WCW Festival de Lucha (January 27, 1999)

I was a big WCW guy and this is one of those shows that I’d read about taking place on message boards back in the day but also one that unfortunately never saw the light of day. When I first got the WWE Network it was one of the first things I went looking for but at that time all they had up was a single match that saw Konnan, Rey Mysterio Jr., Hector Garza & Silver King go up against Chris Jericho, Norman Smiley, Johnny Swinger & Lenny Lane. That is no longer the case and the entire show is now available though it lacks commentary or any sort of chyrons so I’m going to attempt to review it in spite not possessing Professor Iron “Mike” Tenay levels of knowledge of lucha libre so don’t expect much more beyond “So and so did some really cool dives” levels of play by play. Let’s get down to it.

All In (September 1, 2018)

Over the past month or so AEW’s had me more amped up and excited about professional wrestling than I’ve been probably since shortly after WCW closed up shop back in 2001. Between the big signings, the air of predictability that comes from working with pretty much every major wrestling company around the globe save for WWE in addition to a mess of indies, and the fact that they’re going to pretty much turn Dark into WCW Worldwide and start filming in Universal Studios Florida I am hyped beyond belief about AEW so this weekend I decided to go back and watch the show that directly lead to AEW’s creation: All In.

I guess the story behind this goes that Big Dave Meltzer commented that Ring of Honor would never be able to sell out a 10,000 seat arena so Cody Rhodes took that as a challenge and along with the Young Bucks put together a show that took place at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on September 1, 2018. Tickets apparently sold on in 30 minutes. Anyway here are words about that show.

NXT (June 1, 2010)

I guess I might as well finish up my reviews of the first season of NXT before the end of the year. The last couple episodes have been pretty great if I’m being completely honest. Will that trend continue or will the show wrap up the way it began: unfocused and dull?

NXT (May 25, 2010)

It’s time for another episode of NXT Season 1. I’ve thought that the past two episodes have both been really strong. Will this week continue that trend or will we go back to a bunch of boring bullshit surrounding a couple of short television wrestling matches? Let’s find out as we get wild and/or young!

NXT (May 18, 2010)

I continue to plow through the first season of NXT with a bit of renewed vigor after last week’s shocking triple elimination. Which of the remaining five rookies will cut a shockingly good promo after being sent home after this? Probably none of them since really only Barrett and Otunga are decent on the mic and I’m pretty sure those two end up being the final two Rookies, but I’m getting a bit ahead of myself. Let’s get wild and/or young!

NXT (April 27, 2010)

My deep dive into the inaugural season of NXT continues full steam ahead as we take a look at the April 27, 2010 episode. We’re still two weeks away from the first elimination and…oh God can’t it come faster than that? Get ready for another dumb, pointless challenge, and Michael Cole shitting on Daniel Bryan as he gets squashed by Michael Tarver or some shit for no good reason. Wild and young!

NXT (April 20, 2010)

After a couple of diversions into other random-ass bullshit I was able to find on YouTube and slightly less reputable YouTube clone sites it’s time to get back to the business at hand by which I mean my decision to review ten year old episodes of the game show version of NXT. So let’s get wild and/or young again as we see what the NXT Rookies were up to back in 2010!

NXT (April 13, 2010)

Time to check back in with the game show version of NXT and see how the Rookies are doing this week, so let’s strap in and prepare to get wild and young while Michael Cole and company heap abuse on their coworkers for no goddamn reason!

NXT (March 30, 2010)

Finally WrestleMania’s behind us so maybe now NXT can get out of the awkward holding pattern since pretty much episode two. So let’s get wild and young and check out which WWE Pros are complete dicks towards NXT Rookies on a decade old wrestling show!

NXT (March 16, 2010)

I continue to work my way through the inaugural season of the elimination game show version of NXT with the fourth episode. I don’t really have any random asides or admin to deal with up top so let’s get down to business!