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June 25, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Elimination Chamber 2021: DVD

Elimination Chamber 2021 WWE Madman February’s Elimination Chamber event is now on DVD and if you’re a fan of these sorts of events – the big Elimination Chamber contests are of course epic by design – then you won’t be disappointed. Both Chamber bouts are great – the first one particularly. Great spots, excellent execution, […]
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June 23, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

My New EBook: Wrestling Is Fake. That’s What Makes It So Real – Selected Grapplings (2005-2015)

I’ve just published my new e-book, my third. This is the first one that’s not about music at all. This is a selection of my various writings about pro-wrestling. I’ve fallen in and out with the “sport” over the last three decades, but I can’t quite shake my fandom, certainly don’t want to ignore my early […]
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May 18, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Best of 24 – 2020: DVD

WWE Best of 24 – 2020 WWE Madman This best of 24 DVD set collects up a few capsule documentaries from the WWE Network’s show 24 – the last couple of years the network has been anthologised with a compilation set cherry-picking some of the best content.
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April 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE TLC – Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2020: DVD

TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs 2020 WWE Madman This was just a solid PPV card from start to finish – no massive duds, nothing that totally blew me away but some quality matches, solid booking and it pretty much all made sense and went off hitch-free. Opener, a ladder match (always a great way to […]
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March 11, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Survivor Series 2020: DVD

Survivor Series 2020 WWE Madman One of the original PPV events from the old days – Survivor Series 2020 faces the adaptation or die model that the WWE now has well in place; video screens dangling in the arena in place of an actual live crowd. It’s bedded in now – we’re used to it. […]
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February 20, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

WWE Clash of Champions 2020: DVD

Clash of Champions 2020 Madman WWE I really enjoyed this Clash of Champions showcase overall. I’m settling into the non-crowd era where the screens are up in the background and the arena is super-quiet; its weird – but so is wrestling. And thus is life.
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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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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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February 21, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Legend of Baron To’a: Film

The Legend of Baron To’a Director: Kiel McNaughton Department of Post / Madman Films The Legend of Baron To’a isn’t great – but it’s charming in its way. It’s so easy to sit back and watch it happen; to be amused in part, to cringe in that way that we do with some of the […]
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