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In February 2007 I joined Inside Pulse as a writer for the TV section. Four years and countless posts later, it's time for me to hang up my keyboard and bid farewell. Four years is a long time, but it doesn't feel like it. A lot of things can happen in this time frame, and both the TV and wrestli »»
I haven't done this in a while, so it's time for another random thoughts piece. And no, I'm not just doing this because the deadline is close and I can't think of an idea for a full column that will not make me look once again like a TNA Hater. • Just before this column was published, I lea »»
Exactly one year ago today, the entire wrestling world was buzzing with anticipation for what was billed as "The New Monday Night Wars". TNA was set for the debut of Hulk Hogan on a live Monday night special edition of Impact and WWE was promoting the return of one of the most tragic figures in wres »»
It's the last PPV event of 2010, and the second one dedicated to various gimmick matches that start with either T, L or C. With the excess furniture that we'll see, our own Steven Gepp needed to get a second job and he wound up as a writer for the new IKEA catalog. He was kind enough to share some o »»
Steven is quickly becoming the star of these roundtables and at least when it comes to TNA, his writings are far more superior to anything that comes from this promotion. So before we move to regular staff picks, heeeeeeeeeere's Steven: A Visit from TNA - Final Resolution 2010 (apologies to Cl »»
It's WWE's Thanksgiving tradition!!!! Oops, sorry, I got too caught up in the old school week this week has. Still, it's one of WWE's Big Four PPV events and Orton vs. Barrett is one of the most anticipated and unpredictable main event matches in the past year, or even more. The Pulse team (With St »»
Last month TNA blew a stinking wet fart in our faces with what should have been their biggest show of the year and this month we have the TP to wipe it off. Still, the Pulse team is here again to give our predictions for Turning Point. Keep in mind, though, that unlike the TNA creative team we try t »»
Welcome to the final roundtable of October 2010. WWE Bragging Rights is the third pay per view this month, proving once again that there are just too many wrestling PPV events. Hopefully next year WWE will move to only 12 events and things will get easier (At least for guys like MM and CB who showed »»
Last year I started watching TNA again on the road to Bound For Glory because TNA was one of its hottest streaks ever. This year I practically forced myself to watch Impact because it has been on a downward spiral all summer. Sadly, it seems like I’m not alone, as more people participated in »»
In recent weeks we have seen a certain WWE wrestler go on an attention grabbing campaign on Twitter and YouTube. Since this campaign is intended purely to keep this wrestler in the spotlight, I will not feed the troll and not mention his name here, but I trust that the readers of Pulse Wrestling are »»
After Will Pruett beat me to it last week and wrote the column I intended to write, I was stuck without an idea. But then I decided to take advantage of the Jewish holiday season and go the positive route. While we don't have a holiday like Thanksgiving (Which isn't a religious holiday anyway), here »»
Before I begin, I want to apologize to my seven readers for missing my last scheduled column. As I said in the Summerslam roundtable, my computer died just before that weekend. But now I have a new one and hopefully will be able to keep my schedule. We will now return to the regularly scheduled colu »»
This coming Sunday, TNA will present its wecannotcalitecwsowehopethefanswillchantev2 tribute Pay Per View event, Hard(core) Justice. Now, my love/hate relationship with TNA has been well documented here in the past, but with this concept, I think that TNA has hit a new low. My main beef with this »»
After a brilliant edition of Impact, TNA presents Victory Road with a card that has a lot of potentially excellent matches. But I think TNA has a timing problem. As the number two promotion, they can't do a fatal four way title match less than a month after WWE had two, and an Ultimate X & stee »»
As a Lakers fan I followed this year's NBA playoffs and finals closely. And as the Lakers drew closer and closer to winning their 16th NBA championship, something became very clear to me – Kobe Bryant is to the NBA what John Cena is to WWE. Cena and Bryant are the two most underrated perf »»
As TNA is celebrating its eighth anniversary, one has to look at this promotion and ask "Really? In eight years that's all that you've done? And you're still in business? Really?" But I'm not that person. Instead, we've gathered the Pulse team to give our predictions for TNA's Slammiversary 2010. »»
Recently I started watching TNA again, for two reasons. The first one is that I'm taking over the TNA roundtables, so it seemed like the right thing to do. The other is that friends told me that TNA is good again. After watching the last two editions of Impact, I can agree, TNA has been deliverin »»
Is Batista leaving town? Will Big Show get rewarded with the title? Will Dre McIntyre ever get over? Will Punk lose his hair? Here are the Pulse team's thoughts on WWE latest PPV offering, Over The Limit. WWE Championship - "I Quit" Match: John Cena (C) vs. Batista Steven Gepp: As much a »»
Before we start this roundtable, I'll take this opportunity to voice my protest over the fact that once again John Morrison seems lost in the shuffle and doesn't have a real feud or a PPV match. Same goes for The Miz (Yes, He's still awesome), who should be defending at least one of the titles that »»
Dixie Carter tweeted today that TNA Knockout Daffney has been released from the hospital, where she was admitted for a deeply bruised sternum and a severe stinger. Daffney did not suffer any nerve damage. The injury happened on Tuesday's Impact taping. ProWrestling.net reports that Angelina Lov »»
