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TLW: A Radical Future

Well, hello. Welcome to The Live Wire, the column that is fast becoming my least favourite two hours of the week! Yes folks, it’s becoming more of a chore to write now than it’s ever been… for the time being, I shall carry on and try and maintain my one a week rate of production… but I don’t know how much longer I can do that. I will carry on writing about wrestling, no matter what – just not at the rate I used to…

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TLW: WWE No Way Out 2004 Thoughts

Well, hello. It’s that time once more, the Monday after a PPV. The Monday after the picks of one lone columnist, possibly hampered by the lack of a functioning brain, have gone down the drain. That columnist… is me. Of the matches that were actually announced for the PPV before Sunday Night Heat, I went to a respectable (in light of past performances, anyway) 4 and 2… I’m relatively happy with that, especially given the main event’s eventual winner, but we’ll get to that in due time…

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TLW: WWE No Way Out 2004 Predictions

Well, hello. Welcome to a Pay Per View weekend edition of The Live Wire – and that can mean only one thing! It’s late night drinking and nacho eating time! Oh, it means two things then: it’s late night drinking and nacho eating time AND Predictamania time too! Whoo! A winning combination…

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TLW: Observations on the Wrestling World…

Well, hello. Welcome to The Live Wire, home of nothing exciting, interesting, entertaining or particularly intelligent, yet still manages to ramble on week after week after week. Says more about my persistence than talent, but hey – can’t have everything in life, eh?

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TLW: February Randomness

Well, hello. Welcome to The Live Wire, the column that is called… um… The Live Wire. OK, so it’s not one of my snappiest, wittiest intros, but it’s certainly one of the most truthful, and that’s what counts, right? Anyway, in a shock revelation, this week’s column shall be one that is full of little nuggets, none of which are interesting enough, nor long enough to be padded out into a full column – otherwise known as a ‘RANDOM THOUGHTS COLUMN’ – yeah, baby!

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TLW: WWE Royal Rumble 2004 Thoughts

Well, hello. And yeah – it’s Live Wire time! Whooo! What a weekend I had…drinking vast amounts of alcohol, getting stranded in Edinburgh having missed the last train, ending up inside a few taxis and crashing out on a friend’s floor, before getting back home the next day. Oh, and a totally AMAZING White Stripes gig in Glasgow, and one of the best Rumble cards in recent years.

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TLW: WWE Royal Rumble 2004 Predictions

Well, hello. Welcome to the Royal Rumble Predictamania Live Wire Special Edition! 25% more insanity than any other Live Wire! Badger badger badger mushroom! See? MADNESS! Whoooo! Ahem. We’ll just skip over that intro, and pretend it never happened… and to take your mind off it, here’s the predictions for The Rumble!

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TLW: Good Things In Small Packages

Well, hello. Welcome back to The Live Wire, the column that can curse you as well as entertain you – allegedly. Why do I say that? Well, within mere hours of last week’s edition of The Live Wire hitting the ‘Net and naming Spanky and Paul London as ones to watch in 2004 – Spanky quits!

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TLW: Ones To Watch 2004

Well, hello. Welcome to The Live Wire, probably the only column that has an intro paragraph featuring the word “bojangles” – and that has to be a good thing, right? YEAH! Anyway, thanks to everyone for their response to last week’s predictions column… they are always one of the more popular columns of the year, and this one proved to be no exception. And of course, with it being the start of the year, then following on from the predictions column, comes the Ones To Watch!

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TLW: 2004: A Year In Wrestling

Well, hello. Welcome to the first column of 2004 – who knows, if you peeps get lucky, it might be the last! YEAH! Optimism already! Anyways, enough of this wallowing in the mire of self pity that seems to have encapsulated me for most of my adult life…