Throwback Thursday: Rikishi's Double-Cross Insurance
Haku or Meng or whatever name you want to call him was not only a badass in character, but in real life he had a rep for busting skulls. No one messed with him in the locker room, which makes me wonder...
View ArticleBill Watts in WCW: Where He Went Wrong
The Steiners felt the wrath of Bill Watts' poor bookingPhoto Credit: WWE.comTo be fair, Bill Watts didn't helm the worst WCW creative staff in existence. The Vince Russo zeppelin fire takes the cake...
View ArticleThe Polling Place: Renee Young, Brock Lesnar, World Cup
Is Young good behind the desk?Photo Credit: WWE.comWelcome to this week's edition of the Polling Place, where I ask the questions, and you pick from the field of answers which I furnish to you. This...
View ArticleThe Rock Is Black, but That Doesn't Excuse WWE's Institutional Racism
The Rock is a black man who got to the pinnacle, and that doesn't make WWE any less racially insensitivePhoto Credit: WWE.comYesterday, The Atlantic dropped an article on WWE's racial problems by Dion...
View ArticleCESARO AND KOBASHI IN A PICTURE TOGETHER NOT A DRILL
Via Antonio Cesaro's InstagramWWE is in Japan right now on tour, and Antonio Cesaro and Paul Heyman happened to run into one of the greatest professional wrestlers in the history of the art across any...
View ArticleSmackdown: Friendship is Magic
This was a big deal, and yet the announcers blew it off like it was nothingPhoto Credit: WWE.comWorst Friends Forever—Michael Cole and JBLI don't know what it was with this episode — maybe it was the...
View ArticleWWE.com Gettin' a Little Too Busy with the Photoshop
Photo/Graphics Credit: WWE.comI've always been impressed with the degree of autonomy that the Dot Com branch of WWE has, but with its latest venture, that autonomy may have gone just a bit too far with...
View ArticleBest Coast Bias: Oh, Kidd, You Devil
The suxeN is undefeated; FACTPhoto Credit: WWE.comDesperation and fear aren't synonyms, but at the very least they're cousins. Â It's a quadrilaterals/squares kind of thing where the subset of one can...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Sting vs. Cactus Jack, I Quit Match
In case you're more intelligent than most of the average wrestling fans out there (especially smarter than me) and you've avoided all the hazardous Twitter accounts who pass along news, NEWZ, and...
View ArticleTake the Sex Out of Sports Entertainment
This feud has always been problematic, but Saturday, it took a turn for the grossPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinIf JT Dunn and David Starr winning the Women's Superstars Uncensored Tag Team...
View ArticleKENTA Officially Signs with WWE
If Hogan presided over it, it's real, brotherPhoto Credit: WWE.comVia WWE.comThe first of the four big rumored signings to WWE has been made official, as Saturday, KENTA officially signed his WWE...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Blog's OFFICIAL Best in the World Rankings, July 14
Besties (in the World) this week, ABSOLUTE ENEMIES next?Photo Credit: WWE.comWelcome to a feature I like to call "Best in the World" rankings. They're not traditional power rankings per se, but they're...
View ArticleInstant Feedback: The Song Remains the Same, the Dread Boring Same
The poster children for WWE Creative's malaisePhoto Credit: WWE.comRic Flair showed up at RAW this evening, which I suppose made sense. The show rolled through Richmond, VA, which is located a state...
View Article17 Time World Champ, WOO!
Photo Credit: WWE.comSo, Ric Flair's appearance on RAW wasn't totally uneventful last night. While he was exiting the arena and John Cena was entering, the two performed a little exchange, namely of...
View ArticleWhat I'm Watching: Liger vs Ohtani
If you read this week's edition of the Tweetbag, you probably noticed that I asked TH a quesiton about who was better, prime Danielson or prime Liger. And admittedly, he had not seen prime Jushin...
View ArticleJessicka Havok Doesn't Shill
David Starr and JT Dunn, collectively known as the Juicy Product, have been attempting to get various women in wrestling to promote their match at Beyond Wrestling's Americanrana II 12 days from now....
View ArticleWomen Do Not Need to Prove Themselves on the Indies
Against women or men, Kimber Lee has proven she belongsPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinKimber Lee's star in wrestling has risen meteorically since she made her debut a couple of years ago, and for good...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Blog Retro Live Tweet Series, Episode 2: WCW Sin
Sure, Jeff Jarrett headlined this PPV. Watch it with me anyway!Photo Credit: WWE.comSeveral months ago, several intrepid Twitter users embarked on a journey to watch the Forgotten WrestleMania,...
View ArticleAR Fox Injured
Fox is gonna be out for a bit, which sucksPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinAccording to the latest WWN Live e-mail, AR Fox has suffered a broken wrist that requires surgery for a full recovery. He will...
View ArticleThe Best Moves Ever: Bionic Elbow
Oh lawdy lawdy, ain't no harder part on da body than da elbow, and Dusty Rhodes know that, daddy. Err, I mean, if you think a simple elbow is too base a move to be celebrated, you don't know shit about...
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