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PEACOCK NOT HAVING ABILITY TO REWIND LIVE, ECW ON PEACOCK AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2021-03-11 10:00:00

What are the odds of WWE bringing back ECW now that they have the Peacock deal?

I don't see that happening again. It's been done to death.  Unless they had an entirely new roster, what would be the point?

Do you think the original ECW content or even things like the Attitude Era will be edited on Peacock?

There's no clear-cut answer to that.  My guess is that like the WWE Network, there is or will be a setting one can use to keep children from finding the racier pro wrestling content.

I saw that you wrote that Peacock won't have the ability to pause and rewind the live programming?  How in the world does a company sign a huge money deal and not have this ready?

Although they have some live sports programming, for some reason, they've apparently never needed to have that technology before and they can't just take the WWE infrastructure as that was something built for WWE specifically.  So, they have to program it, test it and have it rolled out.  It's not about the amount of money they spent on the deal.  They need time to get it done and make it work.

Do pro wrestlers get stimulus checks?

If they make under the declared cutoff amount and are up on their taxes, I would think they do.

How many fans do you think they will let at Wrestlemania?

I am guessing around 22-25 thousand, which is what the Super Bowl allowed at Raymond James Stadium.

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