HEY KIDS! We’re going Over The Limit! YAAY!
Nope, not doing it for me.
So on the eleventh anniversary of Owen Hart’s accidental passing (and no acknowledgement is made of this fact… possibly due to upsetting the widow), WWE held a PPV in Detroit with one of the lamest names ever… oh wait, the next one is called Fatal 4-Way, isn’t it? Aw shit.
Oh well, let’s get on with it, then.
WARNING: Steve Austin is nowhere to be found on this PPV. Quite frankly, not even he could save this pile of shit.
It’s TNA Sacrifice. The first PPV of the new age where Impact sees a return to Thursdays after being humbled and tapping out (and they can sugar-coat it any way they want, but that is the case) and the tag champs are Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. What a pile of shit. Fuck you, TNA.
Okay, okay. Let’s get this over with. I have more notes that this pile of shit show deserves.
For the original predictions page that this page is replacing, click here.
Good news for WWE – The RAW brand had made it back to America this past Wednesday night after being stuck in Europe due to volcanic activity in Iceland. Thus ensuring that the Extreme Rules PPV will continue as advertised.
Bad news for WWE – They lost a potential buyer of their PPV… alright, so I was never planning on buying the PPV, but man, that would have made for a fun time if half the PPV had to be scrapped on the fly due to the RAW crew being stuck in Europe due to additional volcanic activity or something.
In any case, here are my thoughts on this show. (Along with some 2018 notes for posterity.)
Oh, lookie. Some thoughts on a TNA PPV that took place this past weekend. Big props to my buddy Sean for inviting me over to watch the show, because god knows I’m clamoring to spend money on this hackney promotion… then again, Destination X usually… wait, never mind.
I had originally posted some quick thoughts on the show, but eventually decided to post my full notes up because I don’t think I’ve conveyed how much this show annoyed me.
(2024 Update: The entire show is actually available for free on their Youtube channel as I’m doing these little updates. I’ve seen revisited this show in a later musings.)
I’m trying to figure out whether this is a decent trade-off.
Last year and years prior, WWE held a PPV called Cyber-Sunday – originally called Taboo Tuesday – where WWE fans would have their say on what happens in certain matches… i.e. who does the champion face, what stipulation between two men are there, what silly costume do the Divas wear in order for us to care about them, and so on and so forth. It was a novel concept, but for some reason – possibly something to do with sales being shit – WWE decided to drop that PPV in favor of Bragging Rights, which is touted as a Smackdown vs Raw encounter, but only ends up being one match billed as such… and a Divas match.
So, WWE has gone off the deep end with these stipulation-themed pay-per-views as of late. First it was Breaking Point, where the main events were all either submission matches or I Quit matches. And now WWE has decided to have a Hell In A Cell PPV, where you’re guaranteed multiple HIAC matches in one night. So rather than being this “last
Like the previous PPV, only the top matches are worthy of being held in the Cell, with the rest being the usual matches.
Since it’s been about a week since last week’s Wrestlemania both enlightened and disappointed us with a span of four hours, I figured that I’d post my thoughts from the Bite commentary currently in development. This was written the night after, by the way, so opinions now may vary.
Here’s a bit of pointless trivia for you: The actual 25th anniversary of Wrestlemania is NEXT YEAR. This year’s rendition is actually the 25th edition of the flagship wrestling event. But don’t tell anybody that; they might get confused by the whole deal, given the company’s hype and hardline push to convince you otherwise.
Here’s how out of touch I am with the current WWE product: there was apparently a PPV last night and I had forgotten about it. Oh well, to make up for the lacks of a predictions sheet, here’re the results:
Watched a bit of RAW and… well… I couldn’t stay awake Monday – the show bored me to a point where I actually felt like going to bed much earlier. I think that takes some effort when a show actually puts me to sleep and trust me when I say I usually have a hard time getting myself into sleep central.
So if RAW has anything to celebrate, it’ll probably be that. Because the ratings (from what I’ve heard) won’t be the source of joy this week.
I had PPV predictions to post, but shit happens and you know…
So anyway, here’re the results of the show if you haven’t seen it yet:
I guess if you try hard enough, you’d eventually make it back to the wrestling ring one more time and reclaim your own title. In that respect, welcome back, Michael Buffer.
Oh yeah, Cena’s back too.
dtm666 