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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.

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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…