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We’re continuing my current rebooking arc this week, as we go from Survivor Series 2015 all the way up to WrestleMania XXXII.

Last week we booked Royal Rumble 2016, and I’ll post the results after the break line for those who would like to be easily caught up to where we are in this six part arc. You can also read the full article in my archives should you wish to.

We left the Royal Rumble show with Dean Ambrose picking up the win in the Rumble match itself to earn a place in the Main Event of WrestleMania XXXII. Roman Reigns successfully defended his WWE Title on the show as well, but he ended up in a post-match face-off with The Undertaker, leading to the inevitable match between them being booked.

Charlotte Flair is still the WWE Women’s Champion, but she is getting increasingly more paranoid and desperate to hang onto it, as is Kevin Owens with his Intercontinental Title. I’m going to finally do something with Alberto Del Rio and the United States Title on this show as well, as I’ve been neglecting it since I began the arc and he’s yet to defend it on pay per view since I took over.

You can view the real card for the event by clicking below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=137910&page=2

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

We’re continuing my current rebooking arc this week, as we go from Survivor Series 2015 all the way up to WrestleMania XXXII.

Last week we booked Starrcade 2015, and I’ll post the results after the break line for those who would like to be easily caught up to where we are in this six part arc. You can also read the full article in my archives should you wish to.

Starrcade 2015 ended with a few key plot points. Roman Reigns retained his WWE Title against Cody Rhodes in the Main Event, whilst Dean Ambrose managed to gain entry into the Royal Rumble match courtesy of a big win.

Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch defeated Naomi and Sasha Banks, but now both of their teams have splintered and action is required to address it at the Royal Rumble.

Kevin Owens is still the Intercontinental Champion, but his grip on that belt might soon be slipping, as might The New Day’s hold on the WWE Tag Titles.

Let’s see what happens next as we rebook Royal Rumble 2016!

You can view the real card for the event by clicking below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=137909&page=2

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We’re continuing my current rebooking arc this week, as we go from Survivor Series 2015 all the way up to WrestleMania XXXII.

Last week; we crowned a new WWE Champion in the form of Roman Reigns, as he betrayed long-time friend and ally Dean Ambrose in order to join up with Triple H and The Authority, when Money in the Bank holder Sheamus handed him his trusty briefcase so that he could cash in.

I’ll post the full results for Survivor Series 2015 after the break line, and the full article is available in my archives.

Anyway, we need to continue the story here with the December pay per view. Normally WWE would hold the TLC pay per view in December, which often led to a bunch of hastily booked gimmick matches that didn’t really make sense and usually took away from existing feuds and storylines.

I’ve decided to retool the December pay per view and drop the TLC gimmick, with the replacement being the return of Starrcade. This is for a few reasons. The first is that it means we don’t have to clog the card up with dangerous gimmick matches that don’t really help with the booking. Secondly, calling the event Starrcade gives us some storytelling options we can go with which I’ll explain further down. And thirdly, I just like Starrcade as a name, and seeing as WWE bought WCW, we might as well re-use some of the better event names the, now departed, company had. I’m a sucker for all of that history and lineage stuff in wrestling too. I was considering bringing back SuperBrawl as well, but Starrcade 2015 ended up getting the nod

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I’ve decided to try another rebooking arc, with this one being my most ambitious to date, as I’ll have six shows to book on the road to redoing WWE WrestleMania XXXII, which is often seen as one of the lamer Mania events of recent years.

Over the course of this Six Part rebooking arc, I’ll be going all the way up to and including Mania XXXII, and hopefully by the time we get there I’ll have something that is of better quality than what we got in real life. There’s every chance I’ll come up with something even worse of course, but then that’s half the fun really isn’t it?

We’re starting with Survivor Series 2015 this week, which ended up having a tournament for the WWE Title after Seth Rollins got injured. We’ll keep the tournament aspect of the show in place and see what we can do to start laying the foundations for Mania XXXII.

The real card for the event can be viewed below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=132917&page=2

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This week’s subject is hardly treading new ground, as many people have made YouTube videos, written articles and even created e-feds online to tackle the idea of what WCW One Night Stand would look like. However, I thought it would be fun to come up with a card for such an event, so I’m giving it a go.

