The Random Wrestling Review

With Wrestlemania 2 just a few weeks away, WWE were making a major pitch for pay-per-view buys with the latest episode of Saturday Night's Main Event. This one featured hype for all the main matches at the big show, including Mr T facing Bob Orton Jr in a boxing match, Hulk Hogan defending the WWE Title against Magnificent Muraco and The British Bulldogs having a shot at The Dream Team's Tag Team...

It's back to World Championship Wrestling for this week's episode of The Random Wrestling Review as we go back to 1996 and Superbrawl VI that took place just a few months before the arrival of the NWO. At this event, WCW presented a double cage match main event, with Hulk Hogan and The Giant facing off in one match, and Randy Savage defending the WCW Title against Ric Flair in the other.  The Rand...

Last Saturday, WWE presented it's annual Royal Rumble show, featuring both the Men and Women's Royal Rumble matches, as well as Roman Reigns defending the Universal Title against Seth Rollins and the WWE Title match between Brock Lesnar and Bobby Lashley. During the show, the company provided a boat load of surprises and clearly signposted their vision for this year's Wrestlemania- but was it any...

This week on The Random Wrestling Review, we take a look back at the night Chris Benoit entered the Rumble match at number 1 and went all the way to the end and booked his place in the main event of Wrestlemania 20. On the way, things heated up in the Mick Foley and Randy Orton feud, Shawn Michaels and Triple H faced one off in a Last Man Standing Match and Eddie & Chavo battled each other followi...

Royal Rumble season is back on The Random Wrestling Review and begins this year with the 1990 edition of the spectacular. Featuring the big face off in the Rumble between the two biggest stars in the industry at the time, Hulk Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior, the 30-man rumble match takes centre stage here. In addition, Greg Valentine and Ronnie Garvin face each other in a submission match, and The...

This week, we take a look at one of WCW's last pay-per-views, their January 2001 offer, Sin, a night that's infamous mainly for the hideous leg break suffered by Sid Vicious in the main event for the WCW title where he was up against defending Champion Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and a Mystery Opponent. It was also the night of Goldberg's final ever WCW match as he and Sarge battled Totally Buffed...

After a one week break, The Random Wrestling Review is back and in line with the beginning of 2022 we cover WWE's New Year's Revolution 2007 where John Cena was set to defend the WWE Title against Umaga. In addition to that, D-Generation X were up against Rated RKO in a contest for the latter's Tag Team Title, Jeff Hardy and Johnny Nitro squared off in a cage match for the Intercontinental Title a...

It's the Christmas special of The Random Wrestling Review, and this week the podcast goes back further than it has ever gone before and explores a promotion it hasn't looked at previously with AWA's Christmas Night 1984 show. The card includes an AWA Title match between Rick Martel and Jimmy Garvin, Nick Bockwinkel taking on Curt Hennig and a tag contest pitting Greg Gagne & Jerry Blackwell agains...

Come the end of 2008, Jeff Hardy was riding a wave of popularity and had been a nearly-man on a number of occasions as regards to winning the WWE Title. Running into Armageddon he would have another chance to win the gold as he faced Champion, Edge, and Triple H in a triple-threat match. In addition to this, Batista and Randy Orton would do battle, John Cena defended the World Heavyweight Title ag...

It's time for another Saturday Night's Main Event episode and this time around Hulk Hogan is facing the challenge of King Kong Bundy in a rematch from the previous SNME but this time, Bundy has Andre the Giant in his corner and is gunning for Hogan's WWE Title. In addition to this Strike Force defend their recently won tag titles against The Bolsheviks and Jake Roberts battles Sika.  The Random Wr...

For WWE's final pay-per-view of the last millennium the company served up a main event which saw Triple H face Vince McMahon in a match where if Vince McMahon won Triple H's marriage to Stephanie would be annulled but if Triple H won, not only would the marriage stand, but also Triple H would receive a future WWE Title shot. Underneath, Chyna and Chris Jericho battled over the Intercontinental Tit...

It's time for NWA/WCW's equivalent of Wrestlemania as we take a look back at Starrcade from 1986, subtitled 'Night of the Skywalkers' due to the Scaffold Match set to take place between The Road Warriors and Midnight Express. Also on the show, Ric Flair defends his NWA World Title against Nikita Koloff, The Rock N Roll Express defended their Tag Titles against The Minnesota Wrecking Crew, and Dust...

