When one thinks of Survivor Series, most fans automatically go misty-eyed and thing nostalgic thoughts of 5-on-5 Elimination Tag Matches before moaning about how the current PPV just isn’t the same.
“John Cena and Alberto Del Rio compete for the WWE Championship in a very brutal Last Man Standing Match, showing their willingness and determination.
But also on this night, will the largest athlete in the world avenge injury at the hands of the World’s Strongest Man, an injury which nearly ended his career? Discover the answer when Big Show challenges Mark Henry for the World Heavyweight Championship.
Sworn enemies join forces when CM Punk and Triple H put their differences aside to face their common enemy, The Miz and R-Truth in a Tag Team Explosion while the Raw and SmackDown Superstars settle their accounts on WWE VENGEANCE.”
Ever since the early days of September 1997, when the idea of the Hell in a Cell match was first brought to light, the structure has capture the imagination of wrestling fans around the world. Such is the enduring legacy of Hell in a Cell matches, it’s hard to believe that it first saw the light of day on a B-level PPV, but on October 5th, 1997 (the day Brian Pillman passed away, in case you didn’t know), at In Your House 18: Badd Blood, Shawn Michaels and Undertaker followed up their stellar brawl from the previous month (seriously, if you haven’t seen their match from In Your House 17: Ground Zero, you need to fix that straight away) with one of the most amazing cage matches you’ll ever see. To top it all off, we also had the debut of Kane, which was amazing for the time.
Beginning life as Vengeance back in 2001, it wasn’t until the 2007 edition that the Night of Champions moniker was used. Known as Vengeance: Night of Champions, the show was so called due to every match on the card being a championship contest (this was also the PPV that Chris Benoit no-showed due to a “family emergency.” Little did we know when watching at the time what that actually meant). The following year, the subtitle became the name for the PPV and the Vengeance was no more.
However, as with the 2010 edition, there would be a non-championship match on the card (although, technically, it did have a title at stake). Even more damaging to the credibility of the event and its entire gimmick, this non-title match actually headlined the PPV, technically making it seem more important than every championship in WWE.
Regardless, the rest of the card does have every current title on the line, so the potential for a change in the WWE landscape was immense… but would the reality follow suit or would all the belts stay where they are? In essence, would it be a night for the challengers or a NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS?
From 1988 to the present day, Summerslam has been at the heart of WWE’s pay-per-view output and is arguably the third-biggest show of the year behind WrestleMania and the Royal Rumble.
Ever since Shawn Michaels and Razor Ramon had their stellar outing at WrestleMania X (and repeated the feat in their superior Summerslam ’95 outing), the Ladder Match has had a certain mystique as it evolved from a simple concept through TLC to the Money in the Bank match that stole the show at numerous WrestleManias to the point it was given its own PPV.
Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels; two men who pretty much shared a career path in professional wrestling… as well as the most infamous moment in the sport on their combined resumé.
Both men started in their local promotions before moving on to bigger pastures. Both men made their name initially in the tag ranks before proving to the world they could mix it up in the singles ranks by bagging the Intercontinental Championship. After that, both men went on to defy the “you’re too small” jibes and reached the pinnacle of this great sport; the WWF Championship. Through it all, even though they had other rivalries, Bret and Shawn always seemed to find their way back to each other until that fateful night in November 1997 when the business changed forever.
Now, with all the water under the bridge, “The Hitman” and “The Heartbreak Kid” are ready to discuss what it was really like to live through these stellar careers and just how much they of the feud was real.
It’s WWE Greatest Rivalry as you’ve never seen it before.
“OMG! The Top 50 Incidents in WWE History counts down the most outrageous moments in the history of WWE. What moments will make the cut, the top 10, and what is the greatest moment of all time? Is it the King of the Ring tournament where Austin 3:16 was born? Mick Foley’s devastating fall of the top of the Hell in a Cell cage? The Montreal Screwjob? The explosion that consumed Mr. McMahon’s limo? This three-disc set is the perfect release for fans that love to debate which moments where their favourites.“
From the beginning of what we call pro-wrestling, there have been those who were stars and those who were much more than that – the Superstars.
Every era had their icons, those grapplers who defined the sport, who pioneered aspects of what we see today, from entrance music, flamboyance, showmanship, charisma, technical prowess, toughness or a combination of all of the above.
From the in-ring prowess of a guy like Lou Thesz, through the groundbreaking character of “Superstar” Billy Graham to the magnetism of Hulk Hogan through to the modern day icons of Shawn Michaels and Undertaker, each one has left their mark on the industry.
