This Sunday, the WWE presents Judgment Day live on PPV. No, I'm not a shill for the 'E (although I did pass by their offices to-and-from Maine this week), but you have to admit that that's a good approximation of how they present their PPV events when they do shill. Regardless, this week's Friday Five is all about the PPV event. It used to be that only the biggest events were on PPV. I remember the days of the Big Four quarterly events for the WWF and WCW. With the expansion of the product, more PPV events were added and now, the WWE averages more than one PPV a month. That wouldn't be bad if they didn't put the kibosh on brand-exclusive PPVs. Anyway, here are your questions for this week's Friday Five:
1. What was the first PPV card you remember watching?
2. Should they bring back brand-exclusive PPVs in the WWE?
3. What PPV main event do you remember thinking "Man, there's no way this is going to be any good," and then were suprised at how good it was?
4. Would you consider buying a PPV from a company that didn't have regular, widespread American TV coverage? (ie, Chikara, ROH, NJPW, AAA, etc.)
5. Predict WrestleMania XXVII's main event (not 2010, but 2011).
1. What was the first PPV card you remember watching?
ReplyDelete- That's an easy one. Summerslam 98. It was the first time I was actually allowed to order one.
2. Should they bring back brand-exclusive PPVs in the WWE?
- Maybe if they were one a month. Otherwise it's dumb to have 2 ppvs a month. They have enough crappy ppvs as it is.
3. What PPV main event do you remember thinking "Man, there's no way this is going to be any good," and then were suprised at how good it was?
- That's a tough one. I have seen a lot of ppvs mostly from WWE that I thought would be good but blew. I will go with the most recent one I guess. Backlash surprised me, but it wasn't an excellent ppv.
4. Would you consider buying a PPV from a company that didn't have regular, widespread American TV coverage? (ie, Chikara, ROH, NJPW, AAA, etc.)
- I guess if I bought the first TNA ppv and 2 WWA ppvs, I would buy anything. :D
5. Predict WrestleMania XXVII's main event (not 2010, but 2011).
- John Cena vs. Triple H. :P
1. What was the first PPV card you remember watching?
ReplyDelete-The WCW PPV where Karl Malone teamed with DDP against the Hogan/Rodman duo... name escapes me at the moment. I had not watched wrestling consistently for several years at that point, but was interested in the participation of my favorite Mailman.
2. Should they bring back brand-exclusive PPVs in the WWE?
-I dunno... I think there are way too many PPV's regardless of whether or not they have all brands or just one brand at the helm. I understand why the WWE does it, but it really is overkill. That said, while I was a fan of brand-exclusive PPV's initially, I've really come to enjoy the current system more. I pretty much just watch RAW, so joint PPV's can be my only chance to catch the other brands at all.
3. What PPV main event do you remember thinking "Man, there's no way this is going to be any good," and then were suprised at how good it was?
-I'll think about this and recomment later.
4. Would you consider buying a PPV from a company that didn't have regular, widespread American TV coverage?
-AAA all day every day!!!!
5. Predict WrestleMania XXVII's main event (not 2010, but 2011).
-MVP vs. Big (Crappy) Dave