After WrestleMania X-Seven, the WWF’s creative juices had well and truly peaked. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the WrestleManias after that sucked – Â just that they naturally struggled to hold a candle to the blow-away event from Houston. (more…)
With WrestleMania a little under two weeks away… and my plans well and truly set for the big show, it’s time for the predictable set of brief ‘Mania articles. This one will be the first of two posts about my general memories, followed by a piece on my live WrestleMania experiences, and finally my predictions.
This year will be the first time since 2008 that I’ve not done a preview “show” for WrestleMania, following the live 2008 show from Florida, and last year’s preview with Colin Vassallo live from Houston. Of course I miss doing those shows, but I know that Adam will have the best seat in the house come March 28. (more…)
At time of writing, we are five days away from the start of the new “Monday Night Wars” in the wrestling world. From September 1995 to March 2001, (almost) every Monday night saw wrestling fans flick between USA/TNN/Spike and TNT as the WWE’s Monday Night Raw fought it out with WCW’s Monday Nitro. We all know how that ended – and almost nine years on, the wars return, as TNA moves Impact to Monday nights, head to head with Raw.
First things first – this ain’t the late 90s. Raw is a shell of its former self in terms of ratings, drawing a little over half of what it did back in the glory days of the Wars, while TNA has yet to crack a rating that comes anywhere close to what Nitro was doing during its dying days. So how on earth can this end well for TNA? (more…)
