After that amazing Survivor Series PPV that brought an end to the Diesel World title reign thanks to Bret Hart, we bring the 1995 string of WWF Pay-Per-View events to a close with the fifth In Your House event, with a new champion and a new direction that eventually involves a Tony Stark match or something.
Category: Wrestling PPV Musings
WWF Survivor Series 1995
So this is it? This is the end of the Diesel line… and all I can say is… well, shit. I don’t know. I wasn’t around when this took place. I was too busy watching Power Rangers and shit.
This is one of the few WWF shows that I had on VHS, thanks to a shop that sold old VHS tapes ages ago. Actually, that shop had a bunch of WWF (and some WCW) tapes from before the Attitude stuff and I’d pick up a couple every once in a while… much to the consternation of the guy running the cash. I swear, every time I stop at the cash with one or two of said tapes, he’d make a snide remark or something.
And I’m like, “Yeah, dude. I buy wrestling tapes from your store. I was probably the only guy buying said tapes from your store while your overpriced collector’s sets were sitting in the display collecting dust.” It puzzles me that the guy running the shop would have a disdain for something yet continue to carry it.
After a while, I had enough of the idiotic attitude that I stopped going. Turns out I lucked at the flea market where a guy had a bunch of old wrestling tapes that I not only got for cheaper, but the guy was so willing to part with them that I got a pretty sweet deal out of it. As for the other shop, it went out of business and in its place today is a dollar store.
But I digress… back to Survivor Series 95.
WCW Starrcade 1995
Taking a brief detour from WWF 1995 Pay-Per-Views due to there being two left and having a day free for anything else, but let’s make a quick hop over to World Championship Wrestling and take a look at that year’s Starrcade event, which features the stars of WCW going up against the stars of New Japan Pro Wrestling… because that was a thing that happened back in 1995. Wouldn’t you like to see something like that with WWE?
“Yeah, bro. Good one.”
Welp, I tried.
WWF In Your House 4 (October 1995)
So this is it, huh? This is the terrible In Your House show that derailed the Diesel train and lead to Bret Hart winning the title the following month. And we’ll get to that show next week, but first… we gotta watch this show.
WWF In Your House 3: Triple Header (September 1995)
Changing gears from the 2003 misery… by going back to 1995 and spreading the misery there. We’ll try and kill this in one week.
I want to go back to the third WWF In Your House event, since I already watched the first two events via WWE Network and I figure it’d make sense to continue from there. If nothing else, it’ll be a short two hour show that’ll probably suck, but I actually have a good feeling about this one. I’ll be watching the Network version of the show, but I do have the show on VHS tape from Coliseum Video and I remember actually enjoying the show for the most part.
So let’s give this a shot.
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ALL IN
So this past Saturday, Cody (Rhodes) and the Young Bucks (or Young Fucks) held their much-hyped self-financed independent wrestling show ALL IN, featuring a showcase of the very best that the independents had to offer as well as two World championship matches being contested. What seemed like a big gamble paid off considerably as the show sold out in 22-ish minutes and genuinely felt like a big deal going in.
This is the first wrestling PPV that I’ve bought in years and I was slightly pissed off because shortly after I paid the forty bucks for the show, NJPW World announced that they would have the show on their 999 yen per month streaming service. Not to mention there were some other minor issues with the live stream that I’ll get into after the break, but when all was said and done, I think I got my money’s worth and thensome.
So, I bought the PPV on Fite and had the page loaded Saturday so I’d remember that the show was on. 7:00 rolls around and I get a video error. Tried refreshing the video several times and gave up. Tuned back in about a few minutes later and the PPV was up and running, so sadly I didn’t catch the National Anthem being played or the card being run down by the announcers (including Don Callis – fuck me, this guy is suddenly everywhere all of a sudden.)
Unfortunately, trying to watch the video full-screen caused the streamer to stutter horribly, so I’m left watching the show on my television from a tiny window while the Young Bucks stare into my soul the entire time. Clearly, not a promising start to this first time running Fite.TV.
In any event, let us begin…
WWE Summerslam 2018
Yeah, well… I have a life, you know. I ain’t sitting down for a long-ass four-hour PPV every month just to fill up post count. I’ve got plenty of lazy doodles off my phone I could upload for that.
So I watched some of Summerslam, right up to the WWE Championship match and that’s probably the only way I could go on with this WWE PPV business if I remember there was a PPV going on. And then as the week went along, I’d watch the rest of the show… took me a couple shots to get through the whole thing, but I did it. This is probably the only way I could watch these long-ass shows going forward, but anyway, let’s get this over with…
NWA Bunkhouse Stampede ’88
Shifting gears here… going from a miserable year for WWE to what some claim to be a rather miserable PPV event brought to you by Dusty Rhodes, Jim Crockett Promotions, and the National Wrestling Alliance. Well, considering how miserable I’ve been watching the McSon-In-Law Reign Of Terror in full swing bit by bit, I’m fairly certain that this will… look, this is the first time I’m watching this show. I’ve heard so many horrible things about this show and despite this, I’d really wouldn’t mind giving a shot and seeing it for myself.
And I’m already regretting it… but why is that?
Did you not read the banner text?
WWF Summerfest 2018
So, I was debating as to whether I was going to see the big PPV yesterday, but figured why not? Nothing better to do on a Sunday night with massive stomach aches, so let’s begin, shall we?
WWF Summerslam 1992
Sorry about the delay… but I hid myself to repair myself over the past couple days… yeah, that’s it.
Anyway, we turn the clock back to 1992, where Summerslam is airing in England and we have an Intercontinental championship match main eventing the show, with champion Bret Hart defending against the challenger and hometown favorite, the British Bulldog. This is one of the few instances where an Intercontinental championship match closing out the show over the WWF title match makes sense; because it’s British Bulldog’s home turf, it’s going to be a hot match with a hot crowd, and it’s not a fucking Iron Man match.
WWE should watch more WWF shows.
Anyway…
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