For the sake of the article, let’s assume that WWE, buoyed by the success of the ECW equivalent, decided to hold a WCW One Night Stand event in the summer/autumn of 2005. Unfortunately, holding the event in this timeframe means that I won’t be able to use some guys like Kevin Nash and Raven, as they were contacted to TNA at the time and wouldn’t have been released to do it. Plus, I think Nash had suffered a really gnarly staph infection and wouldn’t have been available anyway.

Aside from that though, WWE had quite a few of the old WCW guard under contract and others were either working for companies that wouldn’t restrict them appearing or were freelance at the time, meaning that I think this card would have actually been able to legally take place had it been booked in July-September of 2005.

So, without further ado, let’s have a bash at WCW One Night Stand

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This week we’re going back to the theme of booking an event that never actually happened in the form of Bound For Glory 2003. NWA-TNA at the time were trying to build to a big Autumn showdown between Jeff Jarrett and Hulk Hogan in what would be the company’s first ever 3 hour pay per view event. I believe the 30^th of November was the planned date in question.

Sadly for NWA-TNA, Hogan ended up having surgery on his knee and the whole thing fell apart, with Bound for Glory not becoming a regular stop on the pay per view calendar until 2005. In this scenario however, The Hulkster doesn’t need to take time off and Bound For Glory 2003 can still go ahead, with Jarrett and Hogan closing out the event.

However, let’s see what I can come up with in order to put on a good show for 3 hours. NWA-TNA had some good wrestlers on the roster at the time and some strong storytellers in the form of Raven, so there’s a decent level of talent to work with.

Let’s book NWA-TNA Bound For Glory 2003!

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We’ve got another owner mandated scenario this week. For those of you who haven’t read my Rebooking features from the past two weeks; this scenario entails me getting some form of order/direction from the owner of the promotion requiring me to book a certain match at the event. I’m free to book the rest of the show to my own whims, but one particular match MUST be mandated by the owner. This week it’s WrestleMania XII getting the rebooking treatment, with Vince McMahon demanding that we continue to run the WWF on Diesel Power™.

Yes, in this scenario I’m imagining that Vince McMahon has had one of his many stubborn turns and has demanded that Big Daddy Cool remain the WWF Champion into WrestleMania XII, as Vince refuses to let it go in an effort to thoroughly Roman Reigns his giant WWF Champion.

Thus I’ve been diligently set to work with the goal of coming up with a WrestleMania XII Main Event match for ol’ Big Daddy, although thankfully Vince has at least allowed me to dethrone the big lug. Thus here comes WrestleMania XII with Diesel closing the show. Wish me luck.

You can view the original card for the show by clicking below;

Card with guide « WWF WrestleMania XII « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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I actually think WWF WrestleMania VIII is a decent enough show overall, although it loses steam after the great Ric Flair Vs Randy Savage match. I decided to set myself a challenge this week, whereby I assume that I’ve been mandated to do a certain thing by the promoter and then have to book a show to fit this criteria.

In this instance, I’m rebooking WrestleMania VIII under the assumption that Vince McMahon has demanded that the Main Event be Ric Flair Vs Hulk Hogan. In real life, McMahon decided he needed something different on top, which is why we got Hogan against Sid and Flair against Savage. In this reality though Vince has decided that we’re going to do Flair Vs Hogan and it’s up to me to book the rest of the card.

With that in mind, let’s see what I can cook up.

As always, please feel free to share your own booking ideas and thoughts in the comments section.

You can view the real card for the event by clicking below;

Card with guide « WWF WrestleMania VIII – “Friendship Torn Apart!” « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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We return to the rebooking series this time because I felt like having a bash at WCW Starrcade 1994, mainly because Scott reviewed it during the tail end of last year and it inspired me to try it. The real show featured Hulk Hogan taking on Ed Leslie in the Main Event whilst Kevin Sullivan fought Mr. T, which didn’t end up being a critical success.

