Sunday Sermon: Screwy Finishes

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Craig Wilson, Jamie Lithgow & Brian Damage

Last Sunday at SummerSlam the two main events – Seth Rollins vs John Cena and Brock Lesnar vs the Undertaker – both featured screwy finishes. While there is arguably a plan for the occasional use of such a finish, the previous month’s event also featured a non finish finale. While this Sermon won’t necessarily be a call for only clean finishes, it will look at the over reliance on non clean finishes.
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Whatever Happened to “Fake” Razor Ramon?

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Brian Damage

Fresh from Scott Hall and Kevin Nash leaving the WWE for WCW and gaining massive success as The Outsiders and the nWo, the WWE tried to counter this by having two new superstars perform as Razor Ramon and Deisel, the gimmicks Hall and Nash left behind. The man that played the second Diesel would gain success later as Kane but whatever happened to Rick Bognar, the man that portrayed Razor Ramon? Continue reading

Wrestling With Sin: 47th Assembly District

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Brian Damage

This is the 47th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker…seedier…side of professional wrestling. Many of these stories involve sex, backstage politics, assaults and sometimes even murder! As with every single story we cover in the Sin series…we never look to criticize or applaud any of the alleged incidents or the participants. We are simply retelling these stories.

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Great Ideas That Didn’t Last: WWE Confidential

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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’.

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WWE SummerSlam 2015 Predictions

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Craig Wilson, Jamie Lithgow & Brian Damage

Tonight is the hottest WWE ticket of the summer as SummerSlam hits our screens. A packed card was required to fill the four hours and the WWE look to have delivered with Seth Rollins taking on John Cena, Brock Lesnar battling the Undertaker and much much more. Today, the team share their thoughts and predictions on SummerSlam 2015 Continue reading