WWE

1985
3/31 – WrestleMania (The very first one! It’s got Hulk Hogan in it!)
5/11 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #1 (The fallout from WrestleMania!)
10/5 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #2 (I never knew hillbillies got married!)
11/2 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #3 (It’s the Halloween episode!)
11/7 – The Wrestling Classic (Sixteen guys fight over a car!)

1986
1/4 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #4 (Hillbillies look for revenge, plus Hogan/Funk!)
3/1 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #5 (Will Hogan survive an AVALANCHE?!)
4/7 – WrestleMania 2 (Hogan/Bundy IN A STEEL CAGE!)
5/3 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #6 (The Funk brothers don’t take kindly to midgets!)
8/28 – The Big Event (64,000 Canadians witness Hogan/Orndorff, eh!)
10/4 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #7 (Roddy Piper doesn’t give a WHAT!)
11/29 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #8 (Savage/Roberts, Harts/Bees! It’s PANDEMONIUM!)

1987
1/3 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #9 (Hogan/Orndorff IN A STEEL CAGE!)
3/14 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #10 (Battle royal INSANITY!)
3/29 – WrestleMania III (Vince finally gets it right!)
5/2 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #11 (The fallout from another WrestleMania!)
10/3 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #12 (Hulk Hogan makes a move on Randy Savage!)
11/26 – Survivor Series (Team Hogan vs. Team Andre! Now who wants turkey?)
11/28 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #13 (Savage/Bret, plus Hogan/Bundy AGAIN!)

1988
1/2 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #14 (Hogan/Bundy! One more time!)
1/24 – Royal Rumble (Duggan wins the big one back when it doesn’t matter!)
2/5 – The Main Event #1 (Hogan/Andre II!)
3/12 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #15 (Hogan/Race, DiBiase/Savage! You can’t go wrong here!)
3/27 – WrestleMania IV (A tournament that lasts all night long!)
4/30 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #16 (The fourth WrestleMania fallout show!)
7/31 – WrestleFest (Definitely not as fun as the arcade game, that’s for sure!)
8/29 – SummerSlam (The Mega Powers vs. The Mega Bucks!)

10/29 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #17 (Jake shows Andre his “python”! Who’s the REAL giant now?)
11/24 – Survivor Series (Hogan makes a move on Savage’s girl!)
11/26 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #18 (Can Andre overcome his fear of snakes to win the gold?!)

1989
1/7 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #19 (Hogan faces that One Man Gang-looking guy!)
1/15 – Royal Rumble (The Mega Powers get into a tiff, but everything is okay!)
2/3 – The Main Event #2 (Savage has enough of this Hulk guy trying to move in on his main squeeze!)
3/11 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #20 (My favorite SNME episode!)
4/2 – WrestleMania V (The Mega Powers become a combustible combination!)
5/27 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #21 (Hogan/Bossman IN A STEEL CAGE!)
7/29 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #22 (Z’s on the side of your head become fashionable!)
8/28 – SummerSlam (Lots of good matches!)
Hulkamania 4 (Coliseum Home Video release) (Lots of Hogan!)
10/14 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #23 (Hulkamania has no effect on people with lazy eyes!)
11/23 – Survivor Series (Team names are cool!)
11/25 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #24 (The Brainbusters take on the Rockers in their last match ever!)

1990
1/21 – Royal Rumble (Hogan and Warrior show us what they can do in the ring!)
1/27 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #25 (Hogan and Warrior try to co-exist! Is it possible?!)
2/3 – The Main Event #3 (Boxers in wrestling? That’s preposterous!)
4/1 – WrestleMania VI (Hogan/Warrior and Steve Allen!)
4/28 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #26 (Hogan/Perfect, Harts/Rockers!)
WrestleFest 1990 (Coliseum Home Video release) (Lots of Hart Foundation!)
7/28 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #27 (Perfect/Santana, Demolition/Rockers!)
8/27 – SummerSlam (Hogan’s back for revenge!)
10/13 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #28 (LOD vs. Demolition! FINALLY!)
11/22 – Survivor Series (What the EFF is in that egg?!)
11/23 – The Main Event #4 (Warrior/DiBiase, plus Strike Force EXPLODES!)

1991
1/19 – Royal Rumble (Randy Savage just will not leave the Ultimate Warrior alone!)
2/1 – The Main Event #5 (Earthquake wraps up his biggest money-making feud ever!)
3/24 – WrestleMania VII (Superstars and Stripes Forever, BAYBEE!)
4/27 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #29 (From a show of hands, who wants see Warrior vs. Taker?)
WrestleFest 1991 (Coliseum Home Video release) (Pretty much what you would expect from 1991.)
8/27 – SummerSlam (Bret Hart achieves his dream, while Virgil fights back against the man!)
11/28 – Survivor Series (Ric Flair makes his WWF wrestling PPV debut! WOO!)
12/3 – This Tuesday In Texas (I don’t know why everyone hates this show. It’s good!)

