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Now That's What I Call Wrestling #5: The Draft
by TheBigBoot on 29 June 2008
It has been six years since WWE made the decision to separate its roster in two with the ‘Brand Extension’. Just over a year after the collapse of ECW (February, 2001) and buying out top competitor WCW (March, 2001), the promotion was filled with talent new and old. Since Raw and SmackDown! tended to feature the same wrestlers, the idea was that by allocating half the roster to each show it would allow more wrestlers more time to be on television and thus enable the creation of new stars...
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Iron Jung #8: From midcard to main event - all we need is a little patience
by The Iron Jung on 28 June 2008
Howdy folks for another edition of the Iron Jung. In my last column I focused on Chris Jericho. Literally days after I highlighted my love for his will he/won’t he approach to being a heel, they pulled the trigger on his heel turn. In a way I was very frustrated, as I felt there was significant mileage to be given to drawing out Jericho’s dilemma. However it was clearly inevitable that he would turn heel sooner, rather than later. Because that’s the thing with the WWE. Patience, in the last few years, has never been one of their strong points...
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Twist of Fate: The Matt and Jeff Hardy Story DVD Review
by Draven Cage on 22 June 2008
This is the latest WWE release to focus on The Hardy Boyz, but this is the first to feature their respective singles runs so prominently. The first thing that strikes you when you open the box is that the each disc focuses on one brother's side of the story; an idea that works (even though some of the topics are repeated) and one I recommend using whenever a tag-team DVD is released...
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Shawn Michaels Heartbreak and Triumph DVD Review
by Draven Cage on 22 June 2008
Shawn Michaels; The Main Event, The Showstopper, The Icon. Whatever you want to call him, and whatever your personal opinion of the man away from the ring, his ability between the ropes cannot be denied. This DVD covers the life and times of HBK, from the day he was born, through both incarnations of DX, up to his run towards the Wrestlemania 23 main event against John Cena...
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Iron Jung #7: Chris Jericho - Save Us Y2J?
by The Iron Jung on 8 June 2008
Greetings boys and girls, I hope your all well and gearing up for the European Championships. I’m sure they’ll be a fair few surprises like Greece in 2004. For me personally though I’ve already had a surprise and that surprise (love the linkage) has been the one and only Chris Jericho. Thus this week I’ll be focusing on the man known as Y2J and telling you all why Jericho’s gone from being stale and dull to the most interesting man on Raw...
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 | THWD: WWE Raw Find?s It?s Feet
By Tink Holloway on 28 June 2008 |
| WWE Draft RAW - June 23rd 2008
I have to admit to being mildly interested in this year?s Raw draft. WWE is in major need of a change and this was their chance to make those changes. I was convinced however that the creative geniuses behind the WWE would drop the ball again [...] |
| | THWD: One Year On - The Benoit Problem
By Tink Holloway on 22 June 2008 |
| Almost one year ago, news began filtering through that Chris Benoit, one of professional wrestling?s finest ever competitors had died at the age of 40. At first all of us, fans and the industry alike, mourned and wondered what exactly it was about professional wrestling that led to so many of [...] |
| | THWD: The case for a WWE off-season
By Tink Holloway on 3 May 2008 |
| My goodness, how long ago does Wrestlemania seem already!? Despite the WWE’s attempts to link everything they could at Backlash with WM24, the night felt far detached from the bright lights of the Citrus Bowl. It’s a shame that there is so little time to take in what happened at the biggest event of the [...] |
| | THWD: MMA and Wrestling?
By Tink Holloway on 25 April 2008 |
| I’d like to make a survey asking fans of professional wrestling why it is that they watch it. I wonder how many of them would answer because it’s a form of combat? I only wonder about this because over the last 3 or 4 years I’ve become increasingly perplexed at the close proximity of sports-entertainment [...] |
| | THWD: UK - The WWE?s nice little earner
By Tink Holloway on 18 April 2008 |
| Ever since I was very young and watched my first WWE (F as it was at the time) pay-per-view, Royal Rumble 1994, I had always wanted to see it live. The way Vince McMahon would assure everybody that the arena had gone cold when The Undertaker came out and the fan reaction to Bret Hart?s [...] |
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