Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

AEW Dynasty 2026

Note: Right, so this was written before last night’s Dynamite aired and stuff happened on that show that won’t be touched on here, but will be touched on this Sunday. So if this seems a tad out of date, that’s why and please, no spoilers. Thanks.

Right, so it’s more or less expected of me to produce some semblance of wrestling material on this blog to take advantage of the Road To Wrestlemania… which is full of potholes that would put all of Montreal Island and neighboring municipalities to shame. That, and my lack of interest in the current wrestling product also plays a bit of a role. However, my buddy who usually supplies me with DVD recordings of PPVs for the purposes of these PPV musings, decided to give me DVD-Rs of last weekend’s PPV offerings, Saturday’s TNA Rebellion show and Sunday’s AEW Dynasty show.

Having heard horror stories about the TNA show, I opted for the AEW show. Hey, if nothing else, I can expect that the MJF/Kenny Omega match is going to be a nice, clean affair that doesn’t involve a whole bunch of skewers sticking out of someone’s skull, which is all I need to go “No buys.” That, and if the show turns out to be good, I might give AEW another shot. Anything to keep my mind off the disaster plex that is WWE right now.

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WCW Superbrawl VI (1996)

Today is the day where we normally look at an episode of WCW Monday Nitro that aired three decades ago, only to find out that thirty years ago, there was no episode of Nitro because there was a pre-emption. While one would suggest this would be a good opportunity to check out what was going on on RAW around that same time… I decided to go for something more wholesome.

Even though we’re past that point, we haven’t watched Superbrawl VI, the PPV from a few weeks back. The one featuring Hulk Hogan and The Giant in a steel cage match as well as Ric Flair winning his 13th World title over Randy Savage… sorry if I spoiled the movie for anybody. Anyway, let’s get to it.

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WWE Elimination Chamber 2026

Happy one less hour of Daylight Daylight Savings time for those who follow it. And for those who don’t, I envy you.

A bit of a treat for you folks, as a recent stopover at a friend’s place during the week meant that we were able to watch the Elimination Chamber show from last week because they had a subscription and I don’t. We had very little to say on the show, skipping over most of the in-between stuff and if I’m being honest, I genuinely don’t care about anything that’s happening on this show nor do I particularly care about the road to a Wrestlemania that seems not only to be underperforming, but is also shaping up to be a show that has no potentially interesting match ups. I’ll post some thoughts, but I can sum it up in three words; dull and boring.

I’d normally throw a banner for this thing, but I honestly didn’t care enough about this show to whip one up, so you get mystery box thing instead.

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WCW Bash At The Beach 2000

Listen, I know I’m pinching things here by pushing both videos to a New Year’s Eve clusterfuck. And I realize that this isn’t a fair trade off… but trust me, I want these vids to actually be worthwhile. So it gets the extra time to cook. In the meantime… you get this piece of business, which surprised me more than anyone.

Right, so sometime last year, while I was doing my weekly Wednesday PPV musings, I did musings for WCW Mayhem 2000 and I had declared it the final WCW 2000 that I would ever watch. A little over a couple months later, I was kindly informed that in all the time I’ve been bitching over having to put up with every horrible WCW 2000 PPV and the utterly miserable time I’ve had watching these goddamned shows, I have never done a musings on the one show from that year that genuinely mattered in the long term of things.

At first, I dismissed the notion. Surely, that’s a mistake. Surely I must have d0ne a musings on that show and it’s possible that it never published. Sometimes, that sort of happens around here where I would have something ready to go and it wouldn’t launch on schedule… or god forbid, a post would launch before it was even ready to do so. So I did a quick check on things and sure enough… I had the one hole left in that WCW 2000 checklist.

And sure enough, it was the show.

Bash At The Beach 2000.

Cue the Cornette face because I ain’t doing a banner for this shitshow.

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WWE Survivor Series 2024

It’s Survivor Series…

WARGAMEZ!

From last year…

So yeah, full disclosure: I had this laying around last year and never got around to posting it, but since it’s around that time again, I’d figured why not. Here are my (very quick) musings on last year’s Survivor Series PPV, which featured the reunited Bloodline (led by Roman Reigns and also featuring CM Punk) and the Bloodline B-Team led by that Solo guy and a bunch of other Samoans that got signed from New Japan or something. If, a year after the fact, this is what I’m referring to that “other” Bloodline team, maybe it’s not as effective a storyline as some would suggest.

Also, yes, even though most of this was written last year and promptly forgotten about, there will be occasional notes to try and keep this more timely, as though it was written up on a few days ago as opposed to months prior or even a whole year previous.

