Brian Damage
The year was 1999 and “hardcore” wrestling was at its peak in popularity. With promotions like ECW pushing the envelope of extreme wrestling, the rule book went out the window and various weapons were welcomed. Several other promotions copied ECW’s model for success. It started with the WWF creating the hardcore championship in 1998. It’s popularity helped WCW to mimmic everyone else and start their own hardcore division. Continue reading
Brian Damage
This is the 260th 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. Continue reading
Brian Damage
It’s Saturday and today we have ’This Week in Wrestling’, the 52nd of 2019. Today Brian discusses the the up and down year that was 2019 and shares all the best wrestling content from this week. Continue reading
Brian Damage
He was a former actor turned professional wrestler. He signed with WCW and became the company’s Cruiserweight champion. Today on the blog, we ask…’Whatever Happened to’ Evan Karagias? Continue reading
Lowlife Louie Ramos, Padraic Toolan, Tom Casola and Brian Damage
With Christmas coming to an end, it’s that usual time when people return gifts that they don’t want and or simply re gift an item and give it to someone else. It sorta happens in professional wrestling as well. Take an established wrestler under a familiar gimmick and try to give that said wrestler a completely new identity. In some cases, it does work…but in others it totally flops. Today, we take a look at the Top Five Worst Repackaged Wrestlers. Continue reading
Brian Damage
Who doesn’t love a really good ‘bad gimmick?’ It’s sorta like passing by a car crash and admiring it from a far. I am not sure this gimmick was so bad that it was good, but looking back on Xanta Klaus (The evil wrestling version of Santa Claus) it certainly was bad. Today on the blog, we examine how the gimmick came to be and why it didn’t last all that long. Continue reading
Brian Damage
This is the 259th 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. Continue reading
Brian Damage
It’s Saturday and today we have ’This Week in Wrestling’, the 51st of 2019. Today Brian discusses the “makeover” of Liv Morgan and why it looks awfully familiar and shares all the best wrestling content from this week. Continue reading
Brian Damage
He portrayed both a mythological type of god character and a vampire during his WWE career. Today on the blog, we ask ‘Whatever Happened to’ Kevin Thorn? Continue reading
Ring the Damn Bell 