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August 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: Two Badges

Two badges on my bag, The Ultimate Warrior and Joni Mitchell. Perhaps I can boil my influences down to just those two – (all else somewhere in-between). The Ultimate Warrior sent me a Christmas card once. He’d changed his name to – simply – Warrior. He didn’t wish me well, instead offering me an affirmation. […]

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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 […]

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April 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. The Ultimate Warrior

Perhaps you had – or still have – comic book heroes. I didn’t. Not really. Not unless you count pro-wrestlers. They were my comic-book heroes. There were rock stars too, sure. And pro-wrestlers were rock-stars too. For a while at least. I probably started discovering them around the same time. That’s why – even though […]