Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WCW/nWo Road Wild 1998

Yes, this is the one that you’re waiting for me to revisit, isn’t it?

The one with Jay “Big Jaw” Leno.

You know, contrary to past claims, I’m not quite as dreading this revisit. It’s been well over a decade since I last touch this thing. On the one hand, I don’t expect this to be a better show. If anything, I’m expect this to be as bad as I remember it.

On the other hand, though, I have seen considerably more WCW material in the past two years alone and certainly enough that I might have something more to add to this show longer after my last viewing. Does the additional exposure to WCW in recent time, thus making some of this stuff as fresh as it was back in the day, does that give me new appreciation for this show and perhaps see in softer eyes? Or is it the same old shit that I perceived it to be ages ago? Or… maybe it’s gotten worse?

Only one way to find out, I suppose.

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WCW Road Wild 1997

Once again, I’m revisiting a show that I already touched on just three years previously… but now I bring added thoughts and context, especially after having seen the prior month’s Bash At The Beach show as well as the 100th episode of Nitro that saw Lex Luger defeat Hollywood Hogan for the WCW World title.

To tell you the truth, there’s not a whole lot to this show that I could really add on a second viewing.

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WCW Hog Wild 1996

So we’re going to do something special this month?

Yes, I’ve already did musings on all these shows. Hell, I did musings for both this and Road Wild ’97 roughly THREE YEARS AGO and honestly, there’s not much that I could add in terms of context. However, I haven’t seen Road Wild 98 (the one with Jay “Big Jaw” Leno) in a decade and Road Wild 99 was last touched on in 2018… so I figured, why not give these things another watch with a fresh set of eyes.

So yes, the first event was called Hog Wild, but licensing concerns with the Harley Davison group prompted the next event to be called Road Wild. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the poster/VHS cover for this show, which prominently featured a red-and-yellow clad Hulkster flexing on his bike – something that would be a stark contrast to how Hogan would appear in this show.

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WCW Bash At The Beach 1997

Who wants to watch another WCW PPV with me?

Yeah, so it’s another Bash At The Beach show… this time, with Hollywood Hogan and Dennis Rodman teaming up against the Giant and Lex Luger. This was successful enough to warrant another Hogan/Rodman team up at the following year’s Bash show, which I do recall watching live. It was largely horrible. So I don’t know. I heard that this one was better, so why not give it a shot? (We’ll keep 98’s Beach Blast on reserve for now and go for another show next week… unless I end up in a foul mood between now and then.)

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WCW Bash At The Beach 1994

Why am I watching a show featuring Hulk Hogan?

Well, we’re looking at old WCW shows. It’s bound to happen anyway… and besides, I never actually SAW this show and it’s one of my DVD recordings from when WWE Network was a channel on TV that I could record stuff off of. And so here we are… so if this pops up on the WCW Youtube channel somewhere along the way, that’s probably the best way to check this show out because otherwise… eh…

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AEW Double Or Nothing 2025

Your eyes do not deceive. It’s a PPV Musings on a recent AEW Pay-Per-View event.

In all honesty, this shouldn’t be much of a surprise. While it’s no secret that I haven’t been a fan of the general creative direction that AEW has been going on in recent months, I’d be lying if I said that there were some efforts made in trying to steer the ship right. And also, regardless of my feelings on the current AEW product, watching Double Or Nothing has become something of a tradition going back to the very first event back in 2019. If nothing else, I’d like to keep that tradition going similar to how some friends I know, who largely gave up on wrestling years ago, will still make a point to watch Wrestlemania every year… though some couldn’t keep up with the two-night Buy One Get One free set-up, but that’s okay.

With that having been said, I’d be lying if I said that this year’s Double Or Nothing event felt like a complete afterthought. What was once one of their big tentpole events has basically become the equivalent of a B-level PPV event as we gear up for All In from Texas in July. This year’s Double Or Nothing is a bit of a milestone, as it is the first event since the 2022 edition NOT to emanate from the traditional home of Las Vegas – which just hosted the 5-night Buy One, Get One free extravaganza known as Wrestlemania 41 headlined by Cold Manipulator Punk, but rather from Glensdale, Arizona… who once hosted a hockey team here.

Still, there was some fun stuff to look forward to here and also… well, let’s not jump ahead here and instead dive into this one… off the deep end, Mr. Scott.

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WCW Superbrawl IV

Before anyone asks, I have yet to watch the Double Or Nothing show, though I did get the replay and will probably do so this weekend. If I do, expect a write-up for next week. In the meantime, however, we’ve got another WCW PPV event from 1994 uploaded onto the free WCW YouTube channel… will wonders never cease? Well, they did if you’re watching this show, which is best served as a precursor to WCW’s later (and far better) Spring Stampede ’94 PPV event. Still, this one isn’t all bad, is it?

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WWE Judgment Day 2002

Well, it’s the first World Wrestling Entertainment PPV after the World Wide Fund For Nature sent their legal pandas against the former World Wrestling Federation and took back its WWF initials, so now we’ve got WWE. And while that brand would be synonymous with the premier brand in sports entertainment, back in the day, it was off to a rocky start, especially since the Hulk Hogan nostalgia run was over and done with.

So in our previous PPV outing, Hollywood Hulk Hogan defeated McSon-In-Law to win his sixth WWF/E Championship while Undertaker defeated Stone Cold Steve Austin to earn himself the next PPV shot at the title.

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WWF Backlash 2002

“Hulkamania is alive! Well, so is communism in China and crotch rot,
and no one’s real thrilled about them, either.”
Scott Keith, 2002

Someone had sent a question via the question box gimmick on the blog’s side bar thing about how I had felt when Hulk Hogan had won the WWF Championship in 2002.

For those who need context, WWF Wrestlemania X-8 featured the marquee match of The Rock facing off against Hollywood Hulk Hogan, where the heel Hogan was cheered by the Toronto crowd while the normally babyface Rock was booed heavily. This resulted in a resurgence of popularity that saw Hogan break away from the WWF version of the nWo (another story for another time), bring back Jimi Hendrix as an entrance theme (before it got redubbed with Real American in the replays), and go back to the ol’ red and yellow… while keeping the Hollywood Hogan five o’clock shadow. This nostalgia run, as it were, somehow resulted in a PPV main event that saw Hogan challenge for the Undisputed WWF Championship, which was being held by McSon-In-Law, who won the title at Mania from Chris Jericho in what can be generously described as an anemic main event.

The thought then occurred to me that it’s been years since I’ve seen the Backlash show in which that match took place. And while the WWE Network is kaput, the show is on Netflix… but I also have my old DVD recording of the PPV from back in the day and since I prefer Voodoo Child over Real American as a Hogan theme – hell, I’d take American Made over Real American – I went with that instead.

And yes, I will get this out of the way. Backlash 2002 is a largely terrible show because WWF in 2002 was the drizzling shits that wouldn’t get better… but at the very least, it gives me stuff to talk about. Granted, I could have watched the Backlash show that took place last weekend, but really, other than the 738,909,251,831,862,583,019th match between John Cena and Randy Orton,  there was nothing on that show that made me go, “Yes, I want to watch this.” So you get this, instead.

See? We both suffer… that’s how life works around here. Anyway, moving right along…

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