Professional wrestler Bruno Sammartino, the Italian Superman, has passed away at the age of 82. He was a graceful beast who caught the world’s attention in 1959, when he set a new world record for weightlifting, bench-pressing a mind-boggling 565 pounds.
With an estimated seven hour running time, Wrestlemania 34, live from New Orleans, looks to be the biggest, longest version of the sports-entertainment spectacle ever mounted. Within those seven hours are any number of matches worthy of a really good look, none more so than Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar.
Say what you want about pro-wrestling (sorry, sports entertainment) as being fake, but watching a man give up his dreams in front of a live audience is as real as it gets.
Simians reign supreme and wrestling gets weird in Sachin Hingoo’s faves of 2017.
Having the WWE network is what it would be like having a pizza place in my basement: I don’t always want pizza, but I’d eat it at any time and … Continue reading Battle of the Brands: WWE Survivor Series
I keep thinking that one day I will grow out of my pop culture pursuits; comics, movies with aliens and explosions, action figures, and the one that gets the most … Continue reading Too Big to Fail: The WWE No Mercy Double Main Event
If you’re holiday shopping for wrestling fans out there, there are two certifiable A+ products that are absolutely worth picking up to guarantee you won’t be going through a table … Continue reading Holiday Gift Guide 2016: WWE 2K17 and the WWE Encyclopedia of Sports Entertainment
Biff Bam Pop! presents The GAR! Podcast, the Glenn Walker and Ray Cornwall weekly podcast where they talk unrehearsed about whatever happens to come to mind. It’s an audio-zine for … Continue reading The GAR! Podcast: The Championship Belt Sampler
Lists are a funny thing – they’re always so subjective. One person’s top 5 Beatles albums could be very different from someone else’s’. The top 101 best written tv shows … Continue reading WWE’s The Top 25 Greatest Rivalries In Wrestling Reviewed
If you were a wrestling fan during the heady days of the late ’90s Attitude era, you know that one of the greatest performers during that time was Mankind. Or … Continue reading A Documentary For All Mankind – The Life And Career Of Mick Foley Reviewed
It’s hard to believe that this years marks the 11th anniversary of the closure of World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Based out of Atlanta, Georgia, WCW was the company that, thanks … Continue reading Where The Big Boys Played: The Very Best Of WCW Monday Nitro Volume 2 Reviewed
In the late 1990’s wrestling was all the rage. And for the briefest moment in time, the rage was caused by World Championship Wrestling and their band of former World … Continue reading For Life Or Just A Few Years Of Glory – NWO: The Revolution Reviewed
