Across the internet, fans are gearing up for the “New Monday Night Wars”—January 4th, when Total Nonstop Action brings Impact to Monday night for a week, with a special 3-hour episode featuring the debut of Hulk Hogan. On the same night, WWE plans to bring Bret Hart back to TV, 12 years after the “Montreal [...]
I wrote this originally as a reply on the Figure Four / Wrestling Observer message boards, in a thread that discussed the recent on-camera humiliations of Vickie Guerrero and WWE’s history of humiliating people on air. Some people think that it’s acceptable for WWE to do this as Vince McMahon has been humiliated on air [...]
Wrestlemaniac (or El Mascarado Massacre), starring Rey Mysterio [and with packaging designed to make you think it was Rey Mysterio Jr, of course...] was in the bargain bin at Walmart a few weeks ago, so for five bucks I couldn’t resist grabbing it.
It opens with a naked woman running out of a building, screaming. [...]
This week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter breaks the following news:
Dragon Gate promotions announced on 4/15 in Japan that they are setting up a U.S. office and will be running six or more shows per year, using former ROH booker Gabe Sapolsky as the booker.
the news continues with:
There will be some similar talent brought in on the [...]
I won’t be watching WrestleMania this year: I’ll be on a mini-vacation that weekend, the place I’m staying at doesn’t have cable TV, and I just can’t be damned, based on how awful the build has been and how uninteresting many of the matches are.
So, these aren’t my predictions. This aren’t what I think WWE [...]
Just heard JR call Golddust “bizarre and controversial” as he entered the Royal Rumble. What year is it? 2009? Golddust’s heyday was in 1996. I was a big fan of the original Golddust character, because it was unlike anything else in WWE at the time. It’s still—or rather, it’s again—that way, but everyone has seen [...]
From what I’ve seen, I’m not a fan of the hit-and-run story that’s unfolding with Jeff Hardy, which is probably related to “Jeff found collapsed in a hotel stairwell” story from late 2008. Here’s why:
Wrestling angles that involve real crimes always break the bounds of realism, as wrestlers rarely get arrested, and if they do [...]
