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NWA Clash of the Champions VII: Guts And Glory (Steamboat vs. Funk)
<p>Welcome everyone to my review of the seventh edition of the NWA/WCW’s Clash of the Champions. This one featuring a mini-tournament for the vacant World Tag Team titles and main-evented by two of the top contenders for Ric Flair’s World Heavyweight Championship, Ricky Steamboat and Terry Funk. For more information about the point system that […]</p>
Nov 9, 202012 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #21 Review – 05.27.1989
<p>Welcome everyone to my review of the 21st edition of SNME, this one featuring the famous cage match between Hogan and Bossman. The wrestlers will be given points in this show as usual. Before starting, here is the list of champions in the WWF heading into this show: WWF Champion: Hulk Hogan Intercontinental Champion: Rick […]</p>
Nov 4, 20207 min read
NWA WrestleWar 1989 Review (Flair vs. Steamboat III)
<p>Welcome everyone to my review of WrestleWar 1989. Wrestlers will be given points in this show as usual, to see who’s the overall best wrestler of 1989 at the end of the year. You can check out how that works here. Before starting the review, here is the list of champions in the NWA heading […]</p>
Nov 2, 202012 min read
WWF WrestleMania V Review (Hogan vs. Savage)
The Mega Powers explode as Hulk Hogan faces Randy Savage in the main event. The Ultimate Warrior defends his Intercontinental Title against Rick Rude.
Oct 23, 202016 min read
NWA Clash of the Champions VI: Ragin’ Cajun Review (Flair vs. Steamboat)
<p>Hello everyone. Welcome to my review of the sixth NWA Clash of the Champions, featuring the second match of the epic Flair/Steamboat saga, this time under best two out of three falls. The points system will be in affect in this show as always. If you don’t know already, you can see how it works […]</p>
Oct 20, 202011 min read
NWA Chi-Town Rumble 1989 Review (Flair vs. Steamboat)
Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. Lex Luger challenges Barry Windham for the United States Title.
Oct 13, 202012 min read
Point system
<p>Here’s the regular point system: There are always changes when necessary, such as in “unique” gimmick matches (ie: the WWF/E’s Royal Rumble match, etc) – I will let you know at the beginning of the particular show’s review. RESULTS 1989 (Click to read the full article) 1990 (Click to read the full article) 1991 (Click […]</p>
Oct 13, 20202 min read
WWF The Main Event II Review (The Mega Powers Explode)
<p>Welcome everyone to the review of the second edition of The Main Event as we get closer and closer to WrestleMania V. There’s only one edition of SNME to go before the big event, with a Clash of the Champions and Chi-Town Rumble from the NWA happening before ‘Mania as well. These were the champions […]</p>
Oct 6, 20205 min read
WWF Royal Rumble 1989 Review
Huge stars from the WWF Golden Era like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage compete in the second annual Royal Rumble Match.
Oct 5, 202015 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #19 Review – 01.07.1989
<p>Hey there everyone. Welcome to the very first review of 1989. We kick things off with an edition of SNME, which features a hair match as well as a SummerSlam rematch between Warrior and Honky Tonk Man, and much more. Plus, the point system to determine the 1989 wrestler of the year starts here as […]</p>
Sep 30, 202011 min read
1988: The Wrestler Of The Year
<p>Welcome everyone to this special year-end article, in which I’ll take you back to some of my favorite matches of 1988 as well as reveal who were the top wrestlers in the WWF, based on the points. I only reviewed the WWF in 1988, but I will add the NWA once I get to 1989. […]</p>
Sep 24, 202012 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #18 Review – 11.26.1988
<p>Hello everyone, and welcome to what will be the final review of 1988. Before we move on to 1989, I will write an extra year-end article, looking back at some of the best matches in 1988 as well as the big reveal of who was the winner of the ‘WWF wrestler of the year’ award. […]</p>
Sep 24, 20205 min read
WWF Survivor Series 1988 Review
<p>TEAMS OF FIVE STRIVE TO SURVIVE! Welcome everyone to the last WWF PPV of 1988, the second annual Survivor Series. Considering this is a “special” PPV with its own particular match type, some changes to the point system will be made. Considering one wrestler can very well be eliminated in seconds and still technically emerge […]</p>
Sep 23, 202017 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #17 Review – 10.29.1988
<p>Hey everyone, it’s Tomás here with yet another SNME review. SNME makes its return after a relatively long hiatus (since that April, to be exact). We’re getting closer to the end of 1988, with only Survivor Series and another SNME – apart from this one – left. Once the year ends, I’ll post a top […]</p>
Sep 10, 20206 min read
WWF SummerSlam 1988 Review
<p>Welcome everyone to my review of the very first edition of SummerSlam, where The Mega Powers met The Mega Bucks. Enjoy the review! Before starting, here is the list of champions at the time: WWF Champion: Randy Savage Intercontinental Champion: Honky Tonk Man Tag Team Champions: Demolition (Ax & Smash) The hosts are Gorilla Monsoon & ‘Superstar’ Billy Graham Match […]</p>
Aug 30, 202010 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #16 Review 04.30.1988
<p>Welcome everyone to the review of what was the first edition of SNME after WrestleMania IV. Enjoy the review! Before starting, here is the list of champions at the time: WWF Champion: Randy Savage Intercontinental Champion: Honky Tonk Man Tag Team Champions: Demolition (Ax & Smash) Women’s Champion: Sensational Sherri The hosts are Vince McMahon & Jesse Ventura Match #1: ‘Hacksaw’ Jim […]</p>
Aug 17, 20205 min read
WWF WrestleMania IV Review
<p>We’ve finally reached the big event – WrestleMania IV. The show drew a 485,000 buyrate on PPV, up from the prior year’s 400,000 and had an attendance of 19,199 people. Enjoy the review! Before starting, here is the list of champions at the time: WWF Champion: – (vacated) Intercontinental Champion: Honky Tonk Man Tag Team Champions: Strike Force […]</p>
Aug 10, 202016 min read
WWF The Main Event 1988 Star Ratings
<p>While I was on vacation in Switzerland during the last number of days, I watched The Main Event and the March 12th edition of SNME. I didn’t do proper reviews for the shows, but I will throw in star ratings for the matches in order to continue the points system right heading into WrestleMania IV, […]</p>
Aug 9, 20202 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #14 Review 01.02.1988
<p>Welcome everyone to my first review of 1988. As I mentioned in the last review, I will add the points system starting with this show, and the wrestler with the most points at the end of the year will win the SmarKdown award for WWF Wrestler Of 1988. Here’s how many points everything is worth: […]</p>
Jul 29, 20206 min read
WWF Saturday Night’s Main Event #13 Review 11.28.1987
<p>Welcome everyone to my review of the 13th edition of WWF’s SNME. This is the final show I’m going to review in 1987, and in 1988 I plan on adding something new. I will award points to the wrestlers, which I’ll get into detail when I get there, and in the end those points will […]</p>
Jul 24, 20205 min read