Wrestleview.com WWE officially announced the launch of the WWE Network on Wednesday night in Las Vegas as part of CES 2014. Vince McMahon, Michelle Wilson, Stephanie McMahon, Paul “Triple H” Levesque, Shawn Michaels, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, Perkins Miller, Bob Bowman (President and CEO of MLB Advanced Media) and John Cena were all part of the announcement discussing the launch of the new network.

Here is a brief breakdown highlighting the announcement:

* The network will be provided as an online streaming service only.

* Launch date: February 24, 2014 at 11:05 p.m. Eastern (10:05 CT) after RAW.

* Price: $9.99 per month.

* All 12 WWE Pay Per View events will be included with the service beginning with Wrestlemania 30 on April 6 live from New Orleans.

* A six month commitment of $9.99 ($60) is required to gain access to all 12 PPV events.

* Over 300 PPV events will stream on demand including WWE, WCW and ECW.

* Television programming will also be provided on demand including RAW and Smackdown.

* The WWE Network will be provided on desktops, laptops, WWE App (Android and iOS), XBOX, PS3 and PS4, Roku and more outlets.

* Canada, UK, Northern Europe and the North Atlantic, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong are listed as future locations for the launch in late 2014, early 2015.

* Original programming announced includes NXT, WWE Legends House, Wrestlemania Rewind, WWE Countdown and Monday Night War (RAW vs. Nitro).

I admit it. I have always loved professional wrestling, from the days of Hulk Hogan when I was a kid, straight through today.

I loved wrestling when it was cool when I was a little kid, I closeted loved wrestling when it became lame as I got older, and could not have been any happier than when the NWO, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock made professional wrestling mainstream cool again. I went to Wrestlemania last year, and RAW recently, I’m a full out of the closet wrestling fan.

There are plenty of Sunday nights today when I have this internal monologue:

“What am I going to watch tonight? What’s the Sunday Night Baseball game? Ugh. Rockies and Diamondbacks. There is nothing on. I guess I’ll watch baseball or something. OH WAIT, SUMMERSLAM IS TONIGHT!!! But it is going to cost me $50, and it might suck, and my girlfriend wants to watch television too. Screw it. I’ll just watch baseball.

Those days are gone. Now I can simply and discretely fire up my iPad, and I can stream the Pay-Per-Views live for just $10 per month.

Plus there are so many drunken weekends when my friends and I are sitting around watching a game and discussing how awesome “Macho Man” Randy Savage was or talking about a Ric Flair promo from back in the day, well with the whole WWE Classics Library On Demand through this same subscription, I can simply pull up footage of that moment.

This is going to be epic, every wrestling fan in America and eventually worldwide is going to sign up for this service, and there are a lot more of is than people think.

This is why Vince McMahon is such a mogul, he is one step ahead of all of the rest of sports entertainment, do not be surprised if the UFC and even other professional sports leagues are offering similar services shortly. Once again, everyone else is playing checkers and Vince McMahon is playing chess, time for everyone else to catch up.