What if Steamboat beat Hogan? A Professional Wrestling Fable by Jim Jividen

Royal Rumble 2011

2012-01-02T08:41:00.035-05:00

The build is here. Royal Rumble 2011 is from Boston. (Dark: Black d. Sydal Smith d. Barrett) Last show with the crazy announce – Joey and Striker are the lead team, Striker leaves for the semi-main, replaced by Josh, and JR and Lawler do the main event. Throughout the show are backstage shots of Danielson and Mysterio each warming up for the match; like Low Ki at

Road to Royal Rumble 2011

2011-12-17T13:25:00.001-05:00

Survivor Series 2010 is here. Royal Rumble 2011 is in January, from Boston. WWF Title: Edge v. Booker T The road to Rumble 2K11 starts the night after Survivor Series when Bret (that’s Bret Hart, WWF Commissioner) hits the ring to open RAW, the announce telling us that he’s going to name Edge’s Rumble opponent. Bret announces first some good news – he has signed an extension to his agreement

2011 TNA Bound for Glory

2011-12-13T23:28:00.000-05:00

Real World Final Resolution means Counterfactual BFG. Slammiversary was here. TNA Title: AJ Styles d. Samoa Joe (w/Flair)X Title: Bobby Roode (w/Flair) d. StingTags: AJ Styles/Chris Daniels d. Bubba Ray Dudley/Brian KendrickAustin Aries d. Kurt AngleRVD d. Jerry LynnKen Kennedy (w/Burke) d. Hernandez (w/Storm)Matt Morgan d. Jesse NealCrimson/Shannon Moore d. Matt Morgan/Jesse Neal From the

Survivor Series 2010

2011-11-01T08:01:00.001-04:00

The build is here. Survivor Series 2010 is from Miami. Almost certainly, I am there. (Dark: Chavo d. Tatsu Canadian Bulldogs d. Hennig/Rotunda) The announce is still muddled; I see how it makes sense conceptually, but on its feet, fewer voices (maybe just one voice) are better than lots of voices. I'll kill the color men for PPV by the time we get to Mania. So, Joey/Striker are

2011 TNA Slammiversary

2011-10-16T22:49:00.002-04:00

Real world BFG means Counterfactual Slammiversary; the previous show, Lockdown, is here. TNA Championship: Samoa Joe (w/Flair) d. Frankie KazarianX Title: Sting d. Doug Williams(w/Flair)X Title: Doug Williams (w/Flair) d. Alex ShelleyTNA Tags: Bubba Ray Dudley/Brian Kendrick d. Scott Steiner/AbyssCage Match: Kurt Angle d. Jeff JarrettKen Kennedy (w/Burke) d. James Storm (w/Hernandez)Blood

Road to Survivor Series 2010-Part 3

2011-09-25T09:19:00.004-04:00

The battle royal was here. Survivor Series is coming from Miami (hey, I could go!) in November. This is part 3 of the build; here's the card: WWF Title: Edge v. Jack SwaggerBryan Danielson v. Low KiIC Title: Johnny Nitro (w/Miz and Natty Neidhart) v. MVPTag Titles: Young Money (Killings/Kingston) v. Hooligans (Sheamus/McIntyre w/Finlay) Rey Mysterio v. Nick Nemeth(w/Kelly) Cody Rhodes v. Dos

Road to Survivor Series 2010-Part 2, Battle Royal 11

2011-09-01T06:05:00.003-04:00

Part I is here. The 11th Number One Contenders Battle Royal is on the 900th episode of RAW, the longest running show in the history of something or other. There are a couple of weeks of programming between Summer Slam and the big, big battle royal, all driving hard to the event, selling its importance given that recent WWF history has really been shaped by the last two Battle Royals. It was

Road to Survivor Series 2010 - A History of the Battle Royal

2011-08-19T08:37:00.000-04:00

Summer Slam 2010 is here. There are new readers this week. Welcome. Something you might note is the Royal Rumble doesn't contain the "royal rumble." There is, however, a "royal rumble" - a Number One Contender Battle Royal that WWF does every other year, and has for the past two decades (note, I'd call it the Royal Rumble and I'd call the Royal Rumble "Justice Sunday", but I didn't want to

Summer Slam 2010

2011-08-01T07:31:00.004-04:00

You can get to the build here. (A brief note, I currently have four jobs, which is a lot of jobs. I’m not planning on stopping the counterfactual, but were it to become a little less fleshed out, maybe significantly so, that wouldn’t surprise. )Summer Slam 2010 is from Los Angeles; the announce is a bit of a mess; Joey and Striker are your main team; for the Underground match, they’re

