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On February 24th, 1997, was the night ECW came to Monday Night Raw. The episode began with a tag team match-up between the Godwinns and The New Blackjacks. From there, however, the episode became memorable as it came less than a year after the ‘takeover’ of the nWo in World Championship Wrestling. During the night’s first match, Jerry Lawler shared that ECW would be at Monday Night Raw. So while the ‘invasion’ portion wasn’t as apparent as some may think, it certainly broke the proverbial fourth wall. For weeks, Jerry’ The King’ Lawler spoke disparagingly about what he often referred…
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Hello, everybody. It’s been almost a full year since I sat down and wrote a blog on my times as a pro wrestling referee. 2025 was a hectic year for me, filled with ups and downs both inside and outside the ring. I will do my best to recap it here. My last blog left off looking ahead to March 2025 with two Empire State Wrestling events that were coming up. One was an ESW Keystone event called Crisis in Erie, Penn. and the other was an ESW’s Tough Luck ‘25 in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Crisis was the last ESW…
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They faced one another an astounding 130 times. From their first recorded match in 1985 as part of a 20 $50,000 Battle Royal in Greensboro, North Carolina, to their last one at the Met Centre in Bloomington, Minnesota, for Jim Crockett Promotions in 1986, Magnum TA and Tully Blanchard had one of the bloodiest and scathing rivalries of the era. The Magnum TA and Tully Blanchard rivalry came after Tully’s feud with Dusty Rhodes came to an end. This feud, however, was over the prestigious NWA United States Heavyweight Championship. While the title was held by Magnum TA, it was…
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The late/great comic genius/actor/director Carl Reiner was an admitted pro-wrestling fan “since the fifties. Carl Reiner became a star on tv’s earliest hit show in America, called Your Show Of Shows. It launched the career as entertainment gods Carl, his best friend Mel Brooks, star Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Neil Simon, Nanette Fabray, and tons of others in 1950, narrowly beating nationally syndicated tv wrestling each week. A decade later, Carl had his friend Fred Blassie on the show Carl created(after his own life as a comedy tv writer), wrote, produced, and often directed in The Dyke Van Dyke show casting…
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Tag team wrestling is usually where careers are built, not where made men go to experiment. This series flips that idea. Every pairing in this blog is built around a simple premise: what happens when already-proven main event stars link up and share a corner? The focus isn’t on one promotion, one era, or one style. Instead, it stretches across companies and decades, from territory days to the Monday Night War boom and beyond. Some of these teams were short-lived attractions, others held major tag titles, and a few existed mainly to launch or deepen world title programs. What unites…
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In 2015, Ring of Honors Frankie Kazarian has continued to showcase his skills both in and out of the ring. A former Ring of Honor tag team champion, Kazarian has seen his share of success. However, he has increased his involvement in the music industry and has garnered a great deal of success. He recently took some time out of his busy schedule to participate in an interview with me. Kazarian’s career began nearly twenty years ago. But he is just as dedicated to his craft as he was when he began. A former trainee of Killer Kowalski, Kazarian has been…
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