Category: WCW PPV Musings

“You’re my bitch and everyone out here can fight for sloppy seconds.”

When you have a line like that coming from the madness of the Macho Man Randy Savage in a match with Dennis Rodman where a portapotty comes into play, you’re on to something.

So, this is the Road Wild PPV, which would eminate from Sturgis at a biker rally of sorts. So what you have is this setting where you have a bunch of bikers watching this WCW wrestling show headlined by a literal cartoon character as played by Father Time himself. Much like the Bash At The Beach at an actual beach, there was no money made from live attendance and the crowd didn’t seem to be into the show all that much. So, from some business standpoint, this was a stupid idea… but because Eric Bischoff likes bikes, WCW held an annual event in Sturgis for FOUR YEARS.

I’ll give them this much credit; as bad as it might’ve been for business, at the very least, WCW holding a live Pay-Per-View broadcast from a biker rally made for a very distinct and unique atmosphere. And you remember that sort of shit. Please point to the last time you saw a unique WWE arena set-up at a pay-per-view event that is NOT a Wrestlemania or Overseas show.

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You know… Summerslam is coming up this weekend as I write this and I’m not really looking forward to a ten-hour PPV marathon with about one or two matches that I’d be interested in. So you know what? I decided to spend the ten hours plus watching a couple PPVs that are set during the summer. They’re not even Summerslam PPVs, just summer events.

Let’s kick things off with WCW Bash At The Beach 1995, which took place on an actual, honest-to-god BEACH. Yes, despite having a number of Beach Blast and Bash At The Beach shows, this is the first time that WCW had the gall to hold the event at an actual beach. And you want to know something, folks? You can say that this was a dumb move since they made no money off the show, but at the very least, it was a unique setting with a unique vibe and atmosphere. And perhaps most importantly, it stood out. You watch a show like that and it sticks with you. Compared to the current WWE PPV landscape where every show looks the same and blends in with the rest.

In any event, let us begin.

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So this is a double whammy of sorts for Canada Day and I wanted to get this show out of the way while it was still somewhat fresh. Later on, I’ll be posting the musings for the Canadian Stampede In Your House event (alongside a couple non-wrestling bits), but for today… heh, heh, heh.

It’s New Blood Rising, WCW’s other PPV taking place in Canadian soil and on this night, the event is held in Vancouver, BC. Featuring Calgary’s own Lance Storm defending his prestigious Canadian championship against Mike Awesome in what may very well be the greatest match of Lance Storm’s professional wrestling career.

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Bonne fete nationale, mon fellow Quebecois. Here’s my musings on an old World Championship Wrestling PPV event from the year 2000. Have fun, sti.

(And if you’re in the mood for a GOOD WCW Pay-Per-View write-up, you can check out the Superbrawl III musings, which featured the awesome White Castle Of Fear strap match between Vader and Sting… I’m not being cute, either. It’s a damn fine match.)

WCW started the year 2000 in a bit of a slump. Former WWF writer and credited Attitude architect Vince Russo was in charge of creative and has produced mixed results in terms of reactions and ratings. Eventually, he was turfed (for the short term) and it fell to Kevin Sullivan and friends to right the ship. Problem was that a number of midcards cried foul and jumped ship to WWF… and so WCW Superbrawl 2000 is the first PPV to emerge from that period of chaos.

I previously wrote some musings on the Souled Out PPV ages ago and this is the first time I’m watching this Superbrawl PPV. In hindsight, I wish I held off writing about this show until Saturday, but we’ve got plenty of Saturdays and Superbrawls left to pull off that little gag. Let’s get started.

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This past week, news broke that Leon “Big Van Vader” White passed away after a month long battle with pneumonia. In his prime years, Vader was a monster of a big man who not only looked intimidating, but also had fiercesome speed and agility for a man of his wide size. A presence in the old WCW, WWF, and Japan, he has made a mark on this business like no other and he will be missed by fans and peers alike.

And so, as a tribute of sorts, I decided to go back and rewatch an old WCW PPV featuring Vader as the headliner. The PPV in question is Superbrawl III, from February 1993.

Now most people remember the infamous White Castle Of Fear mini-movie; this elaborately cheesy production to promote what was essentially a strap match between the reigning WCW World champion Big Van Vader and The Man Called Sting. If you haven’t seen it, I urge you to look it up online and see for yourself the absurd lengths WCW would go to promote a main event match… or just sit through the PPV. This was Final Deletion before Final Deletion.

And to think this took place during the Bill Watts era of WCW.

But while most people may remember the mini-movie, how many of those folks have actually watched the match it was hyping up? Well, this is where we dive in. So, grab your baby blue biker jacket, board your helicopter, and mind the little person. It’s Superbrawl III in the White Castle Of Fear!

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The following bit is the closing statement on my recent Elimination Chamber musings:

“A couple hours later, I load up the WWE Network and I start up an old WCW Pay-Per-View. And the first thing I see is Eric Bischoff reading a letter from Vince McMahon’s legal attorney saying that Vince wouldn’t show up. I remember this bit being completely ridiculous, but completely forgot about the bit where WCW head of security, Doug Dillinger, went out and asked if anyone had seen McMahon. In Doug’s hand was a ready-made backstage pass with Vince’s face on it. It was absurd, but also outright hilarious.

“Already, I got more entertainment value out of the first five minutes of an old WCW Pay Per View than I did three plus hours of a modern day WWE B-Level PPV. What a world.”

Let’s continue that train of thought with a full-blown musings of this “classic” WCW Pay-Per-View event, courtesy of the WWE Network, because I clearly had a good time… or did I?

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Last month, I did a week’s worth of wrestling musings covering seven different Starrcade events. One of the events I contemplated looking at for this period was Starrcade 1997, a somewhat important WCW event in that it was the culmination of a year-long build up to the eventual confrontation between Hollywood Hulk Hogan and the Man Called Sting. I have never watched this show. Never got the opportunity to do so.

So here we are… twenty years after the fact, I finally get around to watching this in all its glory… and I instantly regret it.

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Well, kids. We’ve reached the end of our Starrcade Week of write-ups. Tonight, WWE will be hosting its own Starrcade event from the Greensboro Coliseum and hopefully, this will make it over to the WWE Network somewhere down the line. And it seems almost appropriate that on the eve of the first new Starrcade wrestling card, we look at the final event to grace PPV back in 2000.

And so, here we are… the last ever WCW Starrcade Pay-Per-View event.

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Oooh… It’s Sting vs. the Black Scorpion… by which I mean the masked wrestler and not the Roger Corman-produced superheroine film that spawned a short-lived TV show.

This is a random choice… and to be honest, I don’t know why I went with this one other than to have a “classic” era Starrcade to fill the slot or something. In hindsight, I should’ve tried my luck again and went for one of the 80s iterations. However, what’s done is done and we can’t take that back.

Would’ve been nice…

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