Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

TNA Hard Justice 2007

For our final day of Kurt Angle Appreciation Week brought about by national tragedy 23 years ago, we’re looking at TNA Hard Justice 2007. Otherwise known as the show where they just gave Kurt Angle ALL the gold.

But yes, the main event for this match sees reigning X-Division and Tag-Team champion Samoa Joe putting his belts on the line against reigning TNA World Heavyweight Champion (and also IWGP Champion… kinda) Kurt Angle in a Winners Take All title bout. Which means everything else beneath that main event means nothing and while my brain tells me that I should just stick with the main event and skip the rest, I feel compelled to watch the whole thing because it’s…

Aw, fuck it. I should have listened to my brain.

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WWF Unforgiven 2001

It’s 9/11. Let’s do something patriotic for the occasion… by reviewing a WWF PPV that took place two weeks after the United States endured tragedy and travesty.

Continuing our week of Kurt Angle spotlight shows, we’ll be touching on WWF Unforgiven 2001, knee deep in the much-maligned Invasion angle, with reigning WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin (still pretty much a heel at this point) defending his title against the patriotic All-American hero and Olympic Gold Medal winner with a broken fricking neck, Kurt Angle… and also other stuff too.

Anyway, let’s jump in and be all patriotic and stuff… even I’m not American.

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TNA Lockdown 2010

Dear lord, are we actually diving into the dreaded period of TNA from the year 2010… again?

But yeah, see, they tell me this is a good show… and there’s a really good Kurt Angle match on this show… which is where we’re doing this show as part of Kurt Angle Appreciation week. Let’s dive in and check this show out.

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TNA Against All Odds 2010

A TNA PPV Musings? From 2010, you say? The Hogan era?

Yeah, didn’t I hate that era?

Sure, because I mostly stuck with the television show… whenever I could be bothered to watch the television show, that is. And yes, the week-to-week television was largely atrocious. However, sometimes you buy one of their PPVs and you luck out on a good show… clearly back in the day, that didn’t happen. And when it comes to Against All Odds 2010 – the second PPV in the Hogan era – I’m not sure if I’d go that far, BUT this wasn’t too bad.

A large part of the show is built around a single-night eight man tournament to crown a new No. 1 contender for the World Title at the upcoming Lockdown PPV (not the next one, the next one is shit) as well as AJ Styles defending his TNA World title against Samoa Joe… with Eric Bischoff as the special referee… for some reason. Let’s see if he can call this down the middle and not suddenly complain about Dave Meltzer for half an hour like he does on his podcast… but I digress.

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WWF Survivor Series 1996

So, just for the sake of full disclosure, this is largely a repost of an old PPV musings I did on this show back in 2018 and you can read that original post here. However, in light of the recent passing of “Sycho” Sid “Vicious” “Justice” Eudy, I’d figure that it’d be appropriate to revisit that one show where the Master and Ruler of the World became WWF World Champion for the very first time… and in Madison Square Garden, no less. There are plenty of Sid moments worthy of revisiting, but let’s give this show another spotlight and perhaps some updated thoughts and annotations for good measure.

Anyway, I had originally seen this show back in 2018 due to someone bringing it up due to it being the show that featured the first PPV encounter between Stone Cold Steve Austin and Bret “Hitman” Hart. At that point, I don’t recall ever actually seeing the match in full unless it’s on some DVD set somewhere that I don’t recall. However, the main event also saw reigning WWF Champion Shawn Michaels defend his title against challenger Sycho Sid, who was supposed to be the heel in this match and… well… let’s dive into this mostly-2018-written post and give this another whirl.

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WCW Great American Bash 2000

Last count, I only have this one WCW show left to go from the year 2000… and well, if the banner doesn’t give clear indication as to what I think about this show, then I don’t know what to tell you.

For the record, this is not the PPV headlined by WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette – that is the Slamboree PPV from the month prior and I’ve written my thoughts on that show a long ass time ago. And for what it’s worth, I didn’t totally hate that show. I do, however, hate this show.

It says so on the banner… so it must be true.

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WCW Spring Stampede 2000

In light of the fact that there was a Who Killed WCW documentary series – yes, another one – I figured that it would only be appropriate that I revisit that lovely period of World Championship Wrestling in the year 2000. Specifically, the first PPV of the Bischoff/Russo reboot era… which took place a week after said era began on Nitro where they stripped everyone of all the titles and divided the roster between the Millionaire Club of old guys and the New Blood group of young guys… and of course, hilarity ensues as a result.

For the sake of prosperity, I went back and re-read all my old musings on the WCW 2000 shows that took place prior to this. I then went ahead and RE-WATCHED the aforementioned shows. Hell, I even went back and sampled a few Nitros… what I witnessed was fucking horrible and I never want to watch that shit again.

With that in mind… is this new collaboration between Vince Russo and Eric Bischoff the shot in the arm that WCW needed? Well, of course not, we wouldn’t be talking about Who Killed WCW TWO FUCKING DECADES LATER if it did… so right now, my only concern would be whether this tried to usher in that new era of WCW that was promised… or was it just the same old shit with a new coat of paint?

Well, let’s find it’s the same old shite. There, the bandage is off. Let’s get this over with.

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AEW Dynasty 2024

April 21st, 2024 saw another AEW Pay-Per-View event added to the annual AEW PPV cycle and naturally, I didn’t get the show.

Yeah… sorry, folks. I was fine with four a month and while it was a total pipe dream for them to keep at like that until the end of time, I kinda held out hope. Now I don’t bother getting them live and I wait for a friend to loan me his recordings of the shows months after the fact… because we still record stuff to DVD-R to this day and will undoubtedly continue to do this until our DVD recorders eventually die out… I may have jinxed this entire operation, haven’t I?

Anyway, as of this moment, there’s only two other shows I’ve not seen; the Double Or Nothing show and Forbidden Door, but we’ll be doing something else next week. In the meantime, here’s the Dynasty musings… maybe next year, they can do Dallas as a PPV name… no?

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