Slower week this week but one that had some very welcome surprises. This week saw 2000 episodes reach the 30s while 2001 still has yet to hit 20 episodes. However, the story this week was less about those episodes and more about some major shock uploads. First of all we received an episode of Smackdown from 2002, this was hoped for as it now means that we will see 2002 finished as well which should not take long as over half of 2002 is already there.As the week progressed things slowed, until Thursday when a major surprise was uploaded to the Network.
Since 1997 Raws were uploaded fans have bemoaned the lack of Thursday Raw Thursday and also wondering how it would be handled as numbering would exclude it from being counted as a regular episode. On Thursday Thursday Raw Thursday was uploaded, no one is sure why we got it, though the popular theory is due to it coming from Lowell it was to coincide with the NXT show that was in Lowell on Thursday night. Also uploaded was the missing episode of Raw form 2013, again no explanation to why we got this and also why there was no Smackdown uploaded that night ether. It is unknown of we will see further small gaps plugged in collections in the coming weeks or if this was a random occurrence if it continues hopes will definitely be high for the Smackdown special/pilot that preceded the shows run.
Smackdown 2000-2002 is still away off from completion there is little point thinking of what is next until we see what next week holds. However, a look at the rest of the year is interesting. As long as we continue to get a new upload each month we have 8 more uploads this year. The most likely are the end of Nitro and another upload of Raw and of Smackdown. Uploads that will hopefully also be included are WCCW, which was hoped for this or last month due to the Freebirds being inducted into the Hall of Fame, and more World Championship Wrestling to move into the early years of Sting and Jim Crockett Promotions becoming WCW period of the show. There is a lot of hope for WCW Saturday Night this year but odds are they will finish World Championship Wrestling first. This leaves three months that cannot be predicted as easily. Possibilities are whatever takes ECW’s replacement on the uploads, it could be WWE’s ECW but they are probably holding off on that until Raw and Smackdown are up to that point. If Nitro is done early enough we could see Thunder by the end of the year though they could end the year with Nitro as they began it with Nitro. Another possibility is another best of the territories upload to make them annual way of getting classic material from the territories up without dedicating a month to an obscure company that many fans may have no interest in. There is also the hope of more classic 80s WWE shows as there are little to none besides TNT and Primetime Wrestling, many feel that they are witholding these shows until Raw and Smackdown are finished but there is hope for them and the other 90s B shows like Heat which was integral for years to Pay-per-views as a lead in and Shotgun Saturday Night. Other non WWE shows include shows like WCW Worldwide, all of these are theories but it seems likely we will get a new show at some point this year.
Finally the last few weeks have seen some changes in the days we see uploads as the WWE Examiner looked at last week we have seen Saturday uploads become regular occurrences since Wrestlemania. In the last week this shakeup continue, Monday saw classic uploads a day that has been seldom used in the past few months and Wednesday has seen very little of classic uploads in the past couple of weeks. Sunday has been also used on and off the past few weeks.If any uploads of Smackdown from 2000-2002 or anything else come they will be after this article is published but will be covered in next week’s Upload Update.
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