Let’s have a go and see what I can come up with. Hopefully it will be fun stuff!

You can view the full card for the event by clicking the link below;

Card with guide « WCW Starrcade 1994 – “Triple Threat” « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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Back with another one of these where I book a show that never happened, in this case the ECW Living Dangerously 2001 event that was originally due to take place on the 11^th of March but ended up never happening due to ECW going out of business.

This week I’ll try and build from the Guilty As Charged event in January 2001 in an effort to keep existing storylines moving whilst also creating new ones. ECW doesn’t have the biggest of rosters but we’ll see what I can slap together and we might even bring some fresh faces in.

I’m assuming the reality we’re living in is one where ECW seemingly got another TV deal and thus managed to survive a bit longer. This would have put them in the interesting position of being the defacto second company in America what with WCW soon going southward.

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This week we finish off our little arc into 97 WCW as we rebook WCW Starrcade 1997. Starrcade 1997 is a very odd event actually as it was chockfull of Heel wins and is generally one of flattest shows you could watch, especially as it was supposedly WCW’s biggest show of the year and probably the most ordered one they ever had. You’d think they’d want to fill that show with feel good moments so that buyers would leave feeling positive about the product and wanting to see more, but instead the show had something bordering on a funereal atmosphere at times.

I’m going to try and address that here by putting in some more babyface wins and also trying to feature some good wrestling. Let’s see if I can succeed. Though we’re ending the arc this month I’ll also have a think about what the next show would look like too and if that sounds like fun to you readers I might pick this thread up again.

If you’d like to see the real card for this event then you can click below;

Card « WCW Starrcade 1997 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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We continue on with our three show pay per view arc in the world of WCW in 1997 with World War 3 1997. I’m sorry but I’ve decided to keep the monstrosity that was the three ring battle royal on these events, although I’m hopeful that we can shoot and present it in such a way in order to at least make it watchable.

If you’d like to see how things went at Halloween Havoc then please check out Part One in the archives.

If you’d like to see what the real card for this one was then you can click below;

Card « WCW World War 3 1997 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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Back today with another rebooking arc, as we’ll cover the three pay per views that make up Starrcade Season (I just made that name up) of 1997, starting with Halloween Havoc 1997. We’ll see where we end up by the end of the arc and you can judge if things are better, worse or the same after I’ve tinkered.

Some of this card will be kept the same but we’ll play with the running order a bit and also add some new matches whilst removing some outright.

If you’d like to see the original card of Halloween Havoc 1997 you can do so by clicking below;

Card « WCW Halloween Havoc 1997 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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We finish off our rebooking jaunt in 1999 WWF, by rebooking what is widely regarded as one of the worst WrestleMania events in the form of 1999’s WrestleMania XV. Mania XV had quite a bit of bad wrestling on it and some of the booking made no logical sense as Vince Russo was so heck bent on things like swerves and wild shades of grey booking that he didn’t actually bother trying to make the show a satisfying payoff for months of storytelling.

We’ll see if I can put together a better “Showcase of the Immortals™” this week when I try rebooking WrestleMania XV.

If you’d like to see how we got here, then the previous two parts are in the archives.

The card for the real life event can be view by clicking below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=2069&page=2

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We continue one with our rebooking journey through the first three months of 1999 in the WWF. Last week we covered Royal Rumble 1999 (which can be found in the archives) and this week we’ll be looking at the WWF’s February offering in the form of St. Valentine’s Day Massacre from Memphis.

This was by far the best of the three pay per views the WWF put on during Mania Season of 99, so we won’t be making wholesale changes to lots of it, but there will be some tweaks and certain matches will be cut entirely.

You can view the original card by clicking below;

https://www.cagematch.net/?id=1&nr=2062&page=2

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Something a bit new for this feature over the coming weeks, as instead of just rebooking one show I’ll be doing a series of them in order to create an entire arc. Basically what Jed Shaffer over on WrestleCrap used to do except I’ll just be doing the pay per views and not the week to week television shows like he would.

