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Greatest New Wrestling Gimmick

For those of you who may have heard (or read in the latest Figure Four Weekly), I did indeed have a brush with death this past weekend. I’ll write something about it here sooner or later. For now, I want to tell you about the new greatest gimmick in professional wrestling. Anyone is free to [...]

Quick Podcast on Wrestling Magazines

Hi, kids, just for the fun of it, I just recorded a quick podcast about the interesting world of wrestling magazines (which is hardly a “world” these days, more like a third-world country).
Wrestling magazines used to be hugely influential in the professional wrestling industry and fandom. I was a huge fan of pretty much all [...]

Can You Book Better Than a Four-Year Old?

 
After sitting through a particularly lame episode of WWE Monday Night Raw and a year or so of questionable booking in general, I really had to question a lot of the decisions that WWE higher-ups have been making. At times, it just seemed like they were totally out of touch. At others, it seemed like [...]

Dusting Off Old Memories

So for the last couple of days, I have been going through some old camcorder tapes. At different times I would take  a video camera on the road with me to shoot my matches for later critiquing.  Or to just shoot all the fun stuff that happens between shows.
I’ve found a lot of matches that [...]

Bret Hart on Ringside Live! Tomorrow!

Just a quick heads-up that Ian Hamilton and myself will be welcoming the one and only Bret “Hitman” Hart onto Ringside Live! tomorrow at 4:00pm Pacific Time!
Bret will be discussing his legendary wrestling career and his autobiography Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling for about an hour.
If you have any questions [...]