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 He tried to break into the NFL, but after that never came to fruition, he gave professional wrestling a go in 1988 and made a nine-year career out of it, wrestling as both The Patriot and The Trooper in the WWF, WCW, AWA, GWF, and All-Japan Pro Wrestling. Throughout his career, Wilkes won the WCW Tag Team[...]

That continues this week with a look at the (in)famous 1995 New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) PPV event "Collision in Korea"- first confirmed as a topic this season back in February 2021. Image: Vice TV Featuring 15 matches spread out over two evenings (April 28 and 29, 1995) in North Korea, "Collision in[...]

 He's responsible for hiring some of WWE's greatest legends of all time, including the likes of Mick Foley, Triple H, John Cena, Randy Orton, The Rock, and Steve Austin, to name a few. "Stone Cold" Steve Austin and Jim Ross, courtesy of WWE. Austin, in particular, is probably his most important signing, as it wasn't considered a[...]

Then at the end of February, we learned that the 1995 New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) PPV event "Collision in Korea" would also be the subject of an episode Now, the producers have announced that Fred Ottman aka The Shockmaster (as well as Tugboat/Tidal Wave/Typhoon) will also be involved in the[...]

With Evan Husney and Jason Eisener's Dark Side of the Ring set to return for a third season later this year (with the franchise also expanding into other topics, as you'll see in a minute), viewers were expecting the 14 episodes to cover topics such as Grizzly Smith, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rockin' Robin, Sam Houston,[...]

WCW, or World Championship Wrestling if you want to be proper about things, once took on Vince McMahon and the WWE- and guess what? They won- or, they were winning Back when launching Monday Nitro, WCW was gaining ground on the New York behemoth, and with the flip of Hulk Hogan to Hollywood and the[...]

Sting appeared recently on the AEW Unrestricted podcast where he talked about his debut with Tony Schiavone and Aubrey Edwards and revealed how Vince McMahon reacted when Sting decided to take his legacy to TNA of all places! Sting appears in AEW (Credit: All Elite Wrestling) "After it ended? We never did talk," said Sting about talking to[...]

Sting appeared recently on the AEW Unrestricted podcast where he talked about his debut with Tony Schiavone and Aubrey Edwards and revealed how the end of WCW made him feel and how Ted Turner didn't seem to see it coming. Sting appears in AEW (Credit: All Elite Wrestling) "Oh, man, it was surreal," said Sting, discussing the dying[...]

In addition to all his thoughts on AEW that we'll be mining for clickbait articles over the next few days, Sting also looks back at his career, getting into pro wrestling with The Ultimate Warrior, working with Ric Flair, going through the Monday Night Wars, losing WCW, joining TNA, and getting his WrestleMania moment in[...]

Not sexy adult, but dark and violent adult." "Then fire every writer that reads comic books would be a good starting point," Disco Inferno tweeted in response to the news. 1990s WCW star Disco Inferno wants WWE to fire all writers who read comic books so the company can produce "dark and violent adult" content[...]

Some of the topics expected during the third season include Grizzly Smith, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Rockin' Robin, Sam Houston, the 1995 WCW/NJPW event "Collision in Korea" event, and the death of Brian Pillman This brings us to Friday, and to a tweet that shows the series is in production and working on its first[...]

He seemed to think he could just pick a guy up and just slam him through the mat as hard as you could and that was good wrestling." If Bill Goldberg hadn't ended his career before WCW folded, Bret Hart would have never needed to reconcile with WWE. Surprisingly, Bret Hart said he always liked Golberg as[...]

Answering longtime demand from fans for WWE to bring back the popular PPV, WCW Halloween Havoc will return as NXT Halloween Havoc on Wednesday, October 28th, as a special episode of NXT WWE confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, "Are you scared? You should be Bat Spider web Smiling face with horns @ShotziWWE hosts #WWENXT #HalloweenHavoc on[...]

The pro wrestling world is mourning the loss of Joseph Laurinaitis aka Animal, one half of the famed tag-team the Road Warriors, at age 60.

WCW star Disco Inferno once needed a diagram to apply his own finishing move, the figure four leglock, so it's no surprise that, after all this time, Disco still hasn't figured out why mask-wearing can help prevent the spread of coronavirus Disco took to Twitter to question the effectiveness of mask-wearing, which is recommended by[...]

