Dr. Darin Davis

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of February 2010.

• StuntGrannie: WWE Kills Survivor Series — Vince McMahon announced during the stockholders’ conference call today that WWE would no longer use the Survivor Series PPV name, stating it has “outlasted its usage” and is “obsolete.”
• The Geek Revolution: Farewell, ECW — The last episode (ever) of ECW aired on Feb 16th. The promotion has been ECW in name only, but they still could have done a better job with the last episode.
• Joe Montana’s Right Arm: The Many Faces of Flair — With the passing of his 61st birthday, take a look at the many faces of “Nature Boy” Ric Flair.

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of January 2010.

• Rantables: First Annual Golden Rantie Awards — Rantables takes a look back at the previous year in pro wrestling.
• Rant ‘N Rave: Bret Hart Returns — The biggest wrestling story of the month, and possibly the year.
• Cultural Learnings: Excellence in Execution — A look at how the “Montreal Screwjob” transitioned into current storylines.
• SharpShooting: Hogan & Russo on Impact, Why a Monday Night War Won’t Work – The world, TV viewing habits, and the ways we access programming are different from what they were when the last Monday Night Wars were happening back in the ’90s. Chances are that head-to-head won’t make a difference.
• Continental: Wonder Women [of the WWE] — I wrote about this in length already (WWE: Don’t Call Us Wrestling) so I have nothing more to add here.
• A Bar So Low We Can Step Over It: Why Hulk Hogan is a Moron — Hogan and Bischoff’s idea of “change” is to bring back WCW.
  

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of December 2009.

• Heelzone: Doctor’s Orders: Go For It TNA — Doctor Chad Matthews looks at the state of TNA wrestling and decides they should “Go for it!” against the WWE.
• Ring of Honor: Jim Cornette’s Contract with Wrestling Fans — This is posted at the Ring of Honor web site, but originally came from Cornette’s site (you’ll need to look in the archives for older postings). I wrote a related article about this in a recent posting (Do You Want Your Wrestling Back?)
• My Take Radio: My Take On: Future Rise of Current WWE Stars — The host’s opinion on which current WWE stars will likely be future Super Stars.
• Yellow Fatty Bean: When the WWE Jumped the Shark (1999) — YFB thinks the WWE jumped the shark back in 1999.
• Missouri Wrestling Revival: Baron Von Raschke Gets Inducted into the St. Louis Hall of Fame — “And that’s all the people need to know…”
• ProWrestling.Net: Bret Hart Reportedly Signs Contract with WWE — It was a rumor when I bookmarked it, but by the time of this posting it is confirmed that Bret Hart will be the WWE Monday Night Raw guest host for Jan 4th 2010.
• The Buzz! By Mike Schaffer: Hulk Hogan – Whatcha Gonna Do? — Will Hogan be able to drive TNA to be “the biggest wrestling company in the world?”. I had my own opinion at the time of the announcement (It’s WCW All Over Again).
• Idea Girl Consulting: Bobby “The Brain” Heenan Day in Milwaukee — Video of the mayoral proclamation and Heenan’s acceptance
• Exploder Bomb!: Reigniting the Monday Night Wars — Thoughts on TNA competing with WWE on Jan 4th.
• ProWrestlingWorld: As 2009 Draws to a Close — A look back at 2009 in wrestling
• Rantables: The HIV of Wrestling — A controversial title for sure. “..if Hulk Hogan is the cancer of wrestling, Hornswoggle is the HIV…”. I agree with the statement if not the analogy. It’s good that a little person can get work in this economy, but I think trying to shoehorn him into storylines hurts the product.
• Cartoons and Comic Books: How to Fix the WWE — A lot of great points here about what is wrong with the product. I couldn’t think of anything to add myself, other than having more or longer matches (more wrestling per hour).
• WrestleZone: Big Update on Daivari/TNA — I already commented on this in a separate post (Sheik Bashir Gone from TNA)

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of November 2009.

• Carnage Chronicles: Wrestling 101 — Jerry Jarrett writes about how the “Art of Professional Wrestling” has been lost, and comments about what has happened in TNA since he started it in 2002.
  I hope he’s right about Hogan and Bitchoff (intentionally misspelled) “turning TNA around”, but I doubt it. You can read my thoughts on that in a previous post (It’s WCW All Over Again)
• City Pages: Hulk Hogan Interview — City Pages interviews Hogan about his book and how his life is going down the crapper.
• Stunt Granny: Ric Flair Getting Married Again — WTF? Flair is getting married for the fourth time. Maybe he should listen to some of his shoot interviews first, where he talks about some of his previous wives bleeding him dry in divorces.
• The Inno View: “I Respect You, Bookerman!” — A look back at Brian Pillman
• WrestleZone: Hogan vs. Flair in Australia — Three pictures from the Hulkamania tour of Australia featuring Hogan & Flair. I really figured Flair would stay retired, but I guess he has to save up some cash for his next divorce.
• Missouri Wrestling Revival: Welcome To Wrestling – Former Harley Race Wrestling Academy instructor Matt Murphy is writing a series of articles about the insides of pro wrestling. They include topics like training, creating characters, booking, and running TV. There are 11 chapters so far, but the link above is for the first one. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to navigate from one to the other except to do a search for “chapter” (or something similar).
  

