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Thirteen Predictions about RAW 1000
I hadn’t written a professional-wrestling-related article in a while, and, lest anyone forget that I’m a single, geeky, moderately-overweight, 30-something white guy, I figured I would make a few quick predictions for tonight’s historic broadcast of Monday Night RAW. For … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sports, Television
Tagged Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, CM Punk, Commentary, Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Heath Slater, John Cena, Kane, Monday Night Raw, Professional Wrestling, RAW 1000, Roddy Piper, Sports, Sports Entertainment, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Television, The Big Show, The Miz, The Rock, The Undertaker, Vince McMahon, WWE
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An Abridged History of Pro Wrestling’s Ethnic Identity Crisis
Highlighting ethnicity or nationality to help get certain professional wrestlers “over” is a technique as old as the business itself. The WWWF (later the WWF, now the WWE) used the origins of Bruno Sammartino (Italian), Spiros Arion (Greek), and Pedro … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sports, Television
Tagged Commentary, Ethnicity, Fritz Von Erich, Gorilla Monsoon, Ivan Koloff, Johnny B. Badd, Kofi Kingston, Mark Mero, Mohammad Hassan, Nikita Koloff, Pro Wrestling, Professional Wrestling, Race, Racism?, Razor Ramon, Scott Hall, Sports, Sports Entertainment, Television, The Iron Sheik, The Undertaker, TV, Vince McMahon, WWE, Yokozuna
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Revenge of the Nerds
What set Money in the Bank apart from the standard professional wrestling events of the past few years wasn’t the hot crowd in Chicago, or the slick production values, or even the great in-ring work. Every WWE pay-per-view features at … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sports, Television
Tagged Sports, Sports Entertainment, WWE, Television, Commentary, Professional Wrestling, John Cena, CM Punk, Punk, Vince McMahon, I Want Wrestling
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The Artisan
It’s all too easy to dismiss professional wrestling as a mongrel form of entertainment that achieves neither the excitement of legitimate competition nor the imagination of true performance art. Yet, I’ve always thought those who try to pigeonhole the endeavor … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Sports, Television
Tagged Art, CM Punk, Commentary, Kayfabe, Monday Night Raw, Money in the Bank, Pro Wrestling, Punk, RAW, Sports, Sports Entertainment, Television, TV, Vince McMahon, WWE
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Hell in a Cell: Live Blog
I wouldn’t say I’m about to write a live blog of the WWE’s Hell in a Cell pay-per-view reluctantly, but it would also be fair to say that I wouldn’t have done so without the encouragement of my legion handful of fans readers. … Continue reading →