Anyway, let us begin…

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WCW Halloween Havoc 1998

(Quick note: This was originally going to be posted in July, but then Hulk Hogan passed away and to publish musings on one of his worst outings would have been too soon… so I held it off until now, which is October and thus makes it appropriate for the time. My grace period over the Hulk Hogan Creative Control Card has ended. It’s back to the schlocking, which you can find more of in my weekly WCW Nitro musings posted every Thursday.)

Before anyone asks, yes, the entire show can be viewed on the WWE Vault YouTube Channel… for free, no less. And yes, before anyone else asks, yes, I’m skipping over the Fall Brawl ’98 PPV… one day, we’ll get to that one, but this one is the bigger deal.

So yes, consider this an out-of-season bonus for this final week of July before we start jumping into some recent PPVs that I’ve witnessed or am going to witness next month.

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WWE Evolution 2025

Yes, we’re doing the PPV musings early this week. Also, this is the last one for a while, as next Wednesday will begin my weekly visit to the first year of WCW Monday Nitro, which turns 30 next week. Hopefully, this run lasts longer than the NWA-TNA run did.

In any event, the people have wanted it and after almost a decade, WWE has delivered another all-women PPV event because we have an AEW megashow to counterprogram and we’re going to do that by swamping the weekend with all sorts of mediocre programming. Starting off with a run of the mill NXT show that featured a Slammiversary contract signing and nothing else of note unless you’re a regular NXT viewer – and I’m not – and then following that up with the latest Saturday Night’s Main Event, which featured GOLDBERG coming out of retirement to lose in his retirement match against GUNTHER and then getting cut off in the middle of his retirement speech.

And then there’s this show… which I’m only watching because I am genuinely curious to find out if there was any match that could match or surpass the superb All In match between Timeless Toni and Mercedes. This show that WWE pulled out of their ass purely for the sake of counter-programming AEW. I mean, let’s call a spade a spade. The only reason there was an Evolution PPV in the first place was to give the women something to do because they couldn’t wrestle in Saudi Arabia. Once that started to lighten up, there was no need for another Evolution… that and there was no Cold Ronda to build this show around.

So was there anything on this show that surpassed the All In match that I mentioned? The short answer is “maybe.” The long answer is the rest of this post.

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WWE Summerslam 2025

Sorry for the week delay on this show, kids… but you know how it is with these WWE PPVs that go fifteen hours… and then on top of that, you double it up. Anyhoo, it’s Summerslam 2025 – at the beginning of August so we can clash in Paris or something at the end of August… or is it Saudi Arabia? I’m not quite sure. All I know is that, unless one of these other “premium” shows boasts a card that’s worth my time, this will probably be my last WWE PPV musings for the year until next year’s Royal Rumble.

Yeah, sorry that I didn’t watch the Money In The Bank event from last month and that I would rather watch a bunch of crappy old WCW PPVs than a generally mid-level modern WWE PLE offering. Even moreso, I’m sorry that I’m not in the least bit interested in this John Cena retirement tour that went off the deep end when Dwayne interjected and then decided that his planet needed him or something. (No, Dwayne didn’t show up on this show… but someone else did; we’ll get to that.)

And yes, I did recycle the Buy One Get One Free banner of Ramblemania 41 for this year’s Summerslam as soon as I heard the announcement that they were going to make it a two-night event months ago. The fact that CM Punk would end up main eventing one of those nights was more of a happy coincidence.

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WCW Fall Brawl 1999

(Breaking the kayfabe here a bit, but this was written before the passing of Hulk Hogan. It’s been left as is, so if you’re not in the mood for anything but positive Hulkster vibes, best skip this one. Also, was planning on having this up much later this month, but… well… anyhoo…)

I wish I could say that the banner had a typo… but it’s WCW circa 1999, so…

Apparently, I still have this on DVD-R… and this is a vintage recording too. One of the few PPVs that I recorded onto VHS and would later transfer to DVD-R once I got my own DVD Recorder. It’s a fun time to be had by all, I’m sure.

To be honest with you, I’m not quite sure why I felt compelled to pull this one out. I realize that I had just watched Road Wild 1999 and… maybe I needed to remind myself of how long this Hulkamania ’99 run was going to continue (spoiler: it lasts until Russo came into play), but I figured since I had a copy of this on-screen, I might as well give it a watch.

Note to self: please do not indulge these needless and oftentimes dangerous diversions for the sake of your own sanity.

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