I had always intended on picking up the 20th Anniversary Royal Rumble Anthology collection, but I could never justify spending $170 plus dollars on it, and that was with my staff discount. Lo and behold, there was a shocking price drop on it the other day, going down to $99.99 and I immediately scooped that puppy up. 20 years of WWF/E wrestling ( Read more... )

I just recently attended Ford Field for a football game. Being there to see the home team lose didn’t matter - I was jazzed just thinking about being down there in the middle of this huge complex amongst screaming fans. It’s the site of Wrestle Mania 23, a return to Detroit after a 20 year absence. I have my floor tickets safely locked away, ( Read more... )

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Recently released on DVD is this 3-disc set that was intended to provide a sense of history to current WWE fans, as well as cash in on the very marketable retro market for fans that don't necessarily enjoy the current WWE product. I say intended because, well, it's WWE so there has to be an agenda behind it. It's not an unbiased chronicle of the ( Read more... )

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This list is inspired by all the advertising for the new The Longest Yard remake, which I probably will not see. Since wrestlers often seem to turn up in crappy movies, I haven't seen a lot of the movies that might qualify for this list. But, I've seen enough to start the conversation. I'm only including appearances in fictional movies, so no ( Read more... )

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Just watched the repeat showing of Wrestlemania, and since I haven't watched a PPV so close to the actual event in a while, I thought I'd have a go at doing a review of it. I'm not going to do play by play, but instead try and give a general overview of the match, and things that caught my attention. I'll use the traditional star rating system. It' ( Read more... )

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