|Date: November 28, 2022|Venue: Greensboro Coliseum Complex & Omni Coliseum |City: Greensboro, North Carolina & Atlanta, Georgia| Attendance: 30,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show kicks off with a little intro before Bob Caudle and Tony Schiavone welcomes us to the show. They throw very quickly to Johnny weaver who is backstage. “Truckin’” Tom Miller, the ring announcer, welcomes us to Starrcade 85 too. They then … Continue reading Starrcade ’85
|Date: July 6, 1985|Venue: American Legion Memorial Stadium |City: Charlotte, North Carolina|Attendance: 27,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger It’s worth noting that all I have of this show is a highlights video. I can’t find the full version of this show anywhere! A video package kicks us off with a montage of the superstars arriving. Gordon Solie introduces us to the show, he’s in a studio and … Continue reading The Great American Bash 1985
|Date: November 22, 1984|Venue: Greensboro Coliseum Complex |City: Greensboro, North Carolina|Attendance: 16,000 |tweet me: @bastionblogger The show starts with a clip of how last years Starrcade ended with Ric Flair beating Harley Race for the NWA World’s Heavyweight Championship. Gordon Solie and Bob Caudle then welcomes us to this years event. Mike Davis (c) vs. Denny Brown – World’s Junior Heavyweight Championship Previous PPV matches: … Continue reading Starrcade ’84
Welcome everybody to the 16 installment of my stat packs! This one is the first one since main stays Bret Hart and The British Bulldog have gone. It’s also the last one that Shawn Michaels would have contributed to for a while. If you’ve not read one of my stat packs before, expect stats and facts on wrestlers, pay per view, match ratings, win percentages … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 16
Hello and welcome everybody to stat pack volume 11. This stat pack will give you all the facts and stats from the first 55 WWE PPVs. That’ll cover all the shows from the original Wrestlemania all the way through to In Your House 7: Good Friends Better Enemies. I’ll give you my ranking of all 55 PPVs as well as wrestler stats from most matches, … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 11
Hello and welcome to the fifth stat pack. I do these after every five pay per views reviewed so now we’re 25 PPVs down, it’s time for a new pack. For those that don’t know, a stat pack is just a collection of statistics that have accumulated over the PPVs reviewed so far. And being that this is the 25th anniversary so to speak, I … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 5
Welcome to the fourth stat pack. I like to publish these every five pay per views to update you on the statistics of the wrestlers as we go. The last one was published after Royal Rumble 1991 and what’s happened since then? Well, Hulk Hogan is still World Champion. Well, he lost the belt to Ultimate Warrior who lost it to Sgt Slaughter who then … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 4
Hello and welcome to this Summerslam 88 review. This is the first ever Summerslam and I have high hopes for it. Coming off the back of Wrestlemania IV we’re starting to see higher production values, more captivating storylines and a higher tempo of action. Randy Savage is the reigning World Heavyweight champion and the biggest storyline heading into this pay per view is his … Continue reading Summerslam 88
The fourth installment of Wrestlemania is very different to any of the previous events. This show is based around a 14 man tournament for the vacant World Heavyweight title. But why is it vacant? Well, Andre the Giant beat Hulk Hogan in their match for the title at The Big Event but only because “The Million Dollar Man”Ted Dibiase paid the referee a lot … Continue reading Wrestlemania 4
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