Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WCW Spring Stampede 1994

So back in March, WWE started up a WCW Youtube channel and they’re in the process of uploading all the old WCW shows and some of the key matches. Yes, you can watch old Nitros, old Thunders, and even old PPVs in their entirety… for free. What a world we live in… and so we’re diving into that magical bag of goodness and checking out the 1994 edition of WCW Spring Stampede, featuring the main event of Ric Flair defending his WCW World title against Ricky Steamboat in what I believe was their last-ever encounter.

It’ll be a surprise for most of you to know that in all the years I’ve been doing this PPV musings on this blog, I’ve only ever touched one Spring Stampede event and that was the last one in 2000. It’s also entirely possible that I might have another Stampede or two on VHS somewhere, so maybe we’ll give those a look one of these days if I can find them, but otherwise, it gives me an excuse to dive back into vintage WCW big boys playing with each other professional wrestling from 1994… by which I mean, early-1994, before Hulk Hogan came along and everything started to be built around his orange ass.

Let’s get on with this, shall we? I’m genuinely excited…

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WCW Battlebowl 1993

For some reason, I felt like watch WCW Battlebowl 1993 – a show that I have on DVD-R because I had recorded off the WWE Network back when it was a channel on TV in Canada. I never got around to watching this one and it sort of languished in the archives until recently… and so here we are.

Anyway, WCW Battlebowl was a thing that they did one time and never did again. The idea of Battlebowl had existed previously in prior Starrcade PPVs, but this was the first and only time that WCW had expanded the idea into its own PPV. And there’s a good reason for that.

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Ramblemania 41

“If you think the grass is so green on the other side, be my guest. Go ahead. Leave. Main event night four of a buy-one-get-one-free extravaganza and then get released faster than you last in the sack.”
CM Punk, AEW Dynamite – January 5th, 2022

You know… sometimes, it doesn’t take a whole lot of thought.

When word broke that CM Punk was finally getting his Wrestlemania main event, that line immediately popped to mind and the banner for this event soon followed. It just comes together on its own without needing to break my head over these things… and look, I’m not going to begrudge Punk. This was something he wanted and I’m glad that he’s getting that chance as well as the fat paycheck that comes with it. At the same time… how do I not go along with that?

I’m sure some folks will be riled up. Others will more likely not give a shit.

In any event, Wrestlemania took place this past weekend and I suppose I should be thankful that I was able to watch this at home instead of a hospital bed. Admittedly, I wasn’t too excited for this one. You had the main events to look forward to, but everything felt like stuff booked to fill time. Still, it’s that time where everyone puts on their absolute best and… well, we’ll see if they actually went ahead and did that.

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WWE Payback 2020

I said I needed a palette cleanser… I’m not sure that this qualifies, but hey, it’s a WWE PPV from the Thunderdome. And quite a notable one, for it is the first PPV main event for the returning Roman Reigns, who would make waves on the go-home edition of Smackdown by aligning himself with the former advocate of Brock Lesnar and future wiseman, Paul Heyman.

That’s right, kids. This is where the Tribal Chief legend begins… and it’s at the cost of one big stupid dummy and a fiend in a silly mask.

Enough talk. Let’s dive in for… more talk.

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AEW WrestleDream 2024

It’s AEW WrestleDream 2024 – the show where Bryan Danielson’s full-time career came to an end.

A bit of disclosure here: I had already watched the show earlier this year and had this whole thing written up. The idea was to post it in between the 2015 and 2025 Royal Ramble posts, since I wasn’t planning on watching the Genesis PPV from TNA due to the whole deal there, but then I ended up watching the Genesis PPV where the right guy won and so this ended up in the backburner while that Genesis show got the spotlight.

And so here we are at WrestleDream, which is our last AEW PPV for a while. Next week, we’ll probably do another TNA PPV or something.

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AEW Revolution 2025

And then there was the AEW Revolution show… which I was able to watch while at a friend’s house taking care of some stuff… yes, it’s another four hour show with the usual great wrestling and some spectacles of sort, but this is also comes across as a late-90s WCW PPV, where the undercard matches are great, but the main event is shit.

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WWE Blood Money V – Super Showdown 2020

Look out, Bill Goldberg’s back to ruin another WWE Blood Money main event from Saudi Arabia… or so I’m told.

So… a bit of a minor correction to be made here; in the last PPV Musings, I had stated that this Super Showdown show would be the last WWE PPV event to be held before COVID forced everyone to stay at home and begin WWE’s long period of Performance Center empty arena and Thunderdome shows. Turns out that’s not the case because a week or so later, there was an Elimination Chamber PPV that I completely forgot about or never knew about… then again, this was during my so-called moratorium period where I swore off watching any more WWE PPVs that weren’t the major ones, so the fact that I forgot about that one shouldn’t be much of a surprise.

I don’t know… maybe I should give that one a watch. Considering Wrestlemania is still weeks away, I’d need something to fill the void.

In the meantime, we have Super Showdown… and I regret watching this show.

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WWE Blood Money IV – Crown Jewel 2019

Well, it took them four shows, but WWE finally managed to get a women’s match booked at a Saudi Arabia show. And I’ll get this out of the way; Nattie vs. Lacey Evans was fairly ho-hum and unexciting as a match in and of itself, but at the very least, you’ve got that female foot in the door of the gloriously progressive kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that deserves some kind of credit if nothing else.

As for the rest of the show… holy fuck… and there’s also the one with Fiend Vs. Goldberg, which would turn out to be the last WWE PPV event before the world went to shit with COVID… but that’s next week. Let’s get this fucking thing out of the way.

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