Mick Foley Is Recording A Christmas Album With Shooter Jennings
Getty Image When my wrestling expert colleague Brandon told me that Mick Foley, one of my all-time favorite wrestling personalities, was recording a Christmas album with Shooter Jennings, a country...
View ArticleLet’s Laugh At The Horrible Idea Vince Russo Had For Degeneration X And The...
God, Vince Russo. He was the right-hand man to Vince McMahon during the Attitude era, which means McMahon filtered out (some of) his utterly stupid ideas and fashioned others into great storylines....
View ArticleBilly Jack Haynes Is Suing WWE For Allegedly Giving Him Hep C
Via WWE Earlier this year, Canadian wrestler “Hannibal” sued WWE Hall of Famer Abdullah The Butcher for a 2007 match in which The Butcher allegedly bled on him against his will and gave him Hepatitis...
View ArticleRest In Peace: 13 Things You Might Not Know About The Undead Life And Career...
WWE The final days of October are slipping away and Halloween is almost upon us, so what better time to swing open the gates of the prop graveyard for a stroll through the fake cobweb-coated career of...
View ArticleWrestling Game Vs. Wrestling Reality: WWF Wrestlemania (NES)
WWE Hey folks, it’s time again to get impossibly nerdy and talk wrestling and video games all at once. As I mentioned in previous Game vs. Reality articles, wrestling games were once locked into...
View ArticleYou Probably Want To Listen To The Iron Sheik Reviewing Metal Bands
Via YouTube Go ahead and call it clickbait, I don’t care. If we type “The Iron Sheik is reviewing metal bands” somewhere on the Internet, you should be flailing wildly to click over and watch it. Metal...
View ArticleFun With Kayfabe: 9 Fake Times When Wrestlers Probably Should Have Died
Wrestling storylines can be a tad…um…extra from time to time. The lines between realism and insanity are blurred and destroyed before our eyes. As a result, some storylines really expect us to believe...
View ArticleEdge Becomes The Latest Superstar To Suggest That The Attitude Era Kinda Sucked
Via YouTube From the moment it ended (if anyone can pinpoint that, exactly), WWE has been obsessed with its own “Attitude Era.” In layman’s terms, that’s how the then-WWF portrayed itself in the late...
View ArticleOhhhhh Yeah! 10 Things You Might Not Know About The Mad Life Of Macho Man...
WWE This Saturday is Macho Man Randy Savage’s birthday. Three-and-a-half years ago Savage suffered a heart attack while driving his wife home from breakfast, passing away almost instantly. If he was...
View ArticleNo Survivors: The 15 Worst Teams In Survivor Series History
Via WWE WWE’s Survivor Series pay-per-view (on the WWE Network during a free trial period, so … the Survivor Series free-per-view?) airs this Sunday. It features a “traditional” Survivor Series...
View ArticleFind Out What’s Under Rowdy Roddy Piper’s Kilt In This Bizarre App Ad
Via YouTube For reasons we can’t totally explain, here’s WWE legend and Hall of Famer Rowdy Roddy Piper in a Siegfried & Roy wig, silently interacting with a talking cash register. Unless Junkyard...
View ArticleHulk Hogan Showed Up At A Cavs Game And Threatened To Murder The Spurs Coyote
Via YouTube The Hulk Hogan NBA promotional tour continues. A week after appearing at a Golden State Warriors game and cutting a promo on the Brooklyn Nets, the Hulkster visited Quicken Loans Arena to...
View ArticleHere’s The Story Of Kamala Pulling A Gun On Andre The Giant After A Match
YouTube Full disclosure: my first significant girlfriend is Kamala’s niece or something like that. She didn’t look like him, but still. *waits for jokes to end* You done? No? I’ll be here when you’re...
View ArticleHere’s A 2008 Video Of Sting Explaining Why He’d Never Go To The WWE (Hint:...
WWE So apparently Sting showed up at Survivor Series last night. It was all of our hopes and dreams until Bret Hart came out and stopped the bell from ringing after a totally normal Nick Patrick count....
View ArticleListen To Jake Roberts Describe How He And Randy Savage’s Feud Was Torpedoed...
WWE Randy Savage’s early-90s feud with Jake “The Snake” Roberts was arguably the most intense of The Macho Man’s illustrious career. It kicked off when Roberts stuck his nose into Savage and Miss...
View ArticleDarren Wilson Compared Michael Brown To Hulk Hogan In His Grand Jury Testimony
WWE The last thing you need from a wrestling blog is our opinion on the tragedy unfolding in Ferguson, Missouri, but here’s an interesting, wrestling-related tidbit you might find interesting: in...
View ArticleA Very Thankful Power Ranking Of Wrestling’s Best Bird Characters
WWE We have so much to be thankful for this year within the wrestling world that it’s hard to limit everything to just one universal list. I wouldn’t even know where to start, honestly, so I decided...
View ArticleThe Best And Worst Of WWF Monday Night Raw 1/18/93: Fight The Real Enemy
Via WWE Pre-show notes: - Hey look, it’s a thing you asked for! The Best and Worst of WWE Raw is our signature column and the retro Best and Worst of WCW Monday Nitro reports are the most fun thing we...
View ArticleMovember To Remember: The 30 Greatest Mustaches In Pro Wrestling History
Via WWE It’s December 1st, which means Movember is over and you can shave that unsightly growth off your face. In celebration of another year Movembered, we decided to comb the history of professional...
View ArticleAll Night Long: 5 Grueling Matches That Prove Ric Flair Is Wrestling’s Ironman
WWE As you may have seen right here on Uproxx, Ric Flair recently teamed up with Dennis Rodman to promote fitness game Shape Up, which may, on the surface seem a bit odd. Flair’s isn’t a spring chicken...
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