1992
1/19 – Royal Rumble (Best Rumble match ever?)
2/8 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #30 (Savage/Roberts one last time!)
4/5 – WrestleMania VIII (Flair gives a whole new meaning to be called the “dirtiest” player in the game!)
8/31 – SummerSlam (A PPV without Hulk? How could it possibly succeed?!)
11/14 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #31 (YEAH WE’RE MAKIN’ SOME NOISE!)
11/25 – Survivor Series (Bret vs. Shawn for the first time on PPV!)

Top 20 SNME Matches
1993
1/11 – Monday Night Raw (The very first one!)
1/11 – Monday Night Raw
(Bob, our friend and yours, gets RAW for the very first time!)
1/18 – Monday Night Raw
(Ric Flair battles a Matador! He really will wrestle anybody!)
1/24 – Royal Rumble (Razor Ramon gets his first major shot at the big time, mang.)
1/25 – Monday Night Raw (Flair vs. Perfect – LOSER LEAVES THE WWF!)
4/4 – WrestleMania IX (Yokozuna wins the title! Oh, wait, nevermind.)
6/13 – King of the Ring (Bret/Perfect II! It’s even better this time!)
8/30 – SummerSlam (Bret Hart gets some revenge on Jerry Lawler.)
11/24 – Survivor Series (The US takes on Japan, Finland, Canada and….Hawaii?)

1994
1/22 – Royal Rumble (Owen changes Bret’s mind.)
3/20 – WrestleMania X (The epitome of a feel-good WrestleMania.)
6/19 – King of the Ring (The King of Harts is here.)
8/1 – Monday Night Raw (Razor Ramon battles Shawn Michaels for the first time since the ladder match!)
8/29 – SummerSlam (Bret and Owen meet in a cage match of historic proportions!)
11/7 – Monday Night Raw (The Hart family tear the house down with a tag match!)
11/14 – Monday Night Raw (Nobody is tapping out at Survivor Series…PERIOD!)
11/23 – Survivor Series (If Chuck Norris showed up in the WWE tomorrow, I bet he could see John Cena.)

1995
1/16 – Monday Night Raw
(WILLIAM F’N SHATNER!)

1/22 – Royal Rumble
(Oh Shawn and your fancy foot work.)
Off the Top Rope VHS (More Hart family twoubles. Plus, T-t-t-t-t-tatanka and L00ger!)
4/2 – WrestleMania XI (Shawn Michaels upstages the champ while LT pulls off a decent match!)
5/14 – In Your House (Bret Hart meets Hakushi and then it’s all downhill from there.)
6/25 – King of the Ring (Hope nobody bet on that Shawn Michaels character to win.)
7/23 – In Your House II (Shawn Michaels gives Jeff Jarrett his best match to date.)
8/27 – SummerSlam (Does Michaels/Razor: The Ladder Match  II beat the original?)
9/24 – In Your House III (Two chaps attempt to win all four straps.)
10/22 – In Your House IV (Looks like Razor Ramon is the only one happy in the Clique these days.)
11/19 – Survivor Series (Bret takes Diesel to the end of the road.)
12/4 – Monday Night Raw (Marty Jannetty battles the Million Dollar Corporation! Sympathy, please!)
12/11 – Monday Night Raw (Bret vs. Backlund – AGAIN!)
12/17 – In Your House V (Taker & Diesel want title shots, but tonight Bret deals with Davey Boy Smith!)
12/18 – Monday Night Raw (Razor Ramon gives us a taste of what was in Goldust’s letter!)

1996
1/21 – Royal Rumble
(Shawn Michaels returns to the ring after getting his head kicked in!)
2/18 – In Your House VI (Bret Hart and Diesel settle their long feud once and for all in a steel cage.)
3/4 – Monday Night Raw (No Nitro? No problem! HBK vs. 1-2-3 Kid! Bret vs. HHH! It’s all good.)
3/31 – WrestleMania XII (FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS, SHAWN!)
WWF’s Most Amazing Matches VHS (What’s amazing is how some of these matches made it to PPV!)
4/28 – IYH: Good Friends, Better Enemies (Just when you thought you had seen everything.)
5/26 & 28 – IYH: Beware of Dog (Not even the power going out can stop this from being a good show.)
6/23 – King of the Ring (Austin 3:16 is born!)
7/21 – IYH: International Incident (You’ve probably never even heard of this show.)
8/18 – SummerSlam (HBK meets his beastliest challenge to date!)
9/22 – IYH: Mind Games (There’s NO WAY that creepy Mankind fellow could be WWF champion.)
10/20 – IYH: Buried Alive (TAPHEPHOBIA IS RUNNING WILD~! Look it up.)
11/17 – Survivor Series (Bret Hart returns to beat some respect into Stone Cold.)

