May
24
The end
May 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
Tonight marked the end of an era. It was the end of an iconic run. We’ve seen this guy do some crazy things. He was ferocious. Tenacious. Sometimes he did some things that were clearly beyond the pale. But he entertained us for nearly a decade. The way thing ended suggested that he might come [...]
May
4
Well that was fast
May 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
So TNA is headed back to Thursdays, the recent incarnation of the “Monday night wars” lasting a grand total of barely two months. Chin up and all that, TNA. I’m sure once you clear out all the dead wood: Russo, Bischoff, Hogan, about 60 percent of the roster, etc., things will be looking up again [...]
Apr
20
Where have I heard that before?
April 20, 2010 | 9 Comments
I am just getting to this absolutely hysterical and eerily dead on review of Wrestlemania XXVI by Bill Simmons. I had to chuckle at this: OK, here’s the one thing that killed Cena’s chances of ever getting 100 percent approval from fans: He wears jorts. Can you name one person in your life who wears [...]
Mar
29
Wrestlemania review
March 29, 2010 | 2 Comments
I’m just going to do a quick rundown of my reactions to the big event: – MizShow defeated John Morrison and R-Truth. Sorry, I blinked and missed this one. Way too short, but good action for the amount of time given it. – Randy Orton defeated Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase. Way better match than [...]
Mar
26
Wrestlemania rundown (5-1)
March 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Finally, we have to the cream of the crop – the best Wrestlemanias of all time. Each of these shows are nearly perfect. From the looks of things, this weekend’s show could very well join this elite group. We shall soon see. 5. Wrestlemania XXII: I was pleasantly surprised by just how good this one [...]
Mar
25
Wrestlemania rundown (10-6)
March 25, 2010 | Comments Off
10. Wrestlemania VIII: This show was cruising towards a place as the greatest or at least one of the greatest Wrestlemanias of all-time about halfway through. Sadly the second half of Wrestlemania VIII brings it down a bit, though the first half of the show puts it in the top ten. This should have been [...]
Mar
24
Wrestlemania rundown (11-15)
March 24, 2010 | Comments Off
15. Wrestlemania 2000: As was the case with Wrestlemania XXV, part of the problem with this one is just that it was disappointing. Heading into this one WWF was on a role, completely demolishing WCW in the ratings battle and also putting on some great pay-per views in January and February. Going in it looked [...]
Mar
23
Wrestlemania rundown (20-16)
March 23, 2010 | Comments Off
20. Wrestlemania XV: This was the first Wrestlemania after the WWF had regained the lead in the Monday Night wars with WCW, and was the culmination of a year-long program between Steve Austin and Vince McMahon. So there was a lot of anticipation for this one, and the main event featuring Austin and The Rock [...]
Mar
22
Wrestlemania rundown (25-21)
March 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
While political events may be sure to get you down, there is something happy to look forward to: the granddaddy of them all, the showcase of the immortals, Wrestlemania. Over the next five days I will be looking at each Wrestlemania. That’s 25 Wrestlemanias: five per day, for five days. (That works out pretty well, [...]
Mar
17
The Monday Night “War”
March 17, 2010 | Comments Off
It’s way too early to make final evaluations, but 3.7 to .8? Zero point eight? TNA’s biggest problem is, well, that it sucks. Impact is not even the second best wrestling show on Monday night television right now, as I’d much rather watch Ring of Honor than the crap that TNA is putting out there. [...]
Mar
15
And that’s the bottom line
March 15, 2010 | 8 Comments
In honor of the return tonight of the greatest wrestler to have ever walked the planet, here is a list (found by way of my friend TSL) of Stone Cold Steve Austin’s five greatest RAW moments. And here is the promo that started the entire Austin 3:16 phenomenon.
Feb
23
Not all wrestling fans are this stupid
February 23, 2010 | 4 Comments
No, really, we’re not. But this kind of stuff does make the majority of us groan. – The Midwest Ambulance service has been receiving so many phone calls regarding the status of Bret Hart (they were the ambulance company used on Raw last week), that they posted the following message on their website… “ATTENTION: Please [...]
Jan
5
Is it 1997?
January 5, 2010 | 6 Comments
So you have Hulk Hogan joining a wrestling organization with Eric Bischoff doing the booking, and he’s later joined by the likes of Scott Hall and Sean Waltman, while Sting hangs out in the rafters and Ric Flair shows up and does nothing particularly interesting. So when does Goldberg show up so they can replay [...]
Sep
23
A new low
September 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
As someone who has been a fan of the WWE for almost 25 years, it’s hard to imagine that they could do anything at this point to make me turn off their product. After all, I’ve stuck through them through the cartoon years of the early 90′s, the botched Invasion angle, the never-ending efforts of [...]
Jun
9
Acting tough when nobody can do anything to you
June 9, 2009 | Comments Off
The other night I discovered Ring of Honor. It’s a smallish wrestling promotion that I’ve heard a lot of “smarks” get all excited about, which was actually one of the main reasons I didn’t have much interest in the product to begin with. But I flipped past it on HDNet the other night, and was [...]
Apr
5
Wrestlemania XXV live-blog
April 5, 2009 | 1 Comment
For those interested, I’ll be updating all the matchups. I won’t exactly be doing live play-by-play,. but I’ll hit the high spots. Money in the Bank Ladder Match- Usual spotfest. Seemed to be a few blown spots, but nothing to keep this from being a pretty fun match. Ending came with Christian, Kane and CM [...]
Mar
24
The greatest match ever
March 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
With Wrestlemania around the corner, it’s nostalgia time as various websites review all the past Wrestlemanias. The basic consensus is that not only was Wrestleman X-Seven the greatest of them all, it was perhaps the greatest pay-per-view of all time, and I am inclined to agree. I watched this live, and it was the most [...]
Mar
20
What more needs to be said
March 20, 2009 | 5 Comments
From the 411 Wrestling summary of last night’s TNA Impact: Nash gets in between them and takes the mic from Sting, saying that he agrees that he owes Kurt nothing. He follows that up by saying that Sting does owe the Mafia something. He says that they’ve been with Sting the whole time and they [...]
Jan
25
Royal Rumble 2009
January 25, 2009 | 5 Comments
I just ordered my first WWE pay-per-view in exactly four years, the last one being Royal Rumble 2005. The Rumble is usually pretty entertaining, and this was one pretty good. There were quite a few dead spots in the Rumble match itself, but Randy Orton emerged victorious thanks to help from his underlings in Legacy. [...]