I didn't really appreciate Heenan in my younger days as a fan, when he was an active manager. Yeah I saw that he was good at his job and was really funny with the insults but I didn't think he was better than Jim Cornette or Paul E. Dangeroulsy (Paul Heyman to all of you … Continue reading RIP Bobby Heenan
Retro Recap – Halloween Havoc 1991
Halloween Havoc was the follow up to what may be the worst pay per view, WCW or otherwise, ever: the 1991 Great American Bash. That show, mere days after WCW fired Ric Flair and literally had to reshuffle an entire card that didn't look very good to start with, was a total dumpster fire on … Continue reading Retro Recap – Halloween Havoc 1991
Retro Recap – Great American Bash 1988
I was inspired to go back and look at this by the shark cage Chris Jericho is going to be in at the Rumble, because this one had such a match on the card. More on that later. What's more interesting about this one is that it was essentially the last hurrah for the Four … Continue reading Retro Recap – Great American Bash 1988
Retro Recap – Clash of the Champions I
With Clash of the Champions making a return as an event this coming Sunday I thought it would be cool to take a look back at the original one that happened almost 20 years ago way back in 1988. Unlike this year's show the first was a strike back at the WWF by Jim Crockett's … Continue reading Retro Recap – Clash of the Champions I
Bring back the territories?
I was in a really great twitter thread a few days ago about some old NWA stuff that carried over into a discussion on smaller wrestling companies operating today and whether or not between them and the indies out a new territory system could be forged. Which led to an episode of the Rant with … Continue reading Bring back the territories?
Retro Recap – Summerslam 1988
With Summerslam going down on Sunday I thought it would be cool to look back at the original show, Summerslam 1988. Summerslam was a further expansion of the WWF into the pay per view world. WrestleMania had been established in March/early April, and the Survivor Series was put up in November to stick it to … Continue reading Retro Recap – Summerslam 1988
Retro Recap – No Way Out 2004
The February Pay Per View show is often a nothingburger, little more than a placeholder between the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania. In this case things were a little different. We were over a year into the brand split, and this was a Smackdown roster only show. WWE Tag Team Title Match: Rikishi and Scotty 2 … Continue reading Retro Recap – No Way Out 2004
Retro Recap – Great American Bash 1990
The 1990 Great American Bash was the second one since Ted Turner bought out Jim Crockett, and for the second year in a row there was some heavy roster turnover. Ricky Steamboat, Terry Funk and the Great Muta, three guys who were a big part of the previous years' ring action, were gone. And the … Continue reading Retro Recap – Great American Bash 1990
Retro Recap – WWE Armageddon 2000
I was a little bored today, so I checked out WWE Armageddon 2000 on the WWE Network. Armageddon took place in December of 2000, about a month or so after Stone Cold Steve Austin returned to the ring after almost a year out of action. And things had changed a lot during his absence. The … Continue reading Retro Recap – WWE Armageddon 2000
Retro Recap – SuperBrawl II
SuperBrawl 2 took place in 1992, at a very tough time for WCW. Just eight months earlier the company fired Ric Flair, it's longtime standard bearer and World Champion, and was struggling along with Lex Luger as champion. They had one gimmick that was working well for them in the form of manager Paul E. … Continue reading Retro Recap – SuperBrawl II
Stroke of Genius 