HeadLocker — Jay Shannon

OWW Wrestler of the Week: Jack Swagger

Our resident philosopher, Jay Shannon, profiles the new ECW Champ. Jack Swagger surprised almost all the critics when he took the ECW title from Matt Hardy.

The All-American American, Jack Swagger strolled into ECW like he owned the place. Now, he does. Swagger took advantage of an exposed turnbuckle to stun Matt Hardy. Jack then took the strap by nailing his Red, White and Blue Thunder Bomb on Matt. Jack is this week’s OWW: Wrestler of the Week.

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Jacob “Jake” Hager grew up near Perry, Oklahoma. He was a standout in high school sports. He was recruited by the University of Oklahoma as a double sports star: football and wrestling. The Jack Swagger tag line of being an All-American American is a truthful nickname. Jake set a college record in amateur wrestling in 2006. He had 30 pins during that season, more than any other athlete in the sport’s history. Agents for the WWE saw Hager in action and approached him about a developmental deal with the WWE.

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Alan Wojcik: Let’s backtrack to Sacrifice 2007 where your feud with “Tennessee Cowboy” James Storm ended with a bloody and thrilling Texas Death match. Were you happy with the way America’s Most Wanted ended and what was the short term goals of pairing you with “the War Machine” Rhino?Chris Harris: As far as our direction I knew it was coming and it would set off an enormous feud the fans would enjoy. We weren’t too happy the way they began with us in a blindfold match at Lockdown.  (continued)..

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BOBBY LASHLEY TALKS ABOUT WANTING WWE TO BE HIS ONLY MMA SPONSOR, BEING SCARED TO WRESTLE VINCE MCMAHON, TWO OF THE TOUGHEST GUYS IN ALL OF WRESTLING, AND MORE By WorldWrestlingInsanity.com

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RONNIE GARVIN REVEALS THE LEGEND WHO PURPOSELY SCREWED UP HIS NWA WORLD TITLE REIGN, WHY HE DID IT, AND HOW IT LEAD TO THE END OF JIM CROCKET PROMOTIONS By WorldWrestlingInsanity.com

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The Katz Files – Arnie Katz

My Weekly RAW Notebook!

The Kingfish Arnie Katz presents his analysis and insights inspired by the 1/12 episode of RAW

RAW from Sioux City, IA, began with a close-up of John Bradshaw Leyfield’s big white limousine.

Inside the limo’s cabin, John Bradshaw Leyfield continued to work on his beleaguered, reluctant employee Shawn Michaels. He told HBK that his match against Cena on this RAW would be his WrestleMania.

The Kingfish comments: The tension between JBL and HBK has grown to frightening proportions. Shawn has done a brilliant job of overtly complying with Leyfield’s wishes while his facials and gestures tell a radically different story.

Presumably, the Big Turn is coming. WWE may well do it at Royal Rumble to give JVL a reason for losing to John Cena. That might result in a Michaels-JBL grudge match at WrestleMania.. One thing that could upset that is the possibility that Stone Cold Steve Austin will work his final match at WM 25. He is likely to want to have the match against Shawn Michaels and, if that’s what it takes to set up the match, WWE would likely go along with it.

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