Author: M. Swift

Today, Alberto el Patron—who wrestled in WWE as Alberto Del Rio—is scheduled to appear in a San Antonio court for his domestic abuse and sexual assault trial. The May 2020 Incident On May 3, 2020, Alberto el Patron—real name Jose Alberto Rodriguez Chucuan was involved in an argument involving him accusing his partner of infidelity escalated into violence. Chucuan is reported to have struck the woman several times and choked her during the physical assault. From there, the details get worse and involved him holding the woman against her will by tying her wrists with boxing straps, burning her passport,…

How can we talk Squash Match Masters without getting into the Road Warriors? These guys could’ve taught a college course on how to crush opponents on television. Life hacks are big now in saving time and energy doing mundane things. The Road Warriors could do several life hacks for wrestlers on defeating folks in under two minutes. Let’s into three select squash matches you must check out! All matches here can be found on YouTube and possibly the WWE Network. The Road Warriors Mash Mortal Enemies the Mulkeys (NWA, 12/20/86) Nothing much to say here since this was an under one-minute squash.…

We’re back with “Best of The Streak” looking at some of the best bouts and storylines of The Undertaker. After WrestleMania XIV, we got The Undertaker hanging The Big Boss Man in the Hell in a Cell at WrestleMania XV. Triple H Unintentionally Provokes The Undertaker Absent from the ring during WrestleMania 2000 because of a torn pectoral muscle, The Undertaker returned as “The American Bad Ass”. Originally, he was busy with his Brothers of Destruction run with brother Kane—then Triple H opened his mouth. Triple H wanted to be the main event at WrestleMania X-7. Fair enough, he was “The Game” at the time and he had spanked The Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin.…

We’re back for “Extreme Is Alive”, a special “Into the Vault” series where we look at revivals and reunions of Extreme Championship Wrestling. This time, it’s the first WWE production ECW One Night Stand. Before the show, WWE actually did some build-up on RAW and SmackDown. WWE doesn’t run a PPV without some storyline angle. This wasn’t going to be a reunion show where you just give the fans nostalgia and it doesn’t have some marketability to it. ECW One Night Only: The Best This is a hard one because everything got at least silver medals from me. We’ll look at the absolute best…

It’s February in 1997 which means it’s time that we get into WWE In Your House 13: Final Four. I love these In Your House PPVs, even though there’s usually some between-the-Big-Four chaos, they’re shorter and easier to digest than WCW’s full year of PPVs. This was the beginning of WWE playing it fast and loose with the WWE Championship in the months before the Attitude Era as Shawn Michaels vacates the title. As a result, the final four of the Royal Rumble a month prior meet up to see who will take the belt. Besides, that match ended in controversy and this match was…

Making waves in the 2000s as The Predator in Zero One, Sylvester Terkay was a large, burly wrestler with a Bruiser Brody look, an MMA background, and a strong collegiate background. A North Carolina State University alum, he lost to a young Kurt Angle in the 1992 NCAA Division I wrestling tournament but won the tournament in 1993. Fun fact: Mark Kerr, Randy Couture, and Kevin Randleman were also in the 1992 finals in different weight classes. Terkay had wrestling in his DNA and made the transition to pro wrestling in 1999 after dabbling a bit in acting. With such a background,…

Normally, wrestlers do their best to perform their maneuvers smoothly—even more so in segments where they aren’t as fatigued. Unfortunately, wrestling botches still occur and while the ones that happen often tend to just look hideous there are some that could’ve been worse. We’re going to look at four wrestling botches that could’ve ended up much worse. 911 Almost Dumps Tammy Sytch into the Corner and Crushes Johnny Grunge and Pitbull #1 Yeah, that’s a long subheading but it happened during the first Hardcore Homecoming show in June 2005. After the Tribute to the Fallen Heroes of Hardcore, 911 came out to even the score for Tammy Sytch (Sunny),…

Another week, another “Squash Match Masters”! This time we’re looking at a multiple-time World Champion and current AEW color commentator and star, Paul Wight—or Big Show as he is better known. Let’s take a look at three of his best squashes starting with one from his early WWE run! Some Behemoth Calling Himself “Big Show” Plants a Jobber Like He Was Corn (WWE Metal, 10/09/99) This will be different from the other two featured squashes as Chaz—formerly of the Headbangers and Lo Down—gets in a smidgen of offense against the 7-footer. Not that it did him any good because, after that clothesline,…

The 2000s was a year of Extreme Championship Wrestling offshoots and reunion shows. Now, Ring of Honor became the most successful offshoot but we can’t for the Hardcore Homecoming show from June 2005. This show went down two days before the original ECW One Night Stand. We’re looking at Hardcore Homecoming but we’ll also look at One Night Stand in “Extreme is Alive”, compare the two shows, and include a bonus for “extreme vibe check” or how much it resembled an ECW show. Hardcore Homecoming: The Best It takes a bit but once we get to 2 Cold Scorpio vs. Kid Kash, we’re looking at the exciting, competitive bouts ECW had in its…

I want to bring up something that we once reviewed as part of “First Month Fire”. It’s the Brutus Beefcake interview from WWE Monday Night RAW #4—February 1, 1993. I’ve discussed this interview with my younger brother recently and neither of us was particularly nice about it. As a matter of fact, we were laughing more out of the crowd’s reactions towards the interview. A Bit of Background on Beefcake’s Return For some brief background, Brutus Beefcake was out of wrestling for over two-and-half years after a parasailing accident that just shattered his facial skeleton. His jaw and nasal cavity were busted…