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Jeff Hardy's unprotected chair shot to the head proves that TNA never learns
TNA management just never learns, do they? No, I'm not talking about them producing yet another lacklustre pay-per-view event on Sunday, their never ending push of the green Crimson or signing yet another D-list celebrity from Jersey Shore. This time I'm talking about Jeff Hardy's unprotected...
Previewing WWE Linda McMahon's second Connecticut campaign for US Senate
Earlier today Linda McMahon, the wife of WWE's majority shareholder Vince McMahon and its former CEO until 2009, finally announced on friendly home turf that she was running for U.S. Senate again in 2012. This move has largely been expected by political and wrestling insiders ever since she lost...
Mick Foley says a match with The Undertaker at WrestleMania "makes sense"
Mick Foley's appearances on Wrestling Observer Radio are always highly newsworthy and topical (see this article about his previous show where he spoke frankly about the issue of concussions and his own neurological problems). He didn't disappoint last Wednesday either in a show people should go...
Will Mick Foley have one more match at WWE WrestleMania 28?
Dave Meltzer broke the news in his subscriber only August 8th Observer Newsletter that Mick Foley is in negotiations for his likeness to be used in THQ's next WWE videogame, WWE '12, and that both sides are open to the idea of Foley having a major match at WrestleMania 28 next year. Apparently,...
What would the government make of Nate Marquardt's TRT excuse?
Yesterday, we at Cageside Seats had stories on (Chael Sonnen's continued usage of) testosterone replacement therapy and concussions (in the NFL and WWE), so a story that combines the two subjects today is quite fitting. The link between the two topics is that there has been some research published...
Mike Benoit considering class action lawsuit against WWE
The answer to the question I posed yesterday "Should WWE be fearful of the NFL concussion lawsuit?" was emphatically answered by Mike Benoit today, the father of the late Chris Benoit whose son was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by Dr. Bennet Omalu after a post-mortem...
A look at the idea of a class action concussion lawsuit against WWE
I'm bumping this post up because it went up last night not long before Raw and got lost in the post-show parade of posts. As Keith noted, our friend Irv Muchnick put up an interesting piece of information in a post that looks at Keith's post from yesterday about how the NFL concussion lawsuit could...
Should WWE be fearful of the NFL concussion lawsuit?
In what has been one of the most newsworthy weeks of the year so far in pro wrestling, between CM Punk "leaving" WWE with their top title belt, Sin Cara's suspension for a failed drug test, Triple H replacing Vince McMahon as WWE's onscreen figurehead leader and Dana White's secretive meeting with...
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