Brian Damage
She was the wife of a legendary wrestler, who made a career for herself in the wrestling business as a manager and on screen authority figure after her husband died. Today on the blog, we ask…’Whatever Happened to’ Vickie Guerrero?
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Brian Damage
Make no mistake about it, pro wrestling does have a dark side to it. There are hundreds upon hundreds of stories about the dark and sometimes sinister side as chronicled in my ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. This piece is a direct opposite of that. With every bad story I have shared…there are also positive stories. Stories of wrestlers making it above and beyond the ring. Positive stories to inspire. Pro wrestlers aren’t all drug addicts, scam artists and carny sideshows. They all don’t die at an early age, or are broke and need to wrestle till they die. They don’t necessarily have to get into acting like The Rock or Batista. They don’t have to necessarily switch over to MMA like Brock Lesnar or CM Punk. Some of these stories are just about hard work, dreaming big and doing whatever it takes to succeed. We’ve already covered some stories as chronicled in part 1, part 2 , part 3 part 4 part 5 , part 6 , part 7 , part 8 , part 9 and part 10. With that said, let’s look at some positives…
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Brian Damage
Sometimes real life interferes with fiction in pro wrestling and we are all left to question the validity of the situation. Did what we see or hear a part of an elaborate storyline or is this actually happening for real? On September 10, 2012 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on a random episode of Monday Night Raw…WWE Hall of Famer Jerry ‘the King’ Lawler died. No, it wasn’t any part of an angle or storyline…it was all too real.
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Brian Damage
It’s time to once again dig in to more useless wrestling facts, stats and trivia. Some of these facts may be common knowledge to some and may be completely new and unheard of to others. In either case, they are all meant to entertain and maybe learn a little something about nothing. So here are pro wrestling facts for all of us to chew on for a bit.
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Brian Damage
This is the 183rd 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
Craig Wilson
Today we kick-off our countdown to this year’s WWE Royal Rumble event by looking through the event’s long history and picking out some of the most famous moments in ‘The Royal Rumble in Numbers’. So strap yourself in and check out some of the most interesting records set at the January spectacle. Continue reading
Brian Damage, Craig Wilson and Jamie Lithgow
Following on from last week’s Top Five looking at superstars who have benefited from the brand split, this week we flip it around and look at the WWE athletes who haven’t had a change of fortunes since Raw and Smackdown Live became separate brands. Continue reading
Craig Wilson & Brian Damage
It’s that time again as we look back at This Week in Wrestling. In this edition Craig talks about the blurring of lines in the WWE and how the company need a filter for PPVS while Brian asks ‘Whatever Happened to‘ WCW’s Midnight and shares some of the more interesting pictures he’s stumbled upon this week and more.
Craig Wilson & Brian Damage
The WWE roster is filled with “superstars” at every level. There are the main roster guys who regularly appear on Raw and SmackDown, those who are used as glorified jobbers and those who are barely used at all. In this series of pieces, we will take an individual wrestler barely or poorly used and decide if they are worth keeping or should they be let go. Today we decide if we Book or Cook Dolph Ziggler. Continue reading
Ring the Damn Bell 