Category: WWE PPV Musings

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”

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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