Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WCW Superbrawl 2000

Bonne fete nationale, mon fellow Quebecois. Here’s my musings on an old World Championship Wrestling PPV event from the year 2000. Have fun, sti.

(And if you’re in the mood for a GOOD WCW Pay-Per-View write-up, you can check out the Superbrawl III musings, which featured the awesome White Castle Of Fear strap match between Vader and Sting… I’m not being cute, either. It’s a damn fine match.)

WCW started the year 2000 in a bit of a slump. Former WWF writer and credited Attitude architect Vince Russo was in charge of creative and has produced mixed results in terms of reactions and ratings. Eventually, he was turfed (for the short term) and it fell to Kevin Sullivan and friends to right the ship. Problem was that a number of midcards cried foul and jumped ship to WWF… and so WCW Superbrawl 2000 is the first PPV to emerge from that period of chaos.

I previously wrote some musings on the Souled Out PPV ages ago and this is the first time I’m watching this Superbrawl PPV. In hindsight, I wish I held off writing about this show until Saturday, but we’ve got plenty of Saturdays and Superbrawls left to pull off that little gag. Let’s get started.

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WCW Superbrawl III

This past week, news broke that Leon “Big Van Vader” White passed away after a month long battle with pneumonia. In his prime years, Vader was a monster of a big man who not only looked intimidating, but also had fiercesome speed and agility for a man of his wide size. A presence in the old WCW, WWF, and Japan, he has made a mark on this business like no other and he will be missed by fans and peers alike.

And so, as a tribute of sorts, I decided to go back and rewatch an old WCW PPV featuring Vader as the headliner. The PPV in question is Superbrawl III, from February 1993.

Now most people remember the infamous White Castle Of Fear mini-movie; this elaborately cheesy production to promote what was essentially a strap match between the reigning WCW World champion Big Van Vader and The Man Called Sting. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you to look it up online and see for yourself the absurd lengths WCW would go to promote a main event match… or just sit through the PPV. This was Final Deletion before Final Deletion.

And to think this took place during the Bill Watts era of WCW.

But while most people may remember the mini-movie, how many of those folks have actually watched the match it was hyping up? Well, this is where we dive in. So, grab your baby blue biker jacket, board your helicopter, and mind the little person. It’s Superbrawl III in the White Castle Of Fear!

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WWE Taboo Tuesday 2004

We’re jumping ahead a year here because I don’t want to wait until months down the line to replace an old slot.

In 2004, WWE attempted an “innovative new” formula for their PPV offerings; Taboo Tuesday, a PPV that would air on a Tuesday instead of the traditional Sunday and also give the audience (we didn’t have a WWE Universe at the time, whatever that is) some control over the booking of the match.

I posted my votes and subsequent thoughts on the show back in the old blog and those have been reposted here. The choice of words is unfortunate, as is the overall tone, but it does give you an idea of what I thought of this show at the time. It’s been years since then and I’ve opted to give this show another look, if for no other reason than this give this show a proper write-up circa 2018.

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WWE Armageddon 2003

If you’re following these weekly wrestling musings, I’m skipping Survivor Series for the eventual Survivor Series marathon run of musings that I might consider doing in November… because I sure as hell ain’t doing another Starrcade run if they’re not doing a televised event under the name.

But in any event, it’s for the best since I’d just want to get 2003 over and done with and… yes, we still have the couple Smackdown PPVs to cover down the line, but that’s down the line, not the immediate future.

So, let’s put a hole through Armageddon 2003 so we never have to revisit this terrible year in wrestling again… unless I lose my mind and end up watching an NWA-TNA PPV from this era.
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TNA Destination X 2007

Consider this a bonus musings… and on an old TNA PPV no less.

I have the show on DVD-R from like ages ago, as it was one of the very few TNA PPVs (not counting the early weekly shows) that I actually got to watch live. Much to my surprise, I never did repost the old prediction page onto this blog like I did some of the others and since I had the show on tape so to speak, I decided to give it a watch and thus find myself doing a fresh write-up with fresh eyes. So that’s something…

By the way, this was a chance discovery, as I was looking for some other disc in my archive and I came across this recording from way back when. I’m almost tempted to dig even dipper to see if I can find some other TNA shows that I might’ve caught on tape (or disc, as the case may be.)

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WWE Survivor Series 2003

So we have a co-branded PPV in Survivor Series, where one brand is planting the seeds to its eventual future, while over at the other brand, it’s business as usual. If you’ve been following these Classic Musings or even following the 2003 WWE product on the Network, then you probably already know which is which… but for the rest of you… well, it’ll become readily apparent.

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WWE No Mercy 2003

When I watched WWE Vengeance 2003 some time ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how good that show was. After sitting through a number of RAW-exclusive PPVs that were the absolute drizzling shits, Smackdown’s first PPV was something of a palette cleanser and that lifted my spirits a bit. Sure, Smackdown had its share of bad angles, but its first PPV outing gave me hope that maybe things weren’t ALL bad.

And then I watched that year’s No Mercy PPV… and those hopes were dashed almost instantly.

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WWE Unforgiven 2003

Yeah, fuck it. Let’s just get this shit over with. I don’t care.

That might not be the most “proper” way of starting a write-up, even on a personal blog, but watching these 2003 WWE PPVs have put me in such a miserable mood that I honestly don’t care if I show tact or not. These shows don’t deserve that level of respect and Unforgiven is another in a long line of 2003 shows that can suck the proverbial meat missile.

This is made even more sour by the fact that this post is following my tapping out over watching the current WWE product’s PPV offerings, which made me not care about stuff that I actually liked watching, but that’s WWE for you. They have a gold mine and then they turn it to shit. Good job, guys.

Like I said, let’s just get this crap over with.

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WWE Summerslam 2003

Yeah, I’m in the mood to put this year behind us, so let’s get through Summerslam 2003 now rather than wait for August because I just want to be done with WWE 2003.

Summerslam 2003 would host the second-ever Elimination Chamber… and that’s something to look forward to. Unfortunately – and this is not much of a spoiler at this point – the Elimination Chamber would need a couple more tries before it gets to be really, really good. Suffice it to say that we are not quite there yet.

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WWE Vengeance 2003

Okay, so full disclosure here; I was originally going to hold off doing the Smackdown-exclusive PPVs from 2003 for a later time and focus solely on the RAW entries. Because the RAW shows from 2003 have been mostly miserable (and I make note of my misery throughout the musings when I wrote them months ago), I opted to give the Smackdown 2003 PPVs a shot so I can get that year out of the way. This was possible due to being bedridden and as such, here’s a write-up on Smackdown’s first exclusive PPV, Vengeance 2003.

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