It’s the end of the year and it only makes sense to have a year in review of the wrestling world. Well, this is that only different. Okay, I’ll be honest (I am among family afterall), I can’t actually do a year in review because a year consists of 365 days, 52 weeks, 12 months and THOUSANDS of hours of wrestling….on top of this I am a full time worker, a part time student and a per-diem loafer and I simply don’t remember the highs and lows of the wrestling world. I am a lover of all things wrestling and I have been for my entire “something-something” years on this earth. There are several things that have excited me throughout the year but this time of year everyone with a keyboard is writing about that. I wanted to do something a little bit different. You see it’s the holidays and I just got off a plane from visiting my family so it only makes sense that I would have death and dispare in the forefront of my mind.

After the Benoit Family tragedies it seems that there is little left that can shock and rock the wrestling world. These days if someone dies of an exploded heart we’re relieved that they didn’t suffer much. Although the worse tragedy of the year was the Calloway/McCool nuptials (simulating choking) this year was the final bell for a few people who lived to entertain us. I don’t want to do some “Arms of the Angels” montage but I did want to mention a few graplers one last time.

I never understood the crowds response was to question “Who’s better than Kanyon” but if being homosexual was the only thing that held Christopher Klucsartis from reaching his potential in the wrestling world then I hope there is nekked grappling in heaven.

I know what you’re thinking and no Giant Gonzalez did not, I repeat DID NOT die of embarrassment of his neanderthal costume. Jorge Gonzales actually died of complications of diabetes. The true moral of this story is diet and exercise kids.

One of the saddest deaths of the year, for me has to be the one of the baddest little girl on the planet, Luna Vashon. She was underrated and misused in so many ways. In my head I like imagining that we were friends and she would let me call her “Gertie”. If I could pick a poetic way for my friend to go it would be in some kinky act, gone horribly wrong, with Gangrel. She died on my birthday and although her passing was untimely in my wicked imagination it certified us as friends. Either way, my favorite wild child, Gertrude “Luna” Vashon is reported to have succumb with nostile residue. You’re a trailblazer “Gertie”.

Unfortunately, in 2010 a few of our favorite, whacked-out, unpredictable wrestlers lost their wrestler dads. Randy Savage and Lanny Poffo buried or burned their tough-as-nails dad, Angelo. I simply had to pay homage to the guy who gave us The Macho Man AND The Genius. Could there be 2 more different personalities? Rest in peace, Mr. Poffo.

Surprisingly, Jake “the Snake” Roberts is not dead but his daddy sure is. I felt it necessary to mention Aurelian Smith Sr. not only out of respect for his career and his son but because it was this same son who accused him of being a pedofile and a rapist. Something like that is kinda hard to forget. Besides, I like knowing other families are as screwed up, as my own.

Last and not best (respectfully) is the death of Lance Cade. Cade never quite reached the stardom you would expect from someone his age and size but if he did nothing else right in his entire career he died in time enough to throw a monkey wrench in Linda McMahon’s political career. I mean, I’d like to see sharpshooters on the senate floor, as much as anyone, but I’m not sure the world is ready for a Schwarzenegger, Obama and a McMahon in office. It would be too exhausting. Lance McNaught because you did your part to save this country you get a place on this list that would have belonged to Mike “Baston Booger” Shaw AND forgiveness for that Barry Windham, cowboy character. Rest in peace.

Now before you go and get your britches in a bunch because I didn’t mention someone you think I should have….. what do you want from me?

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Posted by Jac- on December 28th, 2010 :: Filed under Editorials
Tags :: angelo poff, Aurelian Smith Sr., Baston booger, Chris Kanyon, Christ Klucsartis, el gigante, giant gonzales, grizzly smith, jake "the snake" roberts, jorge gonzales, Lance Cade, Lance Mcnaught, lanny poffo, Randy Savage, wrestler deaths, wrestler deaths 2010

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Several years ago, after the demise of WCW, I recall hearing a rumor of several big named stars were making plans to pool together funds and star power and forming a wrestling troop as competition for WWE.  As time has passed the closest I’ve seen to bringing this idea to fruition is TNA or as I like to refer to it “Jarrett’s Temper Tantrum”.

