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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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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Christian, Church, Minister, Poem, Poem: The TED.DiBiaseTalks, Poetry, Pro-Wrestler, Pro-Wrestling, Ted DiBiase, The Million Dollar Man, The TED Talks, The TED.DiBiase Talks, Virgil, Wrestling, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Being Wooed by The Nature Boy, Being Wooed by The Nature Boy: My Chat with Ric Flair, My Chat with Ric Flair, Natch, Nature Boy, NZPWI, NZPWI.co.nz, Phone Interview, Phoner, Pro-Wrestling, RAW, Ric Flair, Ric Flair Interview, To Be The Man, Wooo!, Wrestler, Wrestling, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Autobiography, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Bret Hart, Heart to Hart, Heart to Hart: 90 Minutes on the Phone with Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart, Hitman, Interview, Pro-Wrestling, Wrestler, Wrestling With Shadows, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Actor, Ed Wood, Eulogy, George "The Animal" Steele, MINE, Pro-Wrestling, R.I.P., R.I.P. George “The Animal” Steele, Superstars of Wrestling, Tor Johnson, TV, Wrestler, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged AWA, Commentator, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Eric Bischoff, Eric Bischoff: Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure, Hulk Hogan, Interviews, Madman, Manager, Monday Night Wars, Nitro, NWA, Pro-Wrestling, Promoter, Sports Entertainment’s Most Controversial Figure, Vince McMahon, WCW, Wrestling, WWE, WWE Eric Bischoff - Sports Entertainment's Most Controversial Figure: DVD, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged acromegaly, Actor, Andre, Andre The Giant: Closer To Heaven, Bio, Biography, Book, Book Review, Brandon Easton, Brandon Easton/Denis Medri: Andre The Giant - Closer To Heaven, Closer To Heaven, Comic, Comic Book, Denis Medri, Film, Giant, Graphic Memoir, Graphic Novel, Hulk Hogan, Memoir, Pro-Wrestler, Pro-Wrestling, The Princess Bride, Wrestling, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book, Book Review, Church, David Thomas, Faith, God, Hunting, Memoir, Non-FIction, Pro-Wrestling, Reality TV, Religion, Shaun Michaels, Spirituality, Wrestler, Wrestling, Wrestling For My Life, Wrestling for my Life: The Legend the Reality and The Faith of a WWE Superstar, WWE, WWF ·

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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 […]
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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 […]
Posted in Blog, Mixtapes · Tagged Eulogy, Jim Hellwig, Pro-Wrestling, R.I.P., The Ultimate Warrior, Tribute, Ultimate Warrior, Warrior, Warrior Warrior, Wrestlemania, Wrestlemania 30, WWE, WWF ·

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July 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

George “The Animal” Steele: Animal

  Animal George “The Animal” Steele w/ Jim Evans Triumph Books As a kid I was the biggest George “The Animal” Steele fan. Oh, I loved pro-wrestling, but George “The Animal” Steele went beyond that, or my love of him – as a character – went beyond wrestling anyway. To me he was the greatest […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Book Review, Ed Wood, George "The Animal" Steele, Jim Myers, Pro-Wrestling, Tim Burton, Tor Johnson, WWE, WWF ·

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