I was thinking about doing this review before the show even aired in my area, watching it early via YouTube around 2:30PM. Then I figured, screw it, I can get drunk and review the show later (on DVR after the Sabres game against the Canadiens), since a drunken review may be entertaining. So now I’m finally awake, got some more nachos (hooray, more nachos!), a beer by my side, and I’m ready to fire up the DVR and watch WWE SmackDown! (more…)
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Seriously. There really is a pay-per-view on Sunday. Tonight’s “Impact” is the go-home show. The question is, is it a home we want to go to? Let’s find out!
Note: I was planning on writing about all of the Pay Per View events on the WWE Calendar outside of the “Big Four,” but it would have been way too long. As such, I’m splitting it up in parts, which will be published every Sunday at noon (except for part three, which will be up next Wednesday) here on BoredWrestlingFan.com!
I’ve been a wrestling fan for as long as I can remember. The first promo I ever remember seeing was “Mean Gene” Okerlund interviewing Hulk Hogan about his upcoming steel cage match with King Kong Bundy a few weeks before WrestleMania 2. The period where I started watching the shows religiously was sometime after WrestleMania IV. I know this, because I remember all the hype about SummerSlam ’88 on Pay Per View. Back in 1988, the WWF, as it was known at the time, only held three Pay Per View events – WrestleMania IV, SummerSlam ’88, and the second annual Survivor Series. The following year, they added the Royal Rumble as a Pay Per View event (the first Royal Rumble event, featuring 20 competitors instead of 30, aired on the USA Network in January of 1998.), and we had “The Big Four” WWF Pay Per Views. Save for the “Tuesday in Texas” event in 1991, these remained the only PPV events the WWF held until the addition of “King of the Ring” in 1993.
In 1995, when the competition from WCW started to heat up following the advent of WCW Monday Nitro, both companies started to air several more Pay Per View events. Unlike WCW, who had full blown – and individually named – Pay Per Views every month, the WWF put on two hour events at a discounted price in the months outside of the five main PPVs, called “In Your House.” The “In Your House” PPVs eventually grew into three hour, full priced shows before finally evolving into the monthly events we know today.
With WWE’s purchase of WCW and ECW in 2001, they’ve experimented with holding up to two Pay Per View events per month, which didn’t work out too well, as we’re down now to 14 such events each year, the only two-PPV months being June with the newly re-branded Extreme Rules (Formerly One Night Stand) and Night of Champions, and November with Cyber Sunday and Survivor Series. Still, I feel as though I’m already paying too much for cable without adding an extra $40 every month for Pay Per View events.
In this series, I intend to convey my reasons why WWE – and by proxy, TNA – needs to cut back on the number of Pay Per Views a year, and do so on a per-event basis. Safe from cuts will be the “Big Four” events – Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, SummerSlam, and Survivor Series.
I present my arguments against No Way Out, after the jump! (more…)
Jack Swagger takes on Finlay in non title action, tonight on ECW! What? I’m half asleep and don’t feel like coming up with anything more clever than that, dammit!
ECW review, after the jump! (more…)
Wow, an “on DVR” review. It’s been a while since I did one of those. Normally I’d write the article while the show is on and finish it when I got to work, but I slept in last night. I didn’t wake up until 10:20PM, and by then I had to leave for work. So, for the first time in a bit, it’s the RAW ON DVR review!
Oh yeah, and it’s after the jump! (more…)
I know that TNA is usually Drowgoddess territory around here, and I thank her immensely for that, but I’ve been meaning to start posting more than just show reviews and JT’s Random Randomness here for quite a while. You see that Drow and I got started on that last week. So here I am with another opinion piece, this time directed at everybody’s favorite number two promotion, TNA.
Nine things I hate about TNA Wrestling, after the jump! (more…)
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That said, since it’s Super Bowl Sunday, we’re going to revisit the classic Empty Arena match between The Rock and Mankind from a decade ago.
Welcome all to the Superbowl weekend edition of JT’s Random Randomness coming to you from the site of Superbowl 43 JT’s home in snow covered parts unknown! Well here’s what I’ve got on tap for this week: (more…)
At the Royal Rumble, Matt Hardy cracked his brother Jeff over the head with a steel chair, giving Edge the WWE Championship. On ECW this past Tuesday, we found out that Matt is no longer with the brand and is now officially a member of the SmackDown roster. What will the elder Hardy have to say about his actions? We’ll find out tonight on SmackDown!
Full review after the jump! (more…)
I wrote this last night, and really needed to wash the taste of reviewing “Impact” out of my mouth, so I’m posting it now. (more…)