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When I first watched WWF wrestling as a six year old, we got four major shows a year and SummerSlam was ranked second in importance only to Wrestlemania.  And if Wrestlemania was the show that was stacked with celebrities and spectacle, SummerSlam tended to be the show that actually delivered the best matches of the year.  This was the event ...

Wrestlemania 29 Wrestlemania 29 won’t likely be remembered as one of the all time great Wrestlemanias.  It doesn’t come close to the best – VIII, X, XVII, XIV – but instead it fell somewhere in the middle.  The impressive Met Life set design, sellout crowd and excellent CM Punk vs Undertaker match were all big positives but some of the ...

Punkin Donuts

It’s Wrestlemania time! Wrestlemania, the WWE’s flagship show, is airing this Monday morning in Australia.  The show is eminating from Miami, Florida (The Rock’s hometown) at a sold out open air show at Sunlight Stadium.  It is headlined by the marquee match John Cena vs The Rock, which has been over a year in the making. Why Will Wrestlemania XXVIII ...

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 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 ...