Vince McMahon learned something a long time ago that NASCAR is just now coming around to understand. Jeff Gordon understands, at least.
“It’s the rivalries and the stories that make it interesting,” Gordon said this week, answering questions about NASCAR’s declining popularity.
I have called NASCAR the “WWE on Wheels” a few times in my life, but I am not going to do that anymore. It would be an insult to pro wrestling...More?
source: trentonian.com
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March 7, 2010
Someone In NASCAR Better Get Interesting
Third Baby Levesque on the Way
Linda McMahon confirmed on her Twitter page the Stephanie is pregnant with her third child.
March 6, 2010
Triple H/WrestleMania Fact
WrestleMania 26 will be the first WrestleMania where an active and uninjured Triple H will not be wrestling for a heavyweight championship of any sort since WrestleMania 17. This was the longest active streak ever for a wrestler to contend for a heavyweight championship at consecutive WrestleManias in the history of the WWE. At WrestleMania 17, he fought Undertaker in a non title match. Since then, every match Triple H has had at a WrestleMania has been for a heavyweight championship.
WrestleMania 18 vs Chris Jericho for the Undisputed Title,
WrestleMania 19 vs Booker T for the World Heavyweight Championship
WrestleMania 20 vs Shawn Michaels and Chris Benoit for the World Heavyweight Championship
WrestleMania 21 vs Batista for the World Heavyweight Championship
WrestleMania 22 vs John Cena for the WWE Championship
WrestleMania 24 vs Randy Orton and John Cena for the WWE Championship
WrestleMania 25 vs Randy Orton for the WWE Championship
Triple H was injured and did not wrestle at WrestleMania 23.
source: wrestlezone.com
Mad Dog A Halluva Guy
WWE has made some goofy decisions when it fills out its Hall of Fame — Johnny Rodz, Refrigerator Perry and Pete Rose among them. But Maurice “Mad Dog” Vachon, who will enter the Hall of Fame on March 27, is about as good as they come ... a guy with as much bark as bite...More?
source: slam wrestling
March 5, 2010
SmackDown Results: Ready, Set, Spear!
The World’s Largest Athlete is one of the most formidable foes for anyone in WWE. However, Edge proved he was up to the challenge by cleverly avoiding a chokeslam with a DDT, then downing the 500-pounder with a devastating Spear. After the match, World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho tried to attack Edge from behind, but he too was met with the Spear. Afterward, The Ultimate Opportunist led the WWE Universe in chants of “Spear, Spear, Spear …”
The night ended for Big Show the same way it began with Edge getting the better of him. At the start of the night, Edge, avoided a charging Big Show, who ended up toppling out of the ring and falling hard onto the arena floor. Full results.
source: wwe.com
Mark Madden Talks Monday Night Wars
Monday Night Wars II? Don’t make me laugh.
A small part of me admires TNA for being brash enough to challenge WWE on its most storied turf, just like WCW did in 1995. But the differences are many, and that’s not good for TNA.
WCW had one of the biggest cable broadcasting conglomerates in North America on its side. TNA has Spike TV. The differences in promotion, perception and exposure are gargantuan.
WCW had a commitment from somebody with an impressive resume of broadcasting and business savvy. TNA has Dixie Carter. Ted Turner had a passionate commitment to wrestling. Dixie’s a mark. (The difference may be narrower than I’m letting on.)
WCW had Hulk Hogan then. TNA has Hulk Hogan now. WCW had Ric Flair then. TNA has Ric Flair now. WWE had Vince Russo then. TNA has Vince Russo now.
WCW had a core of up-and-coming young wrestlers that had not been overexposed. TNA doesn’t. A.J. Styles is 31, Robert Roode 33, Hernandez 37, Samoa Joe 30, D’Angelo Dinero 31 and the woefully underutilized James Storm 32. America’s wrestling audience has seen all of them for a long time, not always in a favorable light.
WCW provided more action than WWE. TNA has no intention of attempting to do that. In 1996, WCW stumbled upon a concept that worked: The WWE invasion of WCW, with ex-WWE stars entering the promotion in the most transparent of guises, the nWo. If TNA has an influential concept in mind, I’ve neither seen nor heard any evidence thereof.
So, tell me where any legitimate comparison exists beyond both promotions happening to air TV on Monday nights?
The comparison mostly exists in the delusional minds of TNA power brokers who illogically expect lightning to strike twice...More?
source: wrestlezone.com
Sting Appearing on the March 8th iMPACT!
TNA president Dixie Carter said today that the company has renewed Sting's contract and he will be appearing on this Monday night's live iMPACT! broadcast.
"Spoke w/Sting last nite. We've renewed his contract & he said he wouldn't miss Mondays live show for anything," Carter wrote on Twitter. "Can't wait to work w/Hulk."
Sting last surfaced on TNA programming during the live Jan. 4 iMPACT when he appeared in the rafters watching Hulk Hogan and Eric Bischoff debut.
source: impactwrestling.com
This Day in Wrestling History
Paul Heyman replaces Jerry Lawler as the new announcer on RAW with Jim Ross.
March 5, 2001
March 4, 2010
TNA Looking to Expand Drug-Testing Policy
TNA president Dixie Carter says TNA is currently formulating a new drug-testing program, apparently to expand the first policy that was started in 2007.
Carter was interviewed by syndicated columnist Alex Marvez, who reports that Carter "understands that greater TNA visibility will bring more public and media scrutiny, especially regarding the company's lax drug-testing policy."
According to documents disclosed by the U.S. Congress's Committee on Government Oversight & Reform in January 2009, there were a significant number of wrestlers who tested positive for steroids when TNA first began testing.
Congressman Henry Waxman's letter on the Commitee's findings revealed that 15 out of 60 wrestlers tested positive for steroid use and an additional 11 wrestlers tested positive for other drugs.
source: pwtorch.com
No 10-point letter for Dixie Carter? I guess Rob Simmons concern for the wrestling community doesn't extend to TNA.
Oderint Dum Metuant: Let Them Hate As Long As They Fear
