Missed Wrestling Opportunities: Mike Knox

Craig Wilson

Missed Wrestling Opportunities returns today with the focus on Michael Shawn Hettinga, better known from his time with WWE as Mike Knox or at TNA under the moniker Knux.

Great Ideas That Didn’t Last: Pro Wrestling This Week

Brian Damage

Throughout the history of pro wrestling bookers and promoters have always tried to come up with new, creative and innovative ideas to generate interest in their product. Some ideas have not only succeeded…but flourished. Others were DOA from the get go. Then there are those ideas which initially were innovative…but for various reasons….faded away. Those are the focus of this latest series of posts titled ‘Great Ideas That Didn’t Last’.

Sunday Sermon: The State of WWE Raw

Craig Wilson, Brian Damage, Chris Flackett & Jamie Lithgow

After a very good Wrestlemania and an eventful Raw the following night, WWE has now settled into it’s notoriously ‘quiet spell’ before heading towards ‘Money in the Bank’ and ‘Summerslam’. Before this ‘quiet spell’ begins however, WWE embark upon their annual bi-annual European tour, usual headlined by an episode of Raw from over this side of the Atlantic. These shows are usually wildly exciting, in no small part due to the fans in attendance. However, Raw from London on Monday night was met with a lukewarm reaction from most of RTDB team. Let’s see what they have to say about this, and the general state of WWE’s flagship show…

This Week in Wrestling 2015 week 16

Jamie Lithgow & Brian Damage

In ‘This Week in Wrestling’ Jamie shares what wrestling taught him this week and Brian shares with us the best wrestling related images he’s come across this week.

All that and more in this edition of This Week in Wrestling…

Wrestling With Sin: 31 Days

Brian Damage

This is the 31st installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of pieces that looks at the other side of pro wrestling…the darker side. Some of these stories involve sex, drugs, assaults and even murder! As with every piece in the Sin series…I do NOT condone NOR do I condemn the alleged involved.

20 Years Ago: Collision in Korea

Brian Damage

In April of 1995, a former student of the legendary Korean born Rikidozan…Antonio Inoki…had a plan to go over to the Communist nation of North Korea and hold a pro wrestling event in an attempt to garner peace between North Korea, Japan and the United States of America. This isn’t the first time Inoki used wrestling as a means of diplomacy….he also used his wrestling connections to go over to Baghdad, Iraq, Moscow, Russia and Peking, China. Inoki always believed that pro wrestling could unite people of different beliefs and cultures.

The ECW Mole: Did Tod Gordon Try to Sabotage His Own Creation?

Brian Damage

There have been many rumors, stories, urban legends, he said/she said moments….the fact is, everybody has their own version of what transpired in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) back in 1997. A potential massive defection of ECW talents to WCW, all orchestrated by an alleged “mole” within ECW. Who was the mole? Who was approached to defect to WCW? What were the reasons behind the mass walkout? Was it all a work?

‘Ultimate Warrior – Always Believe’ review

Craig Wilson

Following on from The Ultimate Warrior’s tragic passing last year, the WWE have put together ‘Ultimate Warrior – Always Believe’ as a tribute to the late superstar. Today on the blog, Craig reviews that set.

Great Ideas That Didn’t Last: WWF Shotgun Saturday Night

Brian Damage

Throughout the history of pro wrestling bookers and promoters have always tried to come up with new, creative and innovative ideas to generate interest in their product. Some ideas have not only succeeded…but flourished. Others were DOA from the get go. Then there are those ideas which initially were innovative…but for various reasons….faded away. Those are the focus of this latest series of posts titled ‘Great Ideas That Didn’t Last’.