PPV Review: Halloween Havoc 1998

Back in the day, my friends and I loved to order the WCW PPV's....and we were always bitter and five bucks poorer...except Danny...he "never had the money" until weeks later....so to relive the pain, there will be a new feature each week...The Pay Per View Review....today, I am going to take a look at WCW Halloween Havoc 1998...put down all weapons and sharp instruments..

First thing...as Omp once said..hey they stole his spin cycle for the props....There was a ghoulish figure holding on to giant pumpkin..and that might have been the best part of the night.

The night was hyped up because Warrior and Hogan were going to wrestle and DDP was challenging the undefeated Goldberg for the title...it should have been great...
lets get to Tony Schiavone for the action...
The first match was not bad as Chris Jericho beat Raven, but it was bad after that...can someone tell me what Wrath and Lodi were doing on a PPV...why did Disco Inferno have to win a match to get a title shot....that made us watch him twice. I guess I shouldnt complain, WCW did give us 12 matches, so that wasnt bad...but lets get to what we want to see...

Warrior vs Hogan....a match 8 years in the making...the first time the two met, it was an epic clash..title for title at Wrestlemania 6. After 30 minutes (thankfully this one wasnt as long) the Ultimate Warrior had the unthinkable happen, Hogan jobbed at Wrestlemania....the future of wrestling was bright....not so much for this match.

Before this match started, Warrior played mindgames with Hogan...severed heads, being in a mirror where Hogan and the audience could see the Warrior, but not Bischoff. This was better than the match...there were about 3 moves in the match. The highlight was Hogan trying to throw a flame in the Warrior's eyes...after trying to light it for a minute with Warrior just standing there clueless, Hogan finally got it to light and hit the Warrior in the face. Hogan went on to get the pinfall...I went on for therapy....

The main event...the match we were looking for...DDP and his 2 million ways to apply the diamond cutter according to Mike Tenay against Goldberg, the undefeated champ...in true WCW style, the PPV cut off one minute into the match and everyone wondered all night who was the champ....well fortunately for us losers who bought the PPV, WCW showed the match in its entirety to start of WCW Monday Nitro...I am sure WCW refunded some of the PPV money right, wrong...all we got was a keychain...which I didnt get....I hate you Halloween Havoc 1998.

WCW World Television Title

Do you remember the WCW World Television Title?? It was one of my favorite belts because it was always defended on each tv show, and it was likely to be won or lost. The matches had a 10 or 15 minute time limit. This always created drama and extra excitment in the final minutes of the match. This made it exciting to watch. It has been held by some great superstars...Rick Steiner, Scott Steiner, Ricky Steamboat, Lex Luger, Booker T, Chris Jericho, and Arn Anderson just to name a few. It is the one title that I wish would be brought back to wrestling.

Saturday Night's Main Snoozefest

So far, I am not very impressed with the upcoming Saturday Night's Main Event....here are the current matches thanks to WWE.com
1. Main Event--Spirit Squad vs DX in an elimination match---we have been watching this since before Wrestlemania...spice it up...put the titles on the line. Why have a tag title if it is never defended.
2. WWE Champion Edge vs. John Cena for the title---I like the idea of building up a feud, but there needs to be other people who can compete for the title...Ric Flair, Carlito, really anyone, just mix it up a bit
3. Sabu vs ??????....shouldn't there have been some kind of build up about a mystery opponent. This is like the days when the superstars always just fought some jobber.
4. Carlito and Trish vs Nitro and Melina....this has summerslam build up written all over it.
5. Rey Rey, Batista and Bobby Lashley vs Finlay, Mark Henry and Booker T....it is just hard to care about Smackdown!
6. The Hogans will be there to set up Randy Orton vs Hogan at Summerslam....who wants to bet that Hogan wont do the job...and some bikini bullriding...this stuff is getting old and annoying..I would rather just watch wrestling.

Either way, I dont hold high hopes for Saturday night...I hope I am suprised.

To catch up...

Just in case you haven't watched wrestling since I last posted (I dont know why you are here then): Edge is the new WWE champion, Nitro is the Intercontinental Champion, Spirit Squad is still the tag champs and DX and the McMahons hate each other.....all of this is leading into Saturday Nights Main event....more on that later.

All apologies

Sorry I have not been updating the blog...I have been in the process of moving and getting the internet installed at the new house...never fear, because finally, Justin has come back to blogging