Links for April 2009
Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of April 2009.
- Parallel Dimension: The Road Warriors: The Life & Death of the Most Dominant Tag Team of All Time. Review of a DVD set of the Road Warriors. Mentioned how Eddie Sharkey (he was also my trainer) trained them in the basement of a church.
- Ed Mayes: Ricky Steamboat vs Ric Flair. One of their classics from the late ’80s.
- Defy This!: A to Z Wrestling. A scan of a few pages of what I thought was an overseas edition of WWE magazine. Turns out it was an article for a music magazine (see comments below) covering wrestling from A to Z. Definitely not complete by any means, but a fun read.
- Lulu.com: A Fool for Old School. A collection of 20 columns, originally published at The Fight Network and Live Audio Wrestling websites. For sale at Lulu.com
- The Post and Courier: Mania a Show of Hits and (More) Misses. Review of Wrestlemania 25 by Mike Mooneyham.
- Sean’s Place: Wrestlemania Memories. Sean shares his top moments of previous Wrestlemanias.
- Rantables: Raw and Draft Thoughts. More thoughts on the recent WWE draft.
- Wayne McCarty: 8 Stupid Questions for Brody Hoofer. Wayne interviews Brody Hoofer, a fellow Sharkey trainee.
- Rantables: Top 5 Worst Finishing Moves. I would add the Samoan Spike to this list, but he has it on his list of Top 8 Best Finishers.
- Wrestling DVD Reviews: Andy Kaufman Breakfast with Blassie/I’m From Hollywood. I saw these a few years ago and liked them. Sounds like there is some extra footage in the Commemorative Edition.
- JimCornette.com: Jim Cornette Commentary- “The Write Stuff”. This was the basis of my recent post, The State of Wrestling Today.
- Dwarf and the Basilisk: RIP Buddy Rose. Former AWA, WWF wrestler “Playboy” Buddy Rose passed away at the end of April.
- WrestleZone: Promoters Claim Scam by Dale Gagner. This piece of work was promoting when I was actively wrestling. Never worked for him, but heard of some of his dealings, especially his unlicensed use of the AWA name.
As I run across things, I’m also going to be adding them to my Delicious bookmarks page (http://delicious.com/drdarindavis). You can also find the last 10 of them on the right side of the page towards the bottom.
Thanks for the link. Just FYI my site has moved to http://www.seans-place.co.uk.
Thanks
Wow, thanks for the linking! I’ve never had someone link to my site before. I’ll be sure to thank you in my next post.
Hah! It definitely *isn’t* a scan from WWE magazine, it was just a fun random article I did for a local music magazine. That’s why it’s not very in-depth. Quite flattered that you thought it was from the official magazine though. Cheers for the link, too.
Wow. Had to look at that again. Very professionally done. I thought for sure it was from WWE. Nice work!
Ok, I updated the link. I found your site through a Wordpress tag search, so maybe that’s why it showed up as a wordpress.com URL.