Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

Royal Ramble 2017

Apparently, this Royal Rumble is a big deal because it has a bunch of old guys in it. Undertaker, Goldberg, Bork Lazer, Big Slow,… maybe a couple NXT guys might show up for good measure.

As per the case with these PPVs, I generally don’t watch the pre-shows. I did catch the Holy Foley marathon that was playing early during the day and I regret having done so. As much as I enjoyed Mick Foley’s antics during his prime years, modern-day Foley is about as entertaining as a root canal. A truly dreadful show in every sense of the word… even Total Divas is much more entertaining than this (and that show is also the equivalent of an anal evacuation.)

But I digress. I’m not here to talk about WWE’s horrible reality shows. I’m here to muse on the Rumble. So here’re my post-show thoughts and, as a bit of an added bonus, I include my “live notes” that I took during the Rumble match in progress. So that’s something… I guess.

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WWE Roadblock: End Of The Line 2006 (Take 2)

Didn’t we already have a Roadblock show in 2016?

The answer, of course, is yes… back in March of this year, which was a WWE Network special that saw then-World champion HHH defeat Dean Ambrose to retain his title in the main event. Funny how I can remember the main event of a minor Network show, but not so much for the biggest show of the year… and yes, the write-up for that is forthcoming.

So here we are; last month’s RAW offering gave us ROADBLOCK: END OF THE LINE which wins for most redundancies in a wrestling PPV title. Like the TLC show, I held off watching this live last month because it wasn’t worth the effort, but since I had time to fill, I decided to give this a watch… and completely found out that I was correct in skipping this the first time.

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WWE TLC 2016

And so here we are. A little later than usual, but for good reason.

See, last month, I decided to forgo watching the minor WWE ppvs on offer in December (Smackdown’s TLC show and Raw’s Roadblock show) since a lot of the stuff was either going to be retread territory (another AJ Styles vs Dean Ambrose match, yet ANOTHER Baby Flair vs. Sasha Banks match) or stuff that didn’t interest me in the slightest (Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens… most of that RAW card to be honest.) However, I PVR’ed the shows and ended up watching them during the couple days I had off. So today, you’re not only getting the Smackdown effort (what you’re reading now), but also the RAW effort in a follow-up post.

Anyway, let’s get to it.

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WWF Badd Blood 1997

Badd Blood, a WWF In Your House PPV show that aired on October 5, 1997, is known for a few things. It’s the day where Brian Pillman was found dead in his hotel room. It’s the show where Owen Hart won the Intercontinental championship in a tournament final to set-up the long-awaited rematch against Stone Cold Steve Austin, whose neck he nearly broke with a botched piledriver in a prior match. It’s that one show where they did the showcase of all the old NWA legends that Kevin Dunn (allegedly) didn’t want to do.

But more than anything, if there is but one thing that Badd Blood is known for… it’s Hell In A Cell. This is the show where it all began, kids. And since tomorrow we’re having a Hell In A Cell PPV event, I figure I might as well give some quick musings on the show.

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WWE No Mercy 2016

A week later and I’ve got some semblance of content going for the next couple months, at least. However, don’t be surprised if there’s another week-long interruption around that time as well. This whole “daily post” thing is still a work in progress and withIn any event, last week had a Smackdown PPV called No Mercy. And while one would be best served playing the Nintendo 64 game of the same name, the show itself has a couple worthwhile matches. In fact, let’s start the show with one of them right now and NOT main event with the other.

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WWE Clash Of Champions 2016

Two weeks later and it’s Raw’s turn to throw out a brand-exclusive PPV. The name of the show is Clash of Champions, which is really just Night Of Champions with some inklings of an old WCW being reused. I honestly don’t know why they changed the name other than to remind people of WCW’s occasional television specials… that aired on TBS for free… and was called Clash Of The Champions. Why couldn’t they add “the” into the title? It would’ve sounded better.

Anyway, let’s get to it with some super quick thoughts.

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WWE Backlash 2016

Backlash 2016… when was the last time that there was a Backlash PPV? That’s a bit of a throwback… hey, speaking of throwbacks, this is being touted as Smackdown’s “first” PPV ever… because all those other Smackdown PPVs from ten years ago never happened. I posted some brief thoughts on Monday, but then decided to expand on some of this stuff… not that it really matters.

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WWE Summerslam 2016

The one major positive off the top of my head when it comes to this year’s edition of Summerslam is that they kept it properly paced. The show started at 7 p.m. and ended a little under the 11 o’clock mark, which is a good thing. On the other hand, given my general apathy over the main event, I wouldn’t have minded this one time if they went into overtime here. That having been said, going into this show, I wasn’t too excited about this card. There were only a couple matches at most that I had any real interest in and the rest was just… who cares?

Nonetheless, I went into this with a somewhat open mind and lowered expectations and ended up enjoying some, but not, of the night’s festivities. My thoughts, after the break…

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