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Creature Vs. Creature: Which Technique Is Better for WWE Theatrics?

Originally posted somewhere on the Internet in early 2009. People come to the “Internet Wrestling Community” for all kinds of reasons.  Some of us really like wrestling and we’re looking for breaking...

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Lessons from the Old School: How It’s Done

Originally written in August 2009 There was a time when the spectacle of professional wrestling was very different from the pop cultural phenomenon of today.  For the better part of the Twentieth...

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The Story of The New York Dolls, Part I

Originally written in late 2009 American author E.B. White once wrote: “One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”  One might well consider this statement to be one of the most...

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The Story of The New York Dolls, Part II

Originally written in late 2009; This article is the second part of a two-part series. To read Part I, click here. (Sometimes) Good Guys Don’t Wear White Feels so good tonight! Who cares about...

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Matches To See Before You Die: Eddie Guerrero vs. JBL (Judgment Day 2004)

We wrestling fans have a penchant for sharing our favorite moments of the sport with our fellow enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts (much to the collective chagrin of the latter group, I’m sure).  We have...

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Wrestling’s “Rules for Radicals”

Originally written in late 2009 I first heard of Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals, a primer on community organizing, during a job interview some years ago.  It was an informal interview over...

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Whither “revisionism”?

Marxist circles on the Internet are some of the scrappiest neighborhoods in cyberspace. It turns out that lefites, when critiquing one another, are almost as dysfunctional as the kind of keyboard...

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To Be the Heel: Ox Baker

Originally published via The Wrestling Daily in late 2009; republished to mark the passing of Ox Baker on October 20, 2014. The late, great Ox Baker(1934 – 2014) If there was ever a man who is truly...

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The Spinning Facepalm: Mark Henry’s Big Day

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The Spinning Facepalm: Vince’s Alphabet Conspiracy

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The Spinning Facepalm: Jeff’s Greatest Move

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The Spinning Facepalm: Worst Gimmick Ever

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The Spinning Facepalm: The Prodigal Punk

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The Spinning Facepalm: Vince’s Epiphany

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The Spinning Facepalm: A Guy Called Sting

Once published exclusively via Twitter, I am now moving my wrestling-themed action figure comic strip extravaganza to this site, my own personal spot on the web. In this installment of TSF, we get some...

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Lessons from the Old School: A Look Back with “Leaping” Lanny Poffo

Foreword (February 2015) My first-ever “serious” article about pro wrestling was written on a dare by someone who was, at that time, the top-ranked wrestling writer on a sports website that specialized...

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Wally George vs. professional wrestling

Written in July 2015 for the site “Suicide Dive,” this piece was originally entitled, “Yes, It Really Happened: When Politics Met Wrestling” and it included this preface: “Yes, It Really Happened” is...

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WrestlePasta – Coming Out Both Ends: 5 Times Guys Puked or Pooped In The Ring

(Originally penned for a now-defunct endeavor way back in January 2015.)   Surely the most astute readers have heard of the old “lump under the rug” analogy. You push it down in one spot and it’s bound...

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Yes, It Really Happened: When Santino Marella Covered Amy Winehouse

Written in July 2015 for the site Suicide Dive, this piece was originally entitled, “Yes, It Really Happened: Santino Marella Covers Amy Winehouse On Monday Night Raw.” Ask a philosophy major to draw a...

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Yes, It Really Happened: Steve Strong Vs. The Devil & Mel Sharples

Originally written in 2015  for another website. Go ahead and file it in the “so bad, it’s good” category. After all, “Basher Malone,” a 1988 episode of the cult classic horror series Tales from the...

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