AS I SEE IT – Advertise your OWN promotion!
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
As most of you know, PWBTS.com, the flagship site of this column, focuses on coverage and promotion of independent wrestling. As someone who happily shills independent wrestling promotions whenever possible, one of the things that pisses me off is the way independent promotions seems to have no sense about the basic sorts of things that they need to do to promote their product.
AS I SEE IT: The Animal is Loose!
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
A few weeks back, I did a review on “Animal” , the biography of George “The Animal” Steele. Steele will appear this Tuesday evening on Alan Wojcik’s Kayfabe Wrestling Radio to talk about the book, available in hardcover and for Kindle and Nook (via Barnes and Noble’s website)
AS I SEE IT: So What is the WWE Looking For?
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
So, after last week’s comments about how great a thing it was to have WWE finally acknowledge that concussions are a serious issue and that CTE may well be a result; what is WWE looking to do?
AS I SEE IT – Finally Addressing Concussions in Wrestling
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
First, word on a long-overdue but welcome step by WWE to address the issue of concussions in wrestling.
This past week, World Wrestling Entertainment contributed $1.2 million over three years to further research aimed at developing a treatment for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. CTE, which has been seen in athletes and wrestlers suffering repeated concussions, and is linked to depression and dementia. This fact and the liability for it has notably challenged by the class action lawsuit by 4,000 former NFL players against the league. CTE has been linked to depression and dementia.
AS I SEE IT – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
The “bad” comes from this adventure in independent wrestling out of Tennessee, sent to me by “Mad Conservative Crimefighter”. I can’t even embellish this, so I’ll let it speak for itself:
AS I SEE IT – The Story of George “The Animal” Steele
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
A new wrestling biography will be making its way to store shelves in June 2013, with “Animal”, the story of George “The Animal” Steele, written by Jim Myers and Jim Evans, published by Triumph Books.
In real life, George Steele was Jim Myers, a high school teacher and coach, a Michigan State graduate and football player.
AS I SEE IT – Remembering Chris Candido
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
Yesterday was eight years since Chris Candido passed away.
It still sucks to remember that fact, even eight years later. Like so many wrestler deaths, the news of his death came on my computer screen early one morning.
AS I SEE IT: Real-life Heroes
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
For the people of Boston, it was supposed to be a day for a great city-wide party.
Monday was Patriot Day, in Massachusetts, the day each year that The Boston Marathon takes place. The Marathon is a city-wide event that defies description. Far more than the premier running event in the United States…it’s a massive volunteer effort and an event that brings out tens of thousands to watch, support, and party.
AS I SEE IT: Sputnik Monroe and racism in the American South
Bob Magee
Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets
http://pwbts.com
On a weekend where the film “42″ premieres. the story of Jackie Robinson’s desegrating baseball during the years after World War II, it seemed appropriate to remember the story again of what one wrestler did to fight a different kind of racism many years ago in the American South.