| Date: May 5, 2001 | Venue: Earls Court | City: London, England | Attendance: 15, 794 Insurrextion is one of two annual PPVs held in the UK. What I like about these shows are that you don’t always get matches you expect. They don’t necessarily follow the curve of the storylines that are current. Tonight will probably be no different. No matches have been announced going into this but … Continue reading Insurrextion 2001
| Date: April 1, 2000 | Venue: Reliant Astrodome | City: Houston, Texas | Attendance: 67, 925 | Buyrate: 1, 040, 000 Houston….We have a problem. And that is the biggest show of the year coming to Texas this very evening to the biggest buyrate of all time to this point. And what an incredible line up we have. It’s going to be a 4 four spectacle with no less than 11 … Continue reading Wrestlemania 17
| Date: December 10, 2000 | Venue: Birmingham – Jefferson Civic Centre | City: Birmingham, Alabama | Attendance: 14, 920 | Buyrate: 465, 000 Lord I’m Coming Home To You! How about that for tagline? It can only mean that this pay per view is taking place in sweet home Alabama. On paper this looks like a one match show but we’ll have to see. That one match I refer to is … Continue reading Armageddon 2000
| Date: December 2nd, 2000 | Venue: Sheffield Arena | City: Sheffield, England | Attendance: 11, 077 | Buyrate: 165, 000 This is the (now) annual Rebellion PPV from the UK, the seocnd PPV from England this year. There are never any matches announced for this card so I can’t tell you what to expect. What I will say is that there is a new Intercontinental champion in “The One” Billy Gunn. … Continue reading Rebellion 2000
| Date: November 19, 2000 | Venue: Ice Palace | City: Miami, Florida | Attendance: 18, 602 | Buyrate: 400, 000 The Rules Have Changed. I’m not sure which rules have changed but in terms of traditional Survivor Series matches they haven’t. “Stone Cold “Steve Austin is on the poster for this pay per view as he goes one on one with Triple H. How did this come about you ask? Well … Continue reading Survivor Series 2000
| Date: October 22, 2000 | Venue: Pepsi Arena | City: Albany, New York | Attendance: 14, 342 | Buyrate: 550, 000 No Mercy. That is exactly what Kurt Angle and The Rock will have for another as they battle over the WWF title in tonights main event. Kurt Angle won number one contendership for the WWF title when he beat Triple H on Raw a few weeks ago. It wasn’t a … Continue reading No Mercy 2000
| Date: September 24, 2000 | Venue: First Union Centre | City: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | Attendance: 18, 092 | Buyrate: 605, 000 Unforgiven has the second biggest buyrate of any none big 5 PPV ever. That’s a lot of eyes on this PPV which says a lot about the build into this show. The WWF Champion is the man that tends to get the credit for the big numbers and that man … Continue reading Unforgiven 2000
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