|Date: February 20, 1989|Venue: UIC Pavilion |City: Chicago, Illinois|Attendance: 8,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Jim Ross and Magnum TA welcomes us to the event, they run through the card for tonight before linking to a montage of some of the wrestlers on the show tonight. Bob Caudle is backstage with Michael Hayes who is amped up. He also hypes the card. Michael Hayes vs. Russian Assassin … Continue reading Chi-Town Rumble 89
Welcome everybody to the fourth of my rebooking series, this time I’m rebooking Wrestlemania 4. This show is different to any Wrestlemania in history in that it is headlined by a 14 man tournament to crown a new WWF Champion. I’m going to dig deep into this one as I feel there were some dream matches that we didn’t get to see. Let’s see how … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 4
Welcome everybody to the third of my re-booking series, this time I’m re-booking Wrestlemania 3. This card had some really good matches and feuds and the card is a lot stronger than the previous 2 Wrestlemania’s. But I’ll get into the heart of the card and re-book the matches that I think could have been improved. It’s easy to do in hindsight. First let’s have … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 3
For this post I am going back in time to pick apart the 1980’s PPV scene in WWE. I have extracted loads of statistics from the first real decade for WWE PPV and broken it all down here for you. I hope it makes for an interesting read and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two! 1980’s PPV Ranking 1. Survivor Series 89 (61/100)2. Survivor … Continue reading WWE 80’s Stat Pack
For this post I am going back in time to the 1987. 1987 only featured two PPV’s, Wrestlemania III and Survivor Series 1987. I’ll be going through every year in WWE history and releasing similar stat packs so following the success of the 1985 & 1986 Stat Pack, I present 1987. 1987 PPV Ranking 1. Survivor Series 87 (49/100)2. Wrestlemania III (47/100) Most 1987 PPV … Continue reading 1987 Stat Pack
Another 5 Pay Per Views down and another stat pack! This is the third stat pack so far and will be covering every PPV of the 1980’s as well as the 1990 Royal Rumble show. So 15 PPVs in all from the original Wrestlemania to Royal Rumble 1990. The last stat pack I did was just after Survivor Series 1988. Since then we’ve had two … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 3
Welcome to my second stat pack. A stat pack is a blog full of statistics based on the pay per views reviewed so far. The last pack was posted after the fifth PPV review and this one is posted after the tenth. So what’s gone down since the last stat pack? Well we’ve had two Survivor Series’, Royal Rumble, Wrestlemania IV and a Summerslam. 1988 … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 2
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
Royal Rumble time! This is the seventh pay per view I’ll be reviewing and the first Royal Rumble. Now I am a MASSIVE Royal Rumble fan so a pre warning that the rumble match will rate highly. It’ll be interesting to see how the rest of the show pans out. I have seen the Rumble match before but not the rest of the show. … Continue reading Royal Rumble 88
Well after a week off from reviewing I’m back with the next stop on our journey and this time it’s the first ever Survivor Series from Thanksgiving 1987. The theme for this PPV is two teams looking to eliminate the other team one by one in four matches. The first match has an Intercontinental flavour to it, the second a womens title flavour, the third … Continue reading Survivor Series 87
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