Hey Scott,
Don't know if you've seen the new WWE PPV schedule but the May event is called 'Over the Limit' now. I think it's too eerily similar to 'Over the Edge' which was also in May 11 years ago. Coincidence or is Vince up to something?
He’s planning on reanimating the corpse of Owen Hart and having him job to Sheamus because no one living wants to?
Even worse, it’s scheduled on May 23, the 11th anniversary of Owen’s death. You would think someone there would have clued them in…ah, who am I kidding? It’s WWE.
Yeah unfortunately with WWE they have gone through so many PPV names that no one in the company makes the connection.
And with Bret Hart under WWE contract no less.
Sounds like an alcohol related PPV to me. Pretty tasteless if this is the case.
Maybe they could call their April PPV “Relapse” to continue the drug & alcohol theme, and to also reference the fact that it’s a bunch of ‘Mania rematches. That’s stupid, but not much more so than some of the PPV titles they are coming up with.
In the U.S., a series of anti-DUI TV ads are being produced with the tagline “Over the limit, under arrest”. That’s the first thing I thought of when I heard the PPV name.
#2 was the thought that no WWE scheduled in May should be named “Over” anything.
Owen’s death was terrible and I will never forget watching that PPV. That said, it’s been 11 years and even though the titles are somewhat similar, let it go. I think over-scrutinizing PPV names is a bit ridiculous.
Owen didn’t even enter my mind when I saw this. I’m pretty sure there is a mountain climbing movie (with Sylvester Stallone, maybe?) with that same name.
That was Cliffhanger. Then there’s the Over the Top, the single greatest movie about a father’s struggle… And arm-wrestling.
I think “Over the limit” will refer to the WWE Universe’s credit card status after ordering too many PPVs. *ahem*
“He’s planning on reanimating the corpse of Owen Hart and having him job to Sheamus because no one living wants to?”
Wow, that was a Charlie-esq joke.
Anyway, the name is horrible. I suggest this be one of those things that people complain about to WWE directly.
https://secure.wwe.com/forms/help/show.php
Hey, don’t laugh. Enough people complained to undo the black-and-white blood censorship. And the poor starving cancer kids still hold out hope that they’ll cut the bullshit instant replays as well (current estimate is that of the $1,000 I set up for them, $450 has been lost).
“He’s planning on reanimating the corpse of Owen Hart and having him job to Sheamus because no one living wants to?”
OH SNAP!
“You brought me back to job to WHO? That guy that looks like the bad guy from the Da Vinci Code?
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Yea that’s right, Vince. We get to watch movies in hell. That’s right, hell. I forgot to renounce Satan in the 2.1 seconds I was still alive following me hitting that blasted hair trigger.
Anyway, fuck you Vince. I ain’t jobbing to whitey there. Stick me in the fucking cape and harness again.”
“Wow, you guys talked Bret into coming back too? I’ll tell you what… I’ll make you a deal. I’ll lay down for the Irish Twilight Vampire thingy if you guys book him to be the new Blue Blazer. I just had a bet going with Hitler that everyone has a price.”
If “Over the Limit” is replacing “Fatal Four Way,” then it’s at least an improvement. It’s still a pretty lame title that sounds more like an alcohol allusion than anything else.
It’s not, they’re both on the list
Scott makes a tasteless but funny joke and once again Charlie runs that joke into the ground.
BUT WAIT~! are you saying I run everything into the ground? That’s so not me. That would be the WORST MOVE EVER~!
Yeah, still not funny.
I get the impression that “Charlie” makes up for lack of journalistic ability with the tired-but-true “cynical smark with a catchphrase I’m desperately trying to get over” approach that was being done to death ten years ago, before markboards and “newz” sites began popping up like cases of herpes after Paris Hilton makes her rounds.
Either that, or I’ve been awake too long.
Didn’t Vince say when he made the decision to get rid of Survivor Series that they wanted to tell the consumer exactly what they were getting? What’s Over The Limit exactly? Sounds like either an Iron Man Match or 3 Stages Of Hell type thing. Shit name, I may be in the minority, but I thought the PPV names of Backlash, Judgment Day, No Mercy and Vengeance were all good. And why would you get rid of No Way Out? Isn’t that what the Chamber is? or they could have called Hell In A Cell No Way Out. I guess I prefer a bit of subtly and scope for change in the titles. Night Of Champions seemed to be overtaking King of the Ring as the new “big 5″ PPV, guess these shitty gimmick PPVs sell so I don’t really blame Vince for it.
