From Trailer Park To Titan Towers: 10 True Facts About The Early Life Of...
WWE Promotional Image Vince McMahon has spent decades crafting his legend more carefully than any WWE storyline, but before he became the genius billionaire with boxer-bursting grapefruits, he saw his...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Of WCW Monday Nitro 4/22/96: You Can’t Fight City Hall
Via WWE Pre-show notes: – Click here to watch this week’s episode on WWE Network. If you’d like to read about previous episodes, check out the WCW Monday Nitro tag page. – With Spandex is on Twitter,...
View ArticleGetting Cooking: 10 Electrifying Facts From Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s Pro...
WWE Promotional Image This coming Saturday, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson turns 43 years old, and in celebration of Old Man Johnson’s upcoming birthday, we’re taking a look back at another chunk of his...
View ArticleThe Hart Family Is Upset About Booker T’s Accidental Owen Hart Joke On Raw
WWE Earlier this week, Booker T came under fire for a comment he made on Monday’s episode of Raw. In case you missed it, he and JBL were discussing King of the Ring tournament participant Neville’s...
View ArticleHulk Hogan’s Being Offered A Spot On Celebrity Big Brother, Brother
New Line Cinema Hulk Hogan’s got a lot of time between now and his inevitable in-ring return at WrestleMania 32, so why not warm up his acting and physical confrontation chops with a return to reality...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Of WWF Monday Night Raw 4/29/96: We Have To Go Back
WWE Pre-show notes: – No, that’s not a typo. If you’ve read our vintage Best and Worst of WWF Monday Night Raw columns up until now, you know we started at the very beginning, in 1993. Well, I realized...
View ArticleBret Hart Finally Broke Down Who Did And Didn’t Train In The Infamous Hart...
The wood-paneled basement of Stu Hart’s house, also known as the Hart Dungeon, has become the most infamous training ground in pro wrestling history. It seems like every wrestler who’s even briefly...
View ArticleBob Backlund Interrupted Verne Gagne’s Funeral With A Heel Promo During The...
WWE Late last month, legendary pro wrestling promoter Verne Gagne passed away at the age of 89. He was one of the most influential men in the history of the sport, running the Minnesota-based American...
View ArticleKing Of Hearts: 10 Things You Might Not Know About The High Energy Life Of...
WWE Promotional Image Today is the birthday of Owen Hart. If he was still with us, he would have been 50. On May 23, 1999 at the Over the Edge pay-per-view, Owen was set to descend from the rafters as...
View ArticleA Pennsylvania Man Accidentally Killed An 18-Month-Old With The Undertaker’s...
WWE Promotional Image 20-year old Pennsylvania man Brandon Hoffman was charged Wednesday with involuntary manslaughter, aggravated assault, endangering the welfare of a child and more after killing his...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Of WWF Monday Night Raw 5/6/96: Wrestling With Shadows
WWE Pre-show notes: – Click here to watch this week’s episode on WWE Network. You can read about previous episodes on the Best and Worst of WWF Monday Night Raw tag page. As a reminder, we’ve jumped...
View ArticleKurt Angle Originally Chose WWE Over WCW Because Ric Flair Told Him To
WWE Ric Flair launched a new podcast called Wooo Nation and I’m all the way here for it. His first guest was Kurt Angle and it was damn entertaining. A few moments stuck out: – Kurt Angle went to Ric...
View ArticlePraise A Higher Power: Vince McMahon Was Inducted Into The Boys & Girls Clubs...
YouTube WWE Chairman and CEO Vince McMahon has done a lot of important things in his career: fall off a steel cage, sing and dance, perform colon surgery, defeat God in a tag-team match, have his head...
View ArticleWhy Are These Michigan Vandals Such Big Fans Of D-Generation X?
Via Twitter Let’s get acquainted with Harper Woods, Mich. It’s a moderately-sized suburb on the east side of Detroit, just along Interstate 94. If a news report from yesterday is to be trusted, it also...
View ArticleHas WWE Hall Of Famer Sunny Signed On To Make Porn With Vivid Entertainment?
WWE According to reporter Front Row Brian — a guy with a movie mascot name who has broken a variety of MMA and pro wrestling news stories like the Jon Jones car accident — WWE Hall of Famer Tammy Lynn...
View ArticleA Hefty Ranking Of André The Giant’s Top Appearances Outside Of The Ring
FOX/ABC Today is André the Giant’s birthday. If he was still with us, he would have been 69. In honor of the big guy’s big day, we’re going to be looking at a slightly different side of his career. In...
View ArticleRacist Wrestling Gimmick Of The Week: The Life And Times Of Charles Wright Pt. 2
Last time we were here, we got acquainted with Charles Wright’s second WWE character, Kama, who, for no other reason than being black, stole Undertaker’s urn and had it melted down to a gold chain....
View ArticleDavid Letterman, Andy Kaufman, And The Interview That Changed Pro Wrestling...
Via you In 1982, Jerry Lawler and Andy Kaufman appeared on Late Night with David Letterman. They couldn’t have known at the time, but this interview kickstarted a relationship between mainstream...
View ArticleFrom Humanoids To Ham-And-Eggers: Why Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan Is An American...
YouTube Bobby “The Brain” Heenan was one of the biggest wrestling villains of the ’80s and the greatest color commentator of all-time. He’s Paul Heyman and Johnny Carson all rolled into one incredible...
View ArticleRic Flair Wants To Return To The Ring In Today’s Most Shocking Wrestling News
WWE Ric Flair wrestled his final match at WrestleMania XXIV. Shawn Michaels apologized, told him he loved him and superkicked him into retirement. Flair was given a gold watch and was honored with an...
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