|Date: July 14, 1991|Venue: Baltimore Arena |City: Baltimore, Maryland|Attendance: 9,320 |Buys: 145,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show opens up with a PPV shot of a fan entering the show. Jim Ross then welcomes us to The Great American Bash 1991. P. N. News & Beautiful Bobby vs. Stunning Steve Austin & Terrence Taylor – Scaffold Match Previous PPV matches: This is a first time PPV … Continue reading The Great American Bash 1991
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 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
|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
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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: November 24, 1983|Venue: Greensboro Coliseum |City: Greensboro, North Carolina|Attendance: 15,447 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show begins without titles or a video package, instead the four wrestlers in the opening match are already in the ring and the action begins. The Assassins (#1 & #2) vs. Rufus R. Jones & Bugsy McGraw Match: Assassin #1 and Bugsy McGraw kick off the match and the show. … Continue reading Starrcade ’83
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
Hello and welcome to the forth blog in my series. This one is a review of the little known pay per view The Big Event. And it really was a big event. Over 70,000 people crammed into The Exhibition Centre in Toronto to see their favourite WWE superstars however some big names would be missing. They did get a show for their money though … Continue reading The Big Event
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