______________________________________________________________________ I do not offer subscriptions to a mailing list! I do not e-mail images! _________________________________________________________________ - The WWF had Unforgiven on PPV this past Sunday. Overall, I thought it was a bad show, an easy thumbs down. There was some effort by some of the guys, but in general the matches were pretty lousy and the finishes were atrocious. There are people who like to praise the WWF for its thoughtful booking -- afterall, they have a few people working full-time just scripting, compared to wrestling organizations that have wrestlers whip together their cards in a couple of hours. But, on this night, it seemed like those full-time writers spent all of one minute cooking up each finish. Run-down: * Val Venis faced Steve Blackman: My cable scrambled as this match started, and I didn't get through to the cable company until it was over, with Val lying in the ring. I thought for sure that this important injury would be summarized in words or pictures, but it was apparently so meaningful or so well-executed that nobody mentioned it again. Somehow, I don't think that if I'd seen this match my whole view of the PPV would change. * D'Lo Brown beat Mark Henry to win the European Title: At least this match had a legitimate finish. Little did we know what we were in for for the remainder of the show. Because of slight mistimings in execution as D'Lo tried to work around Henry, the match came off as badly cooperative. Poor D'Lo had to do everything. He hit a tope suicida. Jim Ross overused the phrase "Nobody in this game..." when pointing out that Henry is strong and D'Lo has improved. Henry hit an awesome....headlock. He's so lame that even JR had to confess that "Henry can do some very elementary moves." They screwed up a cross body spot. D'Lo hit a rana. While on the turnbuckles, D'Lo somehow got a power bomb and got the win with the frog splash. Not a good match, but at least it had a finish. Match ran 9:15. * Jeff Jarrett beat Chyna to retain the IC Title: Get ready for that Dusty finish. I thought something was off in this pairing, or maybe I just couldn't get into seeing Chyna in this role. Jarrett did a great job of carrying Chyna through the match, but a lot of holes showed anyhow. Once, Chyna was superplexed, lay flat, and Jarrett had to tell her to feed him her leg so he could try for a pin in a roll-up. The delay and obvious feeding of the leg was horrible. Chyna kicked Jarrett's butt as he was going for the figure four, and a bent over Jarrett was pushed towards the ropes, but for some reason stood up and clearly jumped over the top rope. Don't get me wrong: there were some good things wrapped around bad stuff like that. They did a bad ref bump. Poor Chyna had to lie there forever, with the commentators saying that she cracked heads with the referee. Jarrett got his guitar. Fabulous Moolah & Mae Young came in to the ring to stop Jarrett. They threw these horrible 70-year-old punches and poor Jarrett sold them. Thankfully, he at least came out on top, knocking the old women over. It was horrible. Debra guitared Jeff in disgust. Chyna ended up on top of Jarrett, and the referee counted the pin. Well, Tom Prichard, the head referee for the evening, they said, came out to explain the finish to the referee (Harvey Whippleman). They even had the footage on the big screen. The Dusty finish lives, and, once again, it brings down even a mediocre match by a star. Match time: 11:52. * The Acolytes beat The Dudleys: No heat at all. And really bad to boot. Buh Buh went for a splash on Simmons, right over his knees. Sigh. D-Von came in and surprised me by doing three moves. Jim Ross strained his credibility by saying that "both these teams have the ability to wear WWF gold." Oh, maybe that's true. D-Von was cut-off from the hot(?) tag. Bradshaw missed an elbow drop, and boy did that look good. Dudleys hit 3D for the two count, 'cause that's not a finisher in the WWF. In fact, Simmons was in the ring