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of October 2009.

• Team Hellions: Shane McMahon Quits WWE! — Shane is not going to be a “lifer”? Apparently came as a surprise to everyone, including family.
• TNA Wrestling: Hulk Hogan Joins TNA Wrestling — You can read my thoughts on that in a previous post (It’s WCW All Over Again)

Hard to believe there were only two stories over the whole month I thought were interesting enough to mention. I probably spent less time looking for stuff while preparing for the site move. Or maybe it was just a slow month.

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of September 2009.

• Rantables: #42 The Week In Review 8/24 – 8/30 — I agree with pretty much everything he has to say in this one.
• The 450 Splash: Dixie v PPV — Dixie Carter thinks that monthly TNA PPVs are not a good idea, but it’s not clear if she thinks they are too often or not often enough. With TNA talking about producing a new weekly show, and now talk about “shaking things up”, this can’t be good.
• Heelzone: Angelina Love Released By TNA — Sounds like this all due to visa issues (she’s Canadian, eh). Hopefully they’ll get this resolved quickly and get her back on TV. Oh, wait… this is TNA we’re talking about.
• Heelzone: Jeff Hardy Arrested — … after a search of his residence yielded 262 Vicodin prescription pills, 180 Soma prescription pills, 555 milliliters of anabolic steroids, a residual amount of powder cocaine and items of drug paraphernalia. The timing on this seems kind of suspicious. Did someone tip off the cops right after he left the WWE?
• The Burning Hammer’s blog: WWE and Monday Night RAW — Another person that thinks the WWE product, especially the Monday night show, is not as compelling
• No Cash Back: Women’s Wrestling Sucks? — A video compilation of some high impact women’s wrestling. That first leap from the rafters is insane.

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of August 2009.

• Stunt Granny: TNA makes some creative changes; still sucks. — Lost Dutch Mantel, but Russo is still there
• WWE.com: Ricky Ortiz Released — WWE cuts loose another one from the roster. I wasn’t a fan of his.
• Rantables: Dropping Like Flies — Discussion of the recent injuries in the WWE and what “Creative” might do about it.
• Rantables: #38 — Really, Vince? — Discussion of McMahon‘s frustrations with the company’s “inability to create new stars.” While I’ve never been a fan of Eugene, but I agree that Vince still tries to promote the big “muscleheads” over the smaller guys with the talent.
  
• The 450 Splash: Another WWE Release — Goodbye Eugene. Hey, I was just talking about you…
• WPXI.com: Kurt Angle Arrested/Kurt Angle Is Innocent — I bookmarked this story back on 8/16/09, but by the time I put together this post the headline on the site had changed from “Wrestler Kurt Angle Arrested“, to “Attorney: Kurt Angle Is Innocent“. Why wouldn’t the update have been filed as a separate story? Maybe by the time you read this, the headline will be “Kurt Angle Cleared of All Charges“, or “Jeff Jarrett Sleeping With Kurt Angle’s Ex-Wife“.
• Variety: WWE Added to Talkshow Circuit — Oh, boy… I’ll comment on this in a separate post when I get around to it. The WWE wants to be one of the stops on celebrity publicity tours, in between Letterman, Conan, and Regis & Kelly. On one hand it seems like a brilliant idea. On the other hand it can only lead to problems because it makes the product worse tailoring the show to the celebrity.
• Stunt Granny: Vince Wants His Own Cable Network — With a library of over 100,000 hours of programming, Vince McMahon wants to start his own basic cable network to showcase it.
• Wresting DVD Reviews: The Rise and Fall of WCW — Review of the latest from the WWE. Sounds like there are a good set of matches, but the documentary part tends to “rewrite history” and leaves a lot to be desired.

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.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of July 2009.

• The Sun (UK): Ric Flair Launches a New Attack on Bret Hart — I think Flair is probably the “greatest of all time”, but calling Bret Hart a “nobody” in wrestling is way wrong.

• The Pro Wrestling Nerd: TNA: A Loss of Potential – TNA’s downhill slide since the early days. If you want to see some of my comments about TNA, take a look at these: TNA Adds More Has-Beens to Roster , TNA Boneheads Volume 2, Will TNA Step Up? , Circling the Bowl?
  

• 450 Splash: Jarrett/Angle Controversy — Jarrett off of TV? Angle in control of TNA? Karen Angle cheated on Kurt with Jeff? Better than a Mexican soap opera?
• Blog of Duty: TNA Gripes — TNA throws all of the former WCW talent into a stable and runs over the new talent/future of TNA wrestlers. Agreed- horrible idea that needs to stop
• WWE.com: THE Brian Kendrick Released — Explains why he was jobbed out to Kofi I guess.
  

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.