WWF Wrestling Challenge (October 19, 1986)

I’m doing something a little bit different and watching and writing up a whole-ass wrestling show mostly because I want to see the dark match that took place during that particular TV taping. The show in question is the October 19, 1986 installment of WWF Wrestling Challenge. Taped on October 7, 1986 in Rochester, New York and the Rochester Community War Memorial this show features the legendary Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee dark match.

WWF Wrestling Challenge (April 5, 1987)

This randomly popped up in my YouTube recommendations so let’s see what the WWF was up to on the Wrestling Challenge After Mania! That’s right kids! This was the first episode of Wrestling Challenge to air after the spectacle that was WrestleMania III. Will there be big debuts or exciting new angles kicking off? I’m going to assume there are not but who knows?

WCW Clash of the Champions XXXI (August 6, 1995)

My quest to clear out my hard drive of wrestling shows I haven’t reviewed continues today with some mid-90s WCW, specifically Clash of the Champions XXXI. I know for a fact I watched this live on TBS when it happened and remember the main event and Hulk Hogan’s shenanigans that happen during this show but don’t remember much of the undercard so I guess it’ll be interesting to see what WCW was up to in the lead up to Nitro becoming a thing.

XWF Episode #3 (November 13, 2001)

This is the third and final episode of the XWF as presented on this here DVD. They apparently taped more episodes than what appears on this DVD set and also ran some house shows in addition to doing a whole-ass invasion angle in Puerto Rico, so it’s possible I might somehow end up watching more XWF stuff at some point, but the likelihood of that is slim to none so let’s check how they went and wrapped things up.

XWF Episode #2 (November 13, 2001)

Might as well watch the second episode of the XWF. The first one, while not great by any stretch of the imagination also wasn’t so awful as to put me off from watching the remainder of the series so let’s get to it.

XWF Episode #1 (November 13, 2001)

One of my favorite things to do on this here webpage is to review defunct, short-lived wrestling promotions and that’s just what we’re going to be doing today as we take a look at the XWF, one of the myriad wrestling companies that arose after WCW and ECW folded in 2001. The company did some TV tapings and even ran some house shows but never secured a TV deal, apparently due to the fact that the bulk of their big names had been signed to the WWE between the time of the tapings and the show being shopped to networks. Several years later in 2005, a 3 disc DVD set collecting some, but not all of the matches taped for TV was released. It’s the first installment of that DVD set that I’m looking at today.

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.

WWF Superstars (August 31, 1991)

A good percentage of the wrestling shit I watch these days are shows that pop up in my YouTube recommendations and I guess that because I watched an episode of WWF Superstars from the early 90s the other day I’m not inundated with other such shows. So let’s get to it!

WCW World War 3 1997 (November 23, 1997)

For reasons I cannot even begin to fathom the 1997 edition of WCW’s often reviled World War 3 PPV was one of the offerings on the freebie tier of the award winning WWE Network. Since WCW and shitty gimmick matches are my shit I had no choice but to watch it. So I did. Here are words about it.

Wrestlicious Takedown (April 4, 2010)

I found another random-ass episode of Wrestlicious online and since I had 20 minutes to kill decided, “Why not?” Today we’re taking a look at the sixth episode overall. IMDB has its original airdate listed as April 4, 2010, so that’s the date I’m going with since it was a syndicated show and the airdates I’ve seen listed are kind of all over the place. Anyway on with the show!