WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (January 18, 1997)

For as much as I complained about the episode of Shotgun Saturday Night I reviewed recently the show was a pretty easy one to just sit down and watch and so I’ve decided to continue watching Shotgun Saturday Night at least up until the format change that I know is coming happens and the show goes from being a weird ECW homage and just become proto-Velocity or Jakked.

Championship Wrestling From Florida (November 3, 1979)

We’re sticking to Championship Wrestling from Florida in the 1970s because this episode is the one YouTube wanted to autoplay when I finished watching the previous episode of CWF I watched, so I figured why the heck not? This is the November 3, 1979 episode.

Championship Wrestling From Florida (April 21, 1976)

I’m still on my Championship Wrestling From Florida shit but today we’re going to dig a little deeper into their history and check out the April 21, 1976 episode. I’ve generally only reviewed shows that aired in my lifetime but this is from several years before I was even conceived so let’s take a look at what wrestling was like in the mid-70s.

WWE vs. ECW Head to Head (June 7, 2006)

Another day, another completely random wrestling show. Today we’re taking a look at WWE vs. ECW Head to Head, an event that served as a prelude to the 2006 edition of ECW One Night Stand and the revival of ECW as a brand under the stewardship of WWE.

MLW Underground #21 (September 1, 2003)

I couldn’t find the episode of MLW Underground that was supposed to have Raven teaming with Norman Smiley against Michael Shane and CM Punk but I did find this episode which apparently features Jerry Lawler coming into the promotion to try and collect a bounty on Terry Funk. It’s only 50 minutes long so I figured why not? The matches here were taped at MLW’s Summer Apocalypse show on August 22, 2003 at the St. Petersburg Coliseum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (July 25, 1998)

Since I already reviewed the July 18, 1998 episode of Shotgun Saturday Night as well as the July 20, 1998 episode of Raw Is War we’re skipping a head a bit to the July 25, 1998 episode to see what guys not named The Rock, Kane, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Mankind, or The Undertaker were up to in the WWF in the summer of ’98.

WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (July 4, 1998)

Since I’ve already reviewed the June 29, 1998 episode of Raw as well as all the Raws from July of that year, we’re going to do something a little different for the next few weeks. Since at this point in 1998, Heat is still a month away from existing and SmackDown was still a year off that left me with very few options. I know this seems wild in 2021 when there’s like 90 hours of first-run WWE and WWE adjacent programming a week but back in 1998 it was pretty much just Raw, Livewire and Superstars (which were more or less recap shows), and Shotgun Saturday Night.

So for the next few weeks we’re going to be checking in with what the undercard was doing over on Shotgun Saturday Night while Raw was obsessed with whether or not Kane and The Undertaker were in cahoots. Let’s get down to it!

WWF Raw Is War (June 15, 1998)

The episode before this one was kind of a slog to get through but it was a pre-recorded episode and this one is live…or at least was when it aired 23 years ago so hopefully it’s a bit better than that one was. I don’t know if I could deal with two consecutive weeks of largely mediocre grappling and wheel spinning. So let’s get down to business and see what this week has in store for me.

WWF Raw Is War (June 1, 1998)

My journey through 23 year old episodes of Raw Is War continues this week with the June 1, 1998 installment of Raw. This is the Raw after Over the Edge so I’m sure there will be all sorts of fallout from that big, big show so let’s get down to it!

WWF Raw Is War (May 18, 1998)

It’s time for another trip back to the year 1998 to see what was happening in the WWF 23 years ago this week. Outside of the DX stuff which I never really liked but is honestly a lot dumber than I recalled it being the recent shows have been a ton of fun. Let’s see if that trend continues or if we’re going to get two hours of Triple H comparing his dick to tricycles or a pineapple or a forklift or some other equally perplexing item.