Bigpapa42

So I recently borrowed the SummerSlam boxed set from a friend, with the intent to watch through all of them in the next couple of months. Its going to be a quiet (as in inexpensive) summer and it seemed like fun. Last summer and fall, I borrowed the Wrestle Mania and Royal Rumble boxed sets from the same friend, basically in preparation for going to WM this year.

I decided to do a kind of "running commentary of random thoughts" as I watch through these. Not the match-by-match breakdown and review that Jim does - what I would produce would be a farce compared to his reviews, so I'm not even going to try that approach.

I started watching the WWE in the mid 1980s, so everything from about 1985-1990 was a "golden period' in my memory. I watched through much of the 1990s, with some occassional gaps. I watched through parts of this decade, with some bigger gaps. I've seen many of these SummerSlams before, but definitley not all of them.

This will probably be a lot of comparing what the WWF/WWE used to do to what they do now. I'll try to avoid the overt nostalgia... Hopefully this will turn out be amusing to read...

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