So it’s another TNA PPV… and outside of the RAW Byte post for tomorrow’s show, no more wrestling-related posts for the rest of the week. Seems like that was all I talked about this past week here. Anyway, here are the results:
Category: Wrestling PPV Musings
WWE Fatal-4-Way 2010
Tonight’s WWE Fatal Four Way Pay-Per-View is brought to you by the letter F, the letter A, the letter I, and the letter L. What do those letters spell? F.A.I.L.
Because when you’re running low of stupid gimmick PPVs, you do one after a match where four guys fight each other for a pin… or to be more realistic, two guys fight while the other two pretend to be incapacitated until it’s their turn to do stuff. Fatal 4-Ways are often a lazy attempt to get as many guys (or gals) in a match as possible and trying to make them interesting has been a tall order.
Spoiler alert: This didn’t get the job done.
Besides that, the only thing that is remotely worth a damn is to catch for whatever follow-up to the NXT invasion bit might come up, even if the shine has since been dulled. I mean, seriously; Bryan Danielson or no Bryan Danielson, WWE had a goldmine with this thing and not even a week later, in the first segment no less, they fucked it up. They’re going to need to do something BIG in order to recover from that.
(Spoiler alert from the future: They never did.)
But enough about FAIL. Let’s talk about the PPV and discuss the matches:
TNA Slammiversary VIII (2010)
Eight years ago, Total Nonstop Action held its first weekly PPV show, featuring human dicks, gauntlet battle royals for the NWA World title, country singers doing songs, and the epic feud between Jeff Jarrett and elderly statesman Bob Armstrong. How far we’ve gone since then? Now we’re feuding over WWE Hall of Fame rings while the TNA titles are mere afterthoughts. Amazing.
WWE Over The Limit 2010
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.
TNA Sacrifice 2010
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.
WWE Extreme Rules 2010
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.)
TNA Destination X 2010
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.)
WWE Bragging Rights 2009
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.
WWE Hell In A Cell 2009
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.
Ramblemania 25
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.
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