|Date: April 6, 2024|Venue: Lincoln Financial Field |City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Attendance: 72,543 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger There’s a brand new signature at the top of the show. Michael Cole welcomes us to Wrestlemania. There’s shots of Cody Rhodes, Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and The Rock arriving. Meek Mill voices over the opening package. Coco Jones sings the National Anthem. Triple H is out next to welcome everybody … Continue reading Wrestlemania XL Saturday
|Date: February 24, 2024|Venue: Optus Stadium |City: Perth, Australia|Attendance: 52,590 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Michael Cole welcomes us to Perth before throwing to arrival shots of Rhea Ripley, Nia Jax, Becky Lynch, Bianca Belair, Logan Paul, Kevin Owens (with a koala) and Randy Orton. Michael Cole tees up the opening match but we then go to the opening video package. There’s more arrival shots of the … Continue reading Elimination Chamber 2024
|Date: January 27, 2024|Venue: Tropicana Field |City: St Petersburg, Florida|Attendance: 48,044 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show kicks off with arrivals of some of the top superstars. They do this with the NBA stars. Hulk Hogan then narrates a video package. Michael Cole and Corey Graves welcome us to the show but they’re interrupted by the third commentator for the event, it’s Pat McAfee! 2024 Women’s … Continue reading Royal Rumble 2024
A video package kicks us off, narrated by the various wrestlers we expect to see tonight. Michael Cole welcomes us to Riyadh. There’s a video package for Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre. Seth Rollins (c) vs. Drew McIntyre – World Heavyweight Championship match Background: On the October 9 episode of Raw, while Seth “Freakin” Rollins was celebrating his successful World Heavyweight Championship defense at Fastlane, … Continue reading Crown Jewel 2023
|Date: September 2, 2023|Venue: PPG Paints Arena |City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Attendance: 14,584 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show kicks off with a standard video package. Nothing too out of the ordinary with this one, it highlights all of the top matches tonight. Michael Cole welcomes us to Pittsburgh. There’s a video package for Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus. It’s a really really good video package narrated by … Continue reading Payback 2023
|Date: August 5, 2023|Venue: Ford Field |City: Detroit, Michigan|Attendance: 59,194 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show starts with a cold open courtesy of Kid Rock. I like the mention of Summerslam’s gone by before focusing on tonight’s show. Michael Cole welcomes us to the 36th annual Summerslam event. Ricochet vs. Logan Paul Background: At the Royal Rumble in January, Logan Paul and Ricochet were participants in … Continue reading Summerslam 2023
|Date: July 1, 2023|Venue: The O2 Arena |City: London, England|Attendance: 18,885 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show opens up with a retro James Bond style video package. It’s really cool actually, they’ve gone all out for it. Most of the matches are highlighted in it. Michael Cole welcomes us to London. He’s joined by Wade Barrett. The crowd sound hot. Butch vs. Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Santos … Continue reading Money In The Bank 2023
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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: May 16, 2021|Venue: WWE Thunderdome at Yuengling Center |City: Tampa, Florida|Attendance: 0 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger A video package opens the show narrated by Batista. Roman Reigns and Cesaro, Charlotte, Asuka and Rhea Ripley, Bobby Lashley, Braun Strowman and Drew McIntyre all get big mentions. “Army Of The Dead” which is a new Batista film is the main sponsor for this show. Adnan Virk, a … Continue reading Wrestlemania Backlash 2021
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