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* While it's technically not "missing" because WWE has the footage, there's lots of wrestling that's not legally obtainable because they haven't uploaded it yet. The most glaring case would be that there's no WCW TV shows available at all from the start of 1990 to the premiere of ''WCW Saturday Night'' in 1992, and another gap from late 1994 to when Nitro debuted in September 1995. None of [=WCW's=] syndicated shows have ever been uploaded. Of the 200 episodes of Wrestling/SmokyMountainWrestling produced only 13 have been uploaded (though this may be because of most of their wrestlers using [[RealSongThemeTune real songs as entrance music]] like Wrestling/{{ECW}} did). WWE purchased EVOLVE and their video library in 2020 and haven't uploaded any of it, and there's plenty of other examples.
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** [[Wrestling/ScottHall Razor Ramon]] beat Wrestling/JeffJarrett in a ladder match for the IC title in May of 1995, then lost it back to Jarrett two nights later. Both of these matches happened on house shows in Quebec, if they were filmed WWE has never shown them. This was done to juice house show ticket sales. Strangely this happened to Jarrett again 4 years later, Wrestling/{{Edge}} beat him for the title at a house show in Toronto (which again has never been shown and may not have been filmed), Jarrett would get the title back the next night at the ''Fully Loaded'' PPV in Buffalo.
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* In the era before [=VCRs=] and cable television, many promotions (from tiny local promotions to those covering entire regions of the country) had their own syndicated programs. Until the late 1970s/early 1980s, videotape (for those promotions that could afford it) was an expensive commodity, meaning that once a show aired it was reused for taping a future week's show. That, plus the perceived lack of future interest in classic wrestling programs (some stations destroyed the films once aired) probably means that, except for those who are lucky enough to have preserved videotapes/films of the programs, the weekly syndicated programs of many promotions -- especially the smaller ones -- are forever lost to history.
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* In the era before [=VCRs=] and cable television, many promotions (from tiny local promotions to those covering entire regions of the country) had their own syndicated programs. Until the late 1970s/early 1980s, videotape (for those promotions that could afford it) was an expensive commodity, meaning that once a show aired it was reused for taping a future week's show. That, plus the perceived lack of future interest in classic wrestling programs (some stations destroyed the films once aired) probably means that, except for those who are lucky enough to have preserved videotapes/films of the programs, programs[[note]]Like Wrestling/JimCornette, who estimates he has over ''15,000 hours'' of territory wrestling video in his massive collection of wrestling memorabilia. This is believed to be the largest privately held collection of wrestling footage in the world, and likely the biggest period outside of [=WWE's=] video library[[/note]], the weekly syndicated programs of many promotions -- especially the smaller ones -- are forever lost to history.
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** Some larger independent promotions have syndicated shows that are only shown regionally, and may only be clip shows. Usually this isn't a big deal, but occasionally a really good match takes place, and with the exception of the live audience is never seen in full by anyone. (Usually, the matches are edited for time, placement of commercials and to remove "dull" moments.) The best example of one of these is an Wrestling/{{ECW}} match between Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri and Wrestling/{{Psicosis}}. For some background info - Psicosis was running out his WCW contract and planning to go to ECW, and the [[FanNickname mutants]] were very high on the possible matches. Psicosis and Tajiri outperformed even the mutants' expectations and put on a near-5star match. But... it aired on ECW's syndicated show instead of ECW on TNN, and the whole thing to date hasn't been seen, though the match can be found on the ''Extreme Championship Wrestling: Deep Impact'' DVD.
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** Some larger independent promotions have syndicated shows that are only shown regionally, and may only be clip shows. Usually this isn't a big deal, but occasionally a really good match takes place, and with the exception of the live audience is never seen in full by anyone. (Usually, the matches are edited for time, placement of commercials and to remove "dull" moments.) The best example of one of these is an Wrestling/{{ECW}} match between Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri and Wrestling/{{Psicosis}}. For some background info - Psicosis was running out his WCW contract and planning to go to ECW, and the [[FanNickname mutants]] mutants were very high on the possible matches. Psicosis and Tajiri outperformed even the mutants' expectations and put on a near-5star match. But... it aired on ECW's syndicated show instead of ECW on TNN, and the whole thing to date hasn't been seen, though the match can be found on the ''Extreme Championship Wrestling: Deep Impact'' DVD.
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* There are plenty of dark matches that are never recorded, but there are also some of these that have only happened once, between famous workers. Possibly the most infamous among the IWC is a match between Wrestling/BryanDanielson and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki on June 20, 2004, which was the only one-on-one match the two ever had and no footage of it is known to exist. Another such example that was intended to be filmed was an IWA-MS match between Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/CMPunk that was prevented by WWE refusing to allow it to be filmed.
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* There are plenty of dark matches that are never recorded, but there are also some of these that have only happened once, between famous workers. Possibly the most infamous among the IWC is a match between Wrestling/BryanDanielson and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki on June 20, 2004, which was the only one-on-one match the two ever had until October 2021, and no footage of it is known to exist. Another such example that was intended to be filmed was an IWA-MS match between Wrestling/EddieGuerrero and Wrestling/CMPunk that was prevented by WWE refusing to allow it to be filmed.
