Month: February 2018
Elimination Chamber 2018 Spotlight: “Woken” Matt Hardy vs Bray Wyatt
It’s another show. Yay. This past Monday’s marathon gauntlet match aside, there has been a palpable feeling that WWE has been killing time over the last few weeks, waiting until they can properly get the hype machine going for Wrestlemania. As far as Raw…
TV Talking Points – 19th-21st February
So it was a weird week in WWE. Raw nearly became a one-match show, SmackDown finally went over the cliff edge for a lack of actual happenings, and NXT returned to it’s spot as the best storytelling show WWE has to offer. Not that…
Retro Spotlight: Jeff Hardy vs The Undertaker – Part 2
Last week I debuted a new column where I look at a match, angle or feud of the past and look at the build, the content and the aftermath. There was only one place I could start, and that was with one of my…
TV Talking Points – 12th-14th February
Another week has passed on the Road to Wrestlemania, and unless I’ve just gotten to the stage of completely zoning out when it happens, we got less sign-pointing this week. We even got serenaded by Braun Strowman, which even though I’m not writing about…
Retro Spotlight: Jeff Hardy vs The Undertaker – Part 1
So I had the idea for a new column where I take my usual Spotlight format and look at matches, rivalries or superstars of the past. I put up a post on the blog’s Facebook page asking for suggestions of what to write about,…
TV Talking Points – 5th-7th February
We’re not that far removed from the Royal Rumble, but WWE rolls on with Elimination Chamber just over two weeks away! The Chamber matches themselves were filled out on Raw, and we even got a match announcement for SmackDown’s next PPV, Fastlane, in March….
TV Talking Points – 27th-31st January
It’s been a bumper week of on-screen happenings in WWE because of Royal Rumble weekend, so let’s just get straight into the most newsworthy moments of the last week! NXT TakeOver: Philadelphia Gargano and Almas tear the house down I previewed this match last…
