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November 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Summerslam 2020: DVD

Summerslam 2020 WWE Madman Summerslam is one of the once-heralded “Big Four” – the original run of PPV events that powered the then-WWF and now-WWE through the year. You had the Royal Rumble at the start, then the big show – Wrestlemania – Summerslam was the mid-year show that settled scores set up at the […]
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October 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Best Main Events of The Decade 2010-2020: DVD

Best Main Events of The Decade 2010-2020 WWE Madman The WWE loves these lazy package-jobs; parcel up the highlights from the things they already shipped out to shelves a while back. Well, why not I guess, easy to do. But as they’re now their own network in service to themselves with rolling ads and aiming […]
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October 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE The Horror Show at Extreme Rules 2020: DVD

The Horror Show at Extreme Rules WWE Madman I’m part-time with this shit, you know that if you’ve read any of my pro-wrestling reviews across the last few years. So you can absolutely take anything I say with a grain of salt. I’m occasionally blown away by the ‘show’ aspect, often underwhelmed and either way […]
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September 20, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Backlash 2020: DVD

Backlash 2020 Madman WWE As a fairweather fan – at best – these days, I was intrigued to catch up with Backlash on DVD not so much for the greatest hyperbole of all time (“The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever”) more for the fact that this was my first wrestling-watching experience in the Covid-era.
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August 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

My New EBook: Selected Interviews (Vol. 1)

I’ve just published my new e-book – a selection of some of my favourite interviews. There are new essays and context-notes around each interview and the range of subjects takes in not just musicians but two pro-wrestlers, a filmmaker and a comedian. There are 15 conversations documented from living legends (Joan Baez, Ry Cooder, Mavis […]
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March 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Survivor Series 2019: DVD

Survivor Series 2019 Madman WWE It’s the 33rd version of the Survivor Series PPV event and it worked well with WWE pitting the three brands – RAW, Smackdown and NXT – against each other as a way of modernising the traditional Survivor Series-styled team match-ups.
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January 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Hell In A Cell 2019: DVD

Hell In A Cell 2019 WWE Madman It seems funny to even be discussing this Hell In A Cell event after that fucking ending! So I’ll start there. Chants of refund and rematch, boos galore and then chanting “AEW” – which is All Elite Wrestling (basically Ring of Honor via TNA for 2019/20). So what […]
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December 10, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Getting Rowdy – The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper: DVD

WWE Getting Rowdy – The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper WWE Madman Roddy Piper was one of the true legends of pro-wrestling; a man who succeeded due to his charisma and character. He was a basic brawler at best, and not big. But he had a motormouth, seemed genuinely unpredictable and was funny-af. He was […]
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December 8, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Summerslam 2019: DVD

Summerslam 2019 WWE Madman There was some good, bad and ugly here which is how it goes with WWE pay-per-view events, how it’s always been really – but certainly in recent years the idea of a classic card with very little in the way of filler seems a distant memory. And this, the 32nd iteration […]
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June 27, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Fastlane 2019: DVD

Fastlane 2019 WWE Madman On the road to Wrestlemania another of the stops was Fastlane – and there was obvious business to do here, break up the Miz and Shane so they could fight at the big show, get Becky Lynch back into the title-run, develop story lines…
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June 17, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Elimination Chamber 2019: DVD

Elimination Chamber 2019  WWE  Madman  Just when I thought the Elimination Chamber PPV event on DVD was one of the more laborious of the WWE staple shows, along comes the 2019 edition. Featuring two of the very best elimination chamber contests.  We start with a dynamic showcase to establish the women tag team champions – how strong the female division is […]
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March 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Box Brown: Is This Guy For Real? – The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman

Is This Guy For Real?: The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman Box Brown  First Second A graphic novel about Andy Kaufman written and drawn by the guy that paid tribute to Andre The Giant using the same form – I’m in!  
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