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The Second-Annual Pro Wrestling Draft

The Second-Annual Pro Wrestling Draft

By The Masked Man, writer for Grantland.com: Extreme Rules is in the past, and if there’s one thing we learned from that show, it’s that the new WWE season is definitively here — the big match hype of WrestleMania is almost completely gone and the Rollins Era is in...
The Silver Age of Wrestling’s Second Bananas

The Silver Age of Wrestling’s Second Bananas

The Plate-Glass Ceiling: Marty Jannetty, Paul Orndorff, Arn Anderson, and the Silver Age of Wrestling Second Bananas By The Masked Man, Grantland.com writer: When the Rockers debuted on WWF television in 1988, there wasn’t much distinction between Shawn Michaels and...
Hell in a Cell preview on Grantland.com

Hell in a Cell preview on Grantland.com

Photo courtesy of WWE.com: The Hell With It by The Masked Man, Grantland.com writer Hell in a Cell — featuring the giant, five-ton cage that was built by mystic metalworkers and encloses the ring and the ringside floor — has a place in the history of WWE gimmick...
The Masked Man ranks WWE’s top prospects

The Masked Man ranks WWE’s top prospects

Grantland.com writer The Masked Man, David Shoemaker, is the author of the new book The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Pro Wrestling.  In this article he ranks the top prospects in WWE. On Monday night’s episode of Raw, WWE showed highlights of a press conference...
Grantland.com presents: “Welcome to the WWE Network”

Grantland.com presents: “Welcome to the WWE Network”

Courtesy of Grantland.com: Welcome to the WWE Network Grantland’s resident wrestling junkies break down the cutting-edge delivery of the WWE’s Internet-only channel by Bill Simmons and The Masked Man on March 7, 2014 Editor’s note: David “The Masked Man” Shoemaker...