In the final part of our trilogy of Survivor Series episodes we take a look back at the Survivor Series 1993 a night where the Foreign Fanatics, led by Yokozuna and including Crush, Ludvig Borga and Jacques of the Quebecers, take on the All Americans of Lex Luger, Undertaker and The Steiner Brothers in the main event. In addition, the Hart family come together, as four of the brothers take on Shaw...

This week the Random Wrestling Review covers Survivor Series 2010 where John Cena was facing a dilemna as he was set to be the Special Guest Referee of the WWE Title match between Randy Orton and leader of the Nexus, Wade Barrett. If Cena ensured that Barrett won the title he would be free of the Nexus after having previously been forced to join them, but if he raised the hand of Randy Orton, he w...

This week we head into a trifecta of Survivor Series episodes, beginning with the 1994 edition which features the return match between Undertaker and Yokozuna as they battle in a casket match. In addition to this, Bret Hart defends the WWE Title in a submission match against Bob Backlund where the winner will be decided by which of their corner men throw in the towel first. On top of that, there a...

In the 2nd part of our double header, comparing 2 shows that took place within a week of each other at the height of the Monday Night Wars, we take a look back at WCW's Halloween Havoc 1998. For the show, WCW had lined up a monster line up which included the rematch between Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior, Goldberg defending the World Title opposite Diamond Dallas Page, Bret Hart facing Sting and...

At the height of the Monday Night War, WWE went into their October pay-per-view with a vacant WWE Title. To fill that vacancy, Vince McMahon had booked a match between Undertaker and Kane with 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin as the special guest referee with the stipulation that if Austin didn't crown one of the Brothers of Destruction the new Champion, he'd be fired from the company. Also on the show,...

With King Booker reigning over Smackdown as World Heavyweight Champion, he rolls into No Mercy with the prospect of a fatal 4-way defence of the belt against Batista, Bobby Lashley and Finley. In an attempt to get an advantage before the bout, he sets his trusty subject William Regal off on a mission to get Finley to join forces with him resulting in Regal getting himself into some ridiculous scra...

When WWE's annual gimmick match pay-per-view, Hell in a Cell rolled around in 2011, we were all still in the midst of the summer of CM Punk. Coming off of that period, Punk was involved in a three way tussle over the WWE Title with rivals John Cena and Alberto Del Rio, and here they face one another in the first ever three-way Cell match. In addition to that, Mark Henry defends the World Heavyweig...

With WWE still riding the high of the late 1980's wrestling boom, they put on this episode of Saturday Night's Main Event between that year's SummerSlam and Survivor Series pay-per-views. It features Hulk Hogan defending the WWE Title against 'Million Dollar Man' Ted Dibiase, 'Macho King' Randy Savage against Jimmy Snuka and Roddy Piper going up against Haku! The Random Wrestling Review is brought...

This show takes place just a few short months after the NWO had been formed following Hulk Hogan's infamous heel turn and teaming up with Outsiders, Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. With WCW now on a super hot streak and with ratings going through the roof thanks to the super-over New World Order angle, the company presented Fall Brawl which would feature a War Games main event pitting Team NWO vs. Team...

The early NXT Takeover shows that were based out of Full Sail University quickly built up a reputation for being some of the best wrestling shows around. This week, The Random Wrestling Review look back at NXT Takeover: Fatal 4-Way, which featured a main event of Adrian Neville vs. Sami Zayn vs. Tyler Breeze vs. Tyson Kid, a Women's Title match between Charlotte and Bayley and The Ascension puttin...

Last Sunday AEW put on the biggest show in their short history and showcased not only the return to the ring of CM Punk after 7 years away, against Darby Allin, but also the debut in AEW of both Adam Cole and Brian Danielson. On the way there was a wrestling show that included the World Title being on the line as Kenny Omega defended against Christian Cage in the main event, a Tag Team title cage...

As WCW continued the build for their annual Halloween Havoc pay-per-view, they stopped on the way for the latest Clash of the Champions special on TBS, for a show that would celebrate 20 years of pro-wrestling on the Network. To mark such an occasion, Andre the Giant, Bruno Sammartino, Dusty Rhodes and many other legends have turned up to watch a big 8-man tag main event featuring Sting, Nikita Ko...

This week we take a look back at NXT Takeover: Brooklyn, an important night in the history of WWE's development brand, representing as it did, a first foray into large markets and sold out crowds. It also played host to a massive double main event as Finn Balor defended the NXT Title against Kevin Owens, and Bayley and Sasha Banks tore the roof off with their classic bout over the Women's Title. U...