Charlie Reneke

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The Way Too Long Review for WWE Fatal 4-Way 2010

Good Idea: Build up future stars. Bad Idea: Bury those stars once they have the belt. Good Idea: Push new champions. Bad Idea: Don't let them hold the belt for more than two months. Good Idea: Release your pay-per-views on DVD only a month after they aired (TNA, take note) Bad Idea: O »»

Stand Up To WWE

The McMahon family has, for decades now, failed to grasp the concept that they are wrestling promoters, unfit and unqualified to do anything else.  A rational individual would look at World Bodybuilding Federation, the XFL, WWF New York in Times Square, the failed attempt at creating a WWE Casino »»

The Way Too Long Review for Edge: A Decade of Decadence - Disc Three

The third and final disc.  Once again, this has not been screened by an editor so there might be one or two grammar mistakes and some "Thens" instead of "Thans."  A fully edited Way Too Long Review, for Chris Jericho's brand new set is coming within a week or two to Pulse and this is just some »»

The Way Too Long Review for Edge: A Decade of Decadence - Disc One

Another time filler, but this is a review I totally forgot I wrote.  I've cleaned it up somewhat but this is another review that did not get sent to my editor.  Just enjoy the read and quit bitching... that's my job. Edge stays in character during the bumpers.  He can't believe how cool »»

The Way Too Long Review of WWE Over the Limit 2010

The WWE gets its balls busted a lot these days for a variety of things.  The product is pussy-whipped, thanks in no small part to Linda McMahon's delusional campaign for the United States Senate.  That's going over so well that despite her opponent getting caught dead to rights lying about ser »»

The Way Too Long Review for WWE Extreme Rules 2010

What a marvelous scam this is.  The WWE calls Wrestlemania the biggest show of the year and charges premium prices for it.  Then the next month the WWE airs another pay-per-view with most of the same matches, only the stipulations are in theory more exciting and the cost is less.  And yet s »»

The Way Too Long Review - Wrestlemania XXVI 3-Disc Collector's Edition, Disc One

Sorry for the long delay. March 28, 2010 from Glendale, Arizona, the current home of the chick that writes those Twilight books.  Thus, it is my belief that Glendale is officially Hell on Earth. -A few jets fly over heard, and then Fantasia from American Idol is still alive to sing America »»

The Way Too Long News Post 06.04.2010: Vampiro, Joe Hennig, Steve Austin

-As reported by Inside Pulse as it happ... well actually it wasn't until days later... Jim Ross is going to stay with the WWE.  You know, Jimbo, Inside Pulse is one of the top 173 wrestling websites on the internet.  You should have the courtesy to wait until we're ready to report the news bef »»

The Way Too Long News Post 05.28.2010

Wrestling fans, before I pass along to you this, well quite frankly shocking news item, I would advise you to be seated.  If you are at a computer, this should not be an issue.  However, if you are using an iPhone, or possibly a Sony PSP, you should find the nearest sitting device and apply it »»

The Way Too Long Review for Kayfabe Commentaries: History of the WWE 1977-1978 as told by Superstar Graham

Superstar Billy Graham is famous for his reputation as one of the biggest liars in the history of the wrestling business.  In 2004 when he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, many people threatened a boycott because of it.  This is a guy who, by his own admission, lied to federal prosecuto »»

The Way Too Long Review of Pro Wrestling Diary: Tommy Tiny Lister Shoot Interview

Once again, I dive into the niche market that is shoot interviews.  Pro Wrestling Diary is a fairly new company that handles these, but they have a unique mission statement in that they want to feature wrestlers who are untapped for these videos.  Instead of rehashing the same guys over and ov »»

The Way Too Long Review of Hulk Hogan's Unreleased Collector's Series: Disc Three

Well what do you know?  This review actually got published before Duke Nukem Forever did. Match #19 Ric Flair & Big Van Vader vs. Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage 5/21/95 Slamboree As Savage and Hogan make their entrance, the Giant pokes his head through the curtain to make his debut. »»

The Way Too Long Review of Hulk Hogan's Unreleased Collector's Series: Disc One

At a Secret Meeting in Titan Towers, Circa Summer of 2009 DVD Director: Okay gentleman, we need a new DVD set in time for the holidays.  Black Friday is coming.  Any thoughts? Technician #1: Chris Jericho? Entire room breaks out into spontaneous laughter Technician #1: Ha, no serio »»

The Way Too Long Review of From the Vault: Shawn Michaels

Yea, yea.  I know.  I was supposed to do the Hulk Hogan set.  And I am, but until then, I figured since Shawn's career might end on Sunday (ha) why not repost my review for his original set.  Pulse hasn't had this one before, so why not?  Many of the matches that defined Shawn Michael »»

The Way Too Long Review of Ring of Honor: Glory By Honor VIII - The Final Countdown

Alright, so everyone wanted me to change things up and try something outside of the WWE.  Thus, Ring of Honor.  Now to preface, I know NOTHING about the product.  I don't follow the feuds, I don't watch the show, I don't even get HDnet.  That said, I've always believed that shows need to »»

Inside Pulse WWE NXT Report 02.23.2010

I'm SO not right for this.  Now granted my first ever writing job online was many, many years ago when I did Survivor related articles for some hack reality site that thinks it's the be-all, end-all of reality stuff.  Psssh, some reality site.  They don't even tell you who the winner of Sur »»