I watch TNA, out of the corner of my eye, like I watch most wrestling these day. This way I can do other things, like Facebooking, completing class assignments and watching Grey’s Anatomy. When I began watching TNA a few years ago I have to admit to having enjoyed it. TNA was the thing to watch for those of us who wanted to see actual grappling. If ever there was to be competition for WWE the thing to do was to put out a product that was different. I enjoyed seeing new talent, high flying moves and although the story-lines were a little bit lackluster it was an overall good product.

Enter Christian Cage. Not a big  star but a familiar face for fans channel surfing. Cage tangled with TNA stars and proceeded to highlight  himself as well as his opponents. I don’t know if Cage left the backdoor open when he came into TNA but it seems more and more familiar faces found their way in and onto our tv sets once again. After a while, when you tuned in you saw Scott Steiner, Kurt Angle, Kevin Nash and less of Christopher Daniels, AJ Styles and Jay Lethal. On paper, bringing in wrestling veterans, was a good idea but turned out to be a double edged sword. The problem with old faces is that they come with old knees, necks and backs. When the older guys face off with the new guys the old guys seem to call the shots. Come on, when was the last time you saw Scott Steiner do a Frankensteiner? It’s just not gonna happen.

Fast forward to today. Thursday nights I’ll be tuning in but when things start picking up on Grey’s Anatomy I don’t plan on switching channels. And why would I? I mean… how gross are Ric Flair’s titties and when is someone just gonna snatch Hogan’s hair extension (singular)? It’s dangling literally by a hair. I know most people tune in specifically to Raven…oops…um.. Jeff Hardy. Is it just my logic or do most wrestlers who are apparent/obvious/proven drug users have action taken against them? Luckily, Hardy’s prize in his box of crack-er jacks (pun intended) is a shinny new world title. Speaking of “crack” … who in their right mind would hire Scott Hall and Sean Waltman and fire Christopher Daniels? What in the Hell was THAT?

All in all, what should have been a good jesture on behalf of veteran wrestler, in helping boost the TNA product has turned out to be quite selfish. Nearing the end and regardless of backstage politics, WCW was an good enough product. On Thursday nights when I tune in I get the feeling that TNA is being used as a tool to attmept to capture lighting twice.

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Posted by Jac- on December 2nd, 2010 :: Filed under Editorials

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As a brand new writer here I thought I would start a brand new column, the worst of pro wrestling featuring all the crap we have had from years gone by, this week I re-live

The WCW Comic

The early 90′s saw WCW lose one of their most valued stars. They lost Ric Flair, but gained PN News, Oz, & Big Josh. Not exactly fair, but oh well. But in the cartoonish age of WCW it only seemed fair that those guys over Marvel captured it, in a comic version. The Comic debuted in April 1992 & may well have pleased fans of a younger generation. The guys did their best to fit almost every WCW star at the time, in the strip.

Here, Paul E. Dangerously, Missy Hiatt, and Good Ol’ JR, Jim Ross, give us a preview of the night’s action.

The comic tried to tie in with the current feuds happening on T.V but also adding its own stories in to. Some story’s where more entertaining that the ones happening on T.V.

But every comic has it’s larger than life villains, & trust WCW to supply Marvel with them; we had Johnny B Bad & El Gigante.

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Posted by Sean Walford on December 2nd, 2010 :: Filed under Editorials

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Greenfield Review: My Top 50 wrestlers list of all time!

Hi

My name is Charlie Greenfield. This is my first edition of the Greenfield Review for quite a while and is making its debut on pwrestlingnews.com. I have written columns in the past for pro wrestling insider extra and wrestling-edge.com. This edition of the Greenfield Review is focusing on a list compiled by WWE, ranking the best wrestlers from 1 to 50. The reason for doing this is because WWE is about to release a DVD called “50 Greatest Superstars” and the ranking list they released does not make fair assumptions for some of the wrestlers. Surely Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair should at least be in the top 10? But maybe it’s because they are being punished for being in TNA.  Why is Sting not in the list? Why is Kurt Angle ranked so low?

