Later today, we’ll all no doubt be captivated by WWE’s July Pay-Per-View spectacular, Money in the Bank – live this year from our hometown of Phoenix, AZ. Since I didn’t get to join Adam and Jared on the podcast this week (I was quite literally climbing a mountain) and I’m ridiculously excited to see this show in person, I figured [Read More]
I just finished watching June 22’s episode of Friday Night SmackDown, and I was thoroughly bothered by the way Baltimore heckled Big Show at the open of the show. Yelling things at heels is normal and to be expected – I have no problem with that. But specifically, they yelled “You Can’t Wrestle!” at him and I was just baffled. [Read More]
For the last couple years, the WWE has run an anti-bullying campaign called “Be A Star”. As an avid rasslin’ fan, I see the ads all the time — various wrestlers stand in front of a white background to talk about how they were made fun of as children. The oddest confession is that from Sheamus, a seven-foot-tall, muscular Irishman [Read More]
Just as he said, CM Punk has made the WWE socially relevant once again. Check these links for some pre-MitB commentary from ESPN and a fantastic interview via GQ: The Masked Man: On Wrestling and Reality (via ESPN’s GrantlandO The GQ&A: CM Punk Last night lived up to (and perhaps even exceeded) expectations. Fun show, compelling, left us asking questions [Read More]
In case you’re wondering why we made signs for a referee, let’s take a look back on Memory Lane… Charles Robinson was once the personal referee for The Nature Boy Ric Flair, earning himself the nickname Lil Naitch. He once ran 5 miles down the entrance ramp at WM XXIV to count the pinfall that ended The Undertaker’s match, thus [Read More]
