|Date: October 5, 2008 |Venue: Rose Garden |City: Portland, Oregon |Attendance: 9527 |Buys: 261,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger No Mercy is scheduled from top to bottom tonight as the top stars of the company prepare to do battle. Tonight’s card is full of experienced talent, most of which were around in the attitude era a decade ago. This is not a show that builds for the future but more of … Continue reading No Mercy 2008
|Date: September 7, 2008 |Venue: Quicken Loans Arena |City: Cleveland, Ohio |Attendance: 8,707 |Buys: 211,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Unforgiven, an apt name for 11th annual event of this WWE staple. This years event comes with a theme, an “Adamle Original” if you will, a concept invented by Raw General Manager Mike Adamle. The Adamle Original in question is a “Championship Scramble” match that features five men battling for the … Continue reading Unforgiven 2008
|Date: July 20, 2008 |Venue: Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum |City: Uniondale, New York |Attendance: 12,454 |Buys: 273,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger As the new brands start to settle, new feuds take shape leading to stacked card for tonight Great American Bash. Triple H retained the WWE Championship, taking the title to Smackdown but was instantly given his first title defence, Smackdown General Manager’s finace Edge. Edge would get married … Continue reading The Great American Bash 2008
|Date: June 29, 2008 |Venue: American Airlines Center |City: Dallas, Texas |Attendance: 16,151 |Buys: 259,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger It’s a Night of Defenders, It’s a Night of Challengers, It’s a Night of Champions. Night Of Champions takes over from where Vengeance finished and the second annual event is very much like the first in which every single title will be defended. This show comes hot on the heels of … Continue reading Night Of Champions 2008
|Date: November 18, 2007 |Venue: American Airlines Arena |City: Miami, Florida |Attendance: 12,500 |Buys: 325,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Tick tick boom. That is the theme for this event and WWE is very much a ticking timebomb at the moment. Randy Orton is the WWE Champion but due to getting himself disqualified at Cyber Sunday against Shawn Michaels a few weeks ago, Michaels has got another shot at the belt. … Continue reading Survivor Series 2007
|Date: October 7, 2007 |Venue: Allstate Arena |City: Rosemont, Illinois |Attendance: 12,500 |Buys: 270,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger No Mercy is a staple of the WWE calendar and tonight it returns for a tenth time to absolute chaos. Originally expected tonight was a WWE Championship match between John Cena and Randy Orton. However that plan has gone out the window after John Cena tore his pec in a match … Continue reading No Mercy 2007
|Date: September 16, 2007 |Venue: FedExForum |City: Memphis, Tennessee |Attendance: 12,000 |Buys: 210,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown, ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Unforgiven returns for a tenth year but the 2007 version has the lowest amount of buys for an Unforgiven PPV of all time. There are plenty of big matches scheduled for this show though. The main event is a rematch from Summerslam with John Cena defending the WWE Championship against Randy Orton. Randy Orton … Continue reading Unforgiven 2007
|Date: June 24, 2007 |Venue: Toyota Center |City: Houston, Texas |Attendance: 15,000 |Buys: 247,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Night Of Champions. It’s a special Vengeance event this year as every title will be defended. All nine of them. And because of the draft, superstars have switched brands so there are plenty of new angles and match-ups. The WWE Championship will be front and center as John Cena will be defending … Continue reading Vengeance 2007: Night Of Champions
|Date: May 20, 2007 |Venue: Scottrade Center |City: St Louis, Missouri |Attendance: 10,500 |Buys: 242,000 |Brands: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger Tonight will be Judgment Day for the likes of John Cena, Edge and Vince McMahon as they are set to defend their world titles against much bigger opponents. With only three weeks to build to this show some of the rivalries have been short. Shawn Michaels, Edge and Randy Orton … Continue reading Judgment Day 2007
|Date: April 29, 2007 |Venue: Phillips Arena |City: Atlanta, Georgia |Attendance: 14,500 |Buys: 194,000 |Brand: Raw, Smackdown & ECW |tweet me: @BastionBlogger ThisPPV is centred around the backlash from Wrestlemania. The buyrate is terrible though, the worst of any Backlash event up to now. The WWE Championship is set to be defended as Randy Orton, Edge and Shawn Michaels vi for John Cena’s title. Originally Vince McMahon’s executive assistant on Raw, Jonathan Coachman, announced … Continue reading Backlash 2007
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