Pro Wrestling Archive

  • Video: Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes loves WWE All Stars

    Video: Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes loves WWE All Stars

    This was truly a life-changing moment. Pro-wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes was at THQ's E3 booth today promoting the upcoming release of WWE All Stars and WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011. And wouldn't you know it, he told me to beat it! Yes~!

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  • WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    WWE finally has a YouTube account (and with full episodes)

    I must be seeing things... is that an official WWE YouTube page, and one that already has last night's episode of Monday Night Raw online? This is so unlike WWE, embracing technology. They must have hired someone new in recent weeks, someone who told them that, you know, the Internet isn't merely for “geeks” anymore.

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  • Video: Chikara has a video game?!

    Video: Chikara has a video game?!

    I truly have seen everything now. Apparently Chikara, the Philadelphia-based pro-wrestling promotion that mixes lucha libre, puroresu, and general tomfoolery will be releasing its very own video game, Rudo Resurrection. ("Rudo" means "bad guy" in lucha libre lingo.) Absolutely zero details have been announced other than that it will be available for "multiple platforms."

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  • Activision has a laugh, wants to ‘broaden’ Call of Duty franchise. Because $1 billion is too tiny.

    Activision has a laugh, wants to ‘broaden’ Call of Duty franchise. Because $1 billion is too tiny.

    If Activision were a pro-wrestler, it would be the greatest heel of all time. Better than Ted DiBiase, better than Hollywood Hogan—it would even be better than Anderson Silva and his fantastic manager, Ed Soares. (Not that UFC is pro-wrestling, but some of the same dynamics are at work there.) The amount of heat this company generates over the most insignificant, throwaway comments—it's simply unreal. Nuclear, if you will. Take this latest remark: "We haven’t yet announced the content of [Sledgehammer, a new developer it swallowed]'s game, but it's going to be an innovative take that will further broaden the audience for Call of Duty." Yes, because a game that makes you one billion dollars isn't "broad" enough.

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  • iPad? What were they thinking?!

    iPad? What were they thinking?!

    The iPad? What were they thinking? Didn't they consider the implications of people mocking the name? “How will Twitter react?” Doesn't Apple have a social media ninja on its payroll?

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  • Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App

    Five stars: Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly now has an iPhone App

    It's no secret that I'm a big fan of mixed martial arts, also “known” as UFC. It's less well-known that, back in my youth, I was a very big pro wrestling fan. (Pro wrestling today is largely unwatchable.) When I was 15 I subscribed to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, written by the hardest-working journalist in America, Dave Meltzer (the man doesn't sleep), a weekly news and analysis publication that detailed, to an incredible degree, the goings-on of the two businesses, pro wrestling and MMA. A little more than a year ago the newsletter entered the online age (while merging with another, similar publication in Figure 4 Weekly, written by Bryan Alvarez), with newsletters being made available online (in addition to the dead trees version). Today the publication enters the next exciting age, the iPhone age. That's right: there's now a Wrestling Observer Newsletter/Figure 4 Weekly iPhone App~!

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  • Sad: Captain Lou Albano, who played Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, has died

    Sad: Captain Lou Albano, who played Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, has died

    I am so sorry, you guys. I was AFK yesterday, and no one else on Team CG thought it was important to bring you this sad news: Captain Lou Albano, who you may remember as Mario from The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, passed away yesterday. He was 76.

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  • Daily Crunch: The Thumb Wrestler Edition

    Daily Crunch: The Thumb Wrestler Edition

    Pro Thumb Wrestling toy James May’s Lego House has been demolished, try not to cry IR technology would prevent in-theater video recording

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  • Pro Thumb Wrestling toy

    Pro Thumb Wrestling toy

    I don't have much to do here but say the pic is self-explanatory and ask why any company would actually produce these things. But this Pro Thumb Wrestling (why "Pro"?) toy can be yours for $10 plus shipping over at Rinkya.

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