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	<description>Minnesota independent pro wrestler discusses past experiences and thoughts on the current state of pro wrestling</description>
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		<title>Pulled ECW from TV Match Ratings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the WWE decided to shut down the ECW promotion, it didn&#8217;t make sense to continue to include the ECW numbers with the Raw, Smackdown, and TNA brands on my TV Match Ratings page. Comparing things like &#8220;Total Matches with &#8216;Thumbs Up&#8217; Ratings&#8221; between a promotion that is producing new content every week and one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/03/02/pulled-ecw-from-tv-match-ratings/</link>
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		<title>Links for February 2010</title>
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Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries &#38; articles  that I found interesting during the month of February 2010.

StuntGrannie: WWE Kills Survivor Series &#8212; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/03/01/links-for-february-2010/</link>
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		<title>Invisible Wrestler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually don&#8217;t go for the stuff that requires a huge &#8220;suspension of disbelief&#8220;, but once in a while something comes along that I just have to share.
Growing up I remember watching a lot of invisible man movies. There was also a TV show starring David McCallum.
Just like most people, I used to think about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/02/04/invisible-wrestler/</link>
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		<title>Links for January 2010</title>
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Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries &#38; articles that I found interesting during the month of January 2010.

Rantables: First Annual Golden Rantie Awards &#8212; Rantables takes a look back at the previous year in pro wrestling.
Rant &#8216;N Rave: Bret Hart Returns &#8212; The biggest wrestling story of the month, and possibly the year.
Cultural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/01/31/links-for-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>WWE: Don&#8217;t Call Us Wrestling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In addition to covering the &#8220;salted nut of the day&#8221; and their web exclusive section of &#8220;What&#8217;s Up in the Hubs&#8220;, Continental Airlines Magazine has an article about the female executives at World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in their January 2010 issue. How I even came across this, I&#8217;m not sure.
One of the biggest problems with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/01/16/wwe-dont-call-us-wrestling/</link>
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		<title>TNA Monday Night War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TNA Wrestling had a live 3 hour broadcast on Monday Jan 4th, in direct competition with the WWE&#8217;s live Monday Night Raw program. Of course, the big reason to watch Raw this week was the return of Bret &#8220;The Hitman&#8221; Hart after 12 years out of the limelight. For TNA, the reason  to watch was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/01/09/tna-monday-night-war/</link>
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		<title>Best of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below are the my best articles for the year 2009, listed in chronological order. If you didn’t get a chance to see them when they were first posted, you may want to check these out.
Previous articles are always available through the Archives box on the right, the Category selection, or the Search box.

Birth of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/01/01/best-of-2009/</link>
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		<title>Links for December 2009</title>
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Below are links to some wrestling-related blog entries &#38; articles that I found interesting during the month of December 2009.

Heelzone: Doctor&#8217;s Orders: Go For It TNA &#8212; Doctor Chad Matthews looks at the state of TNA wrestling and decides they should &#8220;Go for it!&#8221; against the WWE.
Ring of Honor: Jim Cornette&#8217;s Contract with Wrestling Fans [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2010/01/01/links-for-december-2009/</link>
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		<title>Sheik Bashir Gone From TNA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind on wrestling news due to the holidays, but reports are that Sheik Abdul Bashir (a.k.a. Shawn Daivari) had asked for his release from TNA. This became part of the storyline for the TNA PPV &#8220;Final Resolution&#8221; that aired on Sunday December 20th.
From the WrestleZone article:
According to the source, Daivari did in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2009/12/28/sheik-bashir-gone-from-tna/</link>
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		<title>Do You Want Your Wrestling Back?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I told you I had just watched a classic wrestling match where the only two moves used in the first five minutes were a side headlock and a cravat, you would probably ask me what 1950&#8217;s-era bout I had seen. Actually, your first question might be &#8220;what&#8217;s a cravat?&#8220;, depending on how familiar you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://drdarindavis.com/2009/12/22/do-you-want-your-wrestling-back/</link>
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