For those out of the loop, the WWE recently confirmed rumors that Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling would be coming to the WWE Network. While no official date was given, it was promoted in the collections information that New Classic Content would be updated to reflect the January classic content drop. This excited many, however there was some curiosity as to how this drop would occur. Usually the month’s classic content is actually added throughout the latter half of the prior month, then promoted for that full month. For example, if NXT was added quietly in November, the WWE would promote it as December’s classic content. Despite that pattern, as of December 27th we still haven’t seen any episodes land. So what’s the story?

Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling is currently being prepped and dated for a January 8th, 2018 release. In fact, as of the release of this article around twenty episodes are already being prepared for that date from the years 1981-1982, and we’re still over a week and a half away. This likely indicates the entire drop of nearly 100 episodes will arrive at one time. While this isn’t common, the service has done something like this before. In June the WWE Network prepped WWE ECW episodes and released the entire month’s drop at once on July 10th.

This also likely points to the New Classic Content collection not being updated until January 8th as well. Their article releasing the news of January’s collections were a bit vague with dating, noting that playlists were arriving on January 1st but those being made available on the first are likely just the first three parts of the gigantic RAW anniversary set. The WWE has not confirmed officially when the New Classic Content collection will be updated, so there is always the possibility it does indeed happen on the 1st, but with the shows all dated for January 8th that seems unlikely.

So what do you think? Are you excited to see Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and the build to the first ever Starrcade? If not, what time period would you be more excited to see content from? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below while anticipation builds for this classic content drop.

As always, stick to WWE Network News for the latest WWE Network news, rumors, reviews, and more!