Bragging Rights 2010

|Date: October 24, 2010 |Venue: Target Center |City: Minneapolis, Minnesota |Attendance: 9,000 |Buys: 137,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Bragging Rights, the one night a year when Raw and Smackdown battle for brand supremacy. Before we get to the brand war though, lets start with the WWE Championship. John Cena lost to Wade Barrett at Hell In A Cell which meant that Cena had to join the Nexus. The anonymous Raw General … Continue reading Bragging Rights 2010

Hell In A Cell 2010

|Date: October 3, 2010 |Venue: American Airlines Arena |City: Dallas, Texas |Attendance: 7,500 |Buys: 210,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Hell In A Cell, the one night a year where the main events are competed inside Hell In A Cell. Both the WWE and World Heavyweight Championships will be defended inside the devils playground. Randy Orton won the WWE Championship at Night Of Champions in a six pack challenge and the night … Continue reading Hell In A Cell 2010

Money In The Bank 2010

|Date: July 18, 2010 |Venue: Sprint Center |City: Kansas City, Missouri |Attendance: 8,000 |Buys: 162,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger This is the first ever Money In The Bank pay per view, taking one of the most exciting Wrestlemania matches and giving the match its own PPV. There will be two MITB ladder matches tonight but I’ll get to those shortly. The WWE Championship will be on the line tonight as Sheamus … Continue reading Money In The Bank 2010

Fatal 4-Way 2010

|Date: June 20, 2010 |Venue: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum |City: Uniondale, New York |Attendance: 10,000 |Buys: 143,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The WWE is currently going through a phase where they are introducing new pay per view concepts based around themes. The theme for this one is fatal four way matches and tonight will feature three of them. John Cena will be defending the WWE Championship in a fatal four way … Continue reading Fatal 4-Way 2010

Over The Limit 2010

|Date: May 23, 2010 |Venue: Joe Louis Arena |City: Detroit, Michigan |Attendance: 11,000 |Buys: 197,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Welcome to my review of the inaugural Over The Limit pay per view. There’s nothing different or unique about this show, it’s just a regular PPV with a different name. There are 8 matches scheduled for tonight which includes five title matches. The WWE Championship will be on the line as Batista … Continue reading Over The Limit 2010

Extreme Rules 2010

|Date: April 25, 2010 |Venue: 1st Mariner Arena |City: Baltimore, Maryland |Attendance: 12,278 |Buys: 182,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Extreme Rules is the one night a year when rules go out of the window and every match has a different stipulation. The WWE Championship is set to be defended as Batista uses his automatic rematch clause to take on John Cena in a Last Man Standing match. Batista attacked Cena on … Continue reading Extreme Rules 2010

Wrestlemania 26

|Date: March 28, 2010 |Venue: University Of Phoenix Stadium |City: Glendale, Arizona |Attendance: 72,219 |Buys: 960,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Get All Fired Up. It is time for the biggest show of the year and this is the 26th edition of Wrestlemania. There are no less than ten matches scheduled for this four hour spectacular so let me run down the card for you. Shawn Michaels has been craving a rematch … Continue reading Wrestlemania 26

Royal Rumble 2010

|Date: January 31, 2010 |Venue: Philips Arena |City: Atlanta, Georgia |Attendance: 16,697 |Buys: 462,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The Royal Rumble, probably my favourite pay per view of the year. And this one has me more excited than usual. The Royal Rumble match is the headline event and this one is pretty unpredictable. I’m pretty sure it’ll be Shawn Michaels to win the Royal Rumble match and go on to … Continue reading Royal Rumble 2010

Survivor Series 2009

|Date: November 22, 2009 |Venue: Verizon Center |City: Washington, D.C. |Attendance: 12,500 |Buys: 225,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The second longest running PPV in WWE history is back but it has a terrible amount of buys, the worst in 13 years of Survivor Series and the fourth worst in Survivor Series history. There are six matches on tonight’s card, three of which are traditional Survivor Series matches. There are two … Continue reading Survivor Series 2009

Bragging Rights 2009

|Date: October 25, 2009 |Venue: Mellon Arena |City: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |Attendance: 13,562 |Buys: 200,000 |Brands: Raw & Smackdown |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Welcome to this review of the first ever Bragging Rights PPV. Bragging Rights replaces Cyber Sunday and has a considerably higher buyrate. The theme for the show is Raw vs. Smackdown and there are three matches tonight pitting Raw superstars against Smackdown superstars to decide who is the better brand. As well as … Continue reading Bragging Rights 2009