Category: Wrestling PPV Musings

WWE Summerslam 2024

It’s the Summerfest, kids! Let’s get into it… or not. I don’t know.

I’ll be frank; I didn’t watch the live show because I forgot about it. Yes, act shocked as I completely forgot about the riveting main event of Cody Rhodes vs. Solo Sikoa. However, I did end up watching the replay, which means that I get to fast forward through the extraneous nonsense like concerts, video packages, and comedy bits. Otherwise, I’d be much harsher on this show than I ended up being.

I’m not going to say that this was a bad show because it wasn’t. Nor am I saying that this was uneventful because stuff did happen with some title changes and some pivotal angles pushing stuff forward, but man, this was a slog to get through even in its cut down state… but I am jumping ahead here. Let’s actually get through this quickly.

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TNA Slammiversary 2024

So I watched Slammiversary this past weekend… no, I didn’t attend the show – it took place in Montreal in front of a packed 5000+ at the Verdun Auditorium, which was probably the biggest crowd TNA has done in a long, LONG time, so good for them – but I did catch the PPV and to say that stuff happened on this show would be an understatement.

Though, yes, let’s the big lemon out of the way; Joe Hendry didn’t win the TNA title in the main event six-man elimination match. Honestly, I didn’t really expect him to despite the massive pop he got in the arena, but this was all about Nic Nemeth proving that he’s still got it and while I’m sure people are upset and going “TNA DOESN’T BELIEVE” or something like that, I have a feeling Joe Hendry is going to get a big run somewhere down the line… so long as he isn’t poached by WWE once his contract expires, of course.

In any event, there was a PPV. I have some quick thoughts and here we go…

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AEW Full Gear 2023

Remember the good ol’ days of Being The Elite, when Full Gear was a running gag referring to Hangman Page roaming about in his gear until someone asked him why the fuck was he in full gear? So he decided to go on the “Full Gear Challenge” to whip himself into shape or something? Those were the days.

What does that have to do with this Full Gear 2023 PPV? Probably nothing. I just needed an excuse to bring that particular image back because it evokes so many warm, fuzzy memories… and let me tell you something; warm, fuzzy feelings is precisely what I’m not feeling with this PPV… which explains why I skipped it… but here we are. Better late than never, I suppose. Or is it?

Let’s find out, shall we?

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AEW Wrestle Dream 2023

There was a WWE PPV this weekend… I didn’t watch it. Had stuff to do.

Instead, you’re getting musings for a bunch of AEW PPVs from last year that I originally skipped out on for reasons. A friend was kind of enough to loan me his DVD recordings of the shows I missed and I ended up doing musings for the shows. That’ll be this month’s output and we’ll see where things pop up in August.

So we begin with the first ever WrestleDream PPV, named in honor of the late Antonio Inoki; of which Tony Khan is such a huge fan of, he dons a similar looking red scarf to the one that Inoki-san used to wear. Aside from that, it is a show that I missed the first time because I did not want to watch more than my fair share of AEW PPVS… or something. I don’t recall. I don’t remember. Most importantly, I don’t care. We’re here and… well… let’s begin…

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WWE Money In The Bank 2018

Yes, I decided to watch a WWE Pay-Per-View event from 2018 over either the latest Double Or Nothing show or WWE’s latest Blood Money venture from the progressive kingdom of Saudi. Truth be told, I almost bit on the DoN replay until I heard it was eleventy-billion hours long… yeah, no thanks. I don’t need to spend three months watching one show.

For what it’s worth, this is probably the only show that I hadn’t seen back in the day… though to be fair, this show was following Backlash, a show that was memorable for the Roman Reigns/Samoa Joe main event that was so thrilling that people were walking out before Roman even got a win. Also, if my old musings on the show are anything to go by, the show itself was pretty dreadful.

So to close out this month before beginning my June-wide wrestling moratorium, I decided to revisit this show for some reason and… you know, some time has passed and one has to wonder if this show is going to be any better now than if I were to have watched it live. I guess we’ll have to see about that.

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AEW Double Or Nothing 2023

Posting this on a Tuesday rather than the usual Wednesday just to get it out of the way and since it was done, there’s no real reason to keep it in the backburner when there’s other stuff coming up.

So, for those who didn’t catch the last Dynamite musings, I’ve decided to skip out on this year’s Double Or Nothing. Current TV isn’t doing it for me, the card itself isn’t getting me excited, and the nWo tribute act that the Elite is playing out… it might be working for some people, but it’s not working for me, brother.

So instead of this year’s show, we’re looking at last year’s show, which I only got around to watching recently. And once July hits, there’ll be weekly musings of all the PPVs I missed this past year. After that… who knows? Maybe I’ll do some TNA stuff until Summerslam hits. But that is then… this is now… or rather this is also then… but the other way…

Never mind… let’s just dive in and see if I missed out on anything by skipping this show last year.

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WWE Backlash 2024

Why, yes… I did watch Backlash… for some reason…  Mainly for the French… crowd… yeah, that’s it.

So yeah, I was doing some stuff during the weekend and I had this in the background. And right off the bat, I’ll say this; this is the absolute best crowd I’ve seen at a WWE show in forever. They were exciting, they kept the noise level up, and they enjoyed every moment of the show. There was never a “dead” period where the crowd was bored. They kept cheering. That’s the kind of audience that helps a wrestling show elevate from a B-level PPV event to something greater than it actually is… and no better example than this show to demonstrate how much of a real difference that hot crowd made.

Anyway, let’s get it on. My notes on this show will be extremely brief.

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TNA Rebellion 2024

So I had a choice between watching TNA’s latest PPV (Rebellion) or AEW’s latest PPV (Dynasty) and ultimately, TNA won out. It also helps that I’ve been following Impact for quite a bit and the shows were compelling enough to merit getting this PPV… but not compelling enough for me to check out the couple TNA+ premium shows in between the two major PPV shows for TNA.

In any event, we’ll touch on the Rebellion PPV rather quickly because, truth be told, outside of some returning faces to the promotion, there’s not much to say about this one. It was largely a pretty good show with some good action and that’s about it, really. But let’s dive in, anyway…

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