Seriously, the banner says it all.
This whole show was built around one thing; Robocop making his first (and to date, ONLY) wrestling appearance. I’m sure the actual show will not live up to the hype and legend that has been inflated by internet lore, but fuck it, I want to watch this one regardless. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Aside from everything, of course…
Most people probably know about the Wrestlerock Rumble rap number that has become something of a cult hit for all the wrong reasons… because isn’t that the typical way of becoming a cult hit? For all the wrong reasons.
Anyway, this is the show that whole thing was promoting… and oh dear god…
Quick note: I’m watching this off the WWE Network, which apparently features a heavily edited version of the show. I don’t know what differences there are – apparently, there’s a match featuring the Midnight Rockers that was cut from this version – but I’m just going by what I watch and that’s all I could do, really.
So in a rare feat by my standards, I actually watched a WWE PPV live. But not the whole show… instead I just sat through the two chamber matches that opened the show and skipped everything else in between. From what I’ve heard, the middle of the card, featuring a couple title changes and Baron Corbin beating Braun Strowman in a no-DQ match, was the drizzling shits. So once that first Chamber match was over, then I took some time editing the Pixel Player gimmick, which should be up sometime tomorrow, barring anything coming up that is beyond my control.
I posted some thoughts on the two chamber matches earlier this week, but just recently, with some unexpected free time on my hand, I decided to go back and watch the stuff that I skipped out on the first time around to see if it were as bad (or perhaps not as bad) as people made it out to be. Since I’ve watched the whole show, I’ve decided to take down the earlier post, expand on it considerably, and the end result is today’s bonus musings of sorts.
For the record, I wrote the bulk of this before Smackdown aired.
An old picture of Dr. Ashen facepalming is the perfect way to describe WCW’s last-ever Pay-Per-View offering.
This is it, ladies and gentlemen. This is where it all ended for World Championship Wrestling. A week later, WCW would air its final episode of Monday Nitro and become a distant memory… aside from its name being associated with an offshoot stable for a lame “invasion” angle on WWF television.
Consider this a bonus musings. A timely one, if you will.
So twenty years, in the midsts of the Attitude Era, the Monday Night Wars, and the never-ending Austin Vs. McMahon feud, the World Wrestling Federation held their February PPV offering on Valentine’s Day. The main event is a Steel Cage match between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Mr. Vincent Kennedy Mac-Kuh-Man-Hun. This show was surprisingly outdrawn by the competing WCW Superbrawl show, featuring a match between Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan in what may be WCW’s last good performing show in… ever.
It’s been twenty years and I wanted to give this show a look.
Continue reading “WWF In Your House #27 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Feb. 1999)”
WCW was running low on names, weren’t they?
Anyway, the second of three WCW Pay-Per-Views taking place in 2001 before their eventual closure and purchase by the WWF .
So WCW in 2001 was in pretty dire straits. They’re about to be sold, they supposed get bought out by one group but then not really, then their TV gets cancelled and finally they get bought by WWF. But apparently, the last few months of TV was actually tolerable compared to what came before. So this month, we’ll be looking at the last three WCW PPVs ever conceived – unless you want to count that Super Slow-Down show from Australia last year. And then after that, who knows?
Sorry for the week-long delay, but sometimes when you’re doing a ten-hour WWE PPV that is a sloth to sit through, you need a couple days to digest this whole thing. I tried watching this live, tapped out, eventually gave up and didn’t pick things up until a couple days later.
Fun fact: This is the first WWE PPV that I’ve attempted to watch in its entirety since perhaps Extreme Rules? Hell In A Cell? I don’t even remember now. There was that Super Slowdown show from Australia, but I think that was on tape delay or something. In any event, this was the first show that I laid my back on the couch to watch… the perfect position to be in when a show puts you to sleep. But did it do that?
Let’s find out…
We end this year’s run of Royal Rambles with the 2005 PPV. And with that, all that’s left is anything I didn’t cover after 200 something. So this is it… the final Royal Ramble for the year not counting this year’s edition, which will probably come about on Sunday
For most fans, 2002 is the year where WWF began to lose its allure, so to speak. The Monday Night Wars are over, the Invasion was a bust, and suddenly, people were longing for an alternative. At this point in time, however, it’s the Royal Rumble season featuring the return of Triple H, after being on the shelf for months due to a quad tear. And this would be the year that he would go from HHH to McSon-In-Law and be the focus of some truly horrendous television.
But I’m jumping ahead here. Let’s get on with the show.
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