Padraic Toolan and Brian Damage
This week’s top five is looking at the top five greatest feuds and or rivalries in pro wrestling history. What feuds grabbed your attention and made you glued to your seat whether at a venue or watching at home? Continue reading
Brian Damage
Grappling with Tragedy is a series of articles that deal with unfortunate, tragic incidents that have occurred throughout the history of professional wrestling. It is unlike the ‘Wrestling with Sin’ series that deals more with the seedier side of wrestling like arrests, murders and suicides. Grappling looks more at particular tragic incidents that have in some instances altered pro wrestling in some way.
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Brian Damage
The word “NEW” usually is meant to be a good thing. A new car, a new home a new girlfriend/boyfriend etc…it is something that is most likely improved from the older version. In some cases, however, new isn’t always improved. New is just something different than the older version with no real improvements to it. This was the case with The new Dream Team of the World Wrestling Federation. It was certainly new and different….just not better than the original. Continue reading
Brian Damage
This is the 278th 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 17th of 2020. Today Brian discusses four wrestling personalities that sadly passed away this week and shares all the best wrestling content from this week. Continue reading
Brian Damage
He was once a heavily recruited defensive lineman in football. After an injury cut short his football career, he sought out professional wrestling. After working his way up through the independents, he finally made it to the WWE. Today on the blog, we ask ‘Whatever Happened to’ Gene Snitsky? Continue reading
Brian Damage
This week’s Top Five takes a look at some of the best underrated heels in pro wrestling. Heels that aren’t as obvious as others that were previously listed here. Continue reading
Brian Damage
Today on the blog, we introduce a new series that focuses on some of the tragic incidents that occurred throughout the history of professional wrestling. Unlike the Wrestling with Sin series which deals more with incidents involving drugs, arrests and suicides…’Grappling with Tragedy’ will focus more with unfortunate things like accidents that happened through the years. Incidents that in many ways, tragically altered the wrestling business. Continue reading
Brian Damage
In September of 1991, Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation reeled in one of their biggest “gets” when they signed the then reigning WCW world heavyweight champion ‘The Nature Boy’ Ric Flair. Signing Flair was a huge move for the WWF not only because of who Flair is and was, but because he held the rival company’s top championship title. From the day he debuted in 1991 and all through 1992…Ric Flair had magical run that saw him win the WWF world title on two occasions and be one of the company’s top heels. By the end of January in 1993, Flair was no longer considered ‘the man’ and his WWF honeymoon was over. Continue reading
Ring the Damn Bell 