ECW One Night Stand 2005

|Date: June 12, 2005 |Venue: Hammerstein Ballroom |City: New York City, New York |Attendance: 2,500 |Buys: 340, 000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger ECW returns! Albeit just for one night only. Tommy Dreamer and Paul Heyman have been tasked with putting together an ECW show featuring some of the top ECW stars from the late 90’s. Prior to the show there were no match announcements or no build to the matches. Instead the build has … Continue reading ECW One Night Stand 2005

No Mercy 2004

| Date: October 3, 2004 | Venue: Continental Airlines Arena | City: East Rutherford, New Jersey | Attendance: 10, 000 | Buys: 240, 000 Business Can Be Brutal. And tonight it is guaranteed to be just that. Unless it’s referring to the diminishing business of the WWE as attendances and buyrates continue to drop through 2004. Tonight though, John “Bradshaw” Layfield must defend his WWE Championship one more time against The Undertaker. … Continue reading No Mercy 2004

Summerslam 2004

| Date: August 15, 2004 | Venue: Air Canada Centre | City: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Attendance: 17, 640 | Buys: 415, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger Let The Games Begin. Summerslam 2004 has an Olympics theme to it, falling in line with the 2004 Olympic Game in Athens. Besides the over-the-top advertising campaign, there isn’t a lot of “gamesmanship” involved except for one particular event but I’ll get to that later. Summerslam … Continue reading Summerslam 2004

The Great American Bash 2004

| Date: June 27, 2004 | Venue: Norfolk Scope | City: Norfolk, Virginia | Attendance: 6, 500 | Buys: 238, 000 Join Our Party. Or don’t. Because this show looks pretty terrible on paper. The main event is a re-match from Judgment Day 6 weeks ago with John “Bradshaw” Layfield getting a second shot at the WWE Championship held by Eddie Guerrero. Layfield won the first contest by disqualification so he was … Continue reading The Great American Bash 2004