M. Swift

Let’s dive right into another 3-Count Spotlight as we look at third-generation wrestler Davey Boy Smith Jr. Mic Check On the microphone, Davey Boy Smith Jr is far from awful but very short of good. He can deliver a serviceable…
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James Storm is a TNA Original through and through. After over nine years with the company, “Cowboy” received a shot at the TNA World Heavyweight title in October 2011. Champion Kurt Angle had just defeated Storm’s partner at the…
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Straight out of Blackpool, it’s William Regal! After several years of wrestling around the world, he received tryouts on the UK tours of WWE and WCW in 1991. In January 1993, he joined WCW full-time and would remain…
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There have been several wrestlers who also worked as teachers such as “The Franchise” Shane Douglas, George “The Animal” Steele, and Tim Storm. Look at that—two former NWA World champions! This was used as the premise of the late 80s…
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The Spear is one of the most basic of wrestling moves. A carry-over from football, every version of the Spear—regardless of who delivers it—would be illegal in rugby and Australian rules football. Well, all versions except for our…
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Well, here’s a tough one. Even though Impact Wrestling had control of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship for almost five years, listing the five best champions during that period is proving difficult. This is because two of the…
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Remember when former WWE Champion, TNA World Champion, IWGP Heavyweight Champion, and World Heavyweight Champion Kurt Angle won two Olympic gold medals in 1996? He did it with a broken freakin’ neck, folks. …
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Seriously, what was this championship? The TNA Television title—called that because its other names just made no sense—was a championship that was around between 2008 and 2016 in Impact Wrestling. For a title with such an…
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On the February 9, 1998, episode of WCW Monday Nitro, we got a match that was often described as “controversial” and “awful” in Goldberg vs. Steven Regal. Having watched that match at the time, I didn’t think much of it. I didn’t…
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With no national competition and MMA becoming popular, the attention towards WWE and wrestling, in general, began to cool in the early 2000s. Of course, there was still an attempt to capitalize on wrestling’s popularity:…
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