Wrestling History
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WrestleMania 21: Goes Hollywood
In our second ‘In Review’ we look at WrestleMania 21: Goes Hollywood. Yes, this year WWE is going Hollywood again but let’s look back at the original that was a night of barnburner matches and some questionable choices. You can find Craig’s ‘In Review’ of WrestleMania 2000 here. WrestleMania 21: In Review We are going to Hollywood tonight for WrestleMania 21, which includes a very funny video package of the stars of WWE taking on some of the most well-known movies. It’s great but let’s get down to the matches at the show of the immortals. In the first match, we see Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio face off, they…
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Top 10 Taya Valkyrie Moments in Impact Wrestling History
After weeks of speculation as to where multi-time champion, Taya Valkyrie would appear next, the news was announced that the former Lucha Underground and Impact Wrestling star will be competing for All Elite Wrestling. So with the last of Impact’s recent Las Vegas tapings set to air this week and will most certainly explain Taya’s departure from the company, I got the idea in my head to write and rank some of Taya’s most career-defining moments in her first and second run with Impact. So without any further ado, here is my list of the Top 10 Taya Valkyrie Moments in Impact Wrestling… #10. Her Debut So we kick things…
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STARDOM X NJPW: HISTORIC X-OVER | KAIRI and Mayu Iwatani Make History In More Ways Than One
Today, at the very first Stardom and New Japan joint show, STARDOM X NJPW: Historic X-Over, history was made by two of the greatest women’s wrestlers of all time. While yes, Stardom has had matches featured on New Japan shows in the past, this was the very first time that the two Bushiroad-owned companies worked together for an entire card. There is a lot to unpack for the entire show, however, I am going to focus this article on one match, -the- match that made this card absolutely must-see. The match that I am referring to is none other than Mayu Iwatani taking on KAIRI for the inaugural IWGP Women’s…
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10 Years of The Shield
The Shield is one of the most successful factions to grace the WWE in the past decade. All three members have gone on to great things inside and outside of the company, with, as of 2022, being the face of their brand or company. Roman Reigns is now the face of WWE and Smackdown, Seth Rollins is a key player and arguably one of the most popular wrestlers on Monday Night RAW while the former Dean Ambrose, Jon Moxley, is the face of the second biggest wrestling organization in the United States, AEW. All three are champions, but how did three relatively unknown wrestlers go on to have such a…
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Shane Douglas And The Birth Of ECW
“And they can all, kiss, my, ASS!” Shane Douglas Today we’re going to take a look at the most famous wrestling pipe bomb that birthed ECW. Next week we’ll look at AJ Lee’s WWE pipebomb, and wrap it up the week after with MJF’s uh…meltdown I suppose you could call it. One of the first-ever true pipe bombs was in the then National Wrestling Alliance: Eastern Championship Wrestling. You know it better as ECW. The year was 1994, August 27th. A young man named Shane Douglas had just won the most prestigious belt in all of wrestling. Please note throughout this I will call it Wrestling. Sports Entertainment is garbage…
