10 Reasons You Should Resubscribe To WWE Network

Relive the Monday Night War all over again.

If the earliest adopter of the WWE Network and adapter to WWE's digital-over-analog future plans, this week is the time when your initial six-month subscription will lapse. If feeling a bit less-than-generous and unwilling to pony up the $9.99, consider the following. In the past six months you've seen Brock Lesnar break The Undertaker's win streak at Wrestlemania, screamed "YES!" on the top of your lungs, watched Sami Zayn and Tyson Kidd or Charlotte and Natalya have surefire "match of the year" candidates in NXT, saw Pat Patterson come out of the closet, saw the debut of "Alberto Barista" on Slam City, got to watch CM Punk's Best In The World documentary, saw the debut of Sabu on ECW TV, Ric Flair being involved in the start of the feud in World Class between the Fabulous Freebirds and the Von Erich family, and so much more. Ideally, the WWE Network will be the great repository for all things pro wrestling in a viewable database format. While yes, many pieces of that all-inclusive vision are not present yet, they certainly will be sooner rather than later, and tossing in the towel on WWE so soon is highly ill advised. Here are ten things to look forward to when considering re-subcribing to the WWE Network. It's a diverse and varied mix, not unlike the best of the history of professional wrestling.

10. Original Programming

Though the WWE Network has underwhelmed insofar as numbers of subscribers, once subscribed, WWE fans have been treated to some fairly high concept yet still ribald entertainment. If possibly considering cancelling the WWE Network, contemplate the idea that WWE went as far as to give us Legends House in the first six-month cycle, which, while oftentimes hokey, also provided us with the moment of hearing the first WWE Intercontinental Champion and WWE legend Pat Patterson's public admittance of his homosexuality. While, yes, Patterson's sexual orientation was quite well-known by many WWE "insider" fans already, the idea that the company would finally give Patterson the platform to address his proclivities on the WWE Network says something about what the company thinks about the WWE Network. There has been discussion in the past about WWE wanting to resurrect Tough Enough, and that project makes better sense on the WWE Network than anywhere else. Also, if you're a parent with children, there's more episodes of animated short program Slam City, and if looking for an expanded TV experience before and after Raw and Smackdown, the preview and review shows have proven from Dean Ambrose cutting promos about being an escaped convict in the desert to Booker T's always engaging persona and Renee Young's growing confidence as an on-air talent to be ultimately quite worthwhile.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.