Welcome to the only post PPV feature that will attempt to grade out how everyone who appeared on the PPV did. Teams will be treated as a unit with standout performers highlighted. To see a quick breakdown of the match and who won, just click that wrestler’s name. Let’s get to the Report Card for [...]

TNA presents their first original programming since their Monday Night impact on January 4th. You can cheat and read the spoilers or suspend belief and pretend the following matches are live:
TNA Knockouts Tag Team Title Match
Awesome Kong and Hamada (c) vs. The Beautiful People
Hernandez and Matt Morgan vs. Beer Money
Desmond Wolfe vs. Samoa Joe
Team 3D [...]

1. Bret Hart looked like he couldn’t care less during the start of his promo, then like he was supremely uncomfortable with both Vince McMahon and Shawn Michaels. Was it just me?
2. It was an uncomfortable reminder of my age seeing two [...]

1. TNA gets Jeff Hardy, the second biggest draw in the WWE when he left, and wastes him on a run in after an X-Division match and being all giddy about a contract. This has overtones of Bret Hart in WCW in the worst way possible. It’s [...]

The WWE is missing a great opportunity with Bret Hart through no fault of their own. Since before he was returning, Bret has given numerous interviews. Here’s a quote from one with the Ministry of Slam wrestling show about the best in the world today:
“I think Melina is really creative and imaginative,” Hart [...]

This is the only post PPV feature that will attempt to grade out how everyone who appeared on the PPV did. Teams will be treated as a unit with standout performers highlighted. To see a quick breakdown of the match and who won, just click that wrestler’s name. Let’s get to the Report Card for TNA Final Resolution!

Welcome to the Ring of Honor Final Battle 2009 review. This is my in depth review of each match. For less of a match and more of a company overview focused review, click here. Let’s get to the show!
Larry Sweeney was back from dealing with personal issues to provide color commentary. [...]

The return of the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be?

This is the only post PPV feature that will attempt to grade out how everyone who appeared on the PPV did. Teams will be treated as a unit with standout performers highlighted. To see a quick breakdown of the match and who won, just click that wrestler’s name. Let’s get to the Report Card for [...]

My good friend Okori over at The Majesty of Wrestling decided to do an all time dream card, then challenged me to do the same. I’ll one up that request with two seven-match dream cards. This one will have all time greats against one another. The next, on Examiner, will put current guys [...]

Vince McMahon has recently taken to claiming that he didn’t want to put all of his competition out of business. Revisionist history aside, McMahon clearly appreciated the top talent and ideas of the various territories- he ended up stealing nearly all of them. The 1980s boom period was certainly on the back of Hulk [...]

Since, in this young week, I’ve already written about the push of Kofi Kingston and Sheamus (and again after Raw), I’ve decided to christen this “young WWE wrestler week.” Since we’ve hit the top young heel and face each on Raw, let’s take a look at the guys everyone expected to be the top young heel and face on Raw around now, Cody Rhodes and Ted Dibiase.

The main event ruled. How would the rest of the show grade out? Let’s get out the red pens and check inside.

As mentioned in last nights ECW Report, the WWE is undergoing a renaissance of top heels. Not since the late 1980s in the WWF has any company had anywhere near this depth and strength at the top of the card in the heel locker-room. In the late 80s, this talent increase wasn’t really a surprise, as the late 80s saw the unification of the majority of the territories into two major companies (WWF and NWA/WCW), but now, there’s no easy explanation for where this talent explosion is coming from. Let’s look at the late 1980s first to see how this amazing heel grouping came to be.

Time for live ECW again! While you wait for updates, check out my Wrestlemania XXVI card. And now, to see if Hurricane Helms is Shane Helms!

How did TNA Grade out for their big show? Who were the A students and the dunces? Come in to find out!

Ring of Honor is bringing back several big names from Japan, Mexico and California. With business down, no more Bryan Danielson or Nigel McGuinness and Davey Richards and Gabe Sapolsky beginning northeastern competition with Evolve Wrestling (more on which at Examiner tomorrow), ROH had to do something. They’re bringing in the following wrestlers: Katsuhiko Nakajima, Teddy Hart, Jack Evans, Alex Kozlov, Rocky Romero, and Human Tornado. Let’s look at what each offers:

The internet, as usual, has found an issue to be divided upon. On one side, we have those who believe giving away a first time match-up on free television is a bad idea. The other side believes that match-ups don’t draw in and of themselves, it’s all about the feud and its build- whether they’ve never faced off, or faced off a million times. The two match-ups in the center of this debate are Chris Jericho vs. Undertaker, a first time match given away on this week’s Smackdown, and D-X vs. Jericho and Big Show. Let’s begin, however, with the history of first time matches.

John Morrison vs. Dolph Ziggler should be booked as one of the best feuds possible in order to elevate both men at little cost to the company in terms or promotion or airtime. To do that, the WWE should take pieces from other all-time great feuds and mix and match to create an epic war that will stand the test of time. Merely reading how these ideas mesh gives the fan an idea of how well they would work together if the WWE were simply willing.

