Jim came over and we went back to my apartment to watch the Royal Rumble. The big complaint about the show was that it was "too predictable". I'd respond to these complaints directly, but I don't have a wrestling-themed tumblr. While I don't have a good name in mind for a wrestling-themed tumblr, I think the bigger issue is that I wouldn't know ( Read more... )

I haven't watched Raw this week yet, but the story is that Jerry "The King" Lawler collapsed during the show while doing color commentary. I don't think the full story is available yet. The way I understand it, he probably had a heart attack, possibly brought on by his working multiple shows over the weekend and all the travel that goes with it ( Read more... )

I'm pretty much sick of this CM Punk/AJ/Daniel Bryan thing. This is because a) they've dragged it out too long, and b) I was rooting for Kane. Instead, I want to talk about the big revelation of the Anonymous General Manager's identity. I always knew they'd bring back the Anonymous GM back someday and expose him in a goofy comedy bit, and I was ( Read more... )

The big news from WWE is that they're expanding Raw into a 3-hour show for its 1000th episode.  A special 3-hour episode is nothing new, but the deal this time is that they're making it permanent this time.   This is a tricky prospect, because the last wrestling show to do three hour broadcasts was WCW Nitro, which got cancelled.  It's a tall order ( Read more... )

Extreme Rules was a friggin' awesome show. I was sort of excited about it because it was in Chicago, then I got more interested in it when Jim decided to buy a ticket and see it live, and then WrestleMania was really good, so that got me more excited, and then a bunch of other stuff happened and I decided this was gonna be pretty friggin' sweet. ( Read more... )

This Sunday is the April Pay-Per View where WWE basically apologizes for anything they got wrong at WrestleMania. It used to be called Backlash, but now it's "Extreme Rules", because someone looked at the show and decided it needed to be more proactive ( Read more... )

OK, I think I've got all my Christmas Shopping done. I've got a bag or box for everything, and I've got tissue paper for packing. All I gotta do is put it all together, drop off half of it at my parents' house Wednesday, and leave the rest of it here for when they come over. As long as none of those present-eating bears wanders into my apartment ( Read more... )

Last time, I wrote about the state of Create-A-Wreslter features in WWE video games. One important element that's been sorely lacking over the years is the ring introduction. In fact, I usually turn this off because it's so damn annoying to create your own custom wrestler and have Tony Chimel or whoever announce you like this ( Read more... )

The two big video game releases I'm looking forward to this year are WWE '12 and Dragon Ball: Ultimate Tenkaichi. Of course, I buy the DBZ game that comes out every year, but with wrestling games I skip around, waiting for features I actually want. I used to buy wrestling video games all the time, but around 2004 I found the options to be ( Read more... )

Jim sent me a text message about coming over and watching Money in the Bank 2011 this Sunday. I'm pretty sure I responded to the text, but then I turned over and went back to sleep, so in case I deamt that, I just wanted to say he's totally welcome to come over and watch this, because I was planning to order it anyway ( Read more... )