New WWE PPV TMDB Import Loophole

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Hi @Sonply- I’d like to bring up a loophole that is starting to be problematic going forward for wrestling PPV requiring IMDB-ID. This has already happened a few times.

Here’s the scenario:

TMDB users are creating the PPV entries in TMDB which is named correctly and tagged correctly with IMDB-IDs. But then after these PPV’s gets imported into Trakt, they rename the title to it’s respective post shows, then let it refresh in Trakt, then they remove the IMDB-ID.

https://trakt.tv/movies/wwe-wrestlemania-42-saturday-post-show-2026

https://trakt.tv/movies/wwe-wrestlemania-42-sunday-2026

I only know this because I’ve added these to my watchlist, then recently it got updated to reflect the post show.

Then they re-created new entries for the actual PPV.

I assume now, the actual PPV entries will have issues importing into trakt…

is there a workaround for this? seems like it’s a real mess. Now to make it worse, IMDB seems to have only one entry for WWE Wrestlemania 42 now, so I can’t update it in TMDB.

It seems like now, it’s more of a headache to be able to track my watching of wrestling PPV :frowning:

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This new change is a colossal mess for WWE. This isn’t the only problem.

IMDB does not have 2 separate entries for 2 night PPVs. WrestleMania 37 for example only has Night 1. IMDB is also inconsistent with WWE PPVs and has some added as series. SummerSlam for example. 2025 isn’t on Trakt. It can’t be with this new system.

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yea what a mess…

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Hi,
We currently don’t have a way to manually import movies without the IMDB ID, but we will add a way to import those pages based on cases like this, were the listing at TMDB and IMDB is different (having 2 pages at TMDB and 1 at IMDB).
I’ve removed the ID from the post show page at TMDB and added it to WWE WrestleMania 42 - Saturday. Since it now has the ID, it should import normally in a few hours. The second page will need to be imported when we create that alternative option.