Episode 2 of the Retro Pro Wrestling Show looks back at The Invasion to find a few nuggets of gold during a period that history has since regarded as one of WWE's most miserable failures. Ep 2. 8 Things That Didn't Suck from The Invasion Storyline by Retro Pro Wrestling Read on Substack In this episode, you'll hear about:  Why the WWF Faced a Dilemma When Booking The Invasion Storyline I hate to be a WWE apologist, but I really think they at least tried to do the best they could with what they had.  The Rise of Rob Van Dam From his excellent feud with Jeff Hardy to his pop ..read more

Episode 1 of The Retro Pro Wrestling Show is out now, taking a detailed look at WWE No Way Out 2004.  Ep 1. WWE No Way Out 2004 Review by Retro Pro Wrestling Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship, Kurt Angle vs. John Cena vs. Big Show, and more.... Read on Substack In this debut episode you'll hear about: The Road to No Way Out 2004 How it all started with Bill Goldberg's WWE debut and Eddie Guerrero's redemption story.  Pro Wrestling as a Variety Show  If you're a regular reader of my wrestling reviews, you might know that I'm often highly entertain ..read more

Episode 1 of The Retro Pro Wrestling Show is out now, taking a detailed look at WWE No Way Out 2004.  Ep 1. WWE No Way Out 2004 Review by Retro Pro Wrestling Eddie Guerrero vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship, Kurt Angle vs. John Cena vs. Big Show, and more.... Read on Substack In this debut episode you'll hear about:  The Road to No Way Out 2004 How it all started with Bill Goldberg's WWE debut and Eddie Guerrero's redemption story.  Pro Wrestling as a Variety Show  If you're a regular reader of my wrestling reviews, you might know that I'm often highly ent ..read more

Running Retro Pro Wrestling has always been a labor of love, but sometimes, I just have to take a step back.  No matter how passionate I am about professional wrestling, taking even six or seven hours a week to run a wrestling blog isn't always possible when you've got work and family commitments. This year was particularly tough, with so much going on that I didn't have the time to watch any wrestling at all, let alone right about it.  Still, the time away has done me some good, and now I'm back to this little website with renewed focus, renewed passion, and a renewed love of old-sc ..read more

June 17, 1995 ECW Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Welcome to my ECW Barbed Wire, Hoodies, and Chokeslams review, documenting what was easily Extreme Championship Wrestling's worst show of 1995 up to that point.  The company certainly had a talented cast of characters on hand around this time but, tonight, they all played second-fiddle to evil referee, Bill Alfonso.  Fonzy had debuted a month earlier back at Enter The Sandman, threatening to close ECW down on behalf of the Philadelphia State Athletic Commission if the renegade wrestling promotion didn't clean up their act ..read more

February 21, 1993 Asheville Civic Center, Asheville, North Carolina It's time for my WCW Superbrawl III review, which naturally means that it's time for me to once again state that this was my favorite WCW Pay Per View.  After Jim Crocket Promotions had fully morphed into World Championship Wrestling, Superbrawl seemed to stand out as the company's flagship event far more than Starrcade ever would.  That was especially true on this February night in North Carolina as none other than The Nature Boy Ric Flair returned to the fold.  Add in the WCW debut of a former Interco ..read more

Aired October 15, 1990 Reseda Country Club, Reseda, California UWF Fury Hour Episode 3 was the final show recorded at the initial Universal Wrestling Federation TV tapings on September 24, 1990.  Airing a few weeks later on SportsChannel America, the show would feature much of the same thing we'd already seen for the past two weeks: Squash matches, wrestlers putting over how great the company was, and B. Brian Blair selling UWF merch like he had a family of 10 to feed. Time for UWF Fury Hour!  After the usual intro, episode 3 of UWF Fury Hour began with Herb Abrams thanking us fo ..read more

September 12, 2004 Rose Garden, Portland, Oregon I'm publishing this WWE Unforgiven 2004 review after taking a two-month hiatus from working on this site. It reminds me of the time I took a much longer hiatus from pro wrestling.  By 2003, I was pretty much done with wrestling. I didn't watch, I didn't read results or backstage gossip, I was done.  Proving that I was always destined to be a lifelong fan, I eventually found myself drawn back to WWE around 2007. At that time, Randy Orton was riding high as a headliner, feuding with the likes of Triple H, Batista, and John Cena in ..read more

May 13, 1995 ECW Arena, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Does it bother anybody else that the DVD cover for ECW Enter The Sandman 1995 makes the event's eponymous star look like a severed head? Probably not, right? Anyway, we came into this event with The Sandman riding high as ECW champion after his manager, Woman, double-crossed former title holder Shane Douglas. Tonight, Douglas would get a rematch against Sandman, who also had to pull double-duty in a second title defense against Cactus Jack.  Elsewhere, we've got the continuing saga of Raven and Tommy Dreamer, the ECW debut of Bi ..read more

Aired October 8, 1990 Reseda Country Club, Reseda, California Recorded at the Universal Wrestling Federation's first set of TV tapings on September 24, 1990, UWF Fury Hour aired a few weeks later as part of SportsChannel's Feet, Fists, and Fury programming.  This week, Herb Abrams continued his cheap jab at Dave Meltzer, B. Brian Blair continued to sell T-shirts like his life depended on it, and Cactus Jack continued to be the best thing on the show.  Elsewhere, we'd see Col. DeBeers taking the show down an unnecessarily racist path in his main event clash with Billy Jack ..read more