Classic PPVs you couldnt order as a kid

[Ruby'sRevolver]

Just a few from way back because my parents wouldnt let us order them...

Royal Rumble '89- first ever rumble on ppv and i missed it
Summerslam '89- I wanted to see Zeus and Savage kill Hogan and Beefcake
Survivor Series '90- Taker's debut
This Tuesday in Texas '91- Jake/Savage

not sure if those would even be considered 'classic' ppv's but oh well.

We still ordered ppv's until '95, then, thanks to black boxes we never missed a show again. Damn, we ate good (and for free) from 95-04.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

One of my friends had some bootleg satellite box so he'd see all the PPVs for free. He'd record them for me on a VHS tape and I'd watch the next day

 

[Ill Lou Malnati]

I saw most WCW/WWF PPVs from '95-early '99. I even saw a lot of the early '90s PPVs thanks to an old UHF TV we had in the house, just had to move the antennae around. Pay-per-view was so simple back then.

Basically any 1990 show I was " Mama, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeasssssssse order this for me!" Not that it would've mattered. I had a bedtime. I didn't see Hogan get his revenge on Earthquake, I didn't see the GOAT match concept Survivor Series, I didn't find out who the Black Scorpion was...

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

92 Wargames. I wanted to see Sting's team vs the Dangerous Alliance badly. I loved that feud. Oh well, I sat in front of the scrambled PPV channel and listen to the audio like I did with all of the PPVs.

I did this alot too durimg the Attitude Era.

I remember clearly my two friends watching Summerslam 1998 next oor on a blackbox while i stayed home listening to audio on a scrambled channel

the good ol days

@MrTV4

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

All of them aside from Royal Rumble 2000

Didn't have Sky

C4's coverage all because of the Mae Young skit @ the Rumble

 

[soulytrack]

Growing up, I never asked to order PPVs...this is pre-95. I would go rent tapes from all the old shows. This was my 'catching up' period since I had never seen the PPVs, we only caught Superstars here in Quebec on Saturday mornings.

Through 95 and 96, I was watching it scrambled - with occasional 'black box' night at my brother's in-laws' house.

97 - black box, my crib.

1998-2003 - DirecTV satellite dish - free PPVs, every month. that was amazing.

I stopped following in 2004, but I'd buy the occasional Wrestlemania. Came back in late '06 - early '07 when the Internets became my personal Chef and I been eating good ever since.

Catching everything live from Austin's KotR speech to nWo's formation...I was blessed.

 

[Grifter]

Wrestlemania '96, any WCW until '98

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

Every single one, we couldn't order PPVs until 2011.

In the Attitude Era we got them for free but with a 4-5 months delay

When i could get German channels back in the day. One of their main sports networks use to show delayed WCW/WWF PPV's maybe a month or 2 behind. But because SkyUK showed WWE PPV's for free, I only use to watch it for the WCW ppv's Didnt give fukk the commentary was in German.

 

[hadouken]

My parents were too broke to let me order a ppv. I always had to wait until they had it at Rogers video on VHS... and I still had to beg for it

 

[Bob Loblaw]

I wanted to see Ground Zero and Canadian Stampede. I rremember bugging my friends the next ay about Patriot vs Bret and the hart foundation tag math

 

[Riley Escobar]

C4's coverage all because of the Mae Young skit @ the Rumble

fukk them, bytch ass producers

 

[PopOnCloud9]

Grandma had the illegal cable joint when I was a young pup. I used to tape ppv's and used to let the homies hold the tape at 5 dollars a pop. shyt was all good until the it cut off during Wrestlemania XX during the John Cena vs. Big Show US title match. I was sick for three reasons: I couldn't be there live, I couldn't watch at home and now my monthly hustle was gone. Didn't fukk with ppv's til WM 25 on the stream game.....and it was worth it because HBK vs. Taker I was

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

fukk them, bytch ass producers

They didnt know what they were buyin when they bought the rights for those 4 ppv's

 

[MBwithadream]

Summerslam 02

 

[SuikodenII]

Canadian Stampede..........