If you wanted to record a TV programme back in the “old days” (God, I’m sounding older than 27 here!) it was a little fiddly. Ten years ago, you had to put a video tape into a machine, set timers (or enter a code, if you had and trusted Videoplus) and hope that your show either didn’t start late, run late, or get bumped from the schedules. (more…)
Just days away now from WrestleMania, and things look set for WWE to have one of their most successful Manias in history. With several good matches on paper, this is also the first Mania in years that I’m looking forward to watching on TV.
The grand-daddy of them all, as it used to be called before it produced such offspring as Breaking Point and Bragging Rights, should easily live up to it’s brand name… and here are some of my picks. (more…)
As you’ll have noticed from the two WrestleMania memories columns I’ve penned so far, there are two omissions in the line-up. I was lucky enough to get to both WrestleMania 20 and 24, and here’s my brief memories from those shows live. Having experienced both shows by way of a WWE-made travel package, the experiences here aren’t probably the average fan’s views, but watching these shows live were definitely better than sitting at home and watching it on TV. (more…)
With WrestleMania a little under two weeks away… and my plans well and truly set for the big show, it’s time for the predictable set of brief ‘Mania articles. This one will be the first of two posts about my general memories, followed by a piece on my live WrestleMania experiences, and finally my predictions.
This year will be the first time since 2008 that I’ve not done a preview “show” for WrestleMania, following the live 2008 show from Florida, and last year’s preview with Colin Vassallo live from Houston. Of course I miss doing those shows, but I know that Adam will have the best seat in the house come March 28. (more…)
At time of writing, we are five days away from the start of the new “Monday Night Wars” in the wrestling world. From September 1995 to March 2001, (almost) every Monday night saw wrestling fans flick between USA/TNN/Spike and TNT as the WWE’s Monday Night Raw fought it out with WCW’s Monday Nitro. We all know how that ended – and almost nine years on, the wars return, as TNA moves Impact to Monday nights, head to head with Raw.
First things first – this ain’t the late 90s. Raw is a shell of its former self in terms of ratings, drawing a little over half of what it did back in the glory days of the Wars, while TNA has yet to crack a rating that comes anywhere close to what Nitro was doing during its dying days. So how on earth can this end well for TNA? (more…)
