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June 28, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Wrestlemania Monday: DVD
Wrestlemania Monday WWE Madman Its known now – really ever since the advent of RAW – as its own thing: Wrestlemania Monday. It’s the night after the biggest event on the WWE calendar and just when you think you’ve seen and heard all the big double-crosses or new additions, you’ve watched the pay-off to a […]Archive
May 27, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Being Wooed by The Nature Boy: My Chat with Ric Flair
For a few years I wrote for a pro-wrestling website, NZPWI, mostly I reviewed DVDs and books, I wrote a nostalgia-based column – and I interviewed two of my favourite wrestlers the first being Bret “The Hitman” Hart and then – it was on to The Nature Boy, Ric Flair… Ladies and gentlemen, his name […]Archive
May 21, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Heart to Hart: 90 Minutes on the Phone with Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart
For a few years I wrote for a pro-wrestling website, NZPWI, mostly I reviewed DVDs and books, I wrote a nostalgia-based column – and I interviewed two of my favourite wrestlers. The first was Bret “The Hitman” Hart. He had just released his autobiography. I sat at the kitchen table and had a phone call […]Archive
April 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: Wrestlemania 33
Wrestlemania 33 WWE WWE.com The flagship event – “Superbowl of wrestling”, etc – is always a calendar-event; for the 33rd time that Wrestlemania has occurred it was a long, rugged set of matches, not without botched spots or weird booking; not without some flatout head-scratchers, but also – the look and feel of it as […]Archive
March 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: Brock Lesnar – Eat. Sleep. Conquer. Repeat: DVD
Brock Lesnar: Eat. Sleep. Conquer. Repeat. WWE Madman When the WWE releases a multi-disc set about one performer you better be a fan of that athlete or entity. An obvious point, right. But I struggled to work through the three discs here because I’ve never cared about Brock Lesnar in the WWE – a Dino […]Archive
February 19, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
R.I.P. George “The Animal” Steele
George “The Animal” Steele. He had a green tongue and made Robin Williams look like someone with Alopecia. He grunted and said only the word “mine”. But in The Truth and TV Guide you’d read, via the weekly updates, that he was actually a university lecturer. He was one of my childhood heroes. A pro-wrestler so […]Archive
February 14, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: Elimination Chamber 2017
Elimination Chamber 2017 WWE WWE.com This year’s Elimination Chamber event took too long to get going. The whole first half crawled by, the big bore being a desperate attempt to make anyone care more than they already don’t about the Tag Team Championship. Things started off fairly decently with the first of three women’s division […]Archive
January 31, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: Royal Rumble 2017
Royal Rumble 2017 WWE WWE.com We’re on the road to Wrestlemania, first PPV event for 2017 and the undercard – a series of title matches – was particularly strong. Lots of feuds to end, to re-ignite, to develop; new feuds to kick in, new matches to get set up for WM. And The Royal […]Archive
December 5, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: TLC – Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2016
TLC – Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2016 WWE WWE.com In the penultimate PPV-event card of the year for WWE, TLC really delivered. A set of strong matches, storylines furthered, no giant shockers, no botched-beyond-repair finishes, no over-booked shenanigans…well, you be the judge there…but a solid three-hour slug-fest of fun and fighting with some pretty wonderful […]Archive
November 22, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
WWE: Survivor Series 2016
Survivor Series 2016 WWE WWE.com Maybe it’s the whole Thanksgiving thing – a cultural aspect lost on me given my location, but I’ve never really been that blown away by a single Survivor Series event. The first was a novelty, sure. Beyond that – and to of course I missed a bunch of them in […]Archive
November 1, 2016 by Simon Sweetman