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If you're a wrestling fan, the WWE Network is a must. It's $9.99 a month, and for that price, you get every new WWE PPV and a glut of original content--mostly behind-the scenes interviews and feature documentaries. You get an archive of nearly every past WWE pay-per-view and every episode of Raw, Smackdown, and NXT. And you also get hours of archival footage from the old territory promotions, WCW, ECW, and more.

The WWE Network is nothing if not sprawling; there's no other repository of wrestling content like it. But even so, there are some things that are missing. Some of it just needs patience; it takes time and resources to rewatch and digitize these tapes, many of them decades old, before uploading them online. But the Network debuted back in 2014, and some of this stuff should have been uploaded by now. And some of it may never see the light of day.

Here are 12 things you can't find on the WWE Network, along with our guesses as to whether we'll ever be able to find them. If you liked this, check out our gallery on awful WWE fans. You can also read our predictions for WWE Summerslam, which airs live on the WWE Network on Sunday, August 19.

12. Episodes of WWF Superstars

Chances of Seeing It One Day: 50/50

For a kid growing up in the early '90s, WWF Superstars (1986-2001) was a Saturday morning staple. It was a TV show where new talent took on enhancement talent in one-sided fights, as a way getting them over as legitimate threats. A match between two full-timers was rare. And because stakes were so low, guys like the Brooklyn Brawler and Barry Horowitz (think Glass Joe) would actually look competitive. They still didn't win though.

WWF Superstars has nostalgic value but unfortunately, not a whole lot of historic value. And that means it's low on WWE's upload priority list, though the company almost certainly possess the tapes.

11. Plenty of Great Entrance Music

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Close to zero

Hillbilly Jim, whom WWE recently inducted into its Hall of Fame, had one of the catchiest entrance themes. It's called "Don't Go Messin' With a Country Boy," and you can listen to it here. But if you tune into any of his matches or any of the Godwinn tag matches (Jim was the Godwinns' manager), you'll hear a stock banjo track instead. "Country Boy," along with many other themes, is a casualty of music copyright laws. The track was not produced in-house, and thus, it was overdubbed with a different track to save on royalty costs.

This happens pretty often. The same thing happened to Sandman's ECW theme: Metallica's "Enter Sandman." For early Chris Jericho matches, WWE dubbed over Saliva's "King of My World" and replaced it with "Break The Walls."

Lots of special entrances have been dubbed over as well. The Undertaker's entrance at Wrestlemania 27, which used Johnny Cash's "Ain't No Grave," has been altered to use his "Phenom" theme. Salt-n-Pepa played Lawrence Taylor to the ring by singing "Whatta Man" at Wrestlemania XI; that's dubbed over too. And speaking of which...

10. Plenty of Live Musical Performances

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Close to zero

Several live musical performances from WWE events are missing too, probably due to the same copyright issues. You can still see Salt-N-Pepa in the Wrestlemania XI footage, but you can't hear them perform. If you're a Juggalo, you'll be disappointed to learn that the Insane Clown Posse's performance was removed from Summerslam (2008). Most disappointingly, The Rock's acoustic guitar concerts, from March and April 2003, have both been edited from their respective Raw episodes.

On the upside (depending on your perspective), Kid Rock's mini-concert at Wrestlemania 25 is still there, intact, in all its glory.

9. A Decent Search Function

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Possible

The WWE Network has a terrible search function; there's all this content but no way to view it in an organized manner. Say, for example, you search for Batista. It'll pull up all his appearances, but they'll be out of chronological order with no option to filter or sort them. His appearances on Raw, Smackdown, and PPVs are all jammed together.

The WWE also made Chris Benoit unsearchable. And although that's understandable, considering the heinous crime that he committed, it approaches a level of ridiculousness with the episode and match descriptions. For example, his match at Wrestlemania XX, during which he won the World Heavyweight Championship, is listed as "World Heavyweight Championship Match" with no mention of Triple H or Shawn Michaels, who were his opponents.

The best way to watch what you want is to use Google and then go to the desired match directly. That completely sidesteps the search function, which is currently more trouble than it's worth.

8. More Episodes of OVW/FCW

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Likely

OVW and FCW were the predecessors to NXT: developmental territories meant to train and hone the skills of WWE's future superstars.The first wave of OVW graduates was legendary: John Cena, Batista, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, Dolph Ziggler, Shelton Benjamin, and others. So it's disappointing that we can't watch any of their awkward growing pains on the Network.

But it took awhile to get all the NXT footage uploaded. So hopefully, now that that's finished, WWE can start uploading OVW/FCW content and recognizing its historical importance. We'd love to see Batista as the Demon of the Deep. And we'd love to see Cena as The Prototype, before he was the squeaky clean role model he is today.

7. Episodes of Stampede Wrestling

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Slim

The galling thing about Stampede Wrestling, the Canadian Hart-run promotion that included Bret Hart, Owen Hart, the recently passed Jim Neidhart, and the British Bulldog, is that it used to be on the WWE Network; the company had begun uploading its episodes in 2015.