while Bradshaw was being pinned after the 3D and Simmons didn't even try to save Bradshaw, as if to say that the move meant nothing. Buh Buh hit a power bomb, D-Von hit a head butt off the top, and they got another two. D-Von was crotched. Bradshaw did a top rope belly-to-back suplex that looked bad, getting a two. Buh Buh just walked in with a facecrusher. D-Von got a two. 3D on Simmons. Cue the horrible finish. Stevie Richards came out, dressed like an Acolyte with the UPN logo on his chest. He's been looking for a gimmick. He superkicked D-Von and Simmons got the pin at 7:29. The Acolytes beat up Stevie afterwards. Somehow, though, the Dudleys just walked off during all of that. The crowd never got into it because it just wasn't good. * Ivory beat Luna to retain the Women's Title: This was a pre-taped harcore match. At least they realized that they can't let Ivory into the ring live, except for stripping matches. This was just horrible. They brawled around backstage. Tori got involved in the finish, but Ivory managed to hit both of them with a stick for the pin at 3:38. It was so, so bad. I guess you'd say this had a clean finish, but the match itself was so bad that it hardly mattered. At this point, the show was just terrible. * Road Dogg & Billy Gunn beat Edge & Christian to retain the WWF Tag Titles: This match seemed to have potential. The crowd woke up because they got to hear their catchphrases. In the end, I'd say the match was pretty good, but the finish brought it down yet again. With Dogg vs. Christian in the ring, Gunn reached in to grab Christian's hair and Dogg hit a cheap shot. Christian & Edge ended up dumping Road Dogg and doing a little out of the ring stuff. They drew heat on Dogg, using a chinlock at the 7:00 mark. At 10:00, Dogg hit the hot tag, which was hot this time, and Gunn cleaned up. All four guys were in the ring. Christian hit a reverse DDT on Gunn, so Dogg attacked him. Cue the horrible finish. The Hardy Boyz came out, hitting a missile dropkick on Edge. Gunn hit the Famouser while Edge bent over for him, getting the pin at 11:11. In the end, it was far from great, but it was good. * Al Snow beat Big Boss Man in a double cage match, with Rottweilers between the cages: What's the word of the night? HORRIBLE! This match was so bad, like Big Slow vs. Kane at KotR, that it was funny. They had the blue cage inside the hell in the cell cage. The wrestlers got in there and finally some crew members came out with Rottweilers on leashes to stand between the cages. When a wrestler would fall out of the ring to the dog-patrolled area between the cages, he'd sell that he was afraid of the dogs attacking him. The problem was that the dogs were more interested in growling at each other than paying any attention to the wrestlers. It was sad. Somewhere in this mess, Boss Man took out some powder, but Snow slapped it into Boss Man's face. Boss Man tried to cut a way out of the top of cage. Snow was handcuffed, snapped them, and got out of the cage as Boss Man had just climbed through the top, winning the match at 11:41. Boss Mann then climbed back into the ring so that he could look nervous about bypassing the dogs, who could not have cared any less about Boss Man. Sort of like the crowd reaction to this match. * X-Pac DQ Chris Jericho: Obviously the match to save the show. Ken Shamrock was removed from the match and still claims that he's returning to the mixed martial arts world. X-Pac was put in, and even cold this match should have been the show-stealer. Of course, the crack bookers would have had to think of a palatable finish, but didn't bother. Jim Ross got excited about the fact that these guys were in a PPV match against each, something that he had been looking forward to for a long time. Keep in mind that these two guys faced each other on 10/27/96 at WCW's Halloween Havoc. I'd rate the two matches equally at * * * 1/4 . This bout was really good early on, with one minor miscue. X-Pac did a springboard plancha, which saw him take more of the impact. The