Tuesday, January 15, 2019

WWE Premiers Irish Wrestlers story on WWE Network

Ring of Honor, Ireland, Nigel Mcguinness,WWE, retired, WWE 24,
In 2014, WWE announced they were starting their own over the top(OTT) online streaming service like Netflix or Amazon Prime, called the WWE Network. A lot of fans were skeptical of this, because their is only so much wrestling content one can endure, however WWE turned this around and started airing WWE Network original series and documentaries much like Netflix and Amazon Prime does.
The latest in their WWE Network Original Documentaries was 'Chasing The Magic: The Nigel McGuinness Story' about a retired wrestler called Nigel McGuinness, who works in their NXT UK brand as a colour commentator, rise to become of the best non-WWE wrestlers in the world and his fall from grace.
This was great for wrestling fans because he never got to wrestle in WWE because by the time he debuted in WWE in 2018, he was a retired wrestler due to injury.
WWE have done similiar documentaries before like with their WWE 24 series where they documented the careers of: Ultimate Warrior, Booker T and Kurt Angle as well as the backstage event for Wrestlemania 31,32 and 33.
As always, given that this is a subscriber based service, this will only serve to boost their subscriber number as it is Wrestlemania season and last year they got a record breaking 2.1 Million subscribers in the first quarter of 2018.
If they keep producing original content like this, that number looks set to be broken this year.

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