by OWW Contributor | Feb 8, 2016 | Behind the Scenes
Courtesy of Ringsidenews.com: Mickey Gall defeated Mike Jackson in a welterweight bout on the UFC Fight Pass preliminary card for UFC Fight Night 82. Gall will now move on to fight CM Punk in either June or July. Punk was ringside for the fight and after Gall’s fight,...
by OWW Contributor | May 14, 2015 | Columns
By The Masked Man, writer for Grantland.com: The Reality Era may have started with CM Punk — the wrestler who wasn’t seen as main-event material by WWE bigwigs, but made his way to the top via work shoots — but it was taken to its apex by Daniel Bryan. Bryan was twice...
by OWW Contributor | May 8, 2015 | Columns
By Philip Frazer, theSportster.com writer: Once upon a time kayfabe – the act of portraying staged events as real – was an unbreakable tangent, used to try and get the audience as invested as possible in the clashes of heroes and villains. Some wrestlers refused to...
by OWW Contributor | Apr 19, 2015 | WWE
By Philip Frazer, writer for the Sportster.com: For over half a century the biggest names in wrestling have competed to become the pinnacle of the industry by being able to call themselves the WWE Champion. Whole lifetimes have been dedicated in the hopes of one day...
by OWW Contributor | Mar 15, 2015 | Behind the Scenes
MMA coach Duke Roufus, who runs Roufusport in Milwaukee, appeared on The MMA Hour recently and talked about CM Punk training for his UFC debut. Thanks to MMAFighting.com for these quotes from Roufus on Punk: “He’s putting his work in, he shows up every day. He...