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Mike Mooneyham of The Post & Courier spoke with original Four Horsemen member Ole Anderson this week about the group being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. Here’s some more of what Ole had to say:

“Vince McMahon hates my guts, and I don’t like him. So that’s all there is to it. To be a part of that, anyone with a brain knows who the first Four Horsemen were. It was me and Arn and Ric and Tully Blanchard, and J.J. Dillon was the manager. So if they don’t know that, they ...

Hoarders, Intervention and WWE Therapy by Kevin Kelly

I start Mondays with Hoarders and then Intervention on A&E. By the end of those shows, I feel so good about myself. But I want to suggest a show for the WWE Network called “WWE Therapy”, where people who used to work there live in a group home setting and talk about how messed up they are since they worked for Vince and Co. I’ve been gone from there for almost 9 years and it took at least 5 years before I started to feel nor...

WWE's Biggest Problem by Mark Madden

WWE’S BIGGEST PROBLEM…

…is Michael Cole’s announcing. By far.

I’m not blaming Cole the man. Anything he says that’s damaging is doubtless fed to him by VKM via headset. I’m blaming Cole the “character.”

First off, play-by-play announcers shouldn’t be characters. They are there to “tell stories” (argh), further the action via description, fill in storyline gaps and emphasize important developments in storyline advancement....

John Zandig has been added to the final CZW show at the ECW Arena this Saturday. Zandig, who left the promotion last year and more or less retired, has confirmed that he is coming back to do a "proper sendoff" for the company in the arena. He will take on DJ Hyde in a Death Match. The full lineup is below:

CZW Title Match: Devon Moore vs. Adam Cole
Sami Callihan vs. Blkout's Rich Swann
CZW Tag Team Title Match: Azrieal & Bandido Jr. vs. Alex Colon & Ruckus
Matt Tremont vs. Drew Gula...

The WWE Network delay has been confirmed as several key people involved were told this past week. Nobody knows the new launch date yet but people were told to get rid of all April 1st mentions. It is rumoured to launch in the Fall.

Vince McMahon is looking to get more Legends involved with the Network and has reportedly reached out to many people, including Ric Flair....

Legends House will begin filming soon and will go for 21 weeks, including post-production. The house will be in ...

Speaking to The Sun, Diamond Dallas Page says he has no regrets over the failed 2001 angle that saw him play a stalker who creepily tracked The Undertaker's wife.

"It's amazing to me how many people it bothered. They knew that I was a top guy and they didn't use me correctly, but I agreed to it originally and that was a mistake," Page says.

"Vince and Shane McMahon told me coming in that they had this great idea and I was going to be working with their number one babyface. I didn'...

Linda McMahon has found her connection to WWE under attack by her political opponent. Former Congressman Christopher Shays is focusing his campaign on attacks on McMahon's claims of job creation, referencing the oft-reported early deaths of wrestlers.

Shays told reporters on Wednesday: "She's got over 41 people 50 years and younger who've died in her jobs. That's quite a job record that she's created."

Shays noted that wrestling's record of health issues isn't off limits for his camp...

TNA president Dixie Carter says she hasn't talked to Hulk Hogan in a while. Carter told the Daily Star while promoting the upcoming London iMPACT! tapings that Hogan "knows what's going on (in TNA) – he's a businessman, and he knows that it's an important date for us. He will be eyeing that very carefully. He's been gone from the scene. My goal would be to have him there."

Carter also said that she thought this would be Sting's final year as a wrestler. She said that "it feels ver...

Jerry Lawler recently spoke with the Miami Herald, talking about Vince McMahon's view on the WWD Hall of Fame. Lawler talked about not wanting to be inducted in 2007 initially and told McMahon that, saying he didn't think his career was over.

"I'd always related the Hall of Fame to baseball and football where you don't go in until a couple of years after your career is over," Lawler said. "So I said to myself and Vince, ‘I don't feel my career is over. I still want to compete. I s...

Major Pain, Minor Glory - By ANDY WEBSTER

The taunts in the ring may be make-believe, but the slams against the mat are agonizingly genuine in Robert Greene’s vivid documentary “Fake It So Real,” which examines the weeklong preparations for a Saturday night independent-wrestling match in Lincolnton, N.C.

Mr. Greene follows members of the Millennium Wrestling Federation — burly performers with stage names like Solar, Pitt, Van Damage and Mikado — as they mercilessly punish t...

The following article is from Sportsvibe:

Together, Storm and Roode helped define one of the best eras of tag team wrestling along with Team 3D, and The Motor City Machine Guns in TNA with Beer Money winning the tag team titles on four occasions.

However, towards the end of 2011 Roode and Storm began competing as singles wrestlers and both were involved in the World Title picture. Storm beat Kurt Angle for the sport’s most coveted prize and then offered his former partner a shot ...

