The Wrestling Channel

[john casey]

On another thread, there have been mentions of The Wrestling Channel, which was a dedicated TV channel in the UK showing several global promotions past and present. So I've created this thread so we can all share our memories of this short lived channel.

I certainly loved it when they showed CZW, TNA, World Of Sport as well as their Sunday Night Supercards, which were totally random (They actually showed a CZW Cage Of Death show). Sadly it quickly went downhill, then it turned into The Fight Network (Which is how I got into the Law Podcasts) I did enjoy their Before & After The Bell shows (John Pollock hosted) and their wrestling Reality shows however after a short while they just repeated the same shows, started showing these random Martial Arts movies and Honey Wrestling.

Therefore if you have any favourites and/or memories, please feel free to share them

[gerardgerard]

Think TNA was a great anchor for the network. Do recall the weekly showings (though at a 6 month delay) of the old Nashville PPVs being destination viewing for a while, and helped ease you into the channel's offerings. The network, as a whole, kinda deflated when TNA shipped off elsewhere.

It was also absolutely brilliant for following the English (and Irish, to some extent) scene at the time, with the FWA (Alex Shane being controversial figure aside) putting out a relatively slick product.

[Christian Small]

I say that channel saved my love of wrestling. WWE had really turned me off after the Monday night wars ended and I had got tired of the booking of it. Then this popped up and introduced me to the indies and so much more, I'm way more a indy guy than WWE guy. I loved watching TNA, ROH, CZW, IWA Mid South and the British indies. Although the first time I saw clips of CZW's cage of death 4 it legit gave me nightmares.