Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WCW Halloween Havoc 1993

So we have another Halloween Havoc PPV one year later, featuring the Spin The Wheel Make The Wheel concept. So let’s have a look at that before we dive into the NXT iteration… soon enough, I suppose.

Oh yeah, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the wonderful little opening mini-movie featuring a bunch of kids going to a creepy house and being greeted by a really creepy Tony Schiavone, who pulls off his face to reveal a much hairier face to scare off the kids. I’m amazed that in all the years of modern face technology, nobody bothered to replace the fake wolf mask thing with Tony Schiavone’s face circa 2020. Wouldn’t THAT be a hoot.

Anyway, on with the show…

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WCW Halloween Havoc 1992

So… in preparation for this week’s NXT show – featuring another edition of Spin The Wheel Make the Deal – I decided to revisit the WCW show responsible for its infamous reputation and that is Halloween Havoc 1992. Tomorrow, we’ll be look at the 1993 edition that also featured the second ever STWMTD match before the concept was shelved forever and never seen again until a couple times when WWE would bring it back as RAW Roulette or whatever they used to call it.

Anyway, onwards with the show, as it were.

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WWF Vengeance 2001

This is spur of the moment stuff… and yes, I’m using the new Blogger gimmick as the old (good) Legacy version has been excised for good. And I am none too happy about it. But speaking of old, AEW recently celebrated 30 years of Chris Jericho and it was a good show that was dominated by CODY. So instead of writing about that, we’re going to muse about that one WWF PPV where Chris Jericho beat The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin on the same night and was eventually made to look like a total jabroni, afterwards.

It is Vengeance 2001… named as such because we couldn’t use Armageddon since 9/11 was a thing fresh in everyone’s mind. The main story is the unification of the WWF and WCW World titles, even though they just called it the “World title” because WCW was no longer a thing, as this was a month removed from the end of that awful Invasion storyline.

Let’s get to it…

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TNA Impact Wrestling Slammiversary 2020

So Impact Wrestling… is still alive.

Now that we got that out of the way, seems that in addition to WWE and AEW, Impact Wrestling is also still producing wrestling shows. Unlike WWE and AEW, Impact is still running empty arena shows, otherwise known as TNA House Shows… hence the above Mick Foley quote that was posted ages ago. Just goes to show that even with nobody watching, Impact is still in business doing shows. That promotion will last longer than anyone else worth a damn.

But I digress… we’re taking a look at their Slammiversary show from July of this month. This was apparently a big deal as it was pushed around the idea of some future endeavored WWE guys potentially showing up on this PPV. Fun fact: this ran on a Saturday, allowing WWE to run their Extreme Rules PPV the next night which promised an eyeball popping (that didn’t happen) and a swamp fight (which also didn’t happened and we got another “wacky” Wyatt skit). We’re not touching that show because I haven’t seen it.

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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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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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