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
Many times in the past on this blog we have talked ad nauseam about how Vince McMahon and the World Wrestling Federation expanded nationally killing territorial wrestling in its path. The territories that were fortunate enough to survive, would usually join forces in some capacity to stave off being swallowed up by the WWF. In doing so, these territories would put on ‘Super Cards’ to garner business.
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Brian Damage
This is the 439th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involves 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.
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Brian Damage
It’s Saturday and today we have ’This Week in Wrestling’, the 21st entry of 2023. Today Brian looks at the ever growing landscape of pro wrestling and if so much is too much and shares all the best wrestling content from this week.
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Brian Damage
A star for both WCW and WWE…Today on the blog, we ask…’Whatever Happened to’ Billy Kidman?
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Brian Damage
There is an old saying, “Strike while the iron is hot.” That saying certainly applies to a select few wrestlers that gained a following in WWE despite a lack of a push or real investment into their characters. Instead of the company just going with the wave of popularity these individuals were seeing, they were stagnated in the mid card or given poorly executed angles that killed their once strong momentum. Today’s ‘Top Five’ looks at a few mid card wrestlers who were never able to fully capitalize on that initial popularity.
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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
Professional wrestling has been filled with second, third and even fourth generation wrestlers. Some have made it bigger than their family members, while others have flopped badly. We have already covered seven installments of this in past with Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5 , Volume 6, Volume 7 and Volume 8 Some made it, while others faltered. These up and coming generational wrestlers are for the most part lesser known than say the more established ones like The Rock, Bray Wyatt and Joe Hennig. Who will rise and who will fall in the latest list of pro wrestlers with a legacy to uphold?
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Brian Damage
This is the 438th 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.
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