Category: WWE PPV Musings

WWE Summerslam 2020

So I never did a musings on this show, did I?
Oh yeah, because it was in the Thunderdome… that weird period in WWE history where they held all their shows in an arena in Florida where, instead of being occupied by a live audience, you had video screens of people at home doing face time and “reacting” to stuff… and then of course, everyone figured out quickly that reactions were controlled completely by WWE production so match up with how they felt people should react… I’m pretty sure WWE wishes they could go back to the Thunderdome whenever they have a crowd that refuses to play ball.
But, anyway, this was the beginning of the Thunderdome era, which I was never a big fan of. The idea was sound in theory, but always felt creepy in execution. All those empty, sterile facecams staring into the ring, the constant feel of Big Brother always watching. And then there would be times when the ‘Dome would be used for “supernatural” effects, such as whenever we needed Bray Wyatt to do his shitty magic tricks. Thank fuck he’s no longer around.
Anyway, I took the time to watch this while in bed. My thoughts on this will be ever so brief, so don’t be surprised if I blow through this faster than Kevin Dunn shines his bucky beavers.

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WWE Money In The Bank 2022

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. I am doing a PPV musings on yet another WWE PPV in 2022.
Don’t get too excited. I had a stomach ache last night, I couldn’t sleep, and this popped up so I figured why not? At the very least, if the show sucked and made me fall asleep, it’d be worth it. I’m also not going to say a whole lot here since I haven’t been following WWE as of late.

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WWE Vengeance 2007: Night Of Champions

So Vengeance 2007 is notable for a couple reasons. It is, technically speaking, the first Night Of Champions event that WWE has held, where all WWE championships would be on the line. And Night Of Champions would be an annual B-show PPV for almost a decade until it was supplanted by the similarly titled Clash Of Champions.
It is also the WWE PPV that took place on the weekend where Chris Benoit killed his wife and son before committing suicide.
Benoit was supposed to be in a match against CM Punk for the vacant ECW Championship, but he no-showed due to personal reasons. He was ultimately replaced by Johnny Nitro (the future John Morrison) and his sudden appointment into the finals of the ECW Championship tournament was so well-received that people were chanting WE WANT BENOIT. Those chants are still on the Network edition of the show, despite the line of commentary reference Nitro as a replacement for Benoit was removed.
In a couple days, that show turns fifteen years old and I have not seen this in either a long time or at all. Either way, I felt it appropriate to revisit.

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WWE Unforgiven 2004

Expecting something else? That’ll come up next week. In the meantime, enjoy this musings on a “classic” WWE PPV event from 2004.

On August 15th, 2004 – the night of Summerslam – Randy Orton defeated reigning World Heavyweight Champion Chris Benoit to win his first World title at the ripe young age of 24. The next night on RAW, Orton successfully defended the title against Benoit and was soon swarmed by his stablemates in Evolution, with HHH giving his young protege the thumbs up… before giving him the thumbs down and booting young Randy out of the group. This, along with a series of bits designed to make Randy the beloved hero by having him run away a lot, would lead to McSon-In-Law getting a title shot and subsequently beating Randy for the title; please pretend you’re shocked at this development.

The burial had begun.

Fun fact: I have not seen this show back in the day and if my revisits to the olden days of 2002-2003 a few years back are any indication, I’m going to be in for a rough ride with this one. Anyway, let’s get this out of the way and then next week, we can go back to finishing off the last couple WWF ’99 PPVs for the next couple weeks before we hit Double Or Nothing.

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WWE Backlash 2022 (a.k.a. Wrestlemania Rehash)

Consider this a bonus musings before the regularly scheduled PPV musings for the day pops up later on. Long story short; I was feeling a bit sick and this popped up, so I figured “why not?”
The good news is that the show was a little under three hours and went by fairly quickly. Not only that, but for the most part, the wrestling was largely good, even if some of the finishes were somewhat weak. If you’re going into this just wanting some good wrestling, this Backlash show (I refuse to call it the full name) covers that bare minimum quite nicely.

With that said, if you’re looking for something a little more worthwhile and worthy of the premium live event moniker that they like to toss around, then this isn’t it. This was a case of a show where nothing of note happened. Yeah, Ronda won the Smackdown title in that I Quit match, but that’s a win that should’ve happened at Mania and other than that, you’ve got a show of rematches where nothing of note happened. Again, there’s good wrestling on here if that’s all you want, but otherwise, you could easily skip this and not miss a beat.

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WWF Unforgiven 1999

Haven’t watched Mania yet… after this year’s Rumble, could you blame me for having better things to do than to watch a show I wasn’t really looking

You know, I had a grand ol’ time revisiting that Fully Loaded PPV from last week that I decided to continue down this road of 1999 WWF PPVs. I rewatched Summerslam for the sake of it, but I had already done musings for that show some time ago and it still holds up even with the added context. And that brings us to out September 1999 PPV called WWF Unforgiven, which is now its own thing and not the subtitle for an In Your House event, which ended its run with Backlash back in April.

Anyway, the show is known for three things; it is known for the Six-Pack Challenge for the vacant WWF Championship, which was last held by Vince McMahon… yeah, don’t ask. It is known for being the final WWF PPV in the tenure of head writer Vince Russo, as he would jump ship to World Championship Wrestling some time later… though this would not be the final WWF show that he would influence… and of course, it is known for the most infamous match in WWF history; the Kennel From Hell.

Oh yeah, this is a great way to kick off the show.

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WWF Fully Loaded 1999

It’s 3:16 Day… allegedly. And so to celebrate the occasion, we’re looking at an old WWF PPV from 1999. Today’s offering is Fully Loaded ’99, featuring the main event of reigning WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin defending his title against the Undertaker in a First Blood match, wherein the Austin/McMahon rivalry comes to an end… allegedly.

Okay, I’m excited. Not really, but let’s check this shit out, bro.

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