| 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: 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: August 24, 2003 | Venue: America West Arena | City: Phoenix, Arizona | Attendance: 16, 113 | Buys: 465, 000 Summerslam is traditionally the second biggest show of the year and the 2003 edition should be no different. There are 7 matches on the card as opposed to the usual 8, with 4 matches coming from the Raw brand and 3 matches presented by Smackdown. The WWE Championship will be … Continue reading Summerslam 2003
| Date: August 25, 2002 | Venue: Nassau Coliseum | City: Uniondale, New York | Attendance: 14, 797 | Buyrate: 540, 000 Rock vs. Brock. The Undisputed WWE Championship is set to be defended tonight as The Rock, who beat The Undertaker for the gold at Vengeance last month, defends against Brock Lesnar. Brock earned the right to his shot by winning the 2002 King Of The Ring two months ago. Lesnar … Continue reading Summerslam 2002
| Date: August 27, 2000 | Venue: Raleigh Entertainment And Sports Arena | City: Raleigh, North Carolina | Attendance: 18, 128 | Buyrate: 570, 000 Summerslam, the second biggest PPV of the year following Wrestlemania and tonight promises 10 big matches. The main event features the WWF Champion The Rock defending his title. But who would he defend against? Commissioner Mick Foley made a triple threat match on Raw a few weeks … Continue reading Summerslam 2000
Welcome everybody to the 18th Stat Pack that I have written and produced. If you’ve not read one of these before then you are in for a treat. This one contains all the statistics, facts and figures from the firs 90 WWE PPVs. The timespan it runs from is from the very first Wrestlemania through to the end of 1998 with the last PPV being … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 18
Hart & Soul. This PPV features a main event that pits the hart of the WWF in Bret Hart against the Soul of WWF, The Undertaker. This will be Brets first WWF title shot on PPV since February and In Your House: Final 4. He was named number one contender after his team defeated Steve Austins team last month at Canadian Stampede. Since the, Brets … Continue reading Summerslam 97
70 PPVs in the bag, all reviewed, all ranked and all ripped apart for statistics. So welcome everybody to the 14th instalment of stat pack. In this blog expect to see stats such as every PPV ranked, all wrestler stats such as most matches, wins, most tag team wins, highest managerial win percentage, best matches and much much more. Since the last Stat Pack, Bret … Continue reading Stat Pack Vol 14
Face The Heat! That’s what Diesel and King Mabel will be doing tonight as they go one on one for the WWF Title at this eighth annual Summerslam. King Mabel earned his title shot by winning this years King Of The Ring and then made a statement by attacking Diesel when he served as a lumberjack at the last In Your House PPV. Mabels plan … Continue reading Summerslam 95
The Summerslam you thought you’d never see! That is the description for Summerslam 92 and it looks like one hell of a show. We have a double main event for this one, the first is the WWF title Match between “Macho Man” Randy Savage and challenger The Ultimate Warrior. Savage has been champion since defeating Ric Flair at Wrestlemania VIII whilst Warrior was named number … Continue reading Summerslam 92
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