Regal vs. Christian is finally tonight, so come on in to the new ECW Live report and see how the show goes.

A Modest Blog has run its course. Time for something new. Welcome to The Wrestling Guy.

Here are some recent quotes by Hulk Hogan and Dixie Carter about the news that Hogan and Eric Bischoff would be joining the promotion:
Hogan:
“I’m thrilled to be jumping back into the world of professional wrestling,” said Hogan. “My fans have been asking me to return to the business for many years on a full time [...]

Dixie Carter made the big announcement in the home of WWE, Madison Square Garden. It’s on! What might this mean for Russo? This is big!

Let’s take a journey down to Bill Watts era Mid-South and talk about their greatest angle and the match that followed it.

This will be a new post PPV feature that will attempt to grade out how everyone who appeared on the PPV did. Teams will be treated as a unit with standout performers highlighted. To see a quick breakdown of the match and who won, just click that wrestler’s name. Let’s get to the [...]

By reader request on the awesome Vince McMahon doesn’t care about Black People, here we will explain why Vince McMahon missed a great, black young talent like Elijah Burke. The reason isn’t because Vince doesn’t care about black people, or that he’s lazy… the answer is Vince doesn’t care about his talent.

Find the reason, the debut date, the breakdown inside.

The esteemed Charlie Reneke and I have been going back and forth for awhile about the role of punching and kicking in a wrestling match. I maintain that while other moves may add variety, punching and kicking are absolutely fine and can make up the majority of a great match, while Charlie feels that this isn’t even wrestling. This disagreement over punching and kicking has continued in several posts with many readers and authors coming out on both sides until, in the comments of the great John Cena Must Die article by Daniel Douglas, my good friend and great columnist Vinny Truncelito added the following:

So, I posted 20 questions about TNA Wrestling, had fans respond, and wrote columns, including fan response on the answers. Well, all 20 columns are done, so here they are!

17. Is Suicide more over than Kaz would be if given the exact same level of push?
“Its really hard to say if Suicide is more over than Kaz because they are in the damn Impact Zone all the time and you really can’t base anything off of that one crowd. Kaz was over at the [...]

Okay… now… AJ Styles vs. Kurt Angle is the single worst booking I’ve seen in ages. I’m so frustrated right now, that this is the column on TNA Pulse gets for Friday. Ready? Let’s go.
Okay, first AJ vs. Kurt Angle is as big a match as AJ vs. Sting, but they want me [...]

D-Lo Brown and Simon Diamond? Really? That’s the best you can do?

Over on the Examiner, I posted 20 questions on WWE, the indies , and, naturally, TNA. With Bound for Glory this Sunday, I’ve decided to post an answer column to a different TNA question each day until this Sunday, right here at Pulse Wrestling so stay tuned. Today, we tackle TNA question 9.
9. Lacey Von [...]

With Bound for Glory this Sunday, Glazer delivers a TNA column a day to Pulse Wrestling. Check out day 1 right here.

On 9/25 Charlie Reneke broke out one of his patented, Scott Keith style Way too Long reviews, this one for Summerslam 2009. While I’m usually a big fan of these (and far more kindly disposed to many of Charlie’s opinions than many of his other readers seem to be), I felt that he was way off with some of his arguments and assumptions in this review. If you know me, you know I love nothing more than a good debate about wrestling, so here we go. Charlie’s points will be in italics and I’ll reply right after. I’m going to pick at the Star Ratings a bit too, though that’s more because of the assumptions within the commentary than the ratings themselves.

I hate Eric Young. He’s got to be the least talented non-child of a promoter to be pushed seriously. You have to look to the likes of Eric Watts and David Sammartino to find this level of mediocrity given a top push and wasting it. He’s a bland mic worker who isn’t very good in the ring and has a mediocre look without any real size. He’s fooled some people into thinking he’s good in the ring, when he’s just able to be carried by a top notch heel. As a heel himself now, he’s calling far more of matches and is ultimately without value.

ROH’s Glory by Honor VIII, the finale of the Final Countdown tour, the last night of Bryan Danielson and Nigel McGuinness in ROH was a sell out and thus can only be termed a major success. For Andy Mac’s review, click here and for my own click here.

The WWE is dropping the ball having their Hell in a Cell Pay Per View have the same card as the last show, Breaking Point. By putting on the same card twice, not only are they training the audience that they don’t need to spend money on the shows, but they are also over [...]

There are a number of amazing tag teams in wrestling history. Many are huge draws, incredible workers, and even, sometimes, both. Unfortunately, even the best of teams often get bogged down in terrible feuds and matches, like the Legion of Doom being humiliated near the end of their career, the Midnight and Rock [...]

In the comments of Alternate Reality by Vinny Truncellito, Mark Allen claimed WWE could build a card that would rock anything the indies could do. Vinny disagreed. I thought I’d put together the best card possible for WWE, the indies, and TNA to see which turns out best, along with explanations for how it’d work and who would go over. So how about it, readers, which show is best?