I've notice a big problem with pro wrestling these days: companies devaluing their titles.

Once upon a time, everything in a given promotion revolved around the titles. Everyone wanted to be champion. That's why they were there. And the people who were champions? They were the best. They were the marquee players. They were the faces of the company ( Read more... )

I got The Rise and Fall of ECW, for $5.00. Pretty sweet. It's my favorite documentary; they really did a great job of covering everything. The history of ECW is really well chronicled. I've long wondered if they would still be around if video streaming over the internet was what it was today when they were around. They did streaming even back then ( Read more... )

First, some (storyline/kayfabe) history.
Once upon a time, Monday Night Raw and Friday Night Smackdown featured a shared pool of Superstars and championship titles. This continued until WWE (then WWF) bought out WCW. Shortly after that, they featured the “invasion” storyline, in which Shane McMahon had purchased WCW, and Stephanie McMahon had bought ( Read more... )

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Botched-wrestling stunts:

So I was checking out the latest LJ entry from my buddy saintigel , and he ends the entry with “Also, for my man, Wraith: I was channel surfing and I ran across an infomercial for a movie about Sting's (the wrestler) life. Did you know he is Christian? Just thought I'd toss that out there for ya.” I did, in fact know this. It started, I think with a guy ( Read more... )