commentators even suggested that was the case when the replay showed X-Pac not really hitting the move. Jericho tried for a submisson. The crowd had weird reactions to this match, with everybody on camera looking away from the ring. Something in the crowd was more interesting. Jericho put on a headlock, and the camera zoomed in. We saw X-Pac talking, so the commentators explained that he was probably cussing at referee Tom Prichard. Jericho hit a lionsault. He dropkicked X-Pac off the aprong. Hughes got involved. X-Pac rallied in the ring. He did those awesome spin kicks. He was whipped to the ropes, but turned it into a dive on Hughes. Back in the ring, he got a two on Jericho. Jericho countered the bronco buster with a kick to the crotch, hit a senton, and got a two count. Jericho climbed the turnbuckles, but was crotched. Suplerplex, with both guys selling it. Rana attempt by X-Pac, Jericho countered with a double power bomb. Being whipped into the corner, Jericho put himself in the tree of woe in the corner. X-Pac hit the bronco buster. If the match would have proceeded in this manner, with the pace picking up even more, building to a concrete finish, this would have been a * * * * match. Instead, Mr. Hughes came in. He decked the referee. He decked X-Pac. Jericho & Hughes laid out X-Pac. Road Dogg made the save. The heels ran off. What a crappy finish. They went 13:10 for that finish. It was still Jericho's only good match since he came to the WWF on 08/09/99. One good match in 48 days. Sigh. * Hunter Hearst Helmsley beat Big Slow & Kane & Mankind & Rock & Davey Boy Smith to win the WWF Title: This was a four corners match with two extra guys in the ring. Steve Austin was out as the "enforcer," which meant he was guest commentator. Match had good effort at times. Big Slow was horrible. Davey Boy Smith tried really hard to fit in to the garbagy style on top, but I still don't know about his chances. Because there were six guys involved, the match had a lot of action in it. I guess the key spot was when Mankind put the socko claw on Rock. Big Slow had the match locked up, but the on-strike referees came out to attack strike-breaking referee Jim Corderas. With the referee eliminated, Steve Austin had to go in the ring. First, he straightened out the referees. Austin even chaired Smith in the melee, only after Smith had chaired Rock. Bingo, HHH made the cover on a fallen Rock after a pedigree, with Austin counting the pin at 20:24. Austin then stunned HHH. It was another screwy finish. Even with the tweaks at the eleventh hour, with the added tag title match and the X-Pac substitution, the show was a miss for me, largely because the bookers didn't really plan anything for those added matches which could have been great. Instead, it came off as a half-assed modification of a show that they knew would suck otherwise. Easy thumbs down. RAW RAW on 09/27/99 followed on the heels of the uninspired Unforgiven PPV. Something tells me, though, that various WWF cheerleaders will say that the WWF should be Forgiven for the atrocious booking at the PPV. But, hey, at least the PPV set up the RAW main event for tonight, with the fallout of the first lengthy interview segment being that Rock would face HHH for the WWF Title in the RAW main event this night. You see, Rock was screwed at the PPV, so he gets his chance at revenge on the TV show. Davey Boy Smith tried to position himself as a top player still, but I still don't know about that. Anyhow, it was easy to figure him as getting involved in the RAW main. The match was set up by Vince McMahon, who is now once again allowed to be involved in WWF business because Steve Austin permitted him to escape his "forever" clause from two months ago. Why Austin would be nice to Vince after Vince has done nothing to prove himself is a big question that the scripters (hard to call them bookers) didn't bother to answer. Why Vince was allowed back into WWF business but still vacated the WWF title is another one of those big questions. Anyhow, Austin came out