| Date: November 3rd, 2001 | Venue: The Manchester Evening News Arena | City: Manchester, England | Attendance: 15, 612 Tonight the Rebellion from the Alliance continues. Like all of these Rebellion pay per views nothing is announced before hand so who knows what the card will be like? There have been a few title changes since No Mercy though with The Hurricane losing the European title to Bradshaw and … Continue reading Rebellion 2001
| Date: September 23, 2001 | Venue: Mellon Arena | City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Attendance: 13, 855 | Buyrate: 350, 000 The Greatest Battles Are Fought From Within. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin has shown a paranoid side in recent months that have caused him to go over the deep end. After Kurt beat Austin at Summerslam by disqualification, Kurt soaked the whole of the Alliance with a milk bath, humiliating Austin. The … Continue reading Unforgiven 2001
| Date: August 19, 2001 | Venue: Compaq Centre | City: San Jose, California | Attendance: 15, 293 | Buyrate: 565, 000 Finally……The Rock has returned to the WWF! He’s been away since losing his WWF title to Steve Austin at Wrestlemania, suspended by Vince McMahon. Vince lifted his suspension to bring The Rock back to the WWF and although it was up in the air which side The Rock would join, … Continue reading Summerslam 2001
| Date: July 22, 2001 | Venue: Gund Arena | City: Cleveland, Ohio | Attendance: 17, 964 | Buyrate: 770, 000 The biggest buyrate in history for a non-Wrestlemania PPV belong to the Invasion of wCw and ECW on the WWF. Since King Of The Ring the Invasion has taken centre stage with Shane McMahons wCw joining together with Paul Heyman and Stephanie McMahon’s ECW. Wrestlers such as DDP and Booker T … Continue reading Invasion 2001
| Date: May 20, 2001 | Venue: ARCO Arena | City: Sacremento, California | Attendance: 13, 632 | Buyrate: 405, 000 Tonight could be Judgment Day for the two man power trip of Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H. Both men will defend their championships with Austin defending his WWF title in the main event against The Undertaker. This rivalry has been going on since Wrestlemania and took a turn for … Continue reading Judgment Day 2001
| Date: May 5, 2001 | Venue: Earls Court | City: London, England | Attendance: 15, 794 Insurrextion is one of two annual PPVs held in the UK. What I like about these shows are that you don’t always get matches you expect. They don’t necessarily follow the curve of the storylines that are current. Tonight will probably be no different. No matches have been announced going into this but … Continue reading Insurrextion 2001
| Date: April 1, 2000 | Venue: Reliant Astrodome | City: Houston, Texas | Attendance: 67, 925 | Buyrate: 1, 040, 000 Houston….We have a problem. And that is the biggest show of the year coming to Texas this very evening to the biggest buyrate of all time to this point. And what an incredible line up we have. It’s going to be a 4 four spectacle with no less than 11 … Continue reading Wrestlemania 17
| Date: January 21, 2001 | Venue: New Orleans Arena | City: New Orleans, Louisiana | Attendance: 17, 137 | Buyrate: 625, 000 30 men. Every man for himself. One victor. It’s the pay per view that provides the biggest match of the year signalling the beginning of the road to Wrestlemania. This years Rumble will be as big as always with some of the biggest names in the company being … Continue reading Royal Rumble 2001
| Date: December 10, 2000 | Venue: Birmingham – Jefferson Civic Centre | City: Birmingham, Alabama | Attendance: 14, 920 | Buyrate: 465, 000 Lord I’m Coming Home To You! How about that for tagline? It can only mean that this pay per view is taking place in sweet home Alabama. On paper this looks like a one match show but we’ll have to see. That one match I refer to is … Continue reading Armageddon 2000
| Date: September 24, 2000 | Venue: First Union Centre | City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Attendance: 18, 092 | Buyrate: 605, 000 Unforgiven has the second biggest buyrate of any none big 5 PPV ever. That’s a lot of eyes on this PPV which says a lot about the build into this show. The WWF Champion is the man that tends to get the credit for the big numbers and that man … Continue reading Unforgiven 2000
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