Every Monday night for the last few months we have watched Sin Cara wow the crowd with his high flying style and botch prone wrestling. While kids love the masked superstars of the WWE their have been countless others before them doing better manuevers and having better personas then the masked high flyers we see today. I wanted to share...
How the WWE has Failed their Tag Team Divison
The Road Warriors. The (original) Hart Foundation. Demolition. The British Bulldogs. What do all of these Tag Teams have in common? You guessed it – they are some of the greatest Tag Teams of all time. Of course, this illustrious list can go on and on, but mostly with names from a time when the WWE and their fans actually cared about...
Myst’s Soapbox: Just Tweet NO @ Twitter (or any other social app) !!!
The user names of the guilty have been changed (cause you are already likely familiar with their douche baggery, so why should I advertise it)? I am changing gears here on the soapbox, just because we have all been watching NXT go down in a flaming glory of stupidity for a while now—no need to be redundant. For the sake of this rant I...
Wrestling – Why Am I Still Watching?
I ask myself that very question each week. Mind you – I watch neither WWE nor TNA programming live. DVR all the way – then to boot, I fast forward through pretty much all of it. So why do I bother at all, you ask? I will admit, I am a glutton for punishment. The happy-go-lucky girl in me thinks, “maybe it will get better”. But friends,...
My Take On: Why Wrestling Needs Paul Heyman
Behind every Vince McMahon-and-Eric Bischoff-run promotion, there have been numerous wrestlers who credit one man with helping shape their careers — and his name is not Jim Ross or Johnny Ace but the man known as the mastermind a/k/a Paul Heyman. Now I can sit here and cite all the great stuff Paul has done in his storied career, but the...
My Take On: Steroids & Pro-Wrestling
Earlier today I read a great post from ECW great and current member of the TNA roster Raven. Before continuing my post please read his commentary first. Raven’s thoughts on steroids:“The sheets crapped on the former ECW guys who weren’t in shape, but decry when wrestlers used steroids. Make up your mind. Benoit who until he became a...