later and said that Vince promised him a title shot. The crowd wanted Austin to punk Vince. Vince explained that Austin would get the title shot at the next PPV. The unlikely friendship continued to develop. The plan is to have them be friends and eventually have them feud again, with Vince as the face and Austin as the heel. The talking continued, as Jeff Jarrett came out to challenge Chyna & Debra to face JJ & Tom Prichard in a match. Finally, we had a match. Chris Jericho faced Big Slow. For those of you who are keeping track, that's 49 days in the WWF with one good match for Jericho. At a whopping 2:03 of inaction, Prince Albert, who was doing commentary at ringside, hit what might be called a missile dropkick on Big Slow for the DQ. Strangely, the bell rang before the interference. Having been on strike for a few weeks, I guess the referees have lost their sense of timing. Road Dogg came out, punched Hughes a few times, and Jericho and Hughes disappeared. Backstage, Stevie Richards asked Mankind if he could use the Dude Love gimmick, and Mankind said yes. Steve Blackman challenged D'Lo Brown for the European Title. Droz came out to be guest commentator. Based on Albert's earlier appearance, I was guessing we'd see some interference. Before you could finish reading the past sentences, the match was over when Blackman used his kendo stick at 1:46. If that's a DQ, why was the chair shot okay in the PPV main the night before? Mark Henry came out to help D'Lo as Droz attacked D'Lo. Don't tell me that's the best they can figure out for D'Lo. In a really long segment, Mankind came out to make up to the Rock for attacking him the night before in the six pack match. Mankind did a "This is your life" deal with Rock, first bringing out his home economics teacher, Mrs. Griffith, who was identified on-screen as his English teacher, Mrs. Schubert. Now, that's a WCW mistake, isn't it? Rock laid into. He also trotted out Rock's coach and first girlfriend. Rock laid into them. It was kind of funny at times, but it just took forever. I was figuring that they had a big pay-off, since Mankind had been walking somebody around under a blanket. When that person took off the blanket, we found it was a clown named Yurple. That was the pay-off for 15-20 minutes of talking, talking, talking. Out of nowhere, probably because this segment was dying fast at that point, HHH ran out with his sledge hammer and everybody scattered. Road Dogg & Billy Gunn faced Kane & X-Pac for the Tag Titles. Before anything could happen, which in WWF time was 2:23 for this "match," the Hollys came into the ring. Is this a wrestling show? In answer to that question, Ivory faced Fabulous Moolah & Mae Young in a nontitle handicap evening gown match. Lawler made age jokes about Moolah & Young, who aren't quit old enough to be his mother, but are old enough to be his girlfriend's great grandmother. Cutting to the chase, the point of this segment seemed to be Ivory getting stripped to a bra and butt thong at 2:53. A wrestling tour-de-force, this longest match of the night thus far. Jeff Jarrett & Tom Prichard faced Chyna & Debra. You've got to be charitable to call this thing a match. But then you've got to be charitable to call RAW a wrestling show. Kitty & Debra started fighting. Somehow, Prichard miscued with a guitar chot on Chyna that left her laying on top of Jarrett for the pin at 1:11. HHH faced Rock for the WWF Title. Steve Austin was at ringside to watch. They came as close to a wrestling as the WWF would this night, but it still pretty much sucked. The finish saw Davey Boy Smith come in for the DQ. On who? I dunno. He stopped Rock's pin attempt on HHH, but he also started pounding HHH. Match, as it was, ran 7:15. Tally time: 17:31 of bell-to-bell wrestling. What a god-awful night! Who could praise this crap? Not a wrestling fan. It's not like any of those minutes were actually good wrestling. Nitro Nitro on 09/27/99 was attempt in the early weeks since Eric Bischoff's reassignment to begin the upward climb by using all of