The Legion of Gloom: The WWF’s Tinkering of Monsters to Mannequins

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When you talk about the greatest tag teams of all time…you’d be hard pressed not to mention the Road Warriors in that discussion. Hawk and Animal dominated the tag team ranks consistently wherever they traveled to. They won several regional titles, a Crockett Cup as well as the only team to win the AWA, WCW and WWF tag team belts in pro wrestling history.
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Great Ideas That Didn’t Last: Marlena/Brian Pillman/Goldust Storyline

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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’. Continue reading

Wrestling with Sin: 40 Ounce

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This is the 40th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. All 40 of these articles involve the darker, sometimes seedier side of professional wrestling. Many of these stories involve lust, greed, assault, arrests and sometimes even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series…I do not condone nor do I condemn the actions of the alleged participants. Simply retelling stories from wrestling’s past and present…
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