Classic Wrestling PPVs – Page 2

WWA: The Revolution (2002 Australian PPV)

Yesterday, I posted musings from a 2001 Pay-Per-View produced by the long-defunct World Wrestling All-Stars, a promotion out of Australia that gathered most of the former WWF, WCW, and ECW stars not working for Vince at the time. Since I’m trying to maintain some semblance of a theme here, let’s do the next one.

Airing February 24th, 2002 out of the Aladdin Casino Center in Las Vegas – essentially a theatre – The Revolution is the second WWA PPV to be broadcast and the first to emanate from U.S. soil. It is also the only WWA event that took place in North America, which isn’t a particularly good sign for a promotion hoping to provide an alternate to the only other major promotion in the continent.

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The Infamous Heroes Of Wrestling PPV From 1999

Heroes of Wrestling.

If those three words don’t mean anything to you, then chances are you weren’t around when this special event took place in 1999, during the height of professional wrestling’s most lucrative period. A time when professional wrestling was at its hottest peak and was pretty much all over the place whether you liked it or not. If those words do mean anything to you… bless thy hearts.

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WWA: The Inception (2001 PPV)

The year is 2001. The World Wrestling Federation had acquired the assets of fledgling rival promotion World Championship Wrestling, Philidelphia outfit Extreme Championship Wrestling went bankrupt, and suddenly there is a tremendous void in the wrestling stratosphere for an alternative to Vince McMahon’s wrestling monopoly, as well as a bunch of name talents not employed by the WWF. As such, there were attempts to gather these talents and build a promotion out of them in an effort to provide that much needed alternative… to mixed results.

One of these promotions was World Wrestling All-Stars, an Australian touring outfit run by concert promoter Andrew McManus. Signing a bunch of well-known names such as Jeff Jarrett, Brian “Road Dogg” James, and Bret Hart among others, the promotion would embark on an international tour of live events. Some of these live events were made into Pay-Per-View shows… with the first of these dubbed “The Inception.”

The Inception took place on October 26th, 2001, but didn’t make North American PPV markets until January 2nd, 2002. The WWA would eventually produce five PPV events in total before being shuttered in 2003. This week, we’ll be looking at all five PPV events.

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