With the success of the OWW Top 50 Wrestling Superstars of All-Time List (created to counter the WWE’s controversial/bias version of the list), OWW Genesis – our official Message Board – has created additional categories as a way to celebrate the New Year. We invite all members to take part in the following categories:
Diva Dirt to Honor Trish Stratus with First Ever ‘Legacy Award’
Diva-Dirt.com (Diva Dirt) is extremely pleased to announce today the launch of the ‘Diva Dirt Legacy Award’ with multi-time WWE Women’s Champion, Trish Stratus, set to be honored as the first recipient.
The annual ‘Legacy Award’ will honor the career achievements of select talented and exceptional female professional wrestlers.
“This award is our way of saying ‘thank you’ for the years of entertainment that these women have provided fans across the world,” said Diva Dirt’s Editor-in-Chief, Melanie Rob. “Women’s wrestling may be a niche, but these women work just as hard as male wrestlers and the sacrifices they make for our enjoyment, such as injuries, are real. This is our salute to you.”
This year’s version of the annual event will be the 8th installment of the Tournament to honor late Florida Independent wrestler, “The All American” Jeff Peterson. In November, 2002 IPW Hardcore wrestler Jeff Peterson lost his battle with cancer. May 16-17, 2003 saw the beginning of the Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup, a sixteen competitor cruiserweight in honor of the fallen star. Each year since the event has grown to international levels. Previous winners include, “Reckless Youth” Tom Carter, Justice, Chris Sabin, Milano Collection AT, Chris Hero, and Erick Stevens.
The 2010 Jeff Peterson Memorial Cup will take place over the course of 2 evenings, Friday December 3rd, 2010 and Saturday December 4th, 2010 at the Brooksville, Florida and Crystal River, Florida National Guard Armories respectively.
THE EXPENDABLES
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
Product Description
They might be expendable, but they sure are durable: The Expendables is crammed with well-traveled action heroes, called to a summit meeting here to capture some of that good old ultraviolent ’80s-movie feel. Star-director Sylvester Stallone rides herd as the leader of this mercenary band, which includes Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Stallone’s old Rocky V nemesis Dolph Lundgren. Mickey Rourke, looking like a car wreck on Highway 61, plays the tattoo artist who communicates the gang’s assignments to Stallone; throw in Terry Crews and Ultimate Fighting champ Randy Couture, and you’ve got a badass crew indeed. The specifics here involve a Latin American island where US interests have mucked up the local politics beyond repair–but when Sly’s eye is caught by the feisty daughter (Giselle Itie) of the local military jefe, a simple job gets complicated. Adding to the B-movie flavor of the enterprise, we’ve got Eric Roberts and Steve Austin bouncing around as badder-than-the-bad guys, plus Bruce Willis popping in for a one-scene bit, and… well, perhaps another unbilled cameo. The violence doesn’t reach the frantic pace of Stallone’s last Rambo picture, but it builds to a pretty crazy crescendo in the final reels, during which each cast member gets to show his stuff. Although Stallone’s face looks younger than it did in the first Rocky movie, his line delivery is more sluggish than ever, and what lines! The dialogue is stuck in the ’80s, too. Although it’s pretty ham-handed throughout, The Expendables is likely critic-proof: the audience that wants to see this kind of body-slamming throwdown isn’t going to care about the niceties. Let the knife throwing begin. –Robert Horton
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Denver, CO, November 3, 2010- MMA fighter and professional wrestler Bobby Lashley has re-launched his online store, www.lashleyperformance.com. Formally Lashley Nutrition, Lashley Performance will continue to sell top of the line supplements at discounted prices. Over the next few months, Lashley will add other items to the store that are all designed to boost the performance of his customers.
Lashley will be using his Fan Page on Facebook (www.Facebook.com/fightbobby) to update his fans about new additions to the store as well as to send out periodic discounts and special offers.
Sunset Flip Presents
Don’t Vote For Linda
By Jim Boy Star
This week’s column is going to focus on the upcoming election. This week is an important election for wrestling fans even though not every wrestling fan can vote this upcoming Tuesday. There are a few reasons why you should note vote for Linda, which I will go over in this column because it actually relates to pro wrestling.
It should be noted, I don’t know the “issues”. I do not live in Connecticut and there is no reason for me to follow the politics of the state since I cannot vote anyway. My view is the view of an outsider and pro wrestling fan.
Breaking WSU News:
WSU will debut live on iPPV on 11/6 with the biggest and best names in womens wrestling today. You can see the PPV here..
With a card that includes Serena, Jazz, Rain, Angel Orsini, Traci Brooks, Alicia, ODB & many more, this is the biggest womens show of the year.
However, one name we did not mention yet is WSU World Champion Mercedes Martinez. Martinez, the greatest womens champion in all of wrestling today, with 31 title defenses in her 20 month title WSU World Title reign, has made more defenses and has held her World title more than any other woman in womens wrestling today. Martinez is considered the best and baddest in the world too.
Right After Wrestling with Arda Ocal and Jimmy Korderas on SIRIUS Radio 98 got comments from wrestlers / producers about the Brock Lesnar / Undertaker altercation:
LANCE STORM – I was surprised. the skeptical mind of a worker was always wondering whether it was a work or legit. I’m obviously leaning towards work now. i cant see anything come out of this, but it sure made me think. I can’t see Taker being that unprofessional to confront him and say anything than pleasant words if there wasn’t a plan in the works. Taker is a professional and Brock had just lost a tough fight so I wouldn’t see him doing something like that if there wasn’t plans in the future or hopeful plans in the future.
Preorder Now: Dutch Mantell – Tales from a Dirt Road
Dutch Mantell’s newest book, Tales from a Dirt Road, is coming soon! Autographed copies of the sequel to his hit first book, The World According to Dutch, are available for preorder directly from Dutch.
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“Michael Barton Looks At Standing Up for WWE”
By Michael Barton
michaelbartonfreelance@yahoo.com
World Wrestling Entertainment recently launched a campaign called “Stand Up For WWE”. It is designed as one more vehicle to help Linda McMahon in her senate run against Robert Blumenthal in the state of Connecticut primarily, but it is also more propaganda for the company itself. In the bubble known as corporate headquarters, there are those in power (mainly Vince McMahon) who have always thought that the WWE has been unfairly and unjustly criticized in the media. Until this inititave was launched, I took everything with a grain of salt, for just as Vince may live in a bubble, the entire professional wrestling business does as well in regards to mainstream press coverage, as seen by the downright awful coverage of the Benoit murders. Considering the readily available wealth of information that could be found with a few clicks of a mouse that no one seemed to care about, the entire situation was misrepresented by both sides. But, until recently, it was Vince against the world. Now, Vince wants you to do his dirty work along with him. Sadly, millions will, but they really should educate themselves before they get into this arena.