The McMahon Effect: What is it and Why it is Here to Stay

Brian Damage

It use to be that when a promoter designates a certain wrestler to be “the man” for his/her wrestling promotion…the fans would follow along. Whether it was somebody like Lou Thesz, Dusty Rhodes, Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler, The Von Erich boys, Bruno Sammartino etc…if they were the hand picked “chosen one”…fans would get in line and cheer for them. This was the case for so many years in professional wrestling.

Well That Didn’t Work: Ludvig Borga

Craig Wilson

Back in 1993, the WWF thought that an appropriate gimmick for a foreign heel would be to raise environmental concerns about America. Yup, you read that right. In today’s ‘Well That Didn’t Work’ we look back at that WWF run of Ludvig Borga.

Heads Up: The Rise of Al Snow in ECW

Brian Damage

In 1995, Al Snow was one of the hottest free agents in all of professional wrestling. WCW was just starting to try and legitimately compete with the World Wrestling Federation. Each promotion was signing top wrestling talent from all over the country. One of those wrestlers was Al Snow, who had made a name for himself in various territories including Jim Cornette’s Smoky Mountain Wrestling. Snow had great charisma and could flat out wrestle.

Raw Rewind: 25 October 1993

Craig Wilson

Welcome to the latest edition of ‘Raw Rewind‘ from 1993. Today we take in the episode from 25 October 1993, featuring Crush, Ludvig Borga, Men on a Mission, the 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty all in action.

Wrestling With Sin: 201

Brian Damage

This is the 201st installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve 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.

Sunday Sermon: Predicting Wrestlemania XXXV

Jamie Lithgow, Craig Wilson, Padraic Toolan and Brian Damage

With Survivor Series in the can and tickets now on sale for WWE’s showpiece event on April 7th 2019, it is perhaps safe to assume that the WWE creative team will now have more than half an eye on WrestleMania 35. Therefore, in today’s Sunday Sermon, the team also consider this show in an annual tradition on the blog; predicting the WrestleMania card months in advance.

This Week in Wrestling 2018 Week 48

Craig Wilson and Brian Damage

It’s Saturday so time for the latest installment of ’This Week in Wrestling’, the 48th of 2018. Today, Craig looks at Daniel Bryan’s heel turn while Brian looks at the Alexa Bliss and shares all the best wrestling content of the week.

Whatever Happened to Brad Maddox?

He was once considered a top prospect for WWE. He never lived up to the promise and despite several gimmick changes, was released from the company. Today on the blog we ask the question, ‘Whatever happened to‘ Brad Maddox?

Top Five Wrestlers Who Did Not Get Over, But Should Have

Brian Damage, Jamie Lithgow & Padraic Toolan

Today we flip the script from last week and instead of looking at wrestling’s surprising success stories, we consider it’s unexpected failures. Yes, today’s Top Five looks at those wrestlers who seemed to have it all but for some reason they just did not get over.