Nobody likes clichés, bout some clichés are just so true and so classic that you can't avoid using them. A perfect example to that is "The road to WrestleMania starts here!" about the Royal Rumble. The Rumble signals the start of what is usually the best three months of each year in WWE. As al »»
Rob Van Dam vs. Jeff Hardy’s handpicked opponent Steven Gepp: There was an ex-wrestler from the ‘E, Went by the name RVD. An ex is also champ of TNA, And this champ says, “Not today.†And so Rob fights… well, just not Jeff Hardy Is this the much-heralded arriv »»
Veteran wrestling fans are familiar with the classic site Wrestlecrap.com. This site is dedicated to the absolute worst that professional wrestling has given us. For the last few years, I've been doing a similar thing in Israel. Every year, at the year-end awards that are given on Israel's largest »»
There's a well know saying that if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. But what happens when you start as the former and end up as the latter? Case in point – Edge. Prior to his latest move back to Smackdown, Edge announced a campaign to eradicate everything st »»
Our readers in the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving this week, and our Canadian readers already did last month. While there's no parallel holiday in Israel, it became a habit for me to use any holiday season as a reason to be positive and highlight the things I like in wrestling. So here ar »»
Pro Wrestling has been a part of my life for a very long time. I started following it back in the eighties through a blurry feed of a Lebanese TV station that showed WCCW, through the (then) WWF boom later that decade, the WCW domination years all the way to today's era. I've mentioned in the past »»
At the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear, organized in Washington DC by Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert, TNA wrestler Mick Foley was honored with the "Medal of Sanity". Jon Stewart presented the medal to Foley, who came on stage to address the crowd, for his ongoing work outside the ring with the a »»
With two and a half seasons if NXT behind us, it's clear by now that it's no longer, or perhaps never was, just a show intended to showcase young talent and introduce them to the audience. Rather, it became WWE testing lab for new ideas. On the simple booking front, WWE made a couple of radical »»
I wonder if the guy in WWE who said “You know what would be a good idea? Having three Pay Per View events in five weeks.†Is still employed. How could anyone see this as a good idea? But even terrible WWE ideas will not stop the Pulse team from holding our roundtable. And another one for »»
Night of Champions is one of the few PPV events in WWE with a theme that actually makes sense and could be fun to watch. Yet, WWE is pulling a TNA by not announcing a tag team championship match for an event where all titles should be defended and announcing a match where no title is involved. Good »»
No Way Out used to feel like the most useless PPV on the WWE calendar. This month’s TNA No Surrender feels even more useless, because it only features the semi finals of the TNA title tournament, building to next month’s Bound for Glory. Still, some of the matches here should be good, »»
Hardcore Justice has come and gone (Thank God) and now it's time to go back to TNA business. Instead of a regular PPV, TNA presents a special Impact this week, and the Pulse team is here with the predictions. TNA Heavyweight Championship – Stairway to Janice Match: RVD (c) vs. Abyss »»
What used to be a Wrestlemania highlight now gets its own pay per view event, with two Money in the Bank ladder matches. Conspicuous by their absence from the card are The Nexus, but we know they will make their presence known somehow. Here are the Pulse Wrestling predictions for WWE newest PPV. »»
Several things have caught my attention in recent weeks, but none of them truly warrants its own column, so I decided to take the easy way out and just write about all of them. But before that, I want to address my last column from two weeks ago. I tried something different and it didn't go down as »»
WWE pulled a TNA this month and only finalized the card two days before the PPV. And even now it's hard to believe that the card is actually final since there are only five matches on it. And they're all title matches. No, this is not Night of Champions. WWE is leaving time on the show for the NXT g »»
WWE.com reports that Bryan Danielson, a.k.a Daniel Bryan, has been released effective immediately. Of course, they wish him the best in all future endeavors. The WWE.com item refers to him as "NXT first season rookie". It also mentions both his real name and WWE name, which leads me to think tha »»
For nearly two years now WWE has toned down their programming and rate their programming PG rather than TV14. Since then we have heard a lot of complaints that WWE's product is suffering because of the PG rating, that PG means that there is no content suitable for adults on WWE shows anymore and it' »»
Last Month WWE held another one of their periodic locker-room cleaning and among those released was one of the best athletes that competed in a WWE ring during the last decade and someone who years ago was destined to be a World Champion – Shelton Benjamin. Hearing the news that Shelton Benj »»
The current season of The Celebrity Apprentice features two contestants that are very well known to wrestling fans – Goldberg and Maria. And both of them are portrayed on that show as something which a complete opposite of their respective wrestling personas. WWE likes to say that their d »»
Hulk Hogan was once again on Bubba The Love Sponge today and PWTORCH has a transcript. Other than the usual shilling of TNA that Hogan has been doing for the past few months, this time it was different as Hogan also took the time to praise Vince McMahon and his contribution to the wrestling world. »»
