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Worst in the World: An AEW Fyter Fest 2019 Double Feature

In 2019, All Elite Wrestling held its first official event Double or Nothing. It was a huge success, drawing rave reviews from wrestling critics and fans, selling out tickets in minutes, drawing a reported pay-per-view buy rate of over 100,000, and establishing itself as a serious alternative to the WWE. And of course, this show also created significant buzz for their next big pay-per-view; All Out...except there were a few stops between then, with one of them being the inaugural Fyter Fest. Looking back, Fyter Fest, and by extension, the following pay-per-view Fight for the Fallen feels like an anomaly considering AEW doesn't do monthly pay-per-views. Fyter Fest 2020 was apparently going to be a pay-per-view before the pandemic hit, but even before that, AEW wasn't running a monthly pay-per-view schedule. But alas, Fyter Fest was held one month after Double or Nothing, and it was...fine. It's by no means a bad show, with the final three matches (Cody vs Darby Allin, The El

Worst in the World: Konnan vs Stevie Ray-Slamboree 1999

So I made, for lack of a better term, a goof...Last year, I got a comment from an anonymous user requesting I cover Konnan vs Stevie Ray from Slamboree 1999, a rematch from their match at World War 3 1998 that I'd already covered ....and then I forgot about it. Maybe it was because they accidentally said the match was at Uncensored 1999 and when I looked to find it on the card it wasn't there (and then I didn't look further than that), but whatever it was, it completely slipped my mind. If you're the person who recommended this match, I apologize for accidentally ignoring it, here is my consolation. Konnan and Stevie Ray had a bland, boring match at World War 3, but WCW decided that once wasn't enough for these two, so they got another pay-per-view match at Slamboree. This time, however, it wouldn't be part of the nWo in-fighting angle, as nWo Hollywood and nWo Wolfpac had joined back together following the Fingerpoke of Doom earlier that year. Konnan, however,