Dr. Darin Davis

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

• Rantables: A Character Shattered. I have similar feelings about hearing Umaga speak perfect English on Smackdown.
• Stunt Grannie: 10th Anniversary of the Death of Owen Hart
• [Insert Meaningful Title Here]: Current Situation in the World of Fake Violence. He used the “F” word (fake), but I’m still linking anyway . Echoes some of my previous rants (here, here, and here) about not pushing younger stars.
• Wayne McCarty: F1rst Wrestling: The Return 09. Jerry Lynn vs. Sean “Lightning Kid” “XPac” Waltman on June 19th, 2009.
• The Buzz: Great Moment in Pro Wrestling History – Genesis of the nWo. Hulk Hogan turns heel and joins the nWo in 1996.
• Wrestlegasm: The Dirtiest Job on the Internet… is being a fan blogging about professional wrestling.
• World Wrestling Fan: Montreal Screwjob. A recounting of the incident in Montreal between Vince McMahon and Bret Hart.
• The Buzz: Great Moment in Wrestling History — Macho Man Reunites with Miss Elizabeth. Ohhh yeahhh!
• Heelzone: WWE Releases Mr. Kennedy… Kennedy! Green Bay wrestler Mr. Kennedy (Ken Anderson), who just made his return to TV last week after being out for ten months, gets the axe. WrestleZone claims that the last straw was when he almost reinjured Randy Orton‘s shoulder.

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 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.

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

• GregHorrorShow:  Preview of the upcoming WWE Legends of Wrestlemania videogame (on systems I don’t own)
  
• The Lowdown Blog: A comparison of the character in the movie The Wrestler with some known wrestling talent.
• WrestleZone: A shoot interview with Shawn Michaels from 1999. Unfortunately it’s broken up into 20 parts, but it’s still watchable. Here is a link to Part 1 (you can search for the rest)
• YouShouldOnlyKnow has a few words on the death of Andrew “Test” Martin.
• Wayne McCarty has a story and some pix from the MIW show from Mounds View, MN, where I somehow ended up in the battle royal.
• NFB CA: The National Film Board of Canada has made the Bret “Hitman” Hart documentary “Wrestling with Shadows” available online for free.
• Woooo: Best of Ric Flair‘s “Flair Flops” on YouTube.
• The Metal Misfit has a look back at the Wrestlemania‘s of the ’80s and the ’90s.

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of February 2009, with a special highlight at the end.

• Wayne McCarty:  Two former pro wrestlers going extreme for charity- Nora Greenwald and Drej step up for charity
• MemphisWrestlingHistory.com: Memphis Wrestling History: Nick Bockwinkel Interview
• PWInsider.com: SonJay Dutt Released
• Project126: Wrestling Video of the Week #4 -a tribute video to Petey Williams
• EpicPonyz.com: Goldman Gone/Williams ‘Destroyed’-WWE/TNA Releases – Scotty Goldman and Petey Williams released.
• MetalMisfit: Pro Wrestling Video Games on NES – for those of us video game fans, pro wrestling games on the Nintendo NES.
• YouTube Reviewed: The Wrestling Game That Changed Everything – old Wrestlemania video game TV commercial

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

Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of December 2008.

Wayne McCarty: Sojourner Bolt, AKA Josie, signs with TNA-  Former Sharkey/Fox trainee makes it to TNA.

I don’t know if this will be a regular monthly “feature”, but below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries & articles that I found interesting during the month of November. Note that I didn’t include the links that were already in a posting on TNA wrestling.

• Wayne McCarty has 8 Stupid Questions for Playboy Pete HUGE
• Raidersaint has some suggestions for promoters in a short series on How to Get Wrestling Fans. The posts on this topic aren’t linked together very well as far as navigation, so you might have to do a search like this.
• Al Creed at has some interesting comments about whether John Cena‘s beatdown of Chris Jericho went too far on a recent WWE Raw.
• ksuna24 thinks we may be witnessing a return to the “kid-friendly” WWE product. [I touched on this a little bit in a previous post on WWE's push into Japan]

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.