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A Blast from the Past
A Blast from the Past: Goldberg vs. Scott Steiner, Rhino vs. The Sandman
by Naitch on 8 July 2007
A look back at two matches from the year 2000: Goldberg faces Steiner at WCW Fall Brawl and Rhino takes on The Sandman on ECW TV.
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A Blast from the Past: Jimmy Snuka vs. Don Muraco, The Andersons vs. Rock N’ Roll Express and WarGames 1991
by Naitch on 13 January 2007
The steel cage: at one time the biggest stipulation match in wrestling. It was the feud decider. Two enemies hate each other? Lock the suckers in a cage and let them fight to the death. It was usually designed to hinder the poor innocent heel because he couldn’t get out and no one else could get in. That was supposed to be the whole point of the cage anyway but then someone came up with the ‘escape over the top or through the door’ rule that I dislike...
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A Blast from the Past: Clash of the Champions IX - Funk V Flair
by Naitch on 25 September 2006
Terry Funk: former World Champion, hardcore icon, living legend and one hell of a model Texan. You look up the word ‘tough’ in a dictionary you know what’d you see? No, not a picture of Terry Funk, that’d just be silly, you’d see a definition of the word tough which is what Terry Funk is. He was a guy that was 20 years ahead of his time, a so called ‘sports entertainer’ before so called ‘sports entertainment’ was cool and a guy that could get over in any era in any promotion...
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A Blast from the Past: Summerslam 1997, Starrcade 1985 and Over the Edge 1998
by Naitch on 29 August 2006
A look at three matches from three different shows. The first is a steel cage match featuring Triple H vs. Mankind from Summerslam 1997. The 2nd is another cage match but this time from Starrcade 1985 featuring Magnum TA vs. Tully Blanchard. The last match is from Over The Edge 1998 featuring Steve Austin vs. Mick Foley...
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A Blast from the Past: Summerslam 1992, 1996 and 2002
by Naitch on 20 August 2006
Like bad BBQs, syringe and beer can covered beaches, fat ladies in bikinis, another crappy Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Cruise (you know, those things that used to make a boatload of money before everyone finally realised Cruise was out of his damn mind*) and rain drenched caravan holidays in Scarborough, Summerslam is a Summer tradition dating back to 1988. Memorable moments and memorable matches. This ‘Blast from the Past’ will cover three of the matches from Summerslam history...
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 A Blast from the Past: Great American Bash 1987, 1990 and 2004
by Naitch 1 August 2006
 | 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 [...] |
| | KR: The Road to WrestleMania
By Robert Heard on 29 March 2008 |
| Right, well it is well known that I am a Puro writer and have never written on the subject of American Wrestling. But a Puro blog on the eve of WrestleMania seems wrong, not in the least because WrestleMania is not a Japanese event at all?HustleMania is but then the less said about that the [...] |
| | KR: The BIG Statement with a BIG Show
By Robert Heard on 29 March 2008 |
| So WrestleMania, the biggest event on the calendar for wrestling fans will be a huge event. It will be the second ever to be held completely outdoors. It is reported it will pump twenty five million into the local economy and bring 60,000 people to Orlando as well.
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