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I feel like this Onion story is probably pretty close to what it must be like to work for WWE. CEO Has Special Knack For Recognizing Great Ideas And Ruining Them BALTIMORE—Employees at local technology firm Halverson Enterprises remarked to reporters Monday that CEO Peter Weathers, 61, has an extraordinary gift for discovering great ideas …
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I’ll always remember how shocked my 12-year-old self was when it turned on wrestling one weekend in 1992 and heard the news that Bret Hart had beaten Ric Flair for the WWF title a few days earlier on a show in Saskatoon. It wasn’t just shocking because there was a new world champion and at …
I can’t stop watching this Terry Funk promo about Jerry Lawler wanting to be a true Floridian. My mind is being pulled equally in 2 different directions: 1. This is hilarious. 2. This man is legitimately insane and would probably kill himself just to injure me in a fight. Then I have another thought. Even …
Since I took the time to predict the thing, I should probably talk about bound for Glory. I’m glad I bought it, but it really didn’t feel like the biggest show of the year. Nothing was awful and some of it was quite good, but if we’re measuring it by the standards of Wrestlemania in …
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It’s been too long since I’ve previewed a wrestling PPV and tonight is TNA’s biggest show of the year, so let’s see if I can make me some good predictions. they can’t be any worse than my baseball playoff pics, I hope. Speaking of which, Cardinals and Red Sox? I’m having trouble caring less about …
I didn’t get to see much of the AWA when I was growing up, so until now I was sadly unaware of the existence of this get to know Nord the Barbarian skit. Unlike most of today’s wrestling comedy written by the rooms full of Hollywood types employed by WWE, this is actually funny. Part …
So here we are, nearly at the end of July. How the hell did that happen? I was talking to somebody the other day about how fast this year is going, and we agreed that while most years fly bye anymore, this one seems to be doing so even quicker than usual. Even though we’ve …
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I grew up watching wrestling, often hearing Gorilla Monsoon describe confrontations as “the irresistible force meets the immovable object.” Sometimes I would hear this and wonder to myself, what would it be like if that were actually true? And now, after all these years, I think I have my answer. Thank you, science. Spoiler: It …
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This has been a bad week for deaths. Not long before Stompin Tom, I learned of the passing of William Moody, better known to pretty much everybody as Paul Bearer, the Undertaker’s manager in the WWF during the 1990’s. He was just 58, but had been having some health troubles in the last few years, …
For the longest time I’ve been hearing about something called Inter Species Wrestling, but until this morning I had never seen it. Now that I have, I must say I approve. Well, I approve of this Fans Bring the Lego, winner eats the loser deathmatch between Moohammad the Terrorist Cow and Flip D. Berger, at …