the same guys that created this downward plummet. As the show opened the downward momentum giver himself, Hulk Hogan, arrived in a limousine. Sting attacked him with a bat, working on the bad knee. Who cares? Unfortunately, even though Hogan was carted off to a nearby medical centre, despite first refusing any treating, Tony Schiavone & Bobby Heenan kept telling us that Hogan would do anything possible to be back for the main event. Heenan actually started a big of negative commentary at Hogan again, after being a cheerleader in recent weeks. First match saw Chris Benoit face Ernest Miller for the TV Title. Heenan did a little diatribe to explain why he has had an attitude change. I guess the idea is that we might tune in to see what Heenan will say next; call it the Howard Stern tactic. Match wasn't the greatest, 'cause, despite his publicity, Miller isn't either. But Benoit was great as usual. He got the submission win at 6:14. Speaking of Benoit, I received e-mail from a lot of people last week who were upset at my praising Benoit for his match with Sting or his performance with Sid. Strangely, some of those people also told me that I shouldn't criticize Chris Jericho befor his PPV match with Shamrock (at the time). I concluded that Benoit deserves no praise because his promotion doesn't end in "WF." Regarding the match with Sting from last week, the Observer wrote, "Sting didn't look good and blew up late in the match, but Benoit put on an excellent performance to not just save it but make it good. The match had more drama and built better than any match on the ECW [PPV] show the night before." Speaking of Benoit, in his interview after losing to Sid he said that Sid tapped while in the crossface. Apparently, he wasn't supposed to bring that up, and he will probably be asked to put Sid over clean again as punishment. That's just ass backwards. Buff Bagwell faced El Vampiro, who is now suffering a demotion of sorts. No sign of Insane Clown Posse, and I'm not crying about it. Vampiro did a few nice things, but Buff was sort of pedestrian. He still got the win, of course, at 5:40, with the blockbuster, rehabbing from his loss to Berlyn last week. They aired a taped piece, followed by a live bit, that I guess was supposed to reestablish Lex Luger & Elizabeth. Luger will now only be referred to as the Total Package. Maybe the WWF will retaliate by calling Droz the Total Pukage or lining up all of their women and calling them Total Stackage. Nah, they'll probably just ignore it, continue to deliver no wrestling, and still triple the ratings that Nitro draws. They said that Lex Luger is dead, but that Total Package is reborn. Maybe this time he'll be better than mediocre. Rey Misterio Jr. faced Dean Malenko in the first Filthy Animals vs. Revolution match. All of the supporting guys were at ringside. This was the sort of match that got both Dean & Rey over years ago. Then the promotion blew it and the wrestlers forgot that they really can only work believably in this style. This was a great match, but too short. Rey got the surprise pin with the magistral cradle at 3:39. Plans are to feud these factions, with the Revolution as the heels. Goldberg beat Hugh Morrus for what seemed like the fifth time on Nitro. This time, they did the match in 6:04, so I guess Morrus must have been happy. Sid Vicious got involved a bit. Evan Karagis faced Berlyn. Berlyn's bodyguard landed a gloved punch on Evan and Berlyn got the pin at 3:30. Brad Armstrong ran in. Harlem Heat faced Kendall Windham & Barry Windham for the Tag Titles. I will live a happy life if I never have to see the Windhams again. Match went forever and wasn't good. Only Booker T can work. Poor guy, being saddled with these other clowns. At least T got the win at 9:23. Stevie cheated to set up the win. Rick Steiner faced Van Hammer. Hammer sucks. Rick is hardly any better. Steiner got the win at 5:32. Ugh. At least Big Slow vs. Kane had comedic value. Bret Hart did an interview. He called Hulk Hogan the Elvis Presley of wrestling. He