Here’s something a bit different; WWE Network had recently uploaded the American Wrestling Association’s fourth and final Superclash supercard show thing onto the service as a hidden gem. This was a show that was believed to have never been televised, but leave it to the folks over at the Network to dig up this tremendous gem for the masses to witness the slow, decaying death of the AWA.
This show took place on April 8th, 1990 from the St. Paul Civic Center in Minnesota.
AEW’s fourth show and second PPV event took place a few weeks ago and due to scheduling conflicts, I was unable to catch the show. From all accounts, I’ve heard mixed reactions. Some really enjoyed the show, while others were lukewarm on it and then you had the few who feel the shine has worn off on all things All Elite. I had bought the Double Or Nothing PPV and enjoyed it, but after two less-than-stellar outings in Fyter Fest and Fight For The Fallen, I was hesitant in forking down another sixty dollars.
As it turned out, a buddy of mine had somehow managed to record the show to DVD-R, thus proving that I’m not the only one with a DVD recording device and offered to lend me his copy for viewing. I thanked him and promised that I’d watching the show over the weekend and return his copy promptly.
Turned out this took me a week and a half to sit through… not a good sign for what is essentially sixty dollars spent on a wrestling show.
So, in an effort to try and get some sleep, I watched the last WWE PPV and fell asleep right after the Women’s tag-title match… so that clearly got the job done. For the most part, the show was boring and sleep-inducing; hence why I preferred to talk about an old WCW PPV that was terrible for my Wednesday PPV musings over a WWE PPV that was boring. Not because it was better, but because the WWE write-up would’ve been several lines of “So-so beat so-so in a match to retain or win some title. Boring.”
Oh… so you want me to go through that? Okay…
So after some period of inactivity and revisiting old Summerslam PPVs, we’re bringing back the wrestling PPV musings on Wednesday afternoons. And what better show to kick off this new session of weekly incoherent musings on old shows than to check out an old WCW PPV from the year 2000, built on the premise of Goldberg refusing to follow a script.
Good old WCW in the year 2000; an absolute clusterfuck of an era where nothing goes write and every week, a new contender for worst wrestling program on television is crowned.
I don’t think it should surprise anyone that it would take this long for me to post musings on the most recent of Summerslams. In a way, it makes sense because of the whole count-up experience, but generally, this is done because I split the viewing experience over several days. This was one of the easier shows to sit through. It was long, sure, but it didn’t feel like a chore and I didn’t feel like saving the rest for later. That’s a good thing.
So, here’s the deal. I did a VLOG thing on this show when it came out and I seem to recall enjoying the show for the most part. However, it’s been six years and with some time passing, I thought it’d be appropriate to revisit
For anyone interested, my thoughts on this show circa 2013 can be found here. Time has certainly changed certain mindsets, so let’s get to it.
Early 2012 saw the return of Brock Lesnar, who decimated John Cena in spectacular fashion in his first WWE match since 2004… and then Cena overcame the odds and beat Brock, because WWE ruins everything. Now it’s Summerslam, where Brock faces off against Triple H a.k.a. McSon-In-Law.
Might as well get it over with.
Another day, another year, another Summerslam, another John Cena vs. Randy Orton match, another reason to use the above image and tagline yet again… joy.
Title says it all… but the real question is whether it’s any good.
Answers behind the break.
Featuring the main event of John Cena Vs. Randy Orton… I believe this was their 2,486th match in a long-running series of 286,839,129 matches… I could be off in my count by a couple hundred, but I digress.
Also, the return of McSon-In-Law… let’s get to it quickly.
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