Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WCW Great American Bash 1991

The 1991 edition of the Great American Bash is often summed up with three words: WE. WANT. FLAIR.

The first WCW Pay-Per-View event to follow Ric Flair’s unceremonious dismissal from World Championship Wrestling, GAB ’91 is often referred to as the Flair Protest Show, where the crowd would piss on the entire event, especially the one match for the vacant World Title. While I’ve certainly heard of this show, I’ve obviously never seen it due to not having followed WCW (or any wrestling, for that matter) in the early-1990s.

Thanks to the magic of WWE Network, I am able to finally catch this once mythical pay-per-view event… and undoubtedly regret doing so… but hey, it’s one more show off the bucket list, I suppose.

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WWE Money In The Bank 2015

Well, it’s WWE’s annual spotfest for a World Title shot… yippee… I don’t know how much I’m supposed to care here, but I’ll give it the ol’ college try I suppose.

So, they start off with a ten-bell salute to the late Dusty Rhodes… won’t say much here except, “Godspeed, Dream. And thanks for the memories.”

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WWE Elimination Chamber 2015

Payback 2015 was a pretty good PPV. Elimination Chamber 2015 is the WWE Network-exclusive event that was added at the last minute when WWE officials discovered an arena that could support the chamber. Well, if you were expecting a quality showing the likes of the quarterly NXT specials or even by the quality standards of Payback, prepare to be morbidly disappointed.

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WWE Payback 2015

The idea of a filler PPV event is a typical event that doesn’t mean much in the long term. It’s something that’s made to fill a schedule and while given a fair bit of hype, you know that, going in, not much is going to happen. Some filler events fill the role just fine, while others basically feel like filler and makes you wonder why you’re even wasting your time (or money) on the show. And then there are rare instances in which you get into a filler PPV expecting nothing but an otherwise average (or less than) showing to fill the time and come out pleasantly surprised by how entertaining it was.

WWE Payback 2015 falls firmly in that third category. So let’s go through this quickly.

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WWE Extreme Rules 2015

Last night proved… interesting.

For those expecting a Daniel Bryan match, he hadn’t been cleared for action and so his IC Title match against Bad News Barrett was called off. Instead, Barrett got bumped to the pre-show against Neville, where he subsequent fell to the former NXT dude with a cool looking corkscrew like flip. As much as I could bemoan another Barrett lose, at the very least, he made a youngun look good.

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WCW Road Wild ’98 – The One With Jay Leno

Look, the only reason there’s even a blog post regarding this is because it popped up on the WWE Network and it’s a WCW Pay-Per-View event from 1998… oh, and it also featured Jay Leno in the main event. Yes, kids. That Jay Leno. The one formerly of the Tonight Show. The one with the chin.

WCW was at that weird point in 1998 where, after a year and a half of ratings dominance in the Monday Night Wars ™, they were faced with stiff competition from a resurgent WWF. Despite having a super popular superstar in form of Goldberg (in the midst of his legendary win streak), WCW felt they needed more “starpower”. So they bring in guys like Dennis Rodman and Carl Malone to do a match at their Bash At The Beach PPV… which I barely remember because it’s been ages. And then, we get to this show… the one with Jay Leno.

For the most part, you bring up Road Wild ’98 to anyone well versed in wrestling and they’ll usually tell you that it’s that show in Sturgis with all the bikers where Jay Leno wrestled Hulk Hogan. That one bit is the only defining aspect of this one show. And perhaps it’s for the best because the rest of the show?

Meh… it’s pretty bad.

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Ramblemania 31

So what follows here is a fairly rough recap based on my initial viewing of last night’s Wrestlemania… which was actually a replay because I was too busy watching the first ‘Mania from 1985. Although I’ll admit that I peered to the live show at times, for the most part, I waited until Monday morning to watch the replay. So here’re some random thoughts on the show; no ratings or reviews. Just some rambles… as per the course.

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