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TLW: Laying The Smacketh Down

Well, hello. If chicken little tells you that the sky is fallin’ – even if it wasn’t would you still come crawling back again? I bet you would my friend… and that’s exactly the feeling I get right now – because it’s Live Wire time! Yeah, baby! Yes, and with that opening thankfully out of the way, let’s get to this week’s column – Smackdown. Smackdown has vanished down the toilet pan since the New Year, hasn’t it? Now, I like to try and be positive, despite what people think of me, so I haven’t really said a lot on the Smackdown situation. Until now…

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The Live Wire Review

Well, hello. Welcome once again to the column ‘They’ call The Live Wire. Of course, ‘They’ don’t actually read it, and it’s probably for the best – who knows what ‘They’ would call it after ‘They’ read one?

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TLW: WWE Backlash 2004 Review

Well, hello. Here we go with another post-PPV roundup from The Live Wire – the column that likes to wear only black shirts on Tuesdays. That’s one of those cryptic messages, I think… I don’t know, I can’t work it out. HA! Anyway – Backlash has been and gone, and I did indeed fork out to watch the event. Honestly, it was Coach vs. Tajiri that put me over the edge and made me want to see it live. Oh yeah…

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TLW: WWE Backlash 2004 Predictions

Well, hello. It’s that crazy time of month again when we all attempt to play Nostradamus and predict the future. Believe me, peeps – if I could predict the future, I wouldn’t waste my Super Special powers trying to pick the winners of pre-determined wrestling matches – oh no – I’d be into the Lottery and the horses… That little rant is just my way of softening the crushing blow of defeat that has come to be a second friend to me…

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TLW: Spring Cleaning The Mind

Well, hello. And you’re VERY welcome this week, to a column that has been called by some “not as bad as it was last week” – excellent! Actually, I was stunned, surprised and mightily shocked to see a list of the top 76 writers on the net carried on Lethal Wrestling – and see my name in there! I WAS THERE!

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TLW: The Draft

Well, hello. Welcome to… here. You’d think after 200 or so of these things, I’d have this snappy, witty intro down to a fine art… Ah well, can’t have everything. So, with all the excitement of the draft lottery in the past, now we can get things settled down, and get back to the serious business… of pushing Triple H. Ho ho, just a joke. Ain’t I funny? For the record, answers other than “Yes, you’re hilarious” will quite frankly be ignored…

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TLW: In The House

Well, hello. Welcome to The Live Wire, still feeling ill, still here regardless. You’ll find that this week’s edition of the column is a little bit different. No, it’s not any better, as if! It’s a house show review! Yes, The Live Wire was on tour yesterday watching the WWE’s UK WrestleMania Revenge tour in Glasgow. Myself, Ms. Inno and SmashWrestling.com forum member and all round top Guinness drinker BrotherOfDestruction were all in attendance, sitting right at the side of the aisle, watching all the WWE stars style and profile…

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TLW: WWE Wrestlemania XX Thoughts

Well, hello. Welcome to the post WrestleMania edition of The Live Wire, still coming to you courtesy of whatever medication it is I’m currently taking for this life sucking virus. My head hurts. My throat hurts. My nose is blocked. My legs feel like lead. I want to sleep. But hey, I’ll work through it, because I’m a trooper. Or insane, whatever…

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TLW: WWE Wrestlemania XX Predictions

Well, I know it’s WrestleMania weekend, but the virus going round my house has finally claimed me and I’m not up to writing a full column for this weekend. In an attempt to make up for it… here’s my picks for Sunday’s show…

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TLW: Mad March Muterings

Well, hello. Weighing in at far too much, hailing from Parts Unknown – this is The Live Wire – make of that nugget of info what you will. I know that I run in terror when people tell me it’s time for one of these columns, but hey, that’s allowed – I write the damn thing. Allegedly.