The Way We Was: 1996 Week 30

Jamie Lithgow

Happy Friday everybody! To celebrate the end of the working week we are once again delving into the past to relive events from 20 years ago. Outside of wrestling the big news has been the start of the Atlanta Olympics. So far there has been lots of swimming and weightlifting, but the biggest news comes from the bombing at the Centennial Olympic Park. Two people died and over one hundred were injured, but it could have been much worse if not for an eagle-eyed handyman who spotted the device before it detonated. Nasty stuff, but let’s lighten the mood and see what was ‘da bomb’ in the wrestling world with this week’s bumper edition of ‘The Way We Was‘ …

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Book or Cook? The Booking of Triple H

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Craig Wilson, Russ Morgan, Brian Damage, John Carbery and Jamie Lithgow

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 Triple H as an active in-ring wrestler.
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Wrestling With Sin: 78 Degrees

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Brian Damage

This is the 78th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involves such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series…I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching interviews, newspapers, magazines and various other sources of media. Continue reading

WWE Battleground 2016 Predictions

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Craig Wilson, Brian Damage and Jamie Lithgow

Tonight the WWE hosts Battleground 2016, the final event before the 2016 draft era, if you will. On the show we get The Shield triple-threat main event for the WWE title, John Cena teaming with Enzo and Big Cass against The Club, the IC and US champions in action, New Day locking up with the Wyatts and more. Today we preview and share our predictions for the show. Continue reading