We’re going to be looking at WrestleMania Season for the WWF in 1999, starting with Royal Rumble 1999 to get us going. Two of the three pay per views that make up the three pay per view run the WWF was on during this period are pretty awful, so let’s see if I can spruce things up a bit.

If you’d like to see what the actual card was you can click below;

Card « WWF Royal Rumble 1999 – No Chance In Hell « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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Bit of a different slant on the feature for this week, as instead of rebooking a show that happened previously I’ll instead be booking a show that didn’t end up happening at all in the form of WCW’s ill-fated The Big Bang event of 2001.

For those not au-fait, Eric Bischoff and Fusient Media had intended to buy WCW in 2001 until Jamie Kellner essentially killed the company off by cancelling all of their TV. However, prior to the deal going belly-up, Bischoff’s idea had been for the company to go dark for a few weeks and then come back with a big pay per view event on the 6^th of May 2001 called The Big Bang, whereby all of the babyface stars that WCW Champ Scott Steiner had been destroying since the autumn of 2000 would return and the company would get a fresh injection of life into it.

That event of course never ended up happening, so this week I’ll take a bash at putting together my own WCW return had the company survived in 2001 and Fusient had decided to hand over the reins to me. I’m going to try and both put on a good show and lay the foundation for further events going forwards, so let’s see if my version of The Big Bang can end up being a success!

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I’m still finding shows I think will be interesting in this format so I’m sticking with it for the time being before I can stumble across something new to do on Wednesday’s. I mean, WrestleCrap has been doing this sort of feature for years already of course, so it’s not like I’m treading new ground or anything, but hopefully you’re all enjoying reading them.

Today we’ve got SummerSlam 1993, a show best known for Lex Luger “Doing A Luger” by failing to win the WWF Title in the Main Event in a pretty infamous example of the company deciding not to strike whilst the iron was hot and thus cooling off the guy who was supposed to be the new Hulk Hogan.

Today I’ll take a bash at the event to see if I can rustle up a fun show. SummerSlam 93 wasn’t a particularly bad show from an in-ring perspective, just some of the booking and finishes left a bit to be desired, so it’s hardly like it’s a terrible effort that something like Great American Bash 1991 already was. This is a show where there is good potential for me to ruin with my tinkering, as at least most of the other shows I’ve written about were recognised as being generally bad, so it wasn’t like I could make an already bad show any worse.

SummerSlam 93 is mostly alright though, so there’s a real chance I could get this badly wrong. Let’s see if I do! It’ll add an interesting to wrinkle if nothing else I guess.

If you’d like reminding on the real life card, I’ll post it below;

Card « WWF SummerSlam 1993 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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Yeah, I’m going to do WCW Great American Bash 1991

For those not au fait, this WCW event was originally supposed to have Ric Flair taking on Lex Luger, but Flair fell out with Jim Herd and left for the WWF, taking the World Title belt with him. Thus WCW found themselves in a hole, with no one else ready-made as an opponent for Luger and an angry crowd who weren’t prepared to show them any leniency.

Bash 91 is often considered one of the worst pay per view events of all-time from any wrestling company, as WCW had lost the popular Flair and then proceeded to put on an awful show filled with short terrible matches and bad gimmicks.

I’m going to try and put on a better show here, although I’m thinking the crowd are still likely to be unhappy due to having no Flair, but what can you do eh?

You can see the original card by clicking the link below;

Card « WCW The Great American Bash 1991 « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database

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As promised in last week’s feature, let’s see if I can tinker with a real life show and end up putting something fun together, as we rebook WrestleMania IV. Mania IV is a show that is widely recognised as one of the lamer earlier Mania events due to its extravagant runtime and the fact it was held in the Trump Plaza in front of swathes of non-wrestling fans who just wanted to be at a big event and didn’t even know who most of the wrestlers were.

Let’s see if I can try and come up with a slightly less horrible show here, although there’s every chance my tinkering will make it worse, because that’s something I do sometimes with these. Regardless though, let’s have a bash at rebooking WrestleMania IV.

You can view the real life card for this event by clicking the link below;

WWF WrestleMania IV – “What The World Is Watching” « Events Database « CAGEMATCH – The Internet Wrestling Database