Category: WWE PPV Musings

Yes, it’s taken me this long to get this posted. I had this written a couple days after the RAW after TLC, but I never got around to posting this until now. Now that we got that out of the way…

*sigh*

Has there ever been a more underwhelming WWE event than Sunday’s TLC PPV? And look, I get it. It’s the holiday season, not everyone is going to care about watching a wrestling PPV… but then that’s the attitude with a lot of people over the past several months? years? However long it was… but, for the second time in a row, I found myself being heavily underwhelmed by a WWE PPV with no notably worthwhile matches and thus, no real reason to tune in to RAW as a result. As such, my thoughts on the show are quick and short… though I’ve a bit to say about the main event in light of the following Monday’s RAW.

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Last Sunday night was the celebration of a milestone in WWE, as it marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the debut of WWE’s most enduring and iconic superstar. Unfortunately, the Gobbledy Gooker was unavailable, so they settled with 25 Years Of Undertaker instead… so there’s that, I suppose. There’s also that WWE World Title tournament to fill the vacancy left by former champion Seth Rollins, who hurt his knee at a overseas event and is supposed to be out for six to nine months. Get well soon, Seth.

Anyway, on with the show, which opens up with Lillian Garcia singing the National Anthem to show terrorists that we won’t be threatened by them. Well, I guess it’s better than moving to a smaller venue due to poor ticket sales… er, I mean, a bomb threat. Right.

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November 22, 1990 was the day the fourth annual WWF Survivor Series event took place at. This event was notable for two noteworthy events; the hatching of the Survivor Series egg that introduced the world to the short-lived Gobbledy Gooker and the rather unassuming debut of the Undertaker. I will let you decide which of those two went on to become something of a big deal, but given the two choices, it’s obvious which one is the correct one.

So on this day, twenty-five years to the day since that event took place, I give it something of a quick lookie at this event that would give us perhaps one of the most enduring Superstars of all time… the Gobbledy Gooker.

Oh yeah, and that other guy too.

Now, for those who have no clue what Survivor Series entails, here’s the brief scoop. The event mostly comprises eight-man tag-team elimination matches where two teams of four men compete against each other. When a man is pinned, submits, gets counted out, or disqualified, he is eliminated from the match, leaving his teammates to fend for themselves. The winner of the match is the team that outlasts the other team; the “survivors” if you will. This edition featured an additional caveat where the various survivors of the match would compete in a “grand finale” match of the sorts, which is your main event for the evening.

As you can probably imagine, this doesn’t seem all that interesting in hindsight. I can’t say if it was interesting back in the day, but I could probably imagine not.

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So, this write-up is being posted a couple days after the event because I’m only watching it a couple days after the event. For those who missed it, I ended up watching No Mercy 2002 instead and posted a write-up on that. But I eventually did watch the show and here are my less than impressed musings on the show, along with some other ramblings along the way.

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So… there’s a PPV event coming up… and for the first time in a good long while, I’m not particularly inclined to watch it.

Let’s be honest here; I wasn’t the biggest fan of Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker when they had their ‘Mania and Summerslam matches – other people thought they were the shit, I thought they were shit sandwiches with a side order of piss –  and putting them in a Hell In A Cell match – a match that is severely hindered by PG limitations – isn’t going to make me clamor for another one that will most likely end in the proverbial “fuck finish.” Seth Rollins vs. Kane is not interesting in the slightest, nor is the guessing game of whether the soon-to-be-abayent John Cena will do the favors or the the 1,291,091,938,471th match between Roman Reigns and Bray Wyatt… I might want to check out Kevin Owens defending the IC title against Ryback, but that might be opening match or even relegated to the pre-show or something.

Now for all intents and purposes, I did PVR the damn thing and I’ll probably watch it some time during the week, so chances are you’ll still get your usual write-up somewhere down the line, but as far as watching it live, not interested.

So what I ended up doing last Saturday night – aside from other stuff worthy of my time – was pop in an old recording of one of the older WWE PPVs that I had on DVD-R. The PPV in question? No Mercy 2002, whose only real significance is its main event – reigning and defending WWE champion Brock Lesnar facing off against the Undertaker in a Hell In A Cell match.

Now it’s time for context building. 2002 was the first year in which WWE divided up its roster into two shows; RAW and Smackdown. RAW was the more “sports-entertainment” oriented brand (as well as the HHH show for the next three years) while Smackdown was the more “wrestling” oriented brand (as well as the only watchable thing to come out of WWE during that three year period.)

Okay, context building over. On with the show.

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