| Date: August 21, 2005 | Venue: MCI Center | City: Washington DC | Attendance: 15, 700 | Buys: 650, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger Hogan vs. Michaels: For the first time ever. You can guess what is considered to be the main event tonight off that tagline alone. On paper the whole card is stacked even without the likes of Triple H, The Big Show, Kane, Booker T, Intercontinental Champion Carlito and … Continue reading Summerslam 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
| Date: January 30, 2005 | Venue: Save Mart Center | City: Fresno, California | Attendance: 12, 000 | Buys: 575, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger All The Rumbling, Minus The Dancing And Singing! The WWE Championship is set to be defended as John “Bradshaw” Layfield puts his title on the line against both Kurt Angle and The Big Show in a triple threat match. Kurt Angle had a shot at JBL on … Continue reading Royal Rumble 2005
| Date: January 9, 2005 | Venue: Coliseo De Puerto Rico | City: San Juan, Puerto Rico | Attendance: 15, 764 | Buys: 49, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger New Year’s Revolution makes its debut in 2005 as a pay per view to see in the new year. This edition is a Raw brand show and as it stand there are only 6 matches booked for it. This is in part because of … Continue reading New Year’s Revolution 2005
| Date: November 14, 2004 | Venue: Gund Arena | City: Cleveland, Ohio | Attendance: 7, 500 | Buys: 325, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger The 18th annual Survivor series may have the lowest buyrate for 7 years but it has a stacked card. The WWE Championship is set to be defended as John “Bradshaw” Layfield puts his title on the line against Booker T. Booker T teased teaming with JBL for a … Continue reading Survivor Series 2004
| Date: October 19, 2004 | Venue: Bradley Center | City: Milwaukee, Wisconsin | Attendance: 3, 500 | Buys: 174, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger You Control – The fate of Raw superstars, the World Heavyweight Championship, and the Course of History! Fan interaction is the name of the game tonight and every single match tonight will be influenced by the fans of WWE. The World Heavyweight Championship will be defended tonight but … Continue reading Taboo Tuesday 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
| Date: June 13, 2004 | Venue: Nationwide Arena | City: Columbus, Ohio | Attendance: 9,000 | Buys: 264, 000 He’s Back. Watch Yours. That’s the tagline and judging by the big picture of Edge on the poster, it suggests that Edge is the man to watch in this show. He’ll be teaming up with Chris Benoit as they challenge for the World Tag Team Championships against the two men that beats … Continue reading Bad Blood 2004
| Date: April 18, 2004 | Venue: Rexall Place | City: Edmonton, Alberta | Attendance: 13, 000 | Buys: 320, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger The Backlash from Wrestlemania features the Raw Brand picking up where they left off on the biggest show of the year. And the main event will be a Wrestlemania re-match with Chris Benoit defending his World Heavyweight Championship against the two men he beat at Madison Square Garden, … Continue reading Backlash 2004
| Date: March 14, 2004 | Venue: Madison Square Garden | City: New York City, New York | Attendance: 18, 500 | Buys: 885, 000 | tweet me: @BastionBlogger Where it all begins again. That’s the tagline for tonight and it all begins where it all began…Madison Square Garden. There’s a sense of nostalgia surrounding this pay per view as we enter the twentieth year since the WWE began again. There’s going to … Continue reading Wrestlemania 20
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