Road to Summer Slam 2010-Part 2

2011-07-01T07:50:00.000-04:00

Part 1 is here. Set up in Part I for Summer Slam: WWF Title: Chris Jericho v. Edge (Special Guest Referee - WWF Commissioner Bret Hart)IC Title: Matt Sydal v. Johnny Nitro (w/Miz/Natty)CM Punk v. Bryan Danielson 5 to go. 3 come out of the tag division. The thrust of the previous season was building the tag division, it was the drive from Manias Silver to 26; establishing the tag ranks that,

2011 TNA Lockdown

2011-06-14T09:38:00.001-04:00

Final Resolution was here. TNA World Title: Frankie Kazarian d. Bobby RoodeX Title: Doug Williams (w/Flair) d. Chris SabinTag Titles: Brian Kendrick/Bubba Ray Dudley d. Young BucksSamoa Joe d. Christopher DanielsJeff Jarrett d. Kurt AngleMatt Hardy (w/Bischoff) d. RVDSting d. Ric FlairFuture Endeavors (Kennedy/Burke) d. TexMex (Storm/Hernandez) I'm unaware of a Slammiversary dark match; if it

What If Steamboat Beat You?

2011-06-10T08:49:00.001-04:00

Spoon Millionaires co-author and longtime Jividen writing partner Kirk Hiner asking Hulk Hogan how the world would have been a different place had he been pinned by Ricky Steamboat in 1985. Hogan's response, "you sure you aren't smoking some funny cigarettes, brother?"

Road to Summer Slam 2010-Part 1

2011-05-20T10:42:00.002-04:00

Wrestlemania 26 is here. The Road to Summer Slam starts at Wrestlemania 26; Johnny Nitro, groomed since the top of the year as "the next Shawn Michaels" and The Miz, whose crawl from comedy wrestler to respectability took over a year as Hunter's tag partner, became the newest members of the Clique (Nitro was actually tabbed on the way to 26, but the four men stood together at Mania). Clique

TNA Final Resolution 2010

2011-05-01T07:40:00.000-04:00

Real World Lockdown means Counterfactual Final Resolution; you can read the previous TNA show, BFG here. TNA World Title: Bobby Roode d. Alex Shelley X Title: Doug Williams d. Chris Sabin Tag Titles: Young Bucks d. Jeff Hardy/RVD Samoa Joe d. AJ Styles Jeff Jarrett d. James Storm (DQ) The Pope Elijah Burke d. Jay Lethal Matt Morgan d. Robby E Abyss/Shannon Moore d. Rhyno/Jesse Neal TNA spent

WRESTLEMANIA XXVI

2011-04-01T08:57:00.001-04:00

You can get to the build by going here. Wrestlemania 26 - Phoenix Joey and Striker on the announce until the double main event, when they are replaced by JR, which will make 14 Wrestlemanias for JR, a record for WWF announcers. (Dark: Shelton Benjamin no contest Santino Marella Bryan Danielson d. Low Ki) There's an angle before the show. Benjamin, a former WWF Champion, and

The Road to Wrestlemania XXVI Part 3

2011-03-11T12:29:00.003-05:00

Part 2 is here. 6 matches down. 4 to go. CM Punk/Christian v. Edge/Matt Hardy No DQ: The Messiah Shawn Michaels/Johnny Nitro (w/Natty Neidhart) v. Bret Hit Man Hart/Montel Porter WWF Title: Chris Jericho v. Steve Regal IC Title: Matt Sydal v. Yoshi Tatsu (w/Michael Cole) Tag Titles: D1 (Jack Swagger/Nick Nemeth w/Kelly) v. Young Money (Ka$h Kingston/ Truth Killings) Hunter Hearst

The Road to Wrestlemania XXVI Part 2

2011-03-03T10:16:00.000-05:00

Part I, setting up the double main event and the opening tag is here. CM Punk/Christian v. Edge/Matt Hardy No DQ: The Messiah Shawn Michaels/Johnny Nitro (w/Natty Neidhart) v. Bret Hit Man Hart/Montel Porter Hunter Hearst Helmsley-McMahon/The Miz v. The Flock: Tyson Kidd/Harry Smith 7 matches left. The 3 title matches, unburdened from the necessity of selling the show based on storyline, are

The Road to Wrestlemania XXVI Part I

2011-02-01T07:17:00.002-05:00

Royal Rumble 2009 is here. We’ll do this in 3 parts. Part one – the double main event and the opening tag. Part two will come at the end of February, and will have the 3 title matches. Part 3 will be mid-March and have the four remaining matches, including the legends match, and you’ll also learn about the dark match. Wrestlemania XXVI will be posted the same day as real world Wrestlemania

Royal Rumble 2010

2011-01-01T00:48:00.000-05:00

The second part of the build, which you should read if you've yet to do so, is here. Bret Hart Appreciation Night - Royal Rumble – 2010 (Atlanta) (Dark – Regal d. Fit – remember, they will meet on the First Friday in February in a loser retires from the ring match on Fight Night – that will get plugged at some point tonight) Joey/Striker on the announce. It’s Bret Hart Appreciation Night – the

Coming...New Year's Day, 2011...

