It’s Tuesday so you probably expect my run down of Raw last night. Or maybe you were waiting on my analysis of Sunday’s Pay Per View Unforgiven. Well since I am extremely unhappy with the current state of the WWE right now, I’m not going to waste my time writing about it. It would just be my long-winded stories about bad booking decisions and story lines that are screwed up. It won’t change anything.

Instead I want to write about what happened 10 years ago. That’s right, what went on this month in 1996. You see, thanks to WWE 24/7 On-Demand and the magic of illegal internet downloads over the past couple months I’ve been watching The Monday Night War. It’s basically just replays of Raw and Nitro from ten years ago. Back when all was good.

Recently I read an interview with former WWE announcer Kevin Kelly. In this interview he said something to the effect of (and I’m paraphrasing here), “A lot of younger fans consider the golden age of wrestling 1997 through 1999,” on which Mr. Kelly disagreed. And I disagreed for a split second as well. But after watching classic episodes of Nitro and Raw from 1996 I started to get that old feeling back. I feeling I had when I lived for Monday nights. I watched on Monday and wrote about the anticipation the rest of the week on my internet website.

You see, I started watching wrestling in the early 1990’s. I knew some about it from the 1980’s, but I didn’t really follow it then. Anything that happened before then I either read about in the slanted view of PWI or on the internet. I watched classic wrestling tapes and seen the quality of the matches and storylines, not to mention the poor production quality back then. I have to ask Mr Kelly, when do you consider the golden age of wrestling? If it wasn’t during the era of the Monday Night War when was it? The production quality was high, the storylines were great, the quality of the matches reached new heights and rating and merchandise sales were the highest ever. I’m proud to say that I lived through the golden age of wrestling Kevin Kelly and yes, I respect the past and the way things used to be, but I also know when the product was at it’s best. It was during the Monday Night Wars.

While the WWE seems to lost their grip on great story telling, you can enjoy great wrestling action every month with the Monday Night War on WWE 24/7 On Demand. The started last September on the 10 year anniversary of the start of the Battle For Monday Night Supremacy. They show about 4 episodes a month and they only show the episodes that went head-to-head. They don’t show the Nitro episodes that aired while Raw was off the air for tennis and they don’t show the Raw episodes that aired while Nitro was breaking for the NBA playoffs. They also don’t show the specials that aired at other times, like USA Championship Friday or Thursday Raw Thursday Live, nor do they show the late night airing of either show. That makes for about 48 episodes a year.

In my mind this On Demand series are worth every penny. This is back when wrestling was at it’s best. I still get chills watching these episodes. Thank you WWE 24/7 for giving us something good to watch during a time when the main product of the WWE sucks.


Funny Pic Of The Day - This One Is A Classic

Wow. Mathmatical proof that girls are evil. Never thought I'd see THAT....
» randomjunk on 2006-09-19 05:00:14

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