called Ric Flair the best there is, etc. Ric Flair came out. Flair & Hart agreed that they would take on Sting & Diamond Dallas Page & Lex Luger in a handicap match tonight, since Hogan was now out of the picture. You know, they had a chance here to say that Hogan was unavailable, but Chris Benoit also had an issue with the heels after being batted last week. They could have added Benoit to the main, and, heck, even let him get a pin in this setting on the world champion! But, nope, that might actually be seen as building for the future. Konnan faced Perry Saturn in the second Filthy Animals vs. Revolution match. Match wasn't bad. Chavo Guerrero Jr. & Psicosis & Juventud Guerrera & Silver King ran in. I guess they (supposedly along with Disco Inferno) are going to form a third faction of workers. Everybody ran in. Saturn seemed upset with Shane Douglas yet again. Match time was 9:29. Psicosis faced Kidman in a mask vs. hair match. Just a great match. Better than anything on the WWF PPV the night before. Better than anything on the ECW PPV the week before. Better than anything on a WCW PPV in recent memory. Loads of great moves. Loads of near falls. Loads of false finishes. A touch of interference here and there, but in the end Kidman hit the shooting star press on Psicosis for the pin at 9:22. Hey, it isn't like we didn't expect Psicosis to lose, since he had already lost his mask in Mexico. Psicosis' face was only visible for a split-second. Afterwards everybody ran in, yet again, for a post-match melee. Kidman kicked out of the Juvi driver during the match. Great, great match. Bret Hart & Ric Flair faced Sting & Lex Luger (I'm not bound to call him the Total Package) & DDP. Luger had new tights on, 'cause he's a new man now. Match had pretty psychology and heat. They drew heat on Bret before the hot tag to Flair. Flair knocked down everybody. He tried for the figure four on Flair, but guys ran in, with Bret knocking both Luger and DDP down. While Bret & DDP pounded each other on the floor, Flair put the figure four on Sting. Outside, Luger used the bat, passed to him by Elizabeth, to choke out Bret. He then entered the ring and pounded Ric with the bat for the DQ at 7:47. David Flair ran in, but was instantly laid out. Backstage, we saw an empty ambulance. What could that mean? That Hogan was hanging around in the back while his supposed friends were getting pounded! The crowd chanted for Hogan. Hogan, wearing a leg brace, limped to the ring. "What determination!" Hogan did those terrible punches, with the heel bumping like pinballs. He batted DDP and cornered Sting, who dove out of the ring. What a crummy finish. At least this one was on TV, not like those PPV finishes the night before. Tally time: 68:40 of bell-to-bell wrestling. Wow! That's one hell of a number, almost half of the actual show time. That's nearly 50% of air time compared to RAW's nearly 20% of air time. And we had a legitimately great match as well. They have to deliver more wrestling and some great wrestling if they want to re-romance the hardcore (better word these days is diehard) wrestling fans. - WCW has Halloween Havoc on 10/24/99. Tentative line-up has: * Sting vs. Hulk Hogan for the WCW Title * Sid vs. Goldberg for the US Title - The cover story in the Observer this week was the situation in WCW. Dave Meltzer suggested changes that he feels need to be made, all of them things that thinking fans of wrestling would suggest. Bret Hart & Ric Flair want input into the booking situation. WCW will be debuting Dustin Rhodes shortly, the Outsiders will return shortly, and Wrath will also be returning shortly. - In talking about the best matches in North America so far this year, and, boy, that's a short list, the Observer puts Blitzkrieg vs. Juventud Guerrera from Spring Stampede at the top, followed by the second Jerry Lynn vs. Rob van Dam match from the TNN show. - PPV buy rates, revenue (in millions), and match statistics for the WWF, WCW, and ECW are presented in the following 1999 summary sheet (the PPV