SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)… AEW Rampage last Friday night (3/11) on TNT averaged 526,000 viewers, down from the 545,000 the prior week. The ten-week average is 534,000, so Friday’s episode is a typical number lately. In the key 18-49 demographic, it finished with a 0.22 rating which landed it…
Five title bouts headline today's NJPW Wrestling Dontaku show. In the main event, SANADA defends the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion Hiromu Takahashi. In the semi-main, Tama Tonga puts the NEVER Openweight Championship up against David Finlay. Minoru Suzuki, El Desperado & Ren Narita will defend the NEVER Openweight Six-Man Tag…
WWE's new rosters were finalized as night two of the draft took place on Monday. With the first pick of the night, SmackDown Women's Champion Rhea Ripley moved over to Raw. It was later announced that the rest of Judgment Day will also be on Raw with her. United States Champion Austin Theory, Seth Rollins,…
For the fourth time, former X-Division Champion "Speedball" Mike Bailey will take on Jonathan Gresham in an Impact Wrestling ring. The fourth encounter will take place on Thursday's Impact on AXS. The two have had an interesting history since January of this year, first teaming up to take on the Motor City Machine Guns. Their…
Komander may have suffered an injury on a Demand Lucha show. The 24-year-old faced Gringo Loco and Arez in a main event three-way match from Toronto's Parkdale Hall on Thursday evening. Post Wrestling's John Pollock was in attendance and says Komander appeared to be favoring his knee after a moonsault. He was taken to the…
The 1980s was a decade when I needed three jobs to support my wife, infant daughter, and octogenarian dad. My primary job was to make and sell art, and I’m sure you know how that can go. Between exhibitions, I was forced to do construction work and to find, repair, and resell old tube amplifiers….
Jerry Springer has died. The influential daytime talk show host and former guest host of WWE Raw passed away peacefully in his Chicago home on Thursday. He was 79. TMZ is reporting that Springer had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months ago and it took a turn for the worse earlier this week….
Vince McMahon changed plans to last Monday’s episode of WWE Raw, most notably nixing the open challenge by World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins. McMahon made changes to most of the plans for SmackDown days later, including nixing advertised bouts such as Bayley vs. Shotzi, Cameron Grimes vs. Baron Corbin, and Santos Escobar vs. Butch…
I spent my childhood summers on the Reichert family farm near Turtle Lake, Wisconsin, where, inside the red 1880s barn, my uncle Harold played 78rpm records for his cows. He used a wind-up Victrola sitting on a shelf directly in front of the cows, just below a framed reproduction of an Alpine landscape painting. He…
WWE is reportedly planning a “big upset” for Money In the Bank. A new report from proven insider Better Wrestling Experience notes that a “big upset” is planned for WWE Money In the Bank on Saturday. This was not confirmed, but it was indicated the upset is not for Cody Rhodes or LA Knight….