According to TMZ, Hulk Hogan is having some issues, following a doctor accidentally ripping out 50 stitches from his mouth. Back in October, Hogan had dental surgery for an implant. The doctor performed a sinus graft, placing a bone in the mouth to support the implant. But when Hogan went to his cosmetic surgeon to begin the implant process, the doctor ripped out 50 stitches from the donor bone procedure.

Since that time, Hogan has been dealing with several problems. His mouth had b...

Former WWE performer, Harry Smith appeared on the Major League Wrestling podcast this week and had the following to say about his time with the company:

“We had a good title run with Tyson Kidd. I was kind of disheartened that more didn’t happen with my time in the company. I felt that i certainly had enough talent… It’s not exactly in my short-term plans to go back there. We’ll put the bookmark in this chapter read on and maybe go back to it sometime. It was definitely ho...

TNA Impact Thoughts

Sting / Kurt Angle, Roode, Bully Ray, James Storm, Abyss, Jeff Hardy

Good opening segment to start the show. Sting makes a 6 man tag for later tonight featuring these guys.

The knockouts featured in the next match are shown having some kind of swimming pool bikini brawl earlier in the day...

Madison Rayne & Gail Kim Vs Traci Brookes & Mickie James

They have a good KO tag match. Gail Kim scored the pinfall.

Ric Flair and Gunner are talking backstage and Sting tells t...

Kane's promo started off well, until Cena got involved and they had that fake looking backstage punching, with the empty cardboard boxes Cena could fall into. Hokey.

The 60 seconds of Daniel Bryan Vs Kofi Kingston was good.... Couldn't they have given these guys a little more time than that? Would 5-10 minutes really have hurt?

Watching Brodus Clay do the homosexual Flash Funk character was way worse than I thought it would be.... Poor Curt Hawkins....

CM Punk Vs Swagger was fine for ...

Former WWE Women’s Champion Bull Nakano officially retired yesterday in Japan at the Tokyo Dome City Hall in front of 3,000 fans, on her 44th birthday.

Nakano retired back in 1996 and became a professional golfer. She dropped most of her weight and got down to 130lbs, but put on weight for the retirement ceremony and was up to 220lbs.

Nakano would not wrestle on the retirement show but hand-picked the matches on the card and later re-enacted moments from three of her biggest matc...

Most fights in 2011 / (2010):

Randy Orton 202 (Kofi Kingston 183)
John Cena 201 (Sheamus 182)
Alberto Del Rio 193 (John Cena 179)
The Miz 190 (Jack Swagger/The Miz 176)
Kofi Kingston 185 (Randy Orton 174)

Most wins in 2011 / (2010):

John Cena 163 (John Cena 138)
Randy Orton 146 (Randy Orton 127)
Kofi Kingston 126 (Rey Mysterio 106)
D...

CORPUS CHRISTI — The year 2012 will be the year of "Swag."

That's what WWE Superstar Jack Swagger predicts for his future.

"You're definitely going to see an evolution of the All-American American," Swagger said. "I'm not going to be satisfied until Jack Swagger is back at the top of the mountain."

The All-American American and the rest of the Raw Superstars will look to build momentum for the year when WWE returns Monday for the Raw SuperShow.

The show begins at 7:15 p.m. at the Am...

The Wrestling Newsgroup Awards 2011

WWE Wrestler Of The Year

CM Punk

Votes for others included: Daniel Bryan & Mark Henry

WWE Diva Of The Year

Beth Phoenix

Votes for others included: Kelly, Eve & Nattie

WWE Tag Team Of The Year

Air Boom

Votes for others included: Usos, Awesome Truth, Lay Cool, Hawkins &

Reks, Gabriel & Slater & Primo & Epico

WWE Match Of The Year

CM Punk Vs John Cena (MITB)

Votes for others i...

Madusa who was known as Alundra Blayze in WWF, says she still owns the title belt that she trashed on WCW Monday Nitro years ago and would like to do one final angle with WWE and let Beth Phoenix wrestle for it.

Madusa says Beth may be the best women's wrestler out today but says WWE is "stifling her" from hitting the pinnacle of her career.

During a recent Q&A on his official fansite, Starship-Pained.com, John Morrison had the following to say:

Question: How’s life after leaving WWE?

Answer: I feel like I got off an express train walked to my car, and sped away. I’m still busy as all hell, but now, I’m the one driving.

Question: What are you planning on doing?

Answer: Check my You Tube channel for updates on me: Here

Question: If you return would you star in a WWE film? What kind of movie would i...

Jack Swagger:

“You’re definitely going to see an evolution of the All-American American. I’m not going to be satisfied until Jack Swagger is back at the top of the mountain.”

“The All-American American was born to be the United States Champion. Ryder’s really molded himself into championship material to cool off his momentum is going to be kind of tough. I’m going to get in there and throw my weight around a little bit and show him how to wrestle.”