wwe Stories - Cageside Seats
The Iceman, The Bad Boy, The Game and The Phenom: Knowing when to go
When Brock Lesnar made the crossover to MMA, I had been out of pro wrestling fandom for a few years. Mixed martial arts captivated my teenage thirst for realistic combat that pro wrestling could no longer quench. One of my favorite fighters as I grew more in tune with the sport was Chuck Liddell...
Natalya and the curse of talent in a WWE Diva
For pro wrestling fans, there is a notorious fallacy that Vince McMahon is partial towards "bodybuilders" instead of the leaner, quicker, more athletic wrestler. People seem to forget the consistent time that wrestlers like Rey Mysterio and Randy Orton have spent on top. And rest assured, even if...
Damn! Ron Simmons to be inducted into WWE Hall of Fame
Photo via WWE.com. John Bradshaw Layfield, eat your heart out. One half of the APA will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year as Ron Simmons will be introduced as the next inductee into the hallowed halls, according to Whatculture. Simmons is recognized as the first African-American world...
Precap for the Jan. 30, 2012 episode of Raw or, the one after the Royal Rumble
No big introduction this week, folks. Everything that can be said about the Royal Rumble has already been stated, both by others and by myself. I don't wish to rehash anything here, so let's jump right into the nights festivities. Punk! Johnny Ace! Ziggler! Trips! WWE Championship! Control of...
I, for one, welcome our new Irish overlord, Sheamus
As I finished watching the WWE Royal Rumble pay-per-view (PPV) last night (Sun., Jan. 29, 2012) I stared at my screen in silence. Top to bottom, it was a great show. Certainly not the best I have ever seen, but extremely entertaining nonetheless. I wish I could have watched it live to interact...
Precap for the Royal Rumble or, the Royal (Rumble) with cheese
Say "what" again Ah, here we are. The most electrifying match in ALL of sports entertainment, the Royal Rumble. There has been plenty said about the match, both here on Cageside and around the Internet. There is little that I can add that will increase the excitement. I will say this, though. The...
Precap for Jan. 23, 2012 episode of Raw or, the go-home show to the Royal Rumble
Fitting the pieces together The past few episodes of Raw have been excellent, and a lot of that has to do with the top of the card finally being stabilized. John Cena is still at the top of the food chain, regularly opening and closing shows. Chris Jericho is doing whatever he damn well pleases....
The duality of the ECW Arena sendoff
As you might have heard, the venue formally known as the ECW Arena has been closed to future pro wrestling shows. It is always sad when a bit of our history lost to the march of time. Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) changed the entire landscape of the industry, and it did so without WWF's...
WWE: Rejected Brodus Clay gimmicks
The Funkassaurs from Planet Funk, Brodus Clay, gloriously entered our lives on last week's Raw (Jan. 9, 2012) and I, for one, never want him to leave. The Johnny Ace phone call was one of the best running gags the WWE has had in a long time, but the payoff was absolute excellence. The funny thing,...
WWE drops Vengeance from its 2012 pay-per-view schedule
Vengeance is gone! In 2012, the WWE will run 12 pay-per-views (PPV) during the calendar year. This is pretty big considering last year saw 13 PPV events and at one time was bloated up all the way 16 shows in 2006. The previous plan was to run two events in October, with Hell in a Cell going down...
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