It’s these legends of the squared-circle that are the foundation of what we see today and, in this collection, we celebrate those who have made marks since the turn of the century. Now, some of the people on the list had their start before the year 2000, but it’s been in the time since then that they really took it to the next level in WWE.
Who made the cut? Who just missed out? Who deserves to be there, but isn’t? Who doesn’t deserve to be there, but is? The only way to find out is to sit back and watch as WWE list the Greatest SuperStars of the 21st Century.
Exploding onto the scene in the early 90s in Mexico, it wasn’t until 1995 and his appearances in ECW (much like the man himself, ECW was a promotion that was told it was too small to compete… but didn’t listen and forged their own path) that Rey Mysterio made a name in the United States.
As one of the newer events on the WWE calendar, it came as a bit of surprise in the days of themed/gimmicked B-level PPVs that WWE would introduce one that is just a bog-standard show among Fatal 4-Way, Money in the Bank, Bragging Rights, Hell in a Cell, TLC and, in its own way, Night of Champions. Add to those the more established Royal Rumble, Elimination Chamber and Extreme Rules (ironically, Survivor Series has gone the other way and become, basically, “just another pay-per-view” after starting life as the first gimmicked WWE show), and you can see why a show with no discernible idea running through it is the exception rather than the rule.
WrestleMania is, and always will be, the biggest wrestling show in the history of the business. From its inception in 1985 to the current trend for large stadiums (every ‘Mania since 2007 has had more than 70,000 in attendance), WrestleMania has been the pinnacle of professional wrestling, the one show where everybody wants on the card and the one show where your career can be made in a single moment.
The Elimination Chamber, 16 tons of steel and glass and 2 miles of thick heavy chain, a structure designed for one purpose and one purpose only – to cause harm to the human body. Since it’s debut in 2002 (a debut that was brilliantly teased in the weeks leading to Survivor Series), the Elimination Chamber has had an aura, a certain mystique, that lasts to this day. Unlike Hell in a Cell, which has become diluted through illogical use in the last two years, the Chamber still fires the imagination and rarely fails to live up to expectations.
WrestleMania is, and always will be, the biggest wrestling show in the history of the business. From its inception in 1985 to the current trend for large stadiums (every ‘Mania since 2007 has had more than 70,000 in attendance), WrestleMania has been the pinnacle of professional wrestling, the one show where everybody wants on the card and the one show where your career can be made in a single moment.
The Royal Rumble has always been one of the highlights of the wrestling calendar, particularly since 1992 when the WWE title became the focal point of the match. In 1992, the winner (Ric Flair) won the vacated WWF Title in a fantastic match. From 1993 onwards, the winner of the Royal Rumble has won himself the chance to challenge for the WWE Title at Wrestlemania.
DeGeneration X – a name that has been synonymous with pro-wrestling since 1997, first and foremost as THE faction of the Attitude Era and then later as the super-tag-team of Triple H and Shawn Michaels. Past members included Rick Rude, Chyna, The New Age Outlaws , Tori and X-Pac and it’s not a stretch to say they were, at one point in time, the most over act in the entire business.
Standing SEVEN FEET tall and weighing in excess of 400lbs, from the moment he stepped foot in WCW, the man who would become world-famous as The Big Show was creating an impact. Winning the WCW World Heavyweight Championship in his very first wrestling match, from Hulk Hogan no less, catapulted this gargantuan unknown into wrestling folklore.
Tables! Ladders! Chairs! OH, MY!
That phrase is a very familiar one to long-term fans across the world and, whenever it was used to signify that at the next big show, a championship (it was always for a championship) was going to be decided in a TLC Match, the fans knew they were in for something special.
From the beginning of what we call pro-wrestling, there have been those who were stars and those who were much more than that – the Superstars.
Every era had their icons, those grapplers who defined the sport, who pioneered aspects of what we see today, from entrance music, flamboyance, showmanship, charisma, technical prowess, toughness or a combination of all of the above.
Twice a year, usually April and November, the WWE come to the UK as part of their European tour. The highlight of this run through our fair land are the RAW and Smackdown tapings that take place, with the British fans getting a reward for their loyalty over the last three decades.
For the last three years, WWE has released these tapings on a special UK-only release, along with recordings of Superstars, NXT and, until it went under, ECW. Now, as the WWE gear themselves up and look ahead to WrestleMania and the April 2011 tour, it’s time to take a look back at what went down in November of last year.
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