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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
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
August 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
WWE Eric Bischoff – Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure: DVD
Eric Bischoff: Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure WWE Madman Here – sprawling over three discs – we have the story of Eric Bischoff, dubbed “Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure” and if that’s a big call, then it’s also a pretty large call thinking he’s worth a feature-length DVD with bonus matches and ephemera. But, the […]Archive
May 31, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Brandon Easton/Denis Medri: Andre The Giant – Closer To Heaven
Andre The Giant: Closer to Heaven Brandon Easton (Text) Denis Medri (Artist) IDW Publishing An impressive effort this, Eisner Award nominated writer Brandon Easton and illustrator Denis Medri manage to take us right into the world of Andre The Giant in this graphic biography, one part tribute, one part journalism – the impressionistic world of […]Archive
February 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Shawn Michaels: Wrestling For My Life
Wrestling for my Life: The Legend, the Reality, and The Faith of a WWE Superstar Shawn Michaels w/ David Thomas Zondervan Shawn Michaels’s second memoir is a wonderful study in diminishing returns – apart from the sub-title there’s little here to tell you about his “Legend” status. Instead this runs like a lazy afternoon or […]Archive
April 12, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
TV Shows That Meant The World To Me: # 10 – Superstars of Wrestling
Superstars of Wrestling (back when the WWE was known as the WWF) started in 1986. It ran through until the early 1990s when a name-change to RAW (still the name) saw the turn to a new kind of product. Yes, yes, we’re talking pro-wrestling. I was a fan. Er, am a fan. Well, I’m not […]Archive
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 […]Archive
July 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman