HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
My Bragging Rights Predictions
Our resident philosopher looks at the WWE’s newest “gimmick” Pay-Per-View.

The WWE is back with another one of their silly “gimmick” PPVs. It’s a situation of Smackdown v Raw. One of the main reasons for this one is to push Smackdown v Raw 2010. The concept has changed, a couple of times. Originally, the various winners of the undercard matches would be placed against each other in a Smackdown v Raw tag team battle. That idea was scrapped and the main event was turned into a 7-on-7 tag team war. Even that has been changed, as team members of Team Smackdown have been replaced by other Smackdowners. I’ll do my best to sift through this mess and try and figure out what the heck the WWE is trying to do.

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Download this special 2.5 hour episode from the following links
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The Katz Files – Arnie Katz
Remembering Capt. Lou
The Kingfish Arnie Katz shares his memories of the late, great Capt. Lou Albano.

RAW’s tribute to the late Lou Albano brought back many memories. It was one of the longest such salutes WWE has done and, in this case, it’s entirely fitting.

His zany character had almost as much to do with the transformation of the WWWF from a Northeast promotion to one that spanned North America as Hulk Hogan or Vince McMahon.

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OWW Radio #26 hosted by Nick Anthony is now available for your listening pleasure on iTunes – just do a search for “OWW Radio” on iTunes or Download the mp3 Podcast here.

OWW Radio is privileged to welcome this week’s featured guest, “The Best There Is, The Best There Was, And The Best There Ever Will Be” Bret “The Hitman” Hart!

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Cody Rhodes Discusses The Change In The Bragging Rights Main Event, Why He “Needs To Wrestle” Shawn Michaels (And Who He Would Like To Square Off With At WrestleMania XXVI), His Thoughts On Shane McMahon’s WWE Departure, NASCAR’s Kyle Busch /Joey Logano Guest Hosting This Monday Night’s RAW (in Buffalo), & The Chances Of A War Games Return In 2010
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HeadLocker — Jay Shannon
ECW (10/20) Extreme Exam
Our resident philosopher looks at an action packed edition of ECW

ECW continued to promote Sunday’s Bragging Rights PPV, even though they really don’t have a part in the show.

Abraham Washington said that he was hosting the show this week. Tony Atlas served to hype Washington’s ego. Chris Jericho interrupted the segment to look for Tiffany. Washington told Jericho that he would like him on his show. Jericho’s response was “I bet you would.” Jericho then walked off as the credits rolled.

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AS I SEE IT
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
PWBTS.com

The sun rose in the west this morning.
They’re wearing sweaters in hell.
And Shane McMahon resigned from WWE.

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6 Years on: Remembering Mike ‘Hawk’ Hegstrand

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As the only team to win the AWA, NWA, WWF and All Japan tag titles, the Road Warriors- Animal & Hawk, were the highest drawing and biggest earning tandem in wrestling history. Along with Hulk Hogan, the Warriors helped to popularise the juiced up muscleman look that 75% of big name wrestlers had by the late 1980s. During their peak years from 1984-89, the Road Warriors were an awesome duo, destroying opponents with power moves, and had a huge following in the US & Japan who loved their no-selling, kick-ass ring styles and unique image. But for Hawk, his success and excessive lifestyle caught up with him in the end. The years of steroid and drug use (especially Cocaine) ended his ride for good on October 18th 2003 suffering a massive heart attack.

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Sunset Flip Presents: Options of Shane McMahon
By Jim Boy Star

The big story in the news this week is regarding Shane McMahon leaving World Wrestling Entertainment as of Jan. 1st 2010.

This is a big loss for the company because this is the 2nd member of the McMahon family leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. Linda McMahon is running for Senate and now Shane will be doing something else. I wanted to take this time to go over the options of Shane McMahon and how likely each of them seem to be.

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Jobbers Of The Eighties
A Column by Derek K. for OWW
Originally printed May 1, 2006

Remember Gino Carabello? “No.” How about Brian Mackney? “Still nothing.” S.D. Jones? “Oh… I think I heard a murmur from the back of the room. What about Steve Lombardi? A few more hands…

What do those names have in common” Well, these men are some of the jobbers who could be found at WWF events back in the glory days of the nineteen eighties. “Jobber” is professional wrestling slang for, to put it bluntly, the loser. It’s more poetic origin is in reference to the fact that a “jobber” is not so much a wrestling superstar as he is a worker (just doing his “job”).

The reason some of you nodded when you saw the name Steve Lombardi (a.k.a: The Brooklyn Brawler), but looked blankly at the screen while reading Carabello’s name, is that some jobbers of the eighties (and earlier) had a slightly elevated status. For example, the Face (good guy; fan favorite) S.D. Jones would usually do some damage do his opponent before taking the fall, unlike the unfortunate Mackney who essentially played the role of practice dummy.

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