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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 […]Archive
August 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
WWE John Cena – Hustle, Loyalty, Respect: DVD
John Cena: Hustle, Loyalty, Respect WWE Madman John Cena is a big-match player. He takes the pain. He bounces back. He banters well – with the audience and with in-ring smack-talk; he’s a promo-master and he’s cleverly worked out how to own his line-call persona of being an over with the kids babyface that sells […]Archive
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…Archive
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 […]Archive
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!Archive
September 17, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Money In The Bank 2018: DVD
Money In The Bank 2018 WWE Madman I am so far out of the loop with the current product – this is the first PPV event I’ve watched in well over a year. And it’s the first WWE DVD I’ve reviewed in even longer… But that worked out pretty well for me. I’ve always enjoyed […]Archive
January 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: The TED.DiBiase Talks
* Ted DiBiase was “The Million Dollar Man”, a pro-wrestling bad-guy (a “heel”) that fought in matches with the likes of Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage and Andre The Giant, people wealthier than DiBiase; “Multi-Million Dollar Men” * But DiBiase was one hell of a bad guy. * He had the best finisher too: The […]Archive
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
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