Coronavirus Binging: 5 Fave PPVs
Add these to your lockdown binge list.
During this time, please stay home, stay smart and stay close to your loved ones. We don’t know what tomorrow holds and if you have the chance to sit inside with your loved ones, please do so. My family and I have to stay at work as we’re “essential workers,” so again, if you can take advantage of holding your loved ones, take it. And while you’re binging during the coronavirus, why not relive some fun wrestling PPVs or introduce them to your little ones?
Lockdown 2007
I’m all about the word play. Lockdown is full of cage matches. Team 3D and LAX took it a step further by having electricity flowing through the cage as they battled it out for the TNA Tag Team Championship. The show also features a loaded main event with Team Angle taking on Team Cage in a Lethal Lockdown match with Harley Race as the gatekeeper. Team Angle was made up of Kurt Angle, Samoa Joe, Sting, Rhyno and Jeff Jarrett, while Team Cage featured Christian Cage, A.J. Styles, Tomko, Abyss and Scott Steiner. There are some insane spots like people being gored out of the cage, a guitar full of thumbtacks and, of course, someone getting slammed into thumbtacks. This match alone should cure some quarantine blues, along with an X-Division Title match.
WrestleMania X-7
This card is loaded from top to bottom featuring legends, as well as the changing of the guard. It includes Shane and Vince in a brutal street fight with Mick Foley as referee, Jericho and Regal putting on a clinic for the prestigious Intercontinental Championship and the first battle at Mania between Triple H and the Undertaker. Matt and Jeff Hardy took on Edge and Christian and D-von and Bubba Ray Dudley in the best TLC match WWE has ever produced. It was part two of the car crash they put on at SummerSlam, but unlike most sequels, it delivered in a big way. How Jeff Hardy is still alive after this match is anyone’s guess after jumping off of every ladder he could find and being speared by Edge in midair.
While those six men stole the show, the main event still delivered in a way none of us ever thought was possible. Stone Cold Steve Austin took on The Rock for the WWF Title in a no DQ match. The match itself is very entertaining, but it was Austin’s actions at the end that shocked the wrestling world when he made a deal with the devil himself: Vince McMahon. It was a swerve that in today’s wrestling world would send the internet into a frenzy!
SummerSlam 2013
SummerSlam 2013 introduced us to cult leader Bray Wyatt, and while the
Ring of Fire with Kane might not be the best match, it’s fun to go back and watch the debut of the Eater of Worlds. SummerSlam 13 also has a hidden gem of Christian and Alberto Del Rio fighting for the World Heavyweight title. This was a match that didn’t receive a lot of attention, as most Christian matches in WWE tend to go. It’s a shame because Captain Charisma showed just how great he really is and how he deserved to be closer to the top of the card.
If you listen to CM Punk, he heavily believes that the main event is the last match on the card and usually for a title. Whether he will ever admit it or not, Punk was in a main event that didn’t close the show, but might have stolen it. On paper, Punk vs. Brock Lesnar looked like a squash, but The Best in the World gave the Beast all he could handle in a brutal, hard hitting match that went on for over 20 minutes (yes, Lesnar can go that long). The second main event featured Daniel Bryan showing us why he was the best wrestler on the planet at this time. He brought it to Big Match John and captured the WWE Title, which should have been the storybook ending until Triple H showed his authority, adding more fuel to the Yes! Movement.
Survivor Series 2002
This actually didn’t include one traditional Survivor Series match. Instead, it featured the first Elimination Chamber. Triple H defended his world title against Booker T, RVD, Chris Jericho, Kane and a returning HBK. The storytelling was beautiful and saw Shawn Michaels return to the top of the industry, something no one thought possible ever again. If you didn’t get enough of the Dudleyz throwing people through tables, this show will cure that itch, too. We also got a healthy dose of tag team wrestling as Los Guerreros met Edge and Rey Mysterio and Kurt Angle and Chris Benoit for the SmackDown Tag Team Titles.
Armageddon 2000
A precursor to the Elimination Chamber, Stone Cold, The Rock, Triple H, Kurt Angle, The Undertaker and Rikishi collided inside Hell in the Cell for the WWE Championship. While the main event goes off the rails quick, the matches leading up to it featured several clinics. Chris Benoit vs. Billy Gunn is a forgotten classic and Jericho and Kane tried to kill each other in a Last Man Standing match.
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