''WWE Vintage'' is a
professional wrestling
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television program
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from
WWE
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showcasing action from the extensive
WWE video library
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. The show was hosted by
Gene Okerlund
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and, later in its run,
Renee Young
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. The current hosts is
Scott Stanford
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and Megan Morant.
''Vintage'' is shown in the United Kingdom and
Ireland
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on
Sky Sports
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(until 2014), in Australia on
FOX8 (until mid-2013), in
South Africa
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on SuperSport, in India,
Bangladesh
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and
Pakistan
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on
Ten Sports
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The original TEN Sports chan ...
, in the
Middle East
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on ShowSports 4, in Latin America on Fox Sports and in Japan on
J Sports
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Coverage Football Soccer
* FIFA
** National teams
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**** FIFA U-17 World Cup
*** Women's :
**** F ...
. In early September 2012,
Astro SuperSport 3 aired ''Vintage'' in
Malaysia
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.
The show premiered in June 2008 as ''Vintage Collection'', replacing ''
Heat
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'' in the overseas markets in which it still aired. Each episode typically showcases 4 or 5 matches around a common theme (a particular wrestler, a major event, a division, etc.). Such themes can expand through 3 or 4 consecutive episodes.
Hosts
See also
*
List of current WWE programming
References
External links
*
2008 American television series debuts
2010s American television series
Television series by WWE
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