Post by segaz on Jun 9, 2009 9:00:20 GMT -5
Which year was the best for the big 4 (/5) PPVS? What I mean is, maybe you think WM 13 is the best WM of all time, but maybe 1997 as a whole let you down with Summerslam, Survivor Series and the Royal Rumble? So maybe you think 1998 is the year that has it all. Let's rate the years as they go!......out of 10.......yay. We'll find out which year rules over all! If there's a tie at the end...we'll have to vote or something.
I will include KOTR when it appears....as that was a pretty big PPV for the WWE at one time. Have two different final scores, one with KOTR included, one without. Who knows, there might be two different 'Best ever years' depending on KOTR's inclusion........
BTW We'll start from 1988,......because that's the 1st year with all 4 big PPVs.
Let's get started! We've got 20 years to do!!!
I'll start! I pick....uh.....1995.
Royal Rumble 1995 uh....OK, although I really hated Shawn winning it at the time, and I wanted Diesel to pin Bret. Plus Owen, one of my favourites as a kid got eliminated soooo quickly. 6/10
Wrestlemania XI ......fairly meh. Bret beating Backlund when he didn't clearly say 'I quit' annoyed me. At least Shawn got pinned by Diesel. LT vs Bam bam bigelow made me smile. Even as a kid I thought it was surprising Bam Bam got basically zero offense in. 6/10
King of the Ring 1995...Strangely enough, I loved seeing Mabel win. I wasn't surprised when Michaels got eliminated (shawn still wasn't 'main event' status to me back then) and I hated Savio Vega getting a bye right to the finals. The main event sucked a little bit with Sid leaving Tatanka. Although Sid did cut a good promo before the match. And that kiss my foot match was annoying. 5/10
SummerSlam '95 Ahh. Bret vs the Evil dentist, Diesel vs King Mabel. Insane. Good match between Kid and Hakushi. Shawn vs Razor ladder match 2? I don't even remember the buildup for this, but looking back at the match now, it seems that Razor played the part of Shawn from WM X's match. Little disappointing. Not an awful PPV, but not good. 4/10
Survivor Series 1995. Great Title match between Diesel and Bret, I'm sure Diesel even swears at the end of it. I wish Diesel would have Powerbombed Bret through the table though. The rest of the matches were a bit meh.....except for that stupidly one sided match with Sid, Shawn, Ahmed and the Bulldog taking on Yoko (who was no longer main event status), Owen, Razor and.....Dean Douglas?? Surely they could have swapped Yoko for Hakushi and Dean Douglas for the Undertaker. Now THAT would have been a Real Dream Survivor series match. I think Bret/Diesel makes this PPV. 5/10
So yeah.
Total Score: 26/50
minus KOTR: 21/40.....
Wow, that's....better than I expected. MUCH better. Just over half, anyway you look at it.
Because it's first, it's currently in the lead, as no other WWE years have been done. Will 1995 be stopped??!?
P.S. Try to be fair, don't just give every event a perfect 10 and say '1994 4 lyfe peace'. I think it's better to pick a year you like, not love, nor hate. Keep the biased results to a minimum at best.
BTW if this is successful I plan to do a similar one with the monthly PPV's. I still think of them as IYH's for some reason, same way I still think of them as the Big 5 not the Big 4.
I will include KOTR when it appears....as that was a pretty big PPV for the WWE at one time. Have two different final scores, one with KOTR included, one without. Who knows, there might be two different 'Best ever years' depending on KOTR's inclusion........
BTW We'll start from 1988,......because that's the 1st year with all 4 big PPVs.
Let's get started! We've got 20 years to do!!!
I'll start! I pick....uh.....1995.
Royal Rumble 1995 uh....OK, although I really hated Shawn winning it at the time, and I wanted Diesel to pin Bret. Plus Owen, one of my favourites as a kid got eliminated soooo quickly. 6/10
Wrestlemania XI ......fairly meh. Bret beating Backlund when he didn't clearly say 'I quit' annoyed me. At least Shawn got pinned by Diesel. LT vs Bam bam bigelow made me smile. Even as a kid I thought it was surprising Bam Bam got basically zero offense in. 6/10
King of the Ring 1995...Strangely enough, I loved seeing Mabel win. I wasn't surprised when Michaels got eliminated (shawn still wasn't 'main event' status to me back then) and I hated Savio Vega getting a bye right to the finals. The main event sucked a little bit with Sid leaving Tatanka. Although Sid did cut a good promo before the match. And that kiss my foot match was annoying. 5/10
SummerSlam '95 Ahh. Bret vs the Evil dentist, Diesel vs King Mabel. Insane. Good match between Kid and Hakushi. Shawn vs Razor ladder match 2? I don't even remember the buildup for this, but looking back at the match now, it seems that Razor played the part of Shawn from WM X's match. Little disappointing. Not an awful PPV, but not good. 4/10
Survivor Series 1995. Great Title match between Diesel and Bret, I'm sure Diesel even swears at the end of it. I wish Diesel would have Powerbombed Bret through the table though. The rest of the matches were a bit meh.....except for that stupidly one sided match with Sid, Shawn, Ahmed and the Bulldog taking on Yoko (who was no longer main event status), Owen, Razor and.....Dean Douglas?? Surely they could have swapped Yoko for Hakushi and Dean Douglas for the Undertaker. Now THAT would have been a Real Dream Survivor series match. I think Bret/Diesel makes this PPV. 5/10
So yeah.
Total Score: 26/50
minus KOTR: 21/40.....
Wow, that's....better than I expected. MUCH better. Just over half, anyway you look at it.
Because it's first, it's currently in the lead, as no other WWE years have been done. Will 1995 be stopped??!?
P.S. Try to be fair, don't just give every event a perfect 10 and say '1994 4 lyfe peace'. I think it's better to pick a year you like, not love, nor hate. Keep the biased results to a minimum at best.
BTW if this is successful I plan to do a similar one with the monthly PPV's. I still think of them as IYH's for some reason, same way I still think of them as the Big 5 not the Big 4.