The Best Laid Plans: Wrestling Gimmicks and Angles Changed at the Last Minute

Brian Damage

Throughout wrestling history we’ve seen a host of fantastic and memorable gimmicks and storylines that will undoubtedly stand the test of time due to their greatness. Others, however, will be remembered for offering a lot but delivering very little. Today we look at a series of gimmicks and storylines that changed at the very last minute.

Sunday Sermon: The Return of Shane o’ Mac

Craig Wilson, Russ Morgan, Brian Damage & Jamie Lithgow

On Monday Night Raw Shane McMahon returned to WWE screens and demanded control of the WWE from Vince. In order to get control he has to defeat The Undertaker in a Hell in a Cell match at WrestleMania 32. In this latest Sunday Sermon the team dissect this surprise and look at what it means not just for WrestleMania but for the WWE more generally.

This Week in Wrestling 2016 week 9

Craig Wilson & Brian Damage

It’s that time again as we look back at This Week in Wrestling. In this edition Craig discusses the pitfalls of 50/50 booking in wrestling and Brian recalls a previous encounter between Shane and Stephanie McMahon…

The Way We Was: 1996 Week 8

Jamie Lithgow

It’s been a busy week in the past. Having covered WWF’s most recent PPV in yesterday’s post – In Your House 6: Rage in a Cage – today Jamie covers events from the subsequent Raw and Nitro. he also found the time to swing by an eventful Brit Awards and went to the cinema to see Rumble in the Bronx. All this and more in week 8 of ‘The Way We Was‘ …

The Way We Was – In Your House 6: Rage in the Cage

Jamie Lithgow

20 years ago wrestling had a busy week. As a result, we have carved our usual Friday post; ‘The Way We Was’ in two. We’ll take our usual look at Raw and Nitro tomorrow, but today we cast our eye over WWE’s latest pay per view offering from 1996 – ‘In Your House 6: Rage in a Cage’.

Missed Wrestling Opportunities: Vader vs. Yokozuna in the WWF

Craig Wilson

We return with another ‘Missed Wrestling Opportunities‘. Previous pieces have looked at various superstars that promotions have dropped the ball with. However, today’s wonders what could have been had the WWE gone with a proper feud between Vader and Yokozuna.

Book or Cook? The Booking of Titus O’Neil

Craig Wilson & Brian Damage

The WWE roster is filled with “superstars” at every level. There are the main roster guys who regularly appear on Raw and SmackDown, those who are used as glorified jobbers and those who are barely used at all. In this series of pieces, we will take an individual wrestler barely used and decide if they are worth keeping or should they be let go. Today we decide if we Book or Cook Titus O’Neil.

Wrestling With Sin: 64 Bit

Brian Damage

This is the 64th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, sometimes seedier world of professional wrestling. Many of these stories involve sex, drugs, greed, arrests and sometimes even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series…we do not condone nor do we condemn the alleged involved. That is not our intention at all…we simply retell many of these stories that have already been shared throughout the years.

WWE Fastlane 2016 Preview & Predictions

Jamie Lithgow, Craig Wilson & Brian Damage

Tonight the WWE hosts Fastlane which will determine who of Roman Reigns, Brock Lesnar and Dean Ambrose will go to face Triple H at WrestleMania. Elsewhere, AJ Styles has his rubber match with Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens defends his IC title against Dolph Ziggler, the Wyatts face Kane, Big Show and Ryback, Brie Bella challenges Charlotte for her divas title and more. Today the team share their thoughts and predictions on the show.