Well in the WWE’s defense, is having all these named ppv’s really any more retarded than having a ppv named “Royal Rumble”, “Survivor Series”, or “King of the Ring”?
I mean isn’t a little hypocritical to be complaining about something like this NOW, when a pay per view named Royal Rumble has been there like forever?
March 28, 2010 WrestleMania XXVI
April 25, 2010 Extreme Rules
May 23, 2010 Over the Limit
June 20, 2010 Fatal Four Way
July 18, 2010 Money in the Bank
August 15, 2010 SummerSlam
September 19, 2010 Night of Champions
October 3, 2010 Hell in a Cell
October 24, 2010 Bragging Rights
November 21, 2010 TBA
December 19, 2010 TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs
This years PPV schedule
What’s TBA? All matchups to be announced on the night of the show?
If they’re going to do that they might as well rename it WWE Halloween Havoc.
With a bit of luck TBA will turn into Survivor Series: War Games, would fit perfectly if you ask me and we’d have a subtitle back!
They really need to call Dusty Rhodes to get some of these events some good subheadings at least.
SummerSlam – Rajin’ Cajun!
Hell in a Cell – Dixie Dynamite!
Actually, they were really lazy with this back in the day too, with SummerSlam in particular.
SummerSlam 88 was “the Megapowers meet the Megabucks” which works, but SummerSlam 1989 was just “Feel The Heat!” and SummerSlam 1990 was the redundant “The Heat Returns!”
SummerSlam 1992 makes the least sense though — “The SummerSlam You’d Thought You’d Never See!” Huh? Why did we think we’d never see it?
Yea, I used to love the days when the PPVs had subtitles.
The Mega Powers Explode!
The Ultimate Challenge!
The Gravest Challenge!
Ect.
When was the last time the WWE did this?
Summerslam ‘98: Highway to Hell and Summerslam ‘99: An Out of Body Experience.
From 2007, Vengeance: Night of Champions and One Night Stand: Extreme Rules.
And if you want to get REALLY technical, TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs.
Touche, but the WWE later turned Vengeance into Night of Champions so I win on a technicality. Oh, and TLC’s name wasn’t officially listed as TLC: Tables, Ladders, and Chairs. It was officially just WWE TLC. Summerslam 98 was officially called Summerslam 98: Highway to Hell and so forth.
In fairness, but the logo and the website header refers to the event as “WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders and Chairs.” I’d say that’s as official as anything else.
http://www.wwe.com/shows/wwetlc/
And if you think about it, practically all of the In Your House PPV’s had a subtitle, although in many instances the subtitle became the actual title when they ditched the whole “In Your House” name.
The In Your House stuff did have some wild subtitles.
“Good Friends, Better Enemies”
“Revenge of the Taker!”
“International Incident!”
“Cold Day in Hell!”
Yeah, I was just joshin’. I too would love for them to start subtitling PPV’s again. Even if they just combined the old and new names and I’d be happy.
-Backlash: Extreme Rules? Doesn’t sound half bad to me.
-Judgment Day: Over The Limit? Still alright.
-Unforgiven: Breaking Point? I’m down for that.
-Survivor Series: War Games? HELL THE FUCK YES.
Yeah there were lots of good ones and they were fun.
Some of my favorites were the GAB shows:
GAB 1987 “The Match Beyond”
GAB 1988 “The Price For Freedom”
GAB 1989 “Glory Days”
GAB 1990 “The New Revolution”
GAB 1991 “The Legend vs The Legacy” (well at least until Flair left anyways..)
And of course, who can forget:
Starrcade – “Night of the SkyWalkers”
Starrcade – “Collision Course”
Y’all should love TNA. Every episode of Impact has a subtitle!
Was Starrcade 89 “Future Shock”?
I believe it was but I could be mistaken. I could look it up on Wiki but I prefer testing my memory.