WWF Shotgun Saturday Night (March 1, 1997)

It’s time for another look at what WWF was up to over on their B-Show, Shotgun Saturday Night in the year of 1997. On Raw and the PPVs things are honestly getting interesting as the world title scene is heating up and ECW is invading and there’s a new title being introduced for the first time in 20 years, but that’s stuff for Raw and the PPVs. This is Shotgun Saturday Night where you ask yourself, “That guy was still with the company in 1997?” on a weekly basis. So let’s check it out!

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 (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 (November 2, 1998)

I’ve not been a fan of the past two episodes of Raw for vastly different reasons but we’re coming down the home stretch with stupid 1998 rewatch project so I’m going to muscle through. This week we’re going to take a look at the November 2, 1998 episode of Raw and see what’s going on with the McMahons and maybe also get a wrestling match or two.

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 19, 1998)

We’re one day removed from Judgement Day 1998, a largely inconsequential show that I did not watch. Probably the only major thing of note to happen (other than Christian defeating Taka Michinoku to become Light Heavyweight Champion of course) was Austin doing exactly what he said he would and only raising his own hand at the end of the main event and Vince McMahon doing exactly what he said he would do should Austin not declare a new WWF Champion and firing Stone Cold’s ass right then and there. And it is on that note that we head to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the October 19, 1998 episode of Raw Is War.

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!

WWF Raw Is War (September 5, 1998)

So I’d already reviewed the August 24, 1998 episode of Raw before I began this project and the August 17, 1998 episode was so shitty I decided to just watch old NWA studio wrestling shit instead of reviewing an episode of Sunday Night Heat or SummerSlam. This week, though I’m back on the grind and…FUCK! It’s a Saturday episode of Raw because Raw was preempted by the US Open. Maybe they’ll just be like, “No one’s watching anyway so let’s just let X-Pac and Brian Christopher wrestle an 8 minute match like it’s Shotgun Saturday Night!”