Brian Damage
This is the 309th 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 48th of 2020. Today Brian discusses the potential demolition of a once famous wrestling arena and shares all the best wrestling content from this week.
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Brian Damage
The WWF/WWE has had some type of developmental system for years now. Whether it was the USWA, Ohio Valley, Power Pro, Heartland, Deep South, Florida Championship Wrestling or NXT…many of the company’s top superstars got their start in at least one of them. While some developmental names like John Cena, Kurt Angle, Randy Orton, The Miz, Brock Lesnar and Charlotte Flair all made big stars of themselves by first training in developmental, others never got to see the light of day. This series will focus on those wrestlers…the ones that at some point were a lock to get called up to the main roster and never quite made it. What once was hot, suddenly became a “not” as a WWE superstar.
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Brian Damage and Eric Adamz
Happy Thanksgiving to all our American readers! For everybody else, Happy Thursday! As is the tradition here on the blog, we have our Top Five Wrestling Turkeys for the year. Basically, the very worst in pro wrestling this past year. And what a year 2020 has been. What bombed, flopped or simply stunk in professional wrestling?
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Eric Adamz
At Johnny’s, it’s common for us to get guests who come in from all over the world. From New Jack to Antonio Inoki, I have got to shake hands with some amazing people there. Tiger Hitori the famous New Japan Referee and good will ambassador to the American talent used to be a normal stop by between tours. One Saturday, Tiger stopped by the same day as a school show. Johnny let me know I would be wrestling that day. I was sporadically on shows at this time because I couldn’t sell tickets. You try being a 16 year old kid explaining to your friends you are wrestling on a show, to get them to spend $15 is just not gonna happen. Tiger saw the excitement on my face as I helped set up the lighting and put new color duct tape over the ropes.
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Brian Damage
In the Summer of 1988, the WWF acquired the services of the Warlord and the Barbarian better known as The Powers of Pain. At the time, it was a huge coup for Vince McMahon who always had his sights set of bringing in the Road Warriors. While the Powers of Pain were not in the same class as Hawk and Animal…they had a very similar look with the mohawks, physiques and face paint. If Vince couldn’t get the Road Warriors…this was surely the next best thing.
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Brian Damage
This is the 308th 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 47th of 2020. Today Brian discusses the possible fallout from WWE’s firing of Zelina Vega and shares all the best wrestling content from this week.
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The WWF/WWE has had some type of developmental system for years now. Whether it was the USWA, Ohio Valley, Power Pro, Heartland, Deep South, Florida Championship Wrestling or NXT…many of the company’s top superstars got their start in at least one of them. While some developmental names like John Cena, Kurt Angle, Randy Orton, The Miz, Brock Lesnar and Charlotte Flair all made big stars of themselves by first training in developmental, others never got to see the light of day. This series will focus on those wrestlers…the ones that at some point were a lock to get called up to the main roster and never quite made it. What once was hot, suddenly became a “not” as a WWE superstar.
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Ring the Damn Bell 