WWF Royal Rumble 1988 (January 24, 1988)

The WWE has become the latest company to say, “Fuck it, the world’s coming to an end, here’s a bunch of free shit for you to look at while everyone dies of a plague,” and offer up some free entertainment. For an as of yet unknown amount of time, a pared down the WWE Network is available for cheap as free. So I’m drinking rum & Cokes and watching the 1988 Royal Rumble. Here are words about it.

NWA Clash of the Champions (March 27, 1988)

The story goes that back in 1987 Vince McMahon put together the Survivor Series to fuck with Jim Crockett Promotion’s PPV buyrates for Starrcade. The event was scheduled on the same day as the previously announced Starrcade and Vince talked a number of cable providers to carry Survivor Series alone by threatening to withhold WrestleMania IV from them if they aired both events.

Crockett decides that turnabout is fair play and schedules an NWA supercard to run against WrestleMania IV and goes that extra mile by putting it on free TV instead of PPV. This is that supercard.