Brian Damage
After the infamous ‘Montreal Screwjob’, Owen Hart took a brief hiatus from the WWE before returning at the final ‘In Your House’ PPV of 1997. When he returned, he became known as the ‘Lone Hart’ or ‘The Black Hart’ as he flew solo without his Hart Foundation comrades. Today we take a look at that run as the ‘The Black Hart’. Continue reading
Brian Damage
One of the many things we like on this blog is discussing ‘what ifs’ and looking at, often crazy, ideas that never saw the light of day. Today is one of those days as we look at a series of proposed WWE gimmicks that mercifully never made it to our screens. Continue reading
Brian Damage
For many years there have been discussions over a wrestlers union, with Jesse Ventura being a long-time advocate for it. In today’s piece we take a look at these calls for wrestling to become unionized and the difference that it would make to the in-ring performers. Continue reading
Brian Damage
Throughout the history of pro wrestling bookers and promoters have always tried to come up with new, creative and innovative ideas to generate interest in their product. Some ideas have not only succeed but flourished. Others were DOA from the get go. Then there are those ideas which initially were innovative but for various reasons faded away. This latest ‘Great Ideas That Didn’t Last’ looks at one of those. Namely the WWE return of Matt Hardy. Continue reading
Brian Damage
By 1994 the Hulk Hogan character was beginning to wane. To attempt to recapture the golden era, the WCW created ‘The Dungeon of Doom’ as a heel stable as a foil for the Hulkster. Today’s piece takes a look at that stable. Continue reading
Brian Damage
Wrestling history is full of stories of guys that were saddled with frankly unworkable gimmicks. One such superstar was Mike Halac who wrestled briefly in the WWE as Mantaur and today we ask Whatever Happened to Mike Halac?
Craig Wilson
1997 was a very interesting year in the history of the WWF. A very clear transition from the cartoon era into the Attitude Era with mixed results along the way. Today we look at a storyline that dominated much of 1997, the battle between Farooq, Crush and Savio Vega and their respective factions – and latterly The Truth Commission – during the Gang Warz. Continue reading
Craig Wilson, Jamie Lithgow & Brian Damage
Last Sunday at SummerSlam the two main events – Seth Rollins vs John Cena and Brock Lesnar vs the Undertaker – both featured screwy finishes. While there is arguably a plan for the occasional use of such a finish, the previous month’s event also featured a non finish finale. While this Sermon won’t necessarily be a call for only clean finishes, it will look at the over reliance on non clean finishes.
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Brian Damage
When you talk about the greatest tag teams of all time…you’d be hard pressed not to mention the Road Warriors in that discussion. Hawk and Animal dominated the tag team ranks consistently wherever they traveled to. They won several regional titles, a Crockett Cup as well as the only team to win the AWA, WCW and WWF tag team belts in pro wrestling history.
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Ring the Damn Bell 