Monthly Archives: July 2009

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997
August 17, 1997
War Memorial Auditorium
Fort Lauderdale, FL

The current ECW champions were as follows:
World Champion: Sabu (8/9/97)
Television Champion: Taz (6/7/97)
Tag Team Champions: The Gangstas (7/19/97)

Your host is Joey Styles.

Rick Rude interrupts Styles’ intro speech, and Styles gives him some grief over his soon-to-occur jump to WWF. Rude taunts the crowd a bit, then introduces Chris Candido. Candido is followed by Tod Gordon, who tells Rude to beat it since he’s not a licensed manager. Read the rest of this entry

Drama’s Smackdown Report 7/3/09

Drama’s Smackdown Report 7/3/09

Friday Night Smackdown!
July 3, 2009
Fresno, California
Jim Ross and Todd Grisham

OPENING ANIMATION

Todd welcomes us to Fresno Read the rest of this entry

King of the Ring 1996

WWF King of the Ring
June 23, 1996
Milwaukee, WI
The Mecca

The current WWF Champs were as follows:
World Champion: Shawn Michaels (3/31/1996)
Intercontinental Champion: Goldust (4/22/1996)
World Tag Team Champions: The Smokin’ Gunns (5/26/1996)

  • The New Rockers vs. The Body Donnas (w/Cloudy) – Free For All Match

This looked to be a decent match Read the rest of this entry

Bigelow’s Raw Report 7/6/09

Monday Night Raw 7/6/09
HP Pavilion
San Jose
, CA

Announcers: Michael Cole & Jerry Lawler

– We fade into our opening animation before Read the rest of this entry

Scott & Justin’s Royal Rumble 1989

Royal Rumble

January 15, 1989
The
Summit
Houston
, Texas
Attendance: 19, 000
Buy Rate: 1.5
Announcers: Gorilla Monsoon and Jesse Ventura

Dark Matches
1)
Jim Powers (James Manley) defeated Barry Horowitz
2)
Sam Houston defeated Steve Lombardi
3)
King Haku (Uliuli Fifita) defeated Harley Race

Actual Show

1) The Hart Foundation & Jim Duggan defeat the Rougeau Brothers & Dino Bravo (Adolfo Bresciano) in a two-of-three falls match

Raymond Rougeau pins Bret Hart at 4:30

Jim Duggan pins Raymond Rougeau at 10:10

Bret Hart pins Dino Bravo at 14:55

Scott: The first PPV match of the New Year is a six-man tag that I’ve always had mixed feelings about.  On the one hand, Read the rest of this entry

Bigelow’s Replay: WCW Nitro 3/31/97

WCW Nitro 3/31/97
Civic Center
Roanoke
, VA

Hour 1
Announcers: Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko

– We kick off this week’s show with a look back at the closing segment from last week’s show. Randy Savage was Read the rest of this entry

NWA-TNA Weekly PPV #7 7-31-2002

  • National Wrestling Alliance/Total Non-Stop Action presents Weekly PPV #7 7-31-2002

From: Nashville, Tennessee

NWA-TNA Opening Video

Mike Tenay, Don West and Ed Ferrera welcome everyone to the show. Read the rest of this entry

NWA-TNA Weekly PPV #6 7-24-2002

  • National Wrestling Alliance/Total Non-Stop Action presents Weekly PPV #6 7-24-2202

From: Nashville, Tennessee

Jeff Jarrett attacks security with a steel chair in the ring. Read the rest of this entry

Monday Nitro (06.17.96)

WCW Monday Nitro
June 17, 1996
Richmond, VA
Richmond Coliseum

The current WCW champs were as follows:
WCW World Champion: The Giant (4/29/1996)
WCW U.S. Champion: Konnan (1/29/1996)
WCW World Tag Team Champions: Sting & Lex Luger (1/22/1996)
WCW World Television Champion: Lex Luger (3/6/1996)
WCW World Cruiserweight Champion: Dean Malenko (5/18/1996)

HOUR NUMBER ONE!

Your hosts are Tony Schiavone & Larry Zbyszko.

They open the show with still shots of last night’s PPV. The meeting between Bischoff and the “interruption” airs, but they cut us off right before the powerbomb off the stage because they’re going to show that to us later. Oh Bischoff and your ratings-grabbing tricks. Read the rest of this entry

ROH on HDNet Review (06.27.09)

ROH on HDNet
Philadelphia, PA
June 27, 2009

Your hosts are Dave Prazak and Mike Hogewood. Read the rest of this entry