The 53-year-old former WCW star who claims to poop twenty times per day while training revealed his change-of-heart on a podcast transcribed by 411 Wrestling. Bill Goldberg appears on WWE TV over the age of 50 "You want to leave at the top, right? You want to leave the biggest, baddest son of a bitch, period But[...]

The last time The Chadster wrote an article about Disco Inferno's tweets, the former WCW star seemed to take it very personally So when assigned to write about Disco's latest Twitter escapades, I thought it would be best to write about Disco's antics in a manner befitting a patriot and intellectual such as himself Thus,[...]

Mope is a new film starring former WCW World Heavyweight Champion David Arquette as a director working in the adult film industry The film is directed by Lucas Heyne and will release on VOD streaming and On Demand release on June 16th This is also based on a true story, and if the below trailer is[...]

In contrast to the hopeful nostalgia of WWE's In Your House promotion, the Ric Flair 24 is a bittersweet chronicle of the end of an era.

G & S: Computer software, namely, software for the creation of mobile internet applications and client interfaces; Downloadable mobile applications for the streaming of audio and video content; downloadable ring tones, graphics and music via a global computer network and wireless devices; decorative refrigerator magnets; video and computer game tapes, video and computer game discs,[...]

From amidst a bevy of so-called experts urging caution and measures to flatten the curve and protect the most vulnerable, one man has arisen above to ask questions contrary to the popular narrative, a man with credentials such as former WCW Cruiserweight Champion, former WCW Television Champion, and former WCW Tag Team Champion That's right,[...]

Former WWE announcer Christopher Cruise is extremely pleased with himself after the Maryland State Athletic Commission fined AEW $10,000.

We were stuck in a loop. The call has been made for someone to make a sequel to Ready to Rumble, the 2000 David Arquette comedy vehicle that featured a veritable crapload of WCW wrestlers, which led to Arquette's WCW World Championship run Yes, 2000 was an excellent year Just not for WCW Anyway, the call[...]

She ended her run with the company. Vice Extreme Championship Wrestling After leaving WCW in 1990, Sullivan and Nancy went to Extreme Championship Wrestling Sullivan's stay was brief winning the ECW Tag Titles with Taz in December 1993 After a few months, Sullivan left but Nancy stayed She made more of a name for herself managing the likes[...]

The group is likely headlining the 2020 class leading into WrestleMania in Tampa, Florida. https://youtu.be/sqTpZsZd5XoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Hulk Hogan sides with The Outsiders: Bash at the Beach 1996 (https://youtu.be/sqTpZsZd5Xo) The 1996 WCW Bash at the Beach marked one of the biggest heel-turns in wrestling The scheduled main event was The Outsiders (Hall[...]

Bischoff, who ran WCW from 1997-2001 after joining in 1991, will have the same position for SmackDown Live ECW folded in 2001 when the company went bankrupt and their television deal with Spike TV ended WCW folded the same year when executives at Time-Warner decided the company wasn't worth further financial losses, and sold the[...]

Former WCW and WWE wrestler Psicosis made headlines this week after saving a man from drowning after a car crash, according to various clickbait websites that cover wrestling including ComicBook.com and now Bleeding Cool The former Cruiserweight champion was travelling in a car with fellow wrestler Robin Lekime, who was driving, and wrestling promoter Danny[...]

He played the straight man to the wrestlers' colorful personas, providing platforms to and playing off the likes of Hulk Hogan, "Macho Man" Randy Savage, and Andre the Giant. https://youtu.be/xaE_6rRHmd0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: "Macho Man" Randy Savage calls Ricky Steamboat a cup of coffee: Prime Time Wrestling, March 23, 1987 (https://youtu.be/xaE_6rRHmd0) With his WWE[...]

Add in the iconic voice and storytelling of wrestling Hall of Famer Jim Ross and MMA champ Josh Barnett for July 7, and you have must-see TV." Back in the early 1980s, another famous billionaire, Ted Turner, became involved with Georgia Championship Wrestling, the promotion which would later become WCW In 1984, then-WWF owner Vince McMahon[...]

However, one gladiator from the WCW era who has stayed fresh over the decades is set to make a return to the ring Maybe, dare we say, the greatest WCW champion? That's right, we're talking about David Arquette, who announced on the Wendy Williams Show that he's returning to the sport of pro wrestling for one[...]