Welcome to Random Wrestling Reviews!
Jay
Co-creator of and contributing author to Random Wrestling Reviews (and massively bearded) We are wrestling fans who lived through "the good old days". My earliest memory is of staying up late to watch WrestleMania VIII, hearing that music at the end of the main event between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice, looking at each other and shouting: "That's the Warrior's music!". You see, the Ultimate Warrior had been gone form the then-WWF for some time, and in the days long before the internet, we had no idea if he was ever coming back. This was a genuine surprise! From that moment on, we were committed wrestling fans. There was no going back for us. My personal highlight was being one of the 80,355 in attendance at SumemrSlam '92, at Wembley Stadium. At one point I was just five feet away from "the real World Champion" Ric Flair - need I say anymore! The photo (right) shows a glimpse of me at the event, aisle side, as the Undertaker made his way back to the dressing room, after his match with Kamala. It was WrestleMania XXX in 2014 when it really hit home that wrestling only USED to be so good that you couldn't afford to miss it. When the three legends - Hulk Hogan, the Rock, and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin - came out to start the show, I got goose bumps. The event itself wasn't bad, up there with as one of the best of that year, but I couldn't help but wonder how it would compare to previous WrestleManias, the ones which had me shouting at the TV back in the day? Or, come to think of it, any other event in the WWF/WWE cannon. With the launch of the WWE Network, we now have unprecedented access to every pay-per-view from the WWE, WCW, and ECW at the touch of a button, so, as the name of this website suggests, we will be reviewing random wrestling events from the vast archive which is now available, and we'll see if wrestling really was better in "the good old days". We hope you enjoy taking a trip back into the archives with us, we may review a PPV that you have never seen before and, after reading our review, you may want to check it out. We would love to hear what you think in the comments section, or if there is a particular PPV you would like us to review, just let us know! Jay |
Jon
Co-creator of and contributing author to Random Wrestling Reviews (and no beard) Yes, that's me in my British Bulldog T-shirt, sometime after SummerSlam in 1992. I got into wrestling massively in the early 1990s, I recall vividly the Ultimate Warrior versus Randy Savage in a Loser Leaves match at WrestleMania VII, and I was genuinely scared when I first saw the Undertaker at Survivor Series 1990. Over the years, I had many favourite superstars: Hulk Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Diesel, Razor Ramon, the New Age Outlaws, Chris Jericho, the Rock, Steve Austin, Triple H, Christian,Eddie Guerrero and, of course, "the Heartbreak Kid" Shawn Michaels. I still consider myself a wrestling fanatic, and yet, oddly, I don't even watch it on TV anymore. I haven't watched it for nearly a decade. I'm variably kept up to date with the goings on, who the Champions are, who's been fired, and so on, but I these days I know I just couldn't sit down and enjoy a pay-per-view because I wouldn't have a clue about what was going on. But the WWE Network has given me a chance to get back into it. And, me being me, I can't just pick up where I left off. I have to relive those fantastic events I remember so fondly. And so Random Wrestling Reviews - the brain child of me and my wrestling-mad big brother - was born. At the moment, I'm working through the PPVs, starting at the 1992 Royal Rumble, and moving forward in chronological order (so, so much for Random, eh?) but I may just fire up the old Network and go off in a different direction (or organisation) completely. And not just PPVs, with an archives of Nitro, Raw and Smackdown (which I obsessively collected back in the day), I won't run out of things to ramble on about any time soon. Just bring it! Jon |