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I have been a fan of professional wrestling for many decades.  Over the years, I’ve actually met and interviewed several top stars for magazine articles and the like – Bret Hart, Chris Jericho, Bruno Sammartino, Mick Foley and Ted DiBiase, to name but a few.  This is fun stuff. And I also enjoy the current…

You know the standard build for a professional wrestler.  They’re either 6’5″, 250 pounds, built like a tank, or they’re 5’10”, 195, with gymnastics and acrobatics that would make Cirque du Soleil envious.  Oh yeah, and a wrestler might or might not wear a mask. That being said, there are also wrestlers who can “get…

I definitely enjoy watching professional wrestling.  It’s a fun diversion in life.  And currently I’ve been hooked on the antics of a pair of wrestlers who call themselves the IIconics. These two wrestlers – Peyton Royce and Billie Kay – fought their way up from a small independent Australian wrestling company, through different American wrestling…

There’s a lot of things that I like about professional wrestling.  One thing I don’t like, however, is when a professional wrestler or a commentator or someone involved in the field of sports entertainment uses an offensive slur in their commentary. And last night, WWE on-air personality Corey Graves dropped such a comment. He called…

Yes, yes, I understand.  I like to watch professional wrestling now and again.  It’s something I enjoy doing. And over the past few years, I’ve seen a marked change in the way women’s wrestling has appeared – on television and on pay-per-view. Last night’s WWE megacard, WWE Evolution, was the company’s first-ever all-female show.  With…

Last night, I was watching Monday Night Raw – yes, I watch professional wrestling, deal with it – and the first person on my TV screen that night was Roman Reigns.  Oh great.  Another promo to hype an upcoming pay-per-view. But something was different about Roman Reigns’ appearance that night.  He wasn’t wearing his usual…

Professional wrestling has evolved – and it continues to evolve today.  Especially in the world of women’s professional wrestling.  Once relegated to a subgenre of eye-candy girls in skimpy outfits barely capable of a collar-and-elbow lock-up, today’s women’s wrestling is now exciting, challenging, and just as popular on the card as men’s wrestling.  Heck, later…

It’s the early 1970’s, and my local TV station airs Saturday morning and Sunday morning professional wrestling programs.  The shows were part of what was then the World Wide Wrestling Federation organization, with babyface champions like Andre the Giant, Chief Jay Strongbow, “Polish Power” Ivan Putski, and tag team specialist Tony Garea.  It also had…

I make no excuses, I am a longtime professional wrestling fan.  You know, WWE Raw, WWE Smackdown, Lucha Underground… But this coming January … I gotta watch this upcoming pay per view. Let me explain.