Way Back Pay-Per-Review: Halloween Havoc 98
Well Halloween is just around the corner…ok maybe not, but my local grocery store seems to think so with all the pumpkin beer occupying the shelves in late August. So taking their lead I’m going to review a PPV that I have always wanted to revisit for purely masochistic reasons, Halloween Havoc 98’. The “epic” second battle of Warrior and Hogan 5 years after anyone gave a damn. We open on an extremely blurry video package of the...
Way Back Pay-Per-Review: Wrestlemania 2000
We have been told that we are on the road to Wrestlemania. This is supposed to be the best time of the year for us wrestling fans as we get a deep dive into long running stories involving our favorite baby faces and most hated heels. Well, after a Fastlane PPV that felt a lot more like a rest stop we have instead an upcoming show of shows that so far could be called The McMahon family and friends. In the spirit of this soap opera...
Way Back Pay-Per-Review: Wrestle War 89
TLC is right around the corner and we all know that depending who you are the T stands for either “Tables” or “TAKE SHEMUS OFF OUR SCREENS NOW”. I picked this PPV for the famous table spot after the World Title match. Now I don’t know if it was the first use of a table in such a manner, as Terry Funk claims (I actually find it very hard to believe), but it’s infamy deserves dissection in the hard hitting journalistic style you have...
Way Back Pay-Per-Review: Wrestle War 92
Well, Hell in a Cell is right around the corner and the WWE is doing all it can not mention that Brock Lesner already beat Undertaker at Hell in a Cell…at the No Mercy PPV in 2002. We at Missed Spots on the other hand are thinking all about matches of wrestling past, watching them with rose colored glasses and congratulating ourselves on our knowledge of drop toe holds and the art of selling with one’s head up. Yes, we’re...
Way Back Indy Event Review: ROH’s 100th Show
Back in early 2007 I began to see results from this Philadelphia based indy promotion called Ring of Honor. Being originally from the Philly area I was intrigued. I kept seeing these rave reviews of technical wrestling that had been long lost in wrestling at the time. In addition there were names on there that I was familiar with from TNA like Samoa Joe, AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels. I decided to give the product a try and I...
Way Back Pay-Per-Review: Summerslam 1995
When looking to review a past SummerSlam your first move should be to begin looking through past cards, intent on finding the classic matches of yesteryear. Picking out the perfect match, one to dissect, to analyze with the benefit of hindsight in order to see what it has to tell you about the product we love so much, where we were and how far we’ve come. In doing this Mike and I agonized over ’92 with Davey Boy and Bret...
