Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

AEW Dynamite (Rest Of July and a bit beyond)

So here’s a bit of catch-up from the past couple episodes of Dynamite since… well, it’s not worth doing individual posts for episodes from the prior month. I’m not going to point out every single piece of business on the shows, just the notable bits.

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NXT Takeover: In Your House (June 2020)

Yeah, so I wasn’t going to watch this show. Partly due to the WWE PPV moratorium that’s becoming as enforced as a WWE stipulation, but also because I haven’t watched much NXT as of late and the thought of having to sit through another one of these sad empty arena PPVs didn’t see well with me, especially after how I felt about the last one. However, some folks I knew who watched the show told me good things about it and given the choice between this and the Extreme Rules debacle  that I’ve heard less than good things about, I didn’t have to think hard

Besides, with all the In Your House PPVs in the bag in some form or fashion, I might as well put a cap by watching this throwback. And this is definitely a throwback in terms of theme and such.

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AEW Dynamite (July 15th, 2020): Fight For The Fallen 2020

A week after their 2-night Fyter Fest from an empty Daily’s Place, AEW held their Fight For The Fallen show on an episode of Dynamite, where proceeds to T-shirts would to COVID relief efforts, keeping in line with the charitable nature of the event. We’re getting a World title match on this show that we didn’t get the week prior due to COVID related reasons.

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AEW Dynamite (July 1st and 8th, 2020): Fyter Fest 2020

Full disclaimer: I had these written back in July shortly after the shows took place, but because of the self-imposed moratorium in regards to wrestling-related material, they were obviously not posted until now. So if there is no reference to anything that came afterwards (title changes and whatnots), that’s why… and the same goes for tomorrow’s Fight For The Fallen.

With July over and done, the moratorium is lifted and we begin the week recapping a couple big Dynamite shows, continue with a general follow-up post on Wednesday, do this week’s episode, and eventually follow up with some thoughts on this past weekend’s big Talk-N-Shop-A-Mania show.

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Power Rangers Reflections #23 – Grid Connection (Bite-Sized Edition)

Yes, I’m going to talk about that episode of Beast Morphers that features a crossover between the Dino Charge, Dino Thunder, and original Mighty Morphin brand of Power Rangers that hasn’t aired yet.

How is this possible?

Well, someone uploaded the big crossover episode of Beast Morphers onto Facebook and I was able to watch it because it aired in the UK while we have to wait until Nick feels like airing them and I’d have to wait another year before they show up on Netflix. By the way, because this hasn’t aired around these parts as of yet, there’s a good chance people haven’t seen the episode and it goes without saying that there be some spoilers, even if I’m not really going to touch on the plot of the episode all that much for reasons that will evident after the break.

SPOILERS AFTER THE BREAK…

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WWF In Your House #19 – D-Generation X (December 1997)

So last month, you had Survivor Series ’97. The big screwjob in Montreal that saw Shawn Michaels win the WWF Championship in controversial fashion and resulted in Bret Hart getting a less than regal exit from the promotion. We’ve covered that show here.

The following month, you’ve got the 1998 Royal Rumble, with the Rumble match itself being won by Stone Cold Steve Austin as the first step in his ascent to the top of the WWF mountain, while Shawn Michaels would retain the WWF title over the Undertaker thanks to Kane’s interference. This match is also where Shawn would hurt his back, forcing him to retire for four years and miss out on the WWF’s most profitable period at that time. We’ve also covered that show here.

In between both those shows, we have this In Your House: D-Generation X PPV to close out 1997. Because if the nWo had their own PPV, then surely DX deserved one too. They were the new hotness afterall.

Sadly, much like the nWo PPV, the DX IYH kinda sucks. Not only that, but it’s not exactly a memorable show, either. nWo Souled Out felt different and unique; this was the usual bad WWF show that I would’ve expected from the bad ol’ Diesel days… hey, maybe there’s a correlation.

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WWF In Your House #17 – Ground Zero (September 1997)

We’re skipping three PPVs because I’ve already covered them and there’s not much else I could add to the musings, so check those out yourself.

So this is a pretty historic PPV in the history of In Your House for two significant reasons. The first reason being that it was the final WWF PPV to use that In Your House set, as subsequent PPVs would feature their own set-ups down the road and the In Your House name would be a less emphasize moniker that would eventually be phased out in a couple years. The second reason that Ground Zero is significant is because it’s the first time an In Your House branded show would be roughly three hours.

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