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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007All the radio show links should be working now. Results from our last poll: Which story coming out of the major NYE events will have the most long-term impact? Chuck Liddell suffers a torn ACL and torn tendons in hand, out of action for a year – 72% Kazushi Sakuraba accuses Yoshihiro Akiyama of cheating, […]
Tito Ortiz’s manager recruiting girls for WWE
Saturday, November 25th, 2006By Zach Arnold The headline says it all. With WWE management happy with the performance of model Kelly Kelly’s success (real name: Barbie Blank), WWE is now looking to recruit more model-type girls (even if they have limited or no wrestling knowledge). Ken Pavia, who is the agent of Team Punishment, issued the following bulletin […]
WWE posts details on PRIDE meeting
Sunday, November 19th, 2006On the WWE HP, the article discusses Vince McMahon talking with DSE officials about Hustle. Hustle Mania takes place this Thursday at Yokohama Arena with HG’s retirement match from pro-wrestling. How can you not love Generalissimo Takada and HG on the same stage together. We can’t forget about Ogawa, either.
PRIDE and WWE doing business together?
Friday, November 17th, 2006Use this link if the image doesn’t load fully for you Comment from Zach: Only WWE.com could find a way to have the phrases Big Dick Johnson and Let’s Go to Prison on their news page when talking about PRIDE. The Underground Forum and Sherdog threads about this developing story. By Stephan Marceau This is […]
Is WWE getting into the MMA business?
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006By Zach Arnold PRIDE US announcer Mauro Ranallo did interviews on both the Observer Live and Live Audio Wrestling radio shows on Sunday. According to this post, Ranallo indicated on the LAW interview that WWE is interested in getting involved in promoting MMA. You can read my thoughts about this in full-post view. Update: One […]
Fight Opinion goes to the movies
Saturday, October 14th, 2006OK, not really. We just find a lot of mass media article links about John Cena’s new movie, The Marine, and let you read them. You’re going to want to, for sure. I am daring you, Erin, to go see this movie and give us your thoughts. For that matter, anyone reading this who has […]
Similar Histories: UFC and WWE
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006By Luke Nicholson To some people the similarities between UFC and WWE might just be coincidence, or maybe there are small little details that separate them, and to an extent that might be true. But, the fact that these two promotions are following such a similar timeline, and given the similar personalities that run both […]
Similar Histories: UFC and WWE.
Friday, October 6th, 2006By: Luke Nicholson To some people the similarities between UFC and WWE might just be coincidence, or maybe there are small little details that separate them, and to an extent that might be true. But, the fact that these two promotions are following such a similar timeline, and given the similar personalities that run both […]
Thoughts on Kurt Angle & TNA
Monday, September 25th, 2006By Sheldon Goldberg Sheldon Goldberg is the President and co-owner of both New England Championship Wrestling and World Women’s Wrestling. He is based out of the Boston, Massachusetts area. The sad part about following pro wrestling these days is that nothing seems shocking anymore. The many deaths and tragedies that professional wrestling has endured over […]
Did Jim Ross point the finger at K-1?
Thursday, September 7th, 2006By Zach Arnold Several years ago, WWE announcer Jim Ross used to have a weekly column on the WWE site called “The Ross Report” that became controversial for many reasons, with one of those reasons being some of the cryptic comments he made in the reports. No matter what you thought about Ross and his […]
Alleged changes in WWE’s drug testing policy
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006By Zach Arnold On Wednesday, Bryan Alvarez reported that there are changes happening with the WWE’s “Wellness” Policy (aka drug policy). Alvarez reports that wrestlers who now fail tests (and receive suspensions such as 30-day, 60-day, etc.) will continue to appear on television, but they will be working for free during the time of their […]
Kurt Angle’s future
Friday, September 1st, 2006By Zach Arnold Update: Dave Meltzer notes that Kurt Angle is now being buried by the WWE. Either this is a strange angle or else they are really concerned that he is going to work in fact for TNA. In response to a Dave Ditch article about the former Olympian’s future in the fight game, […]
Kurt Angle released by WWE
Saturday, August 26th, 2006By Luke Nicholson Yup. Your eyes are not deceiving you. WWE really did release Kurt Angle today. I just read the news myself on F4WOnline.com, so I’m still in shock. I’ll say that even though I don’t watch any WWE these days, I do know that Kurt Angle is in VERY~! rough shape these days, […]
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