2010-12-29T10:45:00.000-05:00

I don't tweet; until there's some financial need to do so, I just don't need to be that level of plugged in to a worldwide conversation. Eventually, I'll be on board, but I'm holding it off thusfar. Were I to tweet - it would be today and it would be this. Counterfactual Royal Rumble 2010 is coming New Year's Day. It is not to be missed.

Road to Royal Rumble 2010 - Part 2

2010-12-12T09:46:00.002-05:00

Part One is here. Johnny Nitro took a big step at Survivor Series 2009, joining Shawn Michaels – and that pairing, along with the Flock (Tyson Kidd, Harry Smith, Natty Neidhart) takes up a lot of space in the Road to Royal Rumble 2010. Michaels, as mentioned in Part I, appears every time there is a Bret Hart video to cut a promo on the Hit Man, promising to make Bret “bow down” at the Rumble.

Road to Royal Rumble 2010 - Part 1

2010-12-07T23:51:00.002-05:00

Survivor Series 2009 is here (Outside of the narrative – this is the five year anniversary of this blog; I started writing the story 7 years ago; I think I did the first ten years longhand on a legal pad in a week, and then, as you can see by looking through the archives, started posting in December of 2005. It hasn’t brought me fortune or glory, but it’s a fun story to tell, I think about

TNA Bound for Glory - 2010

2010-12-06T13:00:00.000-05:00

Slammiversary was here. Real world Final Resolution means Counterfactual Bound for Glory. It's not until real world Lockdown that we'll have counterfactual Final Resolution. TNA World Title: Alex Shelley d. Kurt Angle X Title: Chris Sabin d. Doug Williams Tag Titles: RVD/Jeff Hardy d. Sabu/Stevie Richards AJ Styles d. Samoa Joe James Storm d. Abyss Bobby Roode d. Frankie Kazarian The Pope

Survivor Series 2009

2010-11-01T07:45:00.002-04:00

You can get to the build here. Survivor Series 2009 – Washington DC Joey/Striker/Josh on the announce. (Dark – LWO d. Flock, Tatsu d. Dustin) The show opens with Howard in the ring (the Fink has been the ring announcer for every PPV in WWF history) about to announce the new owner of GDI Wrestling… When he’s cut off by Josh Matthews – who leaves the announce to the surprise of Joey and

Links for 2010-10-25 [Digg]

2010-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: A History of the San Francisco Giants in the World Series
The San Francisco Giants are going to the World Series.

Links for 2010-10-24 [Digg]

2010-10-25T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: 1st and Ten: The Weekly Tendown October 17-23 2010
The Giants won the pennant.

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2010-10-17T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: The League Championship Series - 2010 (A history of SFG in the NLCS)
Every San Francisco Giant appearance in the NLCS.

TNA Slammiversary 2010

2010-10-11T13:16:00.002-04:00

Lockdown is here. Real World BFG means Counterfactual Slammiversary. The next TNA post will coincide with real world Final Resolution. Slammiversary is the show to which my TNA calendar builds. TNA World Title: Kurt Angle d. Nigel McGuinness X Title: Doug Williams d. Brian Kendrick Tags: RVD/Jeff Hardy d/ Roode/Kazarian James Storm d. Hernandez AJ Styles d. Jay Lethal Sting d. Ken

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2010-09-17T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: The 100 Greatest Players in Professional Football History 80-71
The best players of all time list continues. 80-71
What if Steamboat beat Hogan?: Road to Survivor Series 2009 - Part Two
The longest running piece of wrestling fiction...ever....continues.

Links for 2010-09-15 [Digg]

2010-09-16T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: I Pick Every NFL Game in 2010 - Week 2 (Plus my Bonus Big Brother Pick)
Week 2 NFL Picks - and my Big Brother forecast.

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2010-09-13T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: 1st and Five - The Weekly Tendown Special Halfdown Edition Sept 5-11 2010
Why it matters that Don Draper bet on Sonny Liston.

Links for 2010-09-09 [Digg]

2010-09-10T00:00:00-07:00

The Blog of Revelation - by Jim Jividen: I Pick Every NFL Game - Week One
I pick games