1999 (PPV’s from this year are all courtesy of Kyle Fitta!)
1/24 – Royal Rumble (The Rock has to beat Mankind senseless to regain the WWF title.)
2/14 – St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (Paul Wight appears and messes everything up for Vinnie Mac.)
3/28 – WrestleMania XV (Austin vs. Rock = part one!)
4/25 – Backlash (Austin vs. Rock – NO HOLDS BARRED!)
10/17 – No Mercy (The Hardyz and E&C tackle the first-ever tag team ladder match.)

2000
The 100 Greatest Matches of the Decade: 2000
(Cactus/HHH, TLC, Kurt Angle wins gold!)

2001
The 100 Greatest Matches of the Decade: 2001
(Austin/HHH, more TLC, CHRIS BENOIT!)

2002
The 100 Greatest Matches of the Decade: 2002
(Rock/Hogan, HBK/HHH, and five of the Smackdown Six!)

2003
The 100 Greatest Matches of the Decade: 2003
(Angle/Benoit, HBK/Y2J, and John Cena becomes a star!)

2008
8/2 – Saturday Night’s Main Event #36
(Jenny McCarthy vs. Autism! Oh yeah, and some wrestling too.)
Viva La Raza – The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero – Disc One (Eddie gets his big break in America!)
Viva La Raza – The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero – Disc Two (The off-again/on-again days in the WWF.)
Viva La Raza – The Legacy of Eddie Guerrero – Disc Three (Eddie ends his life on a high note.)
History of the Intercontinental Championship – Disc One (The ’80s!)
History of the Intercontinental Championship – Disc Two (The ’90s!)
History of the Intercontinental Championship – Disc Three (The ’00s!)

2009 (PPV’s from this year are all courtesy of Alexander Settee!)
1/19 – Raw
(Kicking your boss in the face can get you in a lot of trouble! Who knew!)
1/25 – Royal Rumble
(Randy Orton does what no heel has been able to do in ten years – win the Rumble!)
The Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event – Disc One (Hillbilly weddings, Halloween parties, and big time feuds!)
The Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event – Disc Two (The Megapowers and beyond!)
The Best of Saturday Night’s Main Event – Disc Three (The FOX years and the revival in 2006!)

2/15 – No Way Out
(More Elimination Chambers! Just like last year.)
4/5 – WrestleMania 25
(Without question, Shawn Michaels and the Undertaker steal the show.)
4/26 – Backlash
(WWE’s biggest feuds are either settled or continue to reach new heights.)
5/17 – Judgment Day
(Batista gets his first major title shot since his big return to the WWE in April.)
6/7 – Extreme Rules
(After ten years of ladder matches, Jeff Hardy and Edge still manage to innovate.)
Macho Madness: The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection – Disc One (From Savage to a Mega Power!)
Macho Madness: The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection – Disc Two (Macho Man finds love AND reclaims gold!)
Macho Madness: The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection – Disc Three
(From the WWF onto WCW!)
6/28 – The Bash
(Once again, Smackdown RULZ all when it’s PPV time.)
Allied Powers: The World’s Greatest Tag Teams – Disc One (Lots of awesome matches!)
Allied Powers: The World’s Greatest Tag Teams – Disc Two
(Nostalgia.Nostalgia.Nostalgia.)
Allied Powers: The World’s Greatest Tag Teams – Disc Three
(Super teams and tables, ladders and chairs!)
7/26 – Night of Champions
(It’s that one time a year when all the belts get defended on a PPV!)
8/23 – SummerSlam
(CM Punk’s title win ends with a…BONG.)
9/19 – Breaking Point
(Cena gets flogged, but HE…WILL…NOT…QUIT!)
10/4 – Hell in a Cell
(Three ‘Hell in a Cell’ matches on one PPV? And you used to be so rare and special.)
10/25 – Breaking Point
(Cena/Orton again – for a guaranteed sixty minutes this time!)
11/2 – Raw
(Ozzy and Sharon get RAW!)

More to come!

Matt is in no way associated with WWE or anything that has to do with WWE. He is just a fan who has WAY too much free time on his hands.

  1. Jason
    July 8, 2009 at 7:43 am | #1

    Great Website with the best coverage around. Love to see constant updates.Match reviews really make me laugh. Where do you get all of these old tapes to review?

  2. wcwrules4lyf
    July 8, 2009 at 9:21 am | #2

    Haha, thanks man. I’ve been collecting stuff for over ten years and after a while, you REALLY start to accumulate alot of tapes – almost to a shameful degree.

    • Jason
      July 8, 2009 at 12:40 pm | #3

      I have a ton as well-some original Coleseum video’s but mostly stuff off of WWE 24/7 that I taped. I think I am the only person around who still loves VHS. Would love to get ahold of some of the old DUBYA SEE DUBYA stuff from early to mid 90’s.

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