothing to do with Punk but Cultaholic will tell you otherwise.

[Viking Hall]

Why would it have anything to do with Punk out of interest? Surely there's hundreds of his matches on the Network?

[Deleted]

My immediate instinct would be it relating to some licensing with an ad in the middle of the show or if the show had a theme song or something.

[Gecko]

Dec 20, 2020 8:24:15 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

My immediate instinct would be it relating to some licensing with an ad in the middle of the show or if the show had a theme song or something.

That was my thinking as well, but the theme (Never Never by Korn) is in there and they do their standard plug for it as well, so it's not to do with the theme (or it was and got sorted).

I doubt we'll ever find out the reason, and it probably happens more often than is noticed.

[DiBiase is Good]

Dec 20, 2020 6:40:40 GMT -5 Viking Hall said:

Why would it have anything to do with Punk out of interest? Surely there's hundreds of his matches on the Network?

Because there’s so many people who think that WWE are erasing him from history, despite as you say, him having countless matches available to watch on there.

[metylerca]

I mean there WAS that live rendition of “Asshole” by Dennis Leary, Jimmy Savile, Joey Ryan, Annie Wilkes, and most of Team X-Bladz that opened the show. Maybe that’s why?

[chazraps]

Dec 20, 2020 6:40:40 GMT -5 Viking Hall said:

Why would it have anything to do with Punk out of interest? Surely there's hundreds of his matches on the Network?

Wasn't think the show where his lower-back infection was most prevalent?