ECW (September 29, 2009)

I’m going back to the WWECW well with the September 29, 2009 episode of the show. They’re somewhere in Boston, MA this week and the awful announce duo of Matt Striker and Josh Mathews are, as always, on the call. Let’s go get…mildly extreme. Do they still get extreme in ECW?

ECW (September 22, 2009)

I’ve decided to stay on the WWE ECW tip and check out some more episodes. Today we’re taking a look at the September 22, 2009 episode emanating from Tulsa, Oklahoma. The godawful duo of Josh Mathews and Matt Striker are on the call and tonight in the main event we’ll see Christian defending the ECW Championship against the #1 contender, Zack Ryder.

ECW (September 15, 2009)

I randomly stumbled upon a mess of WWE ECW episodes up on WWE’s YouTube channel and have decided to check some out from the period where it was less an ECW revival and more a proto-NXT to get folks ready for “the main roster.” Why am I watching these? Well, I think hour long wrestling shows are the best sort of wrestling shows and by and large 2009-2010 is probably the period I’ve seen the least amount of wrestling of any sort from and since these ECW episodes tick those two boxes I figured why not? Anyway here are words about the September 15, 2009 episode of ECW.

WWF Raw Is War (November 23, 1998)

So last week’s episode of Raw Is War from the year 1998 sucked so much ass and the week before that wasn’t so great either. Will this week’s episode be any better? I doubt it but I’ve committed to getting through all the Raws from 1998 so let’s just get on with it.

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…

NXT 2.0 (September 14, 2021)

So I got my second dose of a corona vaccine the other day and was at home afterwards looking for some bullshit to watch when I realized that the cheap as free tier of the WWE Network now has the first episode of the revamped NXT available so I figured I’d give it go. NXT was my jam for a long time but to be perfectly honest since AEW came into existence I’ve watched a lot less of it to the point that I’d probably consider myself a lapsed fan now. I’ll still look at highlights or check out matches that are supposed to be great but really haven’t watched a full show since I randomly checked out a corona era show just to see how the NXT crew was dealing with the pandemic.

Why am I rambling about this? Well because I don’t know about any of the long term booking that may or may not have been jettisoned due to this soft reboot. There’s a good chance that I won’t know the difference between someone debuting in this episode and someone who showed up six months ago. I’m going in with an open mind and giving NXT 90 minutes to win this lapsed fan back. Will they be able to? Let’s find out!

WWF Raw Is War (October 5, 1998)

Last week’s Raw had one of the all time great Raw segments as well as a bunch of shitty wrestling matches I more or less forgot about as soon as they ended and if memory serves correctly that’s pretty much going to be the norm from here on out: molten hot main event angles that everyone remembers 20+ years after the fact and undercard matches that everyone forgets five minutes after watching them. Let’s see if I remember this all correctly and I’m dead wrong and this week is going to be a bunch of five star mat classics!

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.