draw(s) are listed, as well as the quality matches): Show Data Match Rating Data Show Details Buy Rate Gross Mean Median Peak % >= * * * * WWF 99/07/25: Fully Loaded Steve Austin vs. Undertaker 1.4 $6.7 1.75 * * * * * 3/4 Steve Austin vs. Undertaker 0% (0 of 9) 99/06/27: King of the Ring Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon vs. Shane McMahon 1.13 $5.41 1 3/4 * * 1/2 Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon vs. Shane McMahon 0% (0 of 10) 99/05/23: Over The Edge Steve Austin vs. Undertaker 1.1 $5.28 Owen Hart dies 99/04/25: Backlash Steve Austin vs. Rocky Maivia 1.06 $5.09 2.28 * * 1/4 * * * * 1/4 Steve Austin vs. Rocky Maivia 12.5% (1 of 8) 99/03/28: WrestleMania Steve Austin vs. Rocky Maivia 2.3 $12.04 1.13 * 1/4 * * * 1/2 Steve Austin vs. Rocky Maivia 0.0% (0 of 9, no shoot) 99/02/14: St. Valentine's Day Massacre Steve Austin vs. Vince McMahon Mankind vs. Rocky Maivia 1.2 $5.33 1.28 * 1/4 * * * 3/4 Mankind vs. Rocky Maivia 0.0% (0 of 8) 99/01/24: Royal Rumble Mankind vs. Rocky Maivia Royal Rumble 1.57 $6.97 1.83 * 1/2 * * * 3/4 Mankind vs. Rocky Maivia 0.0% (0 of 6) Last 6 1.37 $6.64 1.47 1.5 3.55 2.3% (1 of 44) 1999 1.39 $6.69 1.51 1.5 3.58 2% (1 of 50) 1998 1.02 $4.42 1.60 1.63 3.65 4.0% (4 of 101) Show Data Match Rating Data Show Details Buy Rate Gross Mean Median Peak % >= * * * * WCW 99/07/11: Bash at the Beach Kevin Nash & Sting vs. Randy Savage & Sid Vicious 0.41 1.95 0.75 1/2* * * * 1/2 Chris Benoit & Saturn vs. Diamond Dallas Page & Kanyon & Bam Bam Bigelow 0% (0 of 7) 99/06/13: Great American Bash Kevin Nash vs. Randy Savage 0.43 2.05 0.75 3/4* * * * 1/4 Chris Benoit & Saturn vs. Diamond Dallas Page & Kanyon 0% (0 of 9) 99/05/09: Slamboree Kevin Nash vs. Diamond Dallas Page 0.45 2.15 1.75 * * * * * 1/4 Raven & Saturn vs. Rey Misterio Jr. & Konnan vs. Chris Benoit & Dean Malenko 0% (0 of 9) 99/04/11: Spring Stampede Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan vs. Diamond Dallas Page vs. Sting 0.6 2.86 2.31 * * 1/2 * * * * 1/4 Juventud Guerrera vs. Blitzkrieg 11.1% (1 of 9) 99/03/14: Uncensored Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan 0.73 $3.48 1.83 * * * * * 1/2 Billy Kidman vs. Mikey Whippreck 0% (0 of 9) 99/02/21: SuperBrawl Ric Flair vs. Hulk Hogan 1.1 $5.27 1.89 * * 1/2 * * * 1/4 Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Kevin Nash Scott Steiner vs. Diamond Dallas Page 0% (0 of 9) 99/01/17: Souled Out Bill Goldberg vs. Scott Hall Ric Flair & David Flair vs. Curt Hennig & Barry Windham 0.78 $3.64 1.83 * 1/2 * * * * Billy Kidman vs. Rey Misterio Jr. vs. Juventud Guerrera vs. Psicosis 11.1% (1 of 9) Last 6 0.62 $2.96 1.55 1.71 3.5 1.9% (1 of 52) 1999 0.64 $3.06 1.59 1.68 3.57 3.2% (2 of 61) 1998 0.93 $3.96 1.54 1.73 3.73 4.5% (5 of 111) Show Data Match Rating Data Show Details Buy Rate Gross Mean Median Peak % >= * * * * ECW 99/01/10: Guilty As Charged Shane Douglas vs. Taz 0.2 $0.42 1.68 * * 1/2 * * * 1/2 Yoshihiro Tajiri vs. Super Crazy 0.0% (0 of 7) Last 6 0.22 $0.42 1.93 2 3.42 5.3% (1 of 19) 1999 0.2 $0.42 1.68 2.5 3.5 0.0% (0 of 7) 1998 0.23 $0.43 1.56 1.5 3.00 3.7% (1 of 27) Longer-term data is available. The data now runs back to 1991. - The WWF has No Mercy on 10/17/99. - The WWF has Survivor Series on 11/14/99. - WCW has a PPV (BattleBowl?) on 11/21/99. This show will take place at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto. It's expected that Bret Hart will play a major role on this show. - The WWF has Armageddon on 12/12/99. - The WWF has Royal Rumble on 01/23/00. - The WWF has No Way Out on 02/27/00. - The WWF has WrestleMania on 04/02/00. - The WWF has Backlash on 04/30/00. - The WWF has Judgment Day on 05/21/00. - The WWF has King of the Ring on 06/25/00. - The WWF has Fully Loaded on 07/23/00. ______________________________________________________________________ Thanks to: Masaki Aso. ______________________________________________________________________ If you have any feedback regarding my web pages, please send me e-mail. 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