WWF In Your House 13: Final Four (February 16, 1997)

It’s time for WWF In Your House 13: Final Four! It was a PPV that was supposed to determine the #1 Contender for the WWF Championship after all manner of Stone Cold shenanigans made the Royal Rumble less decisive than folks would have liked it to be. But between the Royal Rumble and Thursday Raw Thursday, Shawn Michaels lost his smile and relinquished the belt so now the WWF no longer needs to find a #1 Contender they need to find a WWF Champion.

WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (January 11, 1997)

I’m going to guess that because I watched an episode of Los Super Astros the other day this popped up in my YouTube recommendations. I figured “Why not?” and so here are words about the second episode of WWF Shotgun Saturday Night. This is from when the show was still a live late night broadcast primarily for the New York market.

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.

WWF Raw Is War (December 28, 1998)

Since I already reviewed the December 21, 1998 episode of Raw prior to starting this 1998 deep dive we’re moving on the December 28th episode. It might have taken three months longer than I had originally intended but this is the final episode of this project so let’s get to it.

WWF Raw Is War (November 30, 1998)

Well, it’s 2022 now and I didn’t quite finish rewatching Raw ’98 in its entirety like I planned to last year. I ended up, through no fault of my own, falling about a month behind but I’m not about to abandon the project now. So today we’re pressing on with the November 30, 1998 episode of Raw is War.

WWF Raw Is War (November 16, 1998)

I’m getting really burned out on this ’98 WWF deep dive but we’re coming down the home stretch so I’m going to try and just muscle through. This is the Raw after Survivor Series and we’ve got a new champion in The Rock which might help liven things up a bit. Who knows?

WWF Raw Is War (October 26, 1998)

Last week’s Raw had a huge overarching angle that dominated the bulk of the show and saw Stone Cold take Vince McMahon hostage, torture him, and then threaten to shoot him in the head in the middle of a wrestling ring. It was not a thing I was a fan of back in the day and 23 years after the fact it hadn’t gotten any better. So will this week be more of the same or will we get two hours of hot in-ring action? Probably not the latter since the only thing announced in advance for this episode was the fact that Motley Crue would be showing up. Oh goody…

WWF Raw Is War (October 12, 1998)

Another week, another episode of Raw Is War from 1998. It seems that we’ve finally gotten to the point of the Attitude Era where every episode of Raw has some huge, super memorable non-wrestling related angle surrounded by a bunch of shitty wrestling matches that 9 times out of 10 end in a DQ or No Contest. Will that trend continue this week or are we going to get two hours of five star mat classics? Let’s find out!