2nd Coming...
The walls are broken down. The man who unified the WCW and WWF heavyweight championship titles is once again a member of the RAW roster, and Chris Jericho’s return came not a moment too soon for my taste. Y2J is here to save us from the boring, unfocused, tired angles and matches on Monday nights, and from the kayfabe scourge of the concussionist WWE Champion Randy Orton.
How Disappointing…
So much of what wrestling fans get out of the seven original hours of programming from the “Big 2” fails to satisfy, live up to the hype, or deliver the goods in terms of action and excitement.  Why do WWE and TNA continually disappoint their paying customers?  Is it that they realize we’ll still keep consuming their product regardless of what sort of nonsense they serve us week after week, month after month?  I wonder how much ratings, buy rates, merchandise sales, and live event attendance would have to slip before these juggernauts would consider changing their business strategy to please the fans.  Will the Vince Twins go down in flames before admitting something they designed isn’t working?
Bringing the goodness to Japan…
As regular readers are aware, I’ve recently begun to appreciate the greatness that is Ring of Honor. Their more realistic, hard-hitting, anti-sportz entertainment approach is exactly what I’ve been looking for in professional wrestling. Fortunately for me, I just got my hands on the 17 July 2007 “Live in Osaka” DVD from ROH’s first tour of Japan, featuring talent from local promotions Dragon Gate and Pro Wrestling NOAH alongside the ROH regulars.
The Age of TNA
Pro wrestling promoters have always felt more comfortable holding onto the past than looking to the future. They ride a well-known performer long after the poor guy has anything left to offer, decreasing the star’s inherent ability to build the next generation of mainstays for the business by putting them over and “making” the younger grapplers. Wrestling companies continually pad the top of the card with the equivalent of outdated technology, rather than taking a chance on a new “operating system”. And Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is no different.
Reality TV in WWE?
Cyber Sunday is a WWE pay-per-view event that claims to give fans some control over certain parts of the show.  Via online voting, the public can choose match stipulations, select challengers in championship matches and guest referees, and crown the all-important winner of the Diva Halloween costume contest.  But does your vote actually factor into the equation? 
Born again hard...
Brothers and sisters, I am born again!  For you see, I was lost but now I am found.  I was blind but now I see.  I was shrouded in darkness but now I walk in the light.  I had fallen to the lowest of lows, only to be raised up to the highest of highs.  For I am a born again pro wrestling fan.  How did I come to be saved, you might ask?  New life was breathed into my wrestling lungs by three simple letters:  ROH.
save_us.222…
Three short, cryptic digital clips were all it took to send bored wrestling fans into a whirlwind of activity.  It’s amazing that such a relatively simple concept could generate so much enthusiasm, interest, and excitement from a group of people who are usually very difficult to impress. 
Double time...
It’s been a long and arduous 5-year journey for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. The Jarretts’ brainchild has evolved from innovative weekly pay-per-view format, to poor one-hour time slot on Fox Sports Net, to Internet-only, to Saturday late night on Spike TV, to primetime Thursdays, and now to the quintessential archetype of modern professional wrestling television: a two-hour primetime show, the first of which aired on Thursday, 4 October 2007.
A look at Ring of Honor’s Driven
My first exposure to Ring of Honor was their opening pay-per-view Respect is Earned in early July. While there was a lot to appreciate about that show, I didn’t instantly fall in love with the indy sensation as I thought I might, in fact, I marked them down in a few areas in my review.
A Few Good Things
I’m not sure at what point a fan becomes a critic, but I assume it’s a natural development for someone who regularly watches a lot of a certain television program. You watch, discuss, and dissect. You evaluate the impact and effectiveness of a certain episode or segment.
Hornswoggle McMahon
I’m 35 years old. As a professional wrestling fan over 20 years, I’ve witnessed a wide variety of outrageous activity on camera from the stars of my favorite hobby, and heard ten times worse about their off-camera endeavors.
Why Sting instead of a young gun who needs the rub?
After placing their entire promotion and all their gold on the shoulders of former WWE superstar Kurt Angle, TNA had a unique opportunity to push a young up-and-comer to the moon by making him Angle’s world championship tag team partner, but instead they chose to go with the very last man on the roster who needs any sort of help establishing himself, the icon himself, the one and only Sting.
Kevin Thorn versus Stevie Richards: an old-school feud
ECW has produced something RAW, SmackDown, and TNA iMPACT! have been unable to accomplish recently. They’ve created a natural, meaningful, logical feud between two wrestlers who’ve developed a rivalry based on action that occurred during, believe it or not, professional wrestling matches.
CruiserMania!
In a World (Wrestling Entertainment) where size and impressive appearance have always been valued and rewarded more than skill and ability, the more normal sized men who are great athletes, acrobats and entertainers have always been pushed away from the spotlight.