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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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As a ticket-holding ticket-holder for WrestleMania XXVII (well, as soon as I pay Jeremy, anyway), I’m concerned with the somewhat-thin WWE roster leading up to the company’s biggest annual event. Do I think I’ll see an entertaining show? Absolutely. Do I think it’ll be one of the most star-studded WrestleManias of all time? God, no. [...]
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