So we’re going to spend the rest of the year (pretty much) going through all xx Bound For Glory events, from the very first event in 2005 to (possibly) this year’s event. There’s a couple that we’ll probably skip since I’ve already done those and I think those musings hold up… but that leaves us with a bunch more to look at.
And who knows? Maybe I’ll give you all a break and give you something else to watch.
Yes, I saw Double Or Nothing… and yes, I also saw last night’s Dynamite. The latter gets musings tomorrow while the former… is what you’re reading right now. A bunch of folks had a get together on Monday that included a repeat viewing of Double Or Nothing, which is how I got to watch the show. Admittedly, there were moments where I had to step out for a bit, so I didn’t catch the whole show, but I did catch enough of it to say that I enjoyed most of what I saw. And also, it wasn’t as much of a drag as I’ve heard Wrestlemania was, which confirmed my decision to avoid that show.
Yes, there are the usual problems. Egregriously long runtimes and too many wrestling matches to remember – though in fairness, if TOO MUCH WRESTLING on your WRESTLING SHOW ends up being your biggest problem, that’s not necessarily a bad thing, now is it?
So, here we are… the eighth annual Double Or Nothing PPV event now airing from Queens, New York rather than Jacksonville or Las Vegas or some other rich place. Honestly, I appreciate AEW going to other places for their PPVs rather than sticking with the old standbys of diminishing returns. They need to get it through their skulls that they are not New Japan, they are never booking WrestleKingdom, and they can never do what that show does in making the Tokyo Dome a permanent home for any one event. Hopefully next year, we can stop making Wembley a thing and book next year’s All In someplace else… perhaps Saud… wait, never mind, bad idea.
Anyway, on witht the show.
This PPV musings is brought to you by Pat MacAfee… who is unrelated to the AntiVirus Software brand… which is also quite dreadful, if I’m being honest.
So for those who missed the AEW Dynasty musings this past Thursday, I mentioned that my buddy supplied me with DVD recordings of last weekend’s PPV offerings for me to watch and possibly do musings on. I dug Dynasty quite a bit, enough that I planned on watching Dynamite and actually have it playing in the background as I’m typing this Rebellion musings.
I’ve heard horrid things about this TNA show, though to be honest with you, with the exception of one or two matches, I didn’t think this was all that bad… but let’s dive in for a bit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, so in one of those rare instances where I gave Netflix a premium for a month of divesting its material, I took the time to throw up the Survivor Series PPV from this past weekend on the telly. It’s in a stadium setting, which is nice. The show itself, on the other hand…
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…
(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.