But then, Bret Hart contacted WWE and informed them that he owned the rights to all footage of himself. WWE pulled everything, only a few days after putting it up. And since the episodes haven't gone up in the three years since then, it's seems likely that things will stay this way. If Bret wanted to make a deal, he would have done so by now.

6. A Wraparound Scroll Function On Consoles

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Possible

This isn't a major problem; it's more of a pet peeve. But the console app for the WWE Network needs some work. Currently, the only way to scroll through the PPVs and programming on the PS4 is from left to right. So, if you want to watch one of the Wrestlemanias (W), you have to click through every alphabetical PPV, starting with Armageddon (A).

This would be less of a pain if you could go left from "A," loop around, and end up at the end of the alphabet, but the App doesn't provide that option. And considering that the Big Four PPVs--Survivor Series (S), Royal Rumble (R), Wrestlemania (W), and Summerslam (S)--all occur at the end of the alphabet, it becomes irritating to constantly click through this entire list. There should be a better way.

5. The "McMahon" DVD

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Unlikely

In 2008, WWE released a self-congratulatory DVD entitled McMahon, which gave a personal, yet highly sanitized biography of the McMahon family and Vince K. McMahon's rise to power and infamy in sports entertainment. The first disc is a documentary, with exclusive interviews with the McMahon family and members of his inner circle. The second disc is a collection of Mr. McMahon matches, mostly from the Attitude Era, when his evil boss character was at its peak.

At the time, it was criticized for its defensive posturing over hot button issues, such as territorial disputes from the old days, the high-profile steroid scandal, and the XFL. Today, it's been largely forgotten and is nowhere to be found on the Network. Perhaps, Vince decided that defending against a scandal made him look more culpable than ignoring or repressing it entirely. Or maybe it's Stephanie and Shane McMahon talking about their dad's proposed incest storyline that doesn't sit well with WWE.

4. That Ultimate Warrior Hatchet Job

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Close to zero

For years, the Ultimate Warrior was on the outs with WWE. And during this time, Vince McMahon produced an in-house documentary titled, The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. It was, in short, a one-sided slam piece;everyone from Hulk Hogan to Ric Flair to Vince McMahon himself discussed how mentally unbalanced, petty, and untalented Warrior was.

But Warrior would later reconcile with the company. Then he died, mere days after accepting an induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. Since then, WWE has tried to bury this negative documentary, even creating a newer, complimentary documentary in its place. But assuming that his widow, Dana Warrior, doesn't have a falling out with the company, the original documentary is never coming back.

3. Lots and Lots of Compilation DVDs and Video Cassettes

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Likely

There's a metric ton of compilation tapes that are missing from the Network. Back in the day, WWE released these with regularity through Coliseum Videos, with titles like Bloopers, Bleeps, and Bodyslams. And later, after Coliseum Videos became WWE Home Video, WWE continued to release themed tapes often focused on a single superstar.

WWE is uploading them slowly--the latest Coliseum uploads arrived this past July. Aside from bumper footage by Gorilla Monsoon, lots of this footage can be found piecemeal on the Network; you can make your own personal mixtape of favorite matches and moments. But if you want to relive watching the VHS tape that you wore out 10-year-old, you might have to wait awhile longer.

2. The Chris Benoit Tribute Show

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Never

WWE learned that Chris Benoit and his family died on a Monday, hours before Raw went live. And the company decided, without yet knowing all the facts, to cancel Raw and air a three-hour tribute to Benoit in its the place. When WWE finally found out (right around the time the show was wrapping up) that Benoit had perpetrated the deaths, they began erasing Benoit from the company's institutional memory. And this tribute was forgotten.

But there are still some recordings online, and the show is a fascinating cultural artifact if you take the time to hunt for it. Several superstars, including Edge, CM Punk, and Chavo Guerrero, shared their fond memories of Benoit. William Regal, on the other hand, seemed to sense something was amiss, and he deferred his praise to a later date.

We'll never see this on the Network. And that's probably for the best.

1. The Over The Edge (1999) PPV (Unedited)

Chances of Seeing It One Day: Never

It's the most infamous WWE PPV of all time; Owen Hart died during the Over The Edge (1999) live broadcast from a failed stunt, during which he fell into the ring from the top of the arena. WWE made the controversial decision to continue the PPV in spite of it.

To be clear, there is a version of this PPV on the Network. But it is heavily edited from its original state; there is no mention of Owen Hart at all, during the entire broadcast. The only acknowledgement of him is a still shot before the PPV, stating that he died during its taping.

On the original, unedited live feed, there were several segments where Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler updated the viewers on Owen's condition, finally announcing his death near the end of the show. Several wrestlers also mention him in their pre-match promos.

We'll never see this on the Network; it would be ghoulish to profit from such a horrible tragedy. But if you do manage to find a bootleg copy of the unedited, original broadcast online, you'll see, very vividly what Owen meant to everyone who worked alongside him.