|Date: October 5, 1992|Venue: Philadelphia Civic Center |City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Attendance: 7,000 |Buys: 165,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show opens with a video package, mostly focused on Sting and Jake Roberts. Other superstars appear as ghosts. Tony Schiavone then welcomes us to the show, he’s joined by Bruno Sammartino. The big news is that Terry Gordy is injured and will be replaced by Stunning Steve Austin … Continue reading Halloween Havoc 92
|Date: October 28, 1989|Venue: Philadelphia Civic Centre |City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Attendance: 7,300 |PPV Buys: 175,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger There’s a small graphical piece to kick things off. Jim Ross welcomes us to the show, he’s joined by Bob Caudle and they throw to Gordon Solie and then Chris Cruise, both of which will be doing interviews tonight. Z-Man vs. Mike Rotunda Previous PPV matches: This is … Continue reading Halloween Havoc 89
Welcome to my second ever Super Card. Like my previous Super Card post, I am going to analyse the four PPV’s held by WWF and WCW in 1986 and put together a Super Card based on the matches booked that year. I say four, technically it’s a five show year as there were two Great American Bash events. My only rule is that I cannot … Continue reading 1986 Super Card
This is my second blog in this series of re-booking Wrestlemania. This second Wrestlemania had 12 matches over 3 cities and I had a lot of fun re-booking this one. I honestly believe my card would have been better but who am I to argue with Vince McMahon? So first off, here is the card that aired: Nassau ColiseumPaul Orndorff vs. The Magnificent MuracoRandy Savage … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 2
For this post I am going back in time to the 1986. 1986 only featured two PPV’s, Wrestlemania II and The Big Event. I’ll be going through every year in WWE history and releasing similar stat packs so following the success of the 1985 Stat Pack, I present 1986. 1986 PPV Ranking 1. Wrestlemania II (41/100)2. The Big Event (38/100) Most 1986 PPV Matches 1= … Continue reading 1986 Stat Pack
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Welcome to my blog listing all of WWE’s One Hit Wonders. So what do I mean by One Hit Wonders? Well it’s quite simple really, to qualify it means that everybody on this list has wrestled one PPV match for the WWE. It doesn’t include wrestlers who have wrestled once under one gimmick (like Papa Shango) but multiple times under other gimmicks. Simply put it … Continue reading WWE’s One Hit Wonders
|Date: April 6, 2014 |Venue: Mercedes-Benz Superdome |City: New Orleans, Louisiana |Attendance: 75,167 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler. Let The Good Times Roll. Wrestlemania 30. I attended this pay per view and it was after being there that I decided I would go back and watch every single pay per view (as well as every Raw and Smackdown) and it has taken me six years to do it. I … Continue reading Wrestlemania 30
|Date: April 7, 2013 |Venue: MetLife Stadium |City: East Rutherford, New Jersey |Attendance: 80,676 |Buys: 1,048,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Wrestlemania 29 is here, the 29th edition of the biggest pay per view of the year and tonight has all the big stars on the card. The WWE Championship will be on the line in the main event when The Rock, who won the title at Royal Rumble and successfully defended it at Elimination … Continue reading Wrestlemania 29
The next stop on our journey is in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles for WWE’s third pay per view and the only one ever to be split across three cities giving the fans in each of these cities an hour show. The pay per view is Wrestlemania 2, WWE’s biggest show of the year so they’ll try and pull out all the stops. … Continue reading Wrestlemania 2
Wrestlemania 1 Welcome to my first ever blog here on WordPress and there is no more fitting place to begin than at the very beginning. My very first PPV review sets the bar for every post thereafter and so it is important that you understand the review I am about to do is based on nothing except my own personal opinion. I want … Continue reading Wrestlemania 1
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