To begin the story of the Royal Rumble, we need really to go back to late 1987 and the continuing rise of the Vince McMahon empire at the expense of anyone who got in his way Standing between Vince and further success was Jim Crockett and the NWA. Starrcade had been their biggest show and not just in arenas but on closed circuit too. The 1987 event was due to be their biggest ever with the show being held in Chicago and a main event between Harley Race and Ric Flair for the NWA Heavyweight Title with over 200 cable companies agreeing to put the show on PPV…
Author: Stephen Ashfield
Back in 1988 Vince McMahon’s expansion of the World Wrestling Federation was gathering pace. Wrestlemania was well established and the previous year he’d launched The Survivor Series. Now all he needed was a massive event between the two PPVs so on 29th August 1988, Summerslam was born. It’s gone on to become the second biggest PPV of the year, so it’s time to take a look back at the history of this event and explain amongst many other things, why Inter-Continental Champions have every reason to be very worried when they defend their title at Summerslam…
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T3C: The History of WrestleMania
When it’s time for Wrestlemania, everything else fades into insignificance. We need escapism in this world, we need great entertainment and to watch great athletes. Wrestlemania is all that and more. In a Three Count special, it’s time to look back over the history of the event that changed wrestling forever…
The arena goes dark and smoke begins to appear as the druids make their return to WrestleMania. The music that stills sends shivers down our spine echoes around the arena and another opponent of the Phenom awaits his fate. Because you see, The Undertaker never loses at WrestleMania OK! It was at the Survivor Series in 1990 that The Undertaker made his WWE debut and as the latest in a seemingly never-ending conveyor belt of gimmicks arrived, none of us could dare to believe The Deadman would still be at the top of the tree 18 years later…
EWW are back with a bang and have announced not just a set of dates that see them putting on shows across the country but with several top American stars heading this way in May…
So another WrestleMania is on the horizon and the card so far announced has a distinct feeling of having gone back to the drawing board on more than one occasion. In the weeks leading up to WrestleMania 25 I’ll be taking a look at the matches due to be taking place culminating in one giant preview of the event at the start of April…
After their successful shows in London in July, the Lucha Libre stars from Mexico will be making their return to the Roundhouse for five shows from December 6th to 9th including a matinee at 2pm on December 7th. One of the stars of the show on their first tour was former WWE and TNA star Mascarita Sagrada, here he talks about his career and what we can expect to see in London in December…
It’s been a very long road indeed but on October 26th the first ever British National Championship comes to an end. Organised by IPW:UK the semi-finals and final take place at the Great Hall at Bromley Civic Centre. In the top half of the draw Zack Sabre Jr faces Terry Frazier and in the bottom half it’s the new All-England Champion Johnny Moss v Dan Head. The All-England title will also be on the line so whoever wins the tournament will hold that title too. I interviewed Johnny Moss about the tournament and his hopes for this Sunday…
No DQ Street Fight ‘Rowdy’ Ricky Knight and The Zebra Kid v Brett ‘The Kraft’ Meadows and Martin Stone You can bet your bottom dollar that when these four were deciding who to send Christmas cards to last December their opponents weren’t on the list. There’s no love lost between these two teams that’s for […]
Part two of Stephen Ashfields interview with the Hardcore Legend; Mick Foley