Category: WWE PPV Musings

Sorry about the delay… but I hid myself to repair myself over the past couple days… yeah, that’s it.

Anyway, we turn the clock back to 1992, where Summerslam is airing in England and we have an Intercontinental championship match main eventing the show, with champion Bret Hart defending against the challenger and hometown favorite, the British Bulldog. This is one of the few instances where an Intercontinental championship match closing out the show over the WWF title match makes sense; because it’s British Bulldog’s home turf, it’s going to be a hot match with a hot crowd, and it’s not a fucking Iron Man match.

WWE should watch more WWF shows.

Anyway…

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You know, yesterday, I did a write-up on Summerslam 98. My first Summerslam. Man, that was a fun show. That got me in a good mood… And then my birthday happened… and everything went to shit.

So my misery is your misery… let’s look at Summerslam 2010… because I hate you all.

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Well… we’d have to hit a Summerslam at some point. Might as well get it out of the way… on my birthday no less.

Fun fact; two Summerslams took place on my birthday. The 2004 edition, which featured Randy Orton defeating Chris Benoit for his first World title, and the 2010 edition, which featured John Cena single-handedly burying the Nexus and thus killing off any chance of making them seem like a credible threat. Since neither option was worth revisiting, I opted to go back to 1998, which would’ve been my first live Summerslam… on Pay-Per-View. This took place from the old MSG; somewhat appropriate considering the big news involving the current MSG just last week.

Anyway, on with the show… which used AC/DC’s Highway To Hell song as the theme for this show and they even teased the build to the main event as the highway to hell. Unfortunately, you’re not getting that song on the WWE Network, as it’s been scrubbed due to licensing issues. This isn’t a Network thing, as I had this on VHS once upon a time and they scrubbed it from there too. So, I guess we’re sticking with this truncated show that’s missing bits here and there or using shitty redubbed music.

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So here’s the deal. I skipped out on this PPV recently and only caught a couple snippets that convinced me that this show wasn’t worth the effort. And then I wrote this piece on Monday that you can read on there if you want.

Anyway, while doing a clean-up around Wednesday or Thursday, I ended up loading up a replay of the show at the behest of a friend who suggested I give the show a watch; mostly the main event, which he claimed was the best thing he ever saw. And… well, I’m only half-glad I saw the show; in hindsight, I should’ve stuck with the main even, but regardless, let us begin this journey into the lack of extreme in this Extreme Rules PPV.

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Spoiler: This show fucking sucks. Who would’ve guessed?

This is the final King Of The Ring PPV… oh, they’d eventually have other King Of The Ring tournaments every once in a while, but this would take place on TV and it’s usually an excuse to give some a royalty gimmick or have them wear a silly crown or something. The subsequent King Of The Rings were so important and so vital that I can hardly remember any of them… I don’t even remember the last King Of The Ring winner and that was a couple years ago, I think.

But I digress… let’s get on with the show, shall we?

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So WCW was bought out by Vince a few months ago… and the Invasion has begun bit by bit before going full swing. In the meantime, we have a King Of The Ring to crown and that’s something we’ll be taking care and promptly forgetting about. Anyway, moving right along…

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You know… I never got around to doing write-ups for the last few King Of The Ring PPVs, so we may as well get those out of the way. And what better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than give people a King Of The Ring 2000 musings… and then the next couple weeks will see the last two KOTR PPVs finally checked off the list. Who knows where we’ll go from there?

While 1999 might have been successful, 2000 was when the WWF product started to get really good as the stories told began to make more sense and you had more guys who were capable of wrestling more compelling matches that were longer yet enthralling.

Unfortunately, none of those positives can be found in this show, which probably explains why I held off watching these even when I had access to the VOD part of the WWE Network. Nonetheless, we move forwards onto the breach… and instantly regret it.

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Happy Canada Day, everybody. Let’s celebrate by watching what may very well be Bret Hart’s last crowning moment in the WWF. The Canadian Stampede In Your House PPV eminating from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Context is required for those who wasn’t watching WWF television in 97 or just aren’t familiar with wrestling in general, but this show took place during a time when Bret Hart, once beloved fighting champion, turned on American wrestling fans for cheering anti-hero bad guy types like Steve Austin and booing honest good guys like him. As a result, you had this weird dynamic where Bret Hart (and his brother Owen, his brother-in-laws Davey Boy and Jim, and family friend Brian Pillman) were booed in the United States, but cheered everywhere else.

And then there was Canada, who not only bought into what Bret was selling, but actually cheered him on as an actual honest-to-goodness Canadian hero. And the Hart family was treated as the closest thing to wrestling royalty as you can get within this Canadian territory. So when you had this show in Calgary, the home of the Harts, just guess how people reacted to these guys.

Anyway, on with the show… the final two-hour In Your House PPV event, as the next IYH event would be three-hours; the standard running time for wrestling PPVs until the WWE Network came along and now PPVs are marathon shows… but I digress.

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We’re jumping ahead a year here because I don’t want to wait until months down the line to replace an old slot.

In 2004, WWE attempted an “innovative new” formula for their PPV offerings; Taboo Tuesday, a PPV that would air on a Tuesday instead of the traditional Sunday and also give the audience (we didn’t have a WWE Universe at the time, whatever that is) some control over the booking of the match.

I posted my votes and subsequent thoughts on the show back in the old blog and those have been reposted here. The choice of words is unfortunate, as is the overall tone, but it does give you an idea of what I thought of this show at the time. It’s been years since then and I’ve opted to give this show another look, if for no other reason than this give this show a proper write-up circa 2018.

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If you’re following these weekly wrestling musings, I’m skipping Survivor Series for the eventual Survivor Series marathon run of musings that I might consider doing in November… because I sure as hell ain’t doing another Starrcade run if they’re not doing a televised event under the name.

But in any event, it’s for the best since I’d just want to get 2003 over and done with and… yes, we still have the couple Smackdown PPVs to cover down the line, but that’s down the line, not the immediate future.

So, let’s put a hole through Armageddon 2003 so we never have to revisit this terrible year in wrestling again… unless I lose my mind and end up watching an NWA-TNA PPV from this era.
So this PPV took place shortly after U.S. forces discovered former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. And this is why Lillian Garcia is singing the National Anthem. Continue reading “WWE Armageddon 2003”