Craig Wilson
In this latest series of posts, titled ‘Remember When?‘, we take a look at famous, infamous or obscure moments in wrestling history. Today we take a look at the joint show between the WWF and Super World of Sports on 30 March 1991 and the match between Earthquake and Kōji Kitao. Continue reading
Craig Wilson, Jamie Lithgow and 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 Samoa Joe. Continue reading
Brian Damage
This is the 81st 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
Craig Wilson, Jamie Lithgow, John Carbery and Brian Damage
To the surprise of many predicting last week’s SummerSlam on this blog, the New Day held their titles extending their reign as tag champions. In homage, in today’s Sunday Sermon, we take a look at tag team wrestling through the years and discuss our favourite tandems. Continue reading
Craig Wilson & Brian Damage
It’s that time again as we look back at This Week in Wrestling. In this edition Craig talks about the blurring of lines in the WWE and how the company need a filter for PPVS while Brian asks ‘Whatever Happened to‘ WCW’s Midnight and shares some of the more interesting pictures he’s stumbled upon this week and more.
Jamie Lithgow
On this week 20 years ago Sony decided to push back the release of their newfangled Digital Video Disc (DVD) player until next spring. Those pesky Hollywood studios are scared that putting their movies onto DVDs will see an increase in piracy. They’ll be looking forward to broadband internet then. Anyway, just as with modern day WWE, Summerslam was this week. Let’s see what happened at ‘The Hottest Event of The Summer’ in this week’s ‘The Way We Was‘ …
Jamie Lithgow, Brian Damage and Craig Wilson
Even the most ardent of wrestling fan will admit there’s been plenty of angles that have left a sour taste in the mouth. From exploiting of tragedies to odd sexual angles, the history of the business is littered with tasteless angles. It is those moments that are the focus of this latest Top Five piece. Continue reading
Craig Wilson
During the 1999s, Jeff Jarrett was a mainstay on wrestling tv. In this latest ‘Well That Didn’t Work‘, which makes a return today, takes a look at Jarrett and one of the strangest promos cut during the Monday Night Wars, when he cut a worked shoot promo on both WCW and WWF… Continue reading
Craig Wilson, Brian Damage 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 R-Truth. Continue reading
Ring the Damn Bell 