WWE SmackDown (October 28, 2011)

Why am I watching this random episode of SmackDown from 2011? Because 2011 was one of those periods when I just wasn’t watching wrestling. I decided to fill in some chronological gaps in my knowledge solely using stuff that’s on YouTube and when I typed in WWE 2011 this came up instead of the random episode of Superstars or Main Event or whatever C-Show they were airing in 2011 that I had expected to find. I have no idea what was happening in 2011 or really even who was on the roster at this point so let’s find out.

TNA The Best Damn Wrestling Event Period – Night 1 (November 10, 2004)

So way back in 2004, TNA called Fox Sports Net home. As a bit of cross-promotion the powers that be allowed TNA to air two nights of special wrestling based installments of another Fox Sports Net program, The Best Damn Sports Show Period. I’ve never seen an episode of that particular program but Wikipedia tells me that it “regularly featured irreverent and opinionated interviews with top athletes, coaches, celebrities, and entertainers,” and based on the stuff on this episode that seems to be a fair description of the show. Anyway this had actual matches on it and it was only an hour long so I figured I give it a watch as it’s something I’ve never actually seen before.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #02 (June 26, 2002)

For whatever reason I felt like watching some TNA/IMPACT and so I headed to YouTube since IMPACT does a pretty good job of posting up old-ass shows in full for cheap as free. I stumbled upon this one, assuming at first that it was Weekly PPV #102 but it’s actually the #2 Weekly PPV, I’m pretty sure I saw this way back in the day but don’t really remember anything about it and never wrote anything about it so here’s words about old-ass Asylum Era TNA.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #53 (July 16, 2003)

I continue to haphazardly make my way through IMPACT Wrestling’s 20 year history with another one of their weekly PPVs, specifically the July 16, 2003 show from the Asylum in Nashville, Tennessee. Don’t know anything about it save for the fact that it’s about a month after the one year anniversary show I watched a few weeks back.

TNA Destination X 2005 (March 13, 2005)

So I continue my foray into being a guy who only watches IMPACT Wrestling today with a look at Destination X 2005 coming to us live from the IMPACT Zone in Orlando, Florida. I think I’m going to go through the random IMPACT shows that are available in full on IMPACT’s YouTube channel along with the random stuff of questionable legality I have on an external hard drive in chronological order and this one seems to be the oldest one that I’ve not reviewed already so it seems as good a place as any to start so let’s get to it.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #22 (November 27, 2002)

I think I’m going to go all in on TNA/IMPACT Wrestling being the only wrestling promotion I watch for the foreseeable future. I don’t have any grand designs about watching every episode in chronological order or anything like that. I’m just going to watch whatever shows I have available to me on YouTube or that external hard drive of wrestling shows of questionable legality I got. So let’s get down to it.

NWA:TNA Weekly PPV #49 (June 18, 2003)

I’m thinking about maybe becoming an Impact Wrestling guy this year so I went and watched one of the full length shows they have up on their YouTube channel, specifically the First Anniversary Show from June 18, 2003. Here are some words about it.

WWE Superstars (September 9, 2010)

For whatever reason the September 9, 2010 episode of WWE Superstars appeared in my YouTube feed last night while I was scrolling through looking for something to watch that wouldn’t require much thinking so I gave it a watch.

WWE Money in the Bank 2020 (May 10, 2020)

The basic cable channel here that airs WWE shit broadcasted a mess of Money in the Bank PPVs last weekend and I ended up watching this one with my kid so I figured I would write some words about it since I’ve written about every single WWE show from July 1998 and thus have nothing to review for the remainder of the month anyway.

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?