Category: WWE PPV Musings

The first show after Wrestlemania used to be just as much of an event as the Showcase of the Immortals itself, especially after a somewhat poor showing. Sometimes, it would be Mania Rematches that surpassed the original, while at other times, it would just be a solid show all around. Back in the day, it was easy to get excited for that follow-up show because they were generally intriguing cards on the build-up.

Wrestlemania 32 may have had a forgettable main event, but the follow-up PPV gave us an awesome one in AJ Styles vs. Roman Reigns. Austin vs. Rock at Mania 15 was fun, but their match at the following month’s PPV was even better.

This year’s Payback PPV – a RAW-only PPV no less – features nothing that has me remotely excited outside of a Kevin Owens/Chris Jericho rematch whose endgame seems set in stone… and to call my reaction “excited” is kinda stretching it. This show was so up there in the “must-see” that I spent my Sunday evening playing Roadsters on N64 (poorly, at that) and selling an air conditioner online that it wasn’t until the tail end of the evening that I realized there was a PPV going on.

In any event, I PVRed a Monday replay and made a note to watch it for the purposes of this write-up. My thoughts on this show will be as brief as my relative interest in this show… and consider the “go-home” shows drew the lowest ratings EVAR, I can’t say that I’m alone in my general apathy of this show.

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Originally, I was going to go for a Poop Emoji as the banner to signify what this PPV represented, but I couldn’t find a decent looking one that isn’t three pixels big, so we’ll settle for the stock bored kitty. In any event… WWE POOP, er, I mean Fastlane!

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So I suppose the good news is that we’ve averted another John Cena vs. Randy Orton match main eventing a Wrestlemania. Thank heavens for small favors, as the old saying goes.

The bad news, however, is that this was a completely and utterly worthless PPV showing. Unfortunately, you could pretty much say that about any PPV outing from WWE in the months between the Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania. Quite frankly, it’d probably be best if we killed off the February and March PPVs and just settled for a long, seed-planting build on the TV shows. Who knows? Somebody might actually watch the damn things for once.

But in any event, here’re my quick thoughts on this Elimination Chamber PPV event that, sadly, didn’t hold my attention for too long.

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Didn’t we already have a Roadblock show in 2016?

The answer, of course, is yes… back in March of this year, which was a WWE Network special that saw then-World champion HHH defeat Dean Ambrose to retain his title in the main event. Funny how I can remember the main event of a minor Network show, but not so much for the biggest show of the year… and yes, the write-up for that is forthcoming.

So here we are; last month’s RAW offering gave us ROADBLOCK: END OF THE LINE which wins for most redundancies in a wrestling PPV title. Like the TLC show, I held off watching this live last month because it wasn’t worth the effort, but since I had time to fill, I decided to give this a watch… and completely found out that I was correct in skipping this the first time.

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And so here we are. A little later than usual, but for good reason.

See, last month, I decided to forgo watching the minor WWE ppvs on offer in December (Smackdown’s TLC show and Raw’s Roadblock show) since a lot of the stuff was either going to be retread territory (another AJ Styles vs Dean Ambrose match, yet ANOTHER Baby Flair vs. Sasha Banks match) or stuff that didn’t interest me in the slightest (Roman Reigns vs. Kevin Owens… most of that RAW card to be honest.) However, I PVR’ed the shows and ended up watching them during the couple days I had off. So today, you’re not only getting the Smackdown effort (what you’re reading now), but also the RAW effort in a follow-up post.

Anyway, let’s get to it.

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Bill Goldberg returned to the ring for the first time in twelve years to beat Brock Lesnar with two spears and a jackhammer in less than two minutes. That was the greatest main event in WWE history.

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The above picture and quotation sums up my feelings immensely, but nonetheless, some brief (and I mean BRIEF) thoughts on last Sunday’s show. My thoughts will be somewhat brief here.

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Badd Blood, a WWF In Your House PPV show that aired on October 5, 1997, is known for a few things. It’s the day where Brian Pillman was found dead in his hotel room. It’s the show where Owen Hart won the Intercontinental championship in a tournament final to set-up the long-awaited rematch against Stone Cold Steve Austin, whose neck he nearly broke with a botched piledriver in a prior match. It’s that one show where they did the showcase of all the old NWA legends that Kevin Dunn (allegedly) didn’t want to do.

But more than anything, if there is but one thing that Badd Blood is known for… it’s Hell In A Cell. This is the show where it all began, kids. And since tomorrow we’re having a Hell In A Cell PPV event, I figure I might as well give some quick musings on the show.

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A week later and I’ve got some semblance of content going for the next couple months, at least. However, don’t be surprised if there’s another week-long interruption around that time as well. This whole “daily post” thing is still a work in progress and withIn any event, last week had a Smackdown PPV called No Mercy. And while one would be best served playing the Nintendo 64 game of the same name, the show itself has a couple worthwhile matches. In fact, let’s start the show with one of them right now and NOT main event with the other.

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