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Saturday, January 14th, 2006Firstly please check this article(daily sports/Japanese) this is written about Tanahashi&Nakamura’event. And my title is Nakamura’answer against fan’question “who do you want to fight with?” Tanahashi’answer”Akiyama,Rikioh,Marufuji again” Nakamura”Both of Fedor&Mirko” Nakamura said”This year, I will be back ï¼ï¼ï¼¡’ring again” PRIDE has a few Japanese heavy weight fighters. So…Nakamura will be in PRIDE heavy weight GP […]
Why Hiroko？Column about HUSTLE
Friday, January 13th, 2006Firstly I don’t know whether you as readers are interested in HUSTLE or not. *laugh* And please use yahoo or excite to translate my column. Sorry about writing in Japanese text. (Rough translation by Zach Arnold). ã¨è¨€ã†è¨³ã§æœ¬é¡Œã¸ã€‚ About the subject said in translation. ãƒãƒƒã‚¹ãƒ«ã¯ã‚†ã£ãã‚Šã¨ã€ã§ã‚‚確実ã«æµã‚Œã¦ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ Hustle flows slowly, but surely. ã¯ã˜ã‚ã¯ã‹ã¤ã¦å…¨æ—¥æœ¬ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã¨ï¼«ï¼‘ãŒä¼ç”»ã—ãŸWRESTLEï¼ï¼‘ã¨å¤§å·®ãŒãªã„イベントã§ã—ãŸã€‚ï½¢æ ¼é—˜å®¶ã‚’ãƒ—ãƒãƒ¬ã‚¹ã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«ä¸Šã’ã€æµ·å¤–ã®å¤§ç‰©(like Goldberg)を日本ã®ãƒªãƒ³ã‚°ã«ä¸Šã’ã‚‹å˜ç™ºçš„ãªã‚¤ãƒ™ãƒ³ãƒˆï½£ã“ã‚ŒãŒå½“åˆã®ãƒãƒƒã‚¹ãƒ«ã®å½¢ã ã£ãŸã¨åƒ•ã¯æ€ã„ã¾ã™ã€‚ The start of WRESTLE-1 […]
Project of the Day
Wednesday, January 11th, 2006The Fight Opinion team will be busy today recording FO Radio #2, so I may not be able to post much at all. Because of this, I have a favor to ask from all of you. We need some assistance and help in gathering information for our My Space project. Please contribute links to new […]
Digital Rewind: Pro Wrestling Nostalgia Pays
Sunday, January 8th, 2006By Sheldon Goldberg Thanks to the advent of the DVD and digital cable it seems like everything old is new again. The WWE has given us a whole slew of DVD releases incorporating their vast library of matches from the Crockett era NWA, WCW, ECW, AWA and soon World Class Championship Wrestling. The WWE 24/7 […]
Know your neighbors
Sunday, January 8th, 2006I am an avid user of Technorati. It is a great service. All of you should be using it. With Technorati, you can find out who your neighbors or acquaintances are in similar categories of content that you cover. Here are four neighbors (as I call them) that you might want to check out and […]
Browsing the Iowa Media
Friday, January 6th, 2006Des Moines Register: ISU’s Scott emulates his ultimate idol Summary: Iowa State star wrestler Aron Scott is a big fan of Chuck Liddell Des Moines Register: Wrestler pins hopes on trip to Japan Summary: Iowa State University student Neal Isaak is headed to Japan. The article doesn’t say what company he is going for, so […]
Americana: Professional wrestling and politics
Thursday, January 5th, 2006In America, there has recently been a big political scandal regarding an individual named Jack Abramoff, who resided in Washington, D.C. and became very friendly with many politicians. Today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (behind a firewall/subscription, sadly), in the state of Wisconsin, has a report regarding a politician using one of Mr. Abramoff’s aides to get […]
A look into a WWE Booking Contract
Monday, January 2nd, 2006For most of the thousands of wrestlers, working the school gyms, guard armories, fairground expo halls, and anywhere else a ring can be set up and admission charged, the WWE booking contract is the holy grail. It means you’ve reached the top of your game. What does one have written in it?
Memo to TNA: Some Notes for 2006
Friday, December 30th, 2005By Sheldon Goldberg December 30, 2005 In a year of pro wrestling with not much to be happy about, perhaps the brightest story of 2005 has been TNA getting a spot on Spike TV and generating respectable ratings. As both a fan and a promoter, it is critical that TNA succeed. Pro wrestling desperately needs […]
Top 10 draft for pro-wrestlers
Thursday, December 29th, 2005In an update to our post (Drafting wrestlers for a new company), Ivan Trembow has a new post today revealing what Pro Wrestling Torch readers voted on for their Top 10 draft for professional wrestlers. In my eyes, here’s a money quote from Ivan’s post: Edge is in a constant cycle of being punished by […]
Drafting wrestlers for a new company
Tuesday, December 27th, 2005Ivan Trembow has an interesting article about creating a Top 50 draft list of who you would select for wrestlers if you were building a new company. Read Ivan’s thoughts here. Ivan picks his #1 choice and… 1. Samoa Joe— As I wrote in my review of TNA’s Turning Point pay-per-view, it’s hard to fathom […]
K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite! New Additions!
Sunday, December 25th, 2005With only five days to go until the big MMA New Years Eve shows on 12/31, K-1 have suprised everyone with the addition of Japanese kickboxer Masato to the K-1 fight card. He will be facing off against Japanese boxing champion Akira Oohigashi. Masato was set for a return to K-1 early next year after […]
The MySpace Phenomenon
Sunday, December 25th, 2005I am fully willing to admit this – I do not understand the appeal of MySpace. Yes, I have always been one who has valued the power of networking online and “community software” as Jeff Jarvis puts it. However, for the life of me, I do not understand why MySpace is so appealing. Nonetheless, it […]
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