Rumor Roundup for Wednesday, March 6
"WrestleMania 29" match update, Undertaker note, Billy Graham at it again, and more!
"WrestleMania 29" match update, Undertaker note, Billy Graham at it again, and more!
Devon Nicholson praises Nigel McGuinness for the powerful message he made in his recently released DVD The Last Of McGuinness. Which is unsurprising given that both their major league wrestling careers were cut short under similar circumstances.
This film will tell the story of how Nigel McGuinness finally obtained his dream of being a nationally televised American wrestling superstar, only for that heaven to quickly turn to a living hell when TNA abruptly stopped using him as a wrestler.
WCW kept the gimmick train rolling at Halloween Havoc on this date in history, frying Abdullah the Butcher in an electric chair.
WWE names the top 20 most memorable superstar debuts in the company's history.
WWE.com names the top 50 villains in pro wrestling history and we break them down right here.
Take another look at a WWE.com list of the top 30 roughest brawlers in history.
Kurt Angle is legitimately banged up, even if the timing of his reinjured hamstring was a wee bit too convenient to take seriously, just so he could have an inbuilt excuse to miss the U.S. Olympic amateur wrestling trials later this week. One person who wasn't best pleased about Angle's amateur wrestling con was canny self promoter Devon Nicholson, who issued a YouTube challenge to Angle for an amateur wrestling match.
The videos attached show a 20 minute investigative report by 16:9, a Canadian news magazine show that airs on Global, one of the bigger networks in Canada, into Devon Nicholson's lawsuit against Abdullah The Butcher, for allegedly giving him Hepatitis C by using the same blade to juice himself with to subsequently cut Nicholson, and against WWE for being unfairly discriminated against for having the disease. Some interesting new quotes from both wrestlers.
On this date in WCW history: Abdullah The Butcher fries in the electric chair