So we have a co-branded PPV in Survivor Series, where one brand is planting the seeds to its eventual future, while over at the other brand, it’s business as usual. If you’ve been following these Classic Musings or even following the 2003 WWE product on the Network, then you probably already know which is which… but for the rest of you… well, it’ll become readily apparent.
Category: WWE PPV Musings
WWE No Mercy 2003
When I watched WWE Vengeance 2003 some time ago, I was pleasantly surprised by how good that show was. After sitting through a number of RAW-exclusive PPVs that were the absolute drizzling shits, Smackdown’s first PPV was something of a palette cleanser and that lifted my spirits a bit. Sure, Smackdown had its share of bad angles, but its first PPV outing gave me hope that maybe things weren’t ALL bad.
And then I watched that year’s No Mercy PPV… and those hopes were dashed almost instantly.
WWE Unforgiven 2003
Yeah, fuck it. Let’s just get this shit over with. I don’t care.
That might not be the most “proper” way of starting a write-up, even on a personal blog, but watching these 2003 WWE PPVs have put me in such a miserable mood that I honestly don’t care if I show tact or not. These shows don’t deserve that level of respect and Unforgiven is another in a long line of 2003 shows that can suck the proverbial meat missile.
This is made even more sour by the fact that this post is following my tapping out over watching the current WWE product’s PPV offerings, which made me not care about stuff that I actually liked watching, but that’s WWE for you. They have a gold mine and then they turn it to shit. Good job, guys.
Like I said, let’s just get this crap over with.
WWE Summerslam 2003
Yeah, I’m in the mood to put this year behind us, so let’s get through Summerslam 2003 now rather than wait for August because I just want to be done with WWE 2003.
Summerslam 2003 would host the second-ever Elimination Chamber… and that’s something to look forward to. Unfortunately – and this is not much of a spoiler at this point – the Elimination Chamber would need a couple more tries before it gets to be really, really good. Suffice it to say that we are not quite there yet.
WWE Vengeance 2003
Okay, so full disclosure here; I was originally going to hold off doing the Smackdown-exclusive PPVs from 2003 for a later time and focus solely on the RAW entries. Because the RAW shows from 2003 have been mostly miserable (and I make note of my misery throughout the musings when I wrote them months ago), I opted to give the Smackdown 2003 PPVs a shot so I can get that year out of the way. This was possible due to being bedridden and as such, here’s a write-up on Smackdown’s first exclusive PPV, Vengeance 2003.
WWE Backlash 2018
So I ended up watching Backlash after all and holy balls, it wasn’t a ten-hour marathon as feared, but your usual three and a half hour borefest… well, it’s something, I guess.
(Full disclosure; I wrote that intro BEFORE the show began and it turns out I wasn’t far off the mark. Even so, these idiots need to time themselves better because nothing they do these days is worth three hours of my night, let alone anything over that number.
But, I digress. On with the show, I suppose.
WWE Bad Blood 2003
Although the brand split started shortly after Wrestlemania X-8 in 2002, the idea of brand-specific PPVs didn’t become a thing until a year afterwards. So in lieu of another King of the Ring PPV, we got the first RAW-branded PPV in Bad Blood. The last time there was a WWE PPV called Bad Blood, it was in 1997 and there was one more “d” in Bad. Also, that show had the first-ever Hell In A Cell match… so guess what we’re having with this show? And not only that, but it’s going to be for the RAW World title! Oh, boy! This is going to be exciting!
Just one problem; it’s 2003, the World champion is McSon-In-Law and the challenger is Kevin Nash, fresh off a year recovering from the quad tear that turned into a meme… and with Mick Foley as the referee for some reason. This didn’t instill me with much enthusiasm back in the day and it’s no better this time around.
For interested parties, I did a predictions post on my old blog back in 2003. It is subsequently one of the few WWE PPVs where I got every single prediction right. That post was subsequently reposted a couple years ago with some added thoughts, but since I’ve been able to watch the shows again, I’ve decided to go back and give these “proper” write-ups or something. For the sake of posteriry, I provide a link to the repost of the original post.
Not So Greatest Royal Ramble: The 2018 Oil Rumble
FUN FACT
The Oil Rumble is the name of an actual porno film that exists. For this reason and also for reasons that might be offensive to their new customers, the WWE opted to dubbed their Saudi Arabia event The “Greatest” Royal Rumble. As one can tell from history, whenever you slap on the word “Greatest” onto anything, you’re only setting yourself up for disappointment and indeed, that’s what we got here in droves.
For all the hype that WWE has put behind the event, for all the controversy it has garnered due to the lack of women on the show and having to do business with a backwards group of people that really sullies the credibility of Saudi Arabia, and for all of the hoopla and discussions that has been brought forth as a result, this big WWE show that touted numerous championship bouts, a meeting between 2 WWE veterans, a Casket match, and a 50-man Royal Rumble turned out to be a standard, run of the mill house show that ended up being a complete and utter waste of time if you were going into this expecting anything of any real significance to happen here.
But, in any event, let’s go through the matches real quick.
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WWE Judgment Day 2003
I’ve got a headache and this isn’t making it any better.
In any event, it’s another month in 2003 and that means another shitty WWE PPV. And despite the lukewarm debut of Billy Goldberg, he is nowhere to be found on this shitshow of a PPV. I don’t know if that’s a sign or anything, but I don’t think he would’ve made the show any better.
For context, we are a year into the original brand split between RAW and Smackdown, with Triple H reigning as World Champ (represented by the famous Big Gold belt) and Brock Lesnar reigning as WWE Champion. Your RAW General Managers comprise Eric Bischoff and Stone Cold Steve Austin and your Smackdown GM is Nipple H herself, Stephie Mac.
WWE Backlash 2003
So here’s a bit of a twist; a fresh new musings some 15 years after the original airing of this PPV took place.
Turns out I never did a predictions on either Backlash or the following month’s Judgment Day PPV. I don’t recall the reason for this; I’m sure it’s mentioned in the old Bite commentaries I used to post, but in any event, that means I get to watch this show with fresh eyes for the first time in years. And I can honestly say that I’m not really looking forward to it.
This is the PPV that would feature the first WWE match of Bill Goldberg as well as the final WWE appearance (for a short while at least) of the Rock. Also, your reigning WWE Champion for Smackdown is Brock Lesnar while your reigning RAW World champion is HHH, otherwise known as McSon-In-Law.
Oh, and Kevin Nash is here too… oh boy, what fun are we about to have.
Fuck me.
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