This was the list WWE released:

1. Shawn Michaels
2. The Undertaker
3. Steve Austin
4. Bret Hart
5. The Rock
6. Harley Race
7. Ricky Steamboat
8. Andre the Giant
9. Rey Mysterio
10.”Rowdy” Roddy Piper
11. Eddie Guerrero
12. Triple H
13. Gorgeous George
14. “Macho Man” Randy Savage
15. “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig
16. John Cena
17. Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair (tied)
19. Edge
20. Jerry “The King” Lawler
21. Lou Thesz
22. Terry Funk
23. Hulk Hogan
24. Bruno Sammartino
25. Chris Jericho
26. Ted DiBiase
27. Fabulous Moolah
28. Classy Freddie Blassie
29. Randy Orton
30. Pat Patterson
31. The Iron Sheik
32. Jimmy Snuka
33. Mick Foley
34. Kurt Angle
35. Buddy Rogers
36. Gorilla Monsoon
37. Junkyard Dog
38. “Superstar” Billy Graham
39. Jake “The Snake” Roberts
40. Big Show
41. Jack Brisco
42. Sgt. Slaughter
43. Kane
44. Nick Bockwinkel
45. Jeff Hardy
46. Dory Funk Jr.
47. Bob Backlund
48. Rick Rude
49. Batista
50. Killer Kowalski

My list that I have come up with is based on watching wrestling in the 1990’s and into the millennium, watching DVD’s and doing some background reading into the history of wrestling.

My list:

1. Hulk Hogan

2. Steve Austin

3. Ric Flair

4.Bruno Sammartino

5.The Rock

6. Shawn Michaels

7. Andre The Giant

8. Bret Hart

9. The Undertaker

10 John Cena

11. Harley Race

12. Roddy Piper

13. Randy Savage

14. Jerry Lawler

15. Mick Foley

16. Rick Steamboat

17. Triple H

18. Sting

19. Chris Jericho

20. Eddie Guerrero

21. Terry Funk

22. Jimmy Snuka

23. The Iron Sheik

24. Nick Bockwinkel

25. Gorgeous George

26. Curt Henning

27. Kurt Angle

28. Rey Mysterio

29. Ultimate Warrior

30. Jake the Snake Robert

31. Brock Lesnar

32.Goldberg

33. Edge

34.Dusty Rhodes

35. Gorilla Monsoon

36. Randy Orton

37. Bob Backlund

38. Rob Van Dam

39. Superstar Billy Graham

40. Jeff Hardy

41. Batista

42. Kevin Nash

43. Vader

44. Ted Didiase

45. Sgt Slaughter

46. Antino Inoki

47. Tito Santana

48. Scott Steiner

49. Big Show

50. Kane

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Posted by Charlie Greenfield on December 2nd, 2010 :: Filed under Editorials
Tags :: Andre the Giant, Eddie Guerrero, hulk h, kevin nash, Kurt Anle, randy orton, ric flair, scott steiner, steve austin, sting, The Rock, triple h, wwe

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Well, well, who would have imagined that the world of wrestling could survive without Triple H? Now we’ve all enjoyed Trips throughout the years but I want to be lone wolf to stand up and say “I don’t really miss him that much.” I don’t miss the 22 minute monologues. I don’t miss 40 year old dads grabbing the mic and telling the world to “suck it”. I don’t miss wondering why a person that large would need a sledge hammer. No fans, I do not miss the Triple H Show. Okay, okay I’ll admit that I do miss the theme song performed by Motorhead.

Oddly enough, since Sheamus “eliminated” The Game several months ago younger stars have been given a chance at the spotlight. In this time we’ve seen Kane’s long awaited rise from the ashes. We’ve also seen the immergence of Nexus lead by, who I consider to be the second coming of Hunter Hearst Helmsley, Wade Barrett. We also have Swagger, Ziggler, Miz and a partridge in a pear tree.

Whether HHH likes it or not he has become everything he has fought against. He has become a backstage politician. He has become Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan, the veterans backstage pushing their weight around, keeping other guys down while hogging the spotlight for himself and his drinking buddies. He has become the machine that would have been happy to keep a worker like Stunning Steve Austin, Mean Mark Callous and Eddie Guerrero at mid-card status. I haven’t been excited about the WWE product for quite some time now but I have to admit that I am excited by its future with its new and fresh talent. I would advise the young guys to soak up as much of the spotlight as they can because Triple H is set to be released, back into action, as soon as December. My guess is that he may take the time to spend the holidays with his girls and possibly make a surprising return at the King of the Ring. One thing’s for sure, when The Game does make his return he may find the game and the players have both changed

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Posted by Jac- on November 28th, 2010 :: Filed under Editorials
Tags :: HHH, Hunter Hearst Helmsely. The Miz, Sheamus, The Game, triple h, wwe

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