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There are times when a great wrestling match can be tempered somewhat by a lousy crowd that’s too quiet or disinterested.  Equally there are times when a terrible match is made entertaining by a boisterous crowd who come up with amusing chants or make their own entertainment.  Wrestlemania XXVIII was an unusual pay per view in that it had instances ...

WWE Royal Rumble 2012 If there was ever a show that highlighted where the WWE have lost their way in last few years, it was the Royal Rumble of 2012. The undercard for the show was a series of passable but too-short matches where nothing really stood out.  CM Punk and Daniel Bryan both retained their respective titles as expected.  ...

After the December 2011 pay per view TLC, the WWE had its most talented (and awesome) roster of champions in some time.  Most notably, the holders of the two biggest titles in the company are CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, two Ring of Honor alumni who are both awesome wrestlers and a different mould to the prototype WWE star. Bryan ...

WWE Survivor Series 2011 Madison Square Garden, New York. Although the WWE airs roughly five million pay per view shows a year, there is still the Big Four (Wrestlemania, Survivor Series, Summer Slam, Royal Rumble) that can usually be counted on to deliver a solid show.  This year’s Survivor Series had one major selling point:  the in-ring return of The ...

WWE RAW It’s been said that the wrestling business is ‘cyclical’ meaning that it undergoes peaks and troughs in popularity and relevance to popular culture.  When I was a kid, Hulk Hogan and Rock N’ Roll wrestling was a staple of Eighties pop culture.  It then underwent ten years in the wilderness before being revitalised again by Steve Austin and ...

I was very sad to wake up to the news that Macho Man Randy Savage passed away last night.  Savage had left the wrestling business years ago, gotten his life together and had remarried.  He had a heart attack while driving and his jeep crashed into a tree.  He was 58. Savage is practically the embodiment of Rock N Roll ...

Wrestlemania XXVII, the Super Bowl of the wrestling business, sees the WWE at a crossroads where the organisation seems to be going through a rather difficult transition from their current crop of stars to the new generation.  Many of their top tier stars such as The Undertaker and Triple H are likely only a few years or one serious injury ...

It’s Wrestlemania Weekend on The FAT Website.  So here’s a wrestling-related Youtube clip to start your Friday.  It’s a fan-made song called Custom Made which is made up of promo clips from ‘Nature Boy’ Ric Flair.  This is a pretty great song to start your day with.  Charlie Sheen has nothing on Ric Flair in his hey day. So without ...

I’ll be updating this post later in the day as I’ll be at work and can’t watch the show live unfortunately. There’s no doubting that the WWE is a very different product nowadays than what it was in the Attitude era.  PG-rated, banned chairshots, stoppages for bleeding in matches…its actually quite refreshing to see the product being a little less ...