The Way Too Long 2009 Awards

By popular request... well, like one guy wanted to know my picks, but hell, I have a quota of hate to fill.   This is strictly for stuff that happened on WWE Pay Per View in 2009, and basically just an excuse to have a look back the previous year.  Think of this as the Way Too Long version »»

The Way Too Long Review of History of the World Heavyweight Championship: Disc Three

Time to finish off the set.  Pre-Release, everyone thought this was the disc that would kill the set.  Guess what?  They were wrong. Match #16: World Heavyweight Championship (c) Triple H vs. Rob Van Dam 9/22/02 Unforgiven Not really much of a back story here.  Triple H had just »»

The Way Too Long Review of History of the World Heavyweight Championship: Disc One

Sorry about the Hulk Hogan set getting another delay.  What can I say?  It's fucking TOUGH to do a set that's all about the Hulkster, brotha.  Right now I'm fourteen matches in, and I'm struggling for my sanity.  They haven't all been bad.  Two of the ones I reviewed thus far scored * »»

The Way Too Long Review of Bret Hart: The Best There Is, Was, Ever Will Be - The Matches

So Bret Hart is coming back to the WWE. Despite my dislike of Bret's public persona, as a wrestler I would only rank Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels above him in terms of people who put out more high-quality matches over the years. Oh, and I love how everyone is saying "I saw signs this was coming. »»

The Format is Changing

Hey folks.  Your old pal Charlie here with news that you might have taken to be inevitable. I'm currently sitting the DVD backlog from hell.  I have twenty-three WWE compilation DVDs that have gone unreviewed, in addition to having five WWE pay-per-views that I haven't touched yet. My av »»

A Way Too Brilliant Idea for Connecticut Voters

Hey folks, Charlie here.  In case you haven't heard, this Tuesday during the election the WWE will be offering free WWE merchandise 75 feet away from select polling places around the state of Connecticut in what is in no way a highly illegal attempt to bribe WWE fans to come to the polls and vote »»

The Way Too Long Review of Edge: A Decade of Decadence - Disc Two

Onto the second disc.  Reminder, this is an older review that I simply forgot I wrote.  I've cleaned it up somewhat and updated some bits, but it's still untouched by an editor and so there might be one or two "Thens" instead of "Thans" and various other mistakes.  This is just a filler whi »»

The Way Too Long Review for WWE Greatest Families in Wrestling History

The Jericho review is coming folks.  Until then, I’m going into my way back machine for a pre-Inside Pulse review.  When I went to grab the High Flyers set I noticed that this (along with Roddy Piper and Dusty Rhodes’ set) were in the $5 bin.  This might not be true of every W »»

Portland Wrestling Legend Tony Borne Osborne Dies At Age 84

Inside Pulse Wrestling is sad to learn that Tony Osborne, who wrestled under the name "Tough Tony Borne" passed away today at age 84. Tony Borne was one of the biggest stars to ever compete in the Northwest.  In the golden age of wrestling, he was typically the Portland's main challenger when »»

The Way Too Long Review - WrestleMania XXVI 3-Disc Collector's Edition, Disc Two

And we're back with what will be the final disc I'll review of this set.  I'm not recapping the Hall of Fame ceremony but my thoughts on it can be summed up by using the letter "Z" about thirty times in a row. Match #9: WWE Championship (c) Batista vs. John Cena Shockingly the WWE Champion »»

A Way Too Long Update with Random Match Reviews

Hey folks, Charlie here with this LONG overdue update.  I haven't posted here at Pulse since June 4th.  I ended up taking an extended vacation to spend time with family, but I'm back and reviews should be coming in shortly. Red, my trusty editor, has been busy with the burdens of an actual »»

The Way Too Long News Post 05.29.2010 - Chris Jericho, Booker T, Chuck Palumbo

-TNA recently commented on Booker T's surprise appearance at a house show. Booker T is not affiliated with TNA Wrestling at this time, which has Burger Kings in the Orlando area breathing easier. However, due to a mechanical issue (A.J. doesn't like that RVD always smells like skunk), AJ Styles »»

The Way Too Long Review of Degeneration X (Original DVD)

I would like to apologize to my fans for my lack of regular updates these last few months.   I know both of you are missing the laughs and venom of fresh Way Too Long stuff.  Hopefully things are going to settle back down now and I can finally get to posting the long-awaited Shawn Michaels, »»

Release dates for Undertaker, Ricky Steamboat, and Elimination Chamber DVDs, Plans for Upcoming Sets

The Undertaker's deadliest matches is set to be released June 8, 2010 (check out a trailer here).  It's a three disc set and contains mostly (if not exclusively) gimmick matches.  A expect a full match listing soon. Ricky Steamboat: Life of the Dragon hits June 29, 2010.  It's a three di »»

The Way Too Long Review of Elimination Chamber 2010

February 21, 2010 from St. Louis, one time capital of professional wrestling, now reduced to showing matches featuring Maryse and MVP. Match #1: WWE Championship, Elimination Chamber Match (c) Sheamus vs. Kofi Kingston vs. John Cena vs. Randy Orton vs. Triple H vs. Ted DiBiase After fifteen m »»

The Way Too Long Review of Hulk Hogan's Unreleased Collector's Series: Disc Two

As a heads up, by popular request I'm skipping over the John Morrison set and tackling Shawn Michaels: My Journey as my next compilation review.  The next Way