|Date: July 7, 1990|Venue: Baltimore Arena |City: Baltimore, Maryland|Attendance: 14,000 |Buys: 200,000 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show kicks off with a video package depicting some of WCW’s stars as old paintings of presidents. Jim Ross and Bob Caudle welcome us to the show. Brian Pillman vs. Buddy Landell Previous PPV matches: This is a first PPV match between these two men. Great American Bash PPV … Continue reading The Great American Bash 1990
|Date: May 7, 1989|Venue: Nashville Municipal Stadium |City: Nashville, Tennessee|Attendance: 5,200 |tweet me: @BastionBlogger The show kicks off with catchy titles, showing everyone expected to wrestle tonight. It’s cheesy as hell. Jim Ross welcomes us to Nashville, he’s joined on commentary by Bob Caudle. The Oakridge Boys since the national anthem. Doug Gilbert vs. The Great Muta Background: There’s no background to this match as … Continue reading Wrestlewar ’89
Welcome to my second ever Super Card. Like my previous Super Card post, I am going to analyse the four PPV’s held by WWF and WCW in 1986 and put together a Super Card based on the matches booked that year. I say four, technically it’s a five show year as there were two Great American Bash events. My only rule is that I cannot … Continue reading 1986 Super Card
Welcome to my first ever Super Card. What I’m going to do here is analyse the four PPV’s held by WWF and WCW in 1985 and put together a Super Card based on the matches booked that year. My only rule is that I cannot select a wrestler twice. Sounds easy enough? The four PPV’s I am wading through are Wrestlemania (the original), WCW Great … Continue reading 1985 Super Card
Welcome everybody to the fourth of my rebooking series, this time I’m rebooking Wrestlemania 4. This show is different to any Wrestlemania in history in that it is headlined by a 14 man tournament to crown a new WWF Champion. I’m going to dig deep into this one as I feel there were some dream matches that we didn’t get to see. Let’s see how … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 4
Welcome everybody to the third of my re-booking series, this time I’m re-booking Wrestlemania 3. This card had some really good matches and feuds and the card is a lot stronger than the previous 2 Wrestlemania’s. But I’ll get into the heart of the card and re-book the matches that I think could have been improved. It’s easy to do in hindsight. First let’s have … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 3
This is my second blog in this series of re-booking Wrestlemania. This second Wrestlemania had 12 matches over 3 cities and I had a lot of fun re-booking this one. I honestly believe my card would have been better but who am I to argue with Vince McMahon? So first off, here is the card that aired: Nassau ColiseumPaul Orndorff vs. The Magnificent MuracoRandy Savage … Continue reading Rebooking Wrestlemania 2
For this post I am going back in time to pick apart the 1980’s PPV scene in WWE. I have extracted loads of statistics from the first real decade for WWE PPV and broken it all down here for you. I hope it makes for an interesting read and maybe you’ll learn a thing or two! 1980’s PPV Ranking 1. Survivor Series 89 (61/100)2. Survivor … Continue reading WWE 80’s Stat Pack
For this post I am going back in time to the 1987. 1987 only featured two PPV’s, Wrestlemania III and Survivor Series 1987. I’ll be going through every year in WWE history and releasing similar stat packs so following the success of the 1985 & 1986 Stat Pack, I present 1987. 1987 PPV Ranking 1. Survivor Series 87 (49/100)2. Wrestlemania III (47/100) Most 1987 PPV … Continue reading 1987 Stat Pack
For this post I am going back in time to the 1986. 1986 only featured two PPV’s, Wrestlemania II and The Big Event. I’ll be going through every year in WWE history and releasing similar stat packs so following the success of the 1985 Stat Pack, I present 1986. 1986 PPV Ranking 1. Wrestlemania II (41/100)2. The Big Event (38/100) Most 1986 PPV Matches 1= … Continue reading 1986 Stat Pack
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