Eric’s Blog: Twenty-five facts about WWF WrestleMania III

Posted on March 29, 2012 by stuntgranny

Today marks 25 years since the monumental professional wrestling event that was WWF WrestleMania III. The event that would purport to break the world’s indoor attendance record, the event headlined by three-year champion Hulk Hogan vs. former best friend and “undefeated” Andre the Giant, the event that encapsulates the incredible boom period of the 1980s [...]

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Eric’s Blog: Defending my stance on Daniel Bryan

Posted on February 2, 2012 by stuntgranny

If you’ve listened to our Royal Rumble review audio with me and Dusty, and if you’ve listened to Stunt Granny Audio #174 with Kevin and Jeremy, you’ve heard a handful of opinions on the character portrayed by Daniel Bryan, described by the Masked Man at Grantland.com as a wrestler who “has transitioned steadily — artfully, [...]

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Eric’s Blog: For CM Punk and Daniel Bryan, Benoit and Guerrero comparisons a little too apropos

Posted on December 19, 2011 by stuntgranny

Last night at the WWE TLC pay-per-view, long-time indy favorite and beloved smallish pro wrestler Daniel Bryan did the unthinkable: He pinned a 500-pound wrestling giant to win the World Heavyweight Championship. When the above picture of fellow champion CM Punk and Bryan surfaced, comparisons to the late, regaled and internationally celebrated Chris Benoit and [...]

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Eric’s Blog: After talking with @Lagana, is it time to riot?

Posted on June 14, 2011 by stuntgranny

(NOTE: My brief conversation with Dave Lagana over Twitter this morning began with no intention of it being turned into a blog post. However, as the discussion went on, I realized how important it was to get these thoughts out to everyone who couldn’t see them for themselves on Twitter. And anyway, out of the [...]

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Smackdown Spoilers

Posted on May 31, 2011 by stuntgranny

My job tonight is simple, compile Eric’s tweets and maybe add some commentary. Should be easy enough. I’m not keeping up with him but will hit his early tweets now and refresh this post later. To make it more official, we’ll even stick a read more button in here in case you want the results [...]

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Eric’s blog: Larry Sweeney revived the art of the wrestling manager

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stuntgranny

Listening back to our PWTorch.com VIP interview with the late Larry Sweeney from March 2008, it’s easy to hear the excitement in our voices when asking Sweeney who inspired his over-the-top wrestling character, as it translated so well into his cornerman persona in Ring of Honor. As a pro wrestling manager, he was smarmy, he [...]

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Eric’s blog: Segment-by-segment review of WWE WrestleMania weekend

Posted on April 6, 2011 by stuntgranny

Since all WrestleMania 27 updates were done last weekend via audio report, we’re going to give you our written notes about the events here. Kevin’s notes are soon to come; I’ll make my points short since there’s a lot to cover, but because there IS a lot to cover, I want to make sure I [...]

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Eric’s blog: A smirk is worth a thousand buys

Posted on March 29, 2011 by stuntgranny

We at Stunt Granny bandy about the idea that the brand “WWE” and the product “WrestleMania” essentially sell themselves, so no matter the headline matches and no matter the build-up, WrestleMania will always be a huge success and the hook that WWE hangs its hat upon. The stadium will be sold out, and the buyrates [...]

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Eric’s blog: Shoddy analysis of WWE fourth-quarter financials

Posted on February 10, 2011 by stuntgranny

My dad and I love each other, and he means me no ill feelings when he says this, but I think his favorite joke is, “What’s the difference between a journalism degree and a large pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of four!” That being said, here’s my analysis of WWE’s fourth-quarter figures, [...]

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Eric’s blog: WWE, wanna create a new star? Have Mason Ryan shelf John Cena

Posted on January 19, 2011 by stuntgranny

  (I’ve been meaning to write a full-blown blog post comparing John Cena’s tenure in WWE to Hulk Hogan’s run from 1984 to 1992, including creating a parallel between Hogan being sat on by Earthquake in 1990 and taking time off to film “Suburban Commando” to Cena possibly needing to vanish from TV for a [...]

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