Years ago there were three major wrestling organizations out there (professional wrestling that is). The WWE, the WCW and the ECW. These days two out of those three no longer exist as Vince McMahon’s WWE has taken the top spot in the wrestling world. For years we had this concept of the “Monday Night Wars” where both WWE and WCW had programming running live against one another on Monday night.
Monday Night Raw, the longest episodic show in history, is the WWE version and has been rolling right along for years. When the WCW folded it marked the end of… Continue reading
He is “The Excellence Of Execution”. He is “The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be”. He is none other than Bret “The Hitman” Hart. I have read quite a few wrestling books in my day and I have to say that this one is definitely at the top of the list.
First off, if you’re not a wrestling fan you’re probably not going to get the brilliance of this book. It’s over 500 pages long and the detail that Bret goes into is just short of photographic memory type recall. He does… Continue reading
Pip and I get together every year (just about) and celebrate our geekdom by watching the “Grandaddy of them all” – WrestleMania. For those of you that don’t know, this is the WWE’s flagship show and marks the end of the wrestling “season” if there was such a thing. It’s the culmination of story lines that have been going on for quite a while and it’s always the event that is seen by most households. A few years ago we started a new tradition… The Beeramid. In order to create said structure we create a yearly drinking game to… Continue reading
Rourke ready to rumble in Houston – Yahoo! News
Rourke ready to rumble in Houston – Yahoo! News.
Lord… How I wish this wasn’t real. The Wrestler is an incredible movie. It’s great for a variety of reasons but the main reason is that it shows the “real” side of professional wrestling. It shows how difficult this business can be on the wrestlers. It shows how much the performers give up for their profession.
If this is Rourke’s way of drumming up press for his new movie then so be it. For Vince McMahon I can almost guarantee that it’s nothing more than a money grab. I’d hoped… Continue reading →