Brian Damage
This is the 370th 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 4th entry of 2022. Today Brian looks at the 2022 Royal Rumble and how unpredictable this year’s event seemingly will be. Is that a good thing or bad? It might not be all that great and shares all the best wrestling content from this week.
Continue reading
The latest subject of ‘Whatever Happened to’ might get you scratching your heads a bit. She didn’t last all that very long in WWE as a backstage interviewer. Less than three months to be exact. Her story is a bit of an interesting one. Today on the blog, we ask…’Whatever Happened to’ Anastacia Rose?
Continue reading
Brian Damage
TJ Wilson aka Tyson Kidd was a WWE superstar that was trained by the legendary Hart Family. A pro wrestler for the majority of his life, Kidd was just blossoming as a star in WWE, when an accident in the ring ended his career and almost ended his life.
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.
Continue reading
Brian Damage
On June 17th, 2013 on an edition of Monday Night Raw…’The World’s Strongest Man’ Mark Henry entered the ring to give what was believed to be his retirement speech and walk away from his active WWE career. What we heard was raw (no pun intended) real emotion as Henry said his goodbyes to the WWE fans. What we saw was both Mark Henry and then WWE champion John Cena teary eyed as Henry spoke his words. What happened, was something not many expected to actually go down.
Continue reading
Brian Damage
This is the 369th 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 3rd entry of 2022. Today Brian looks at the current free agent Cody Rhodes and what’s different from the last time he became a free agent and shares all the best wrestling content from this week.
Continue reading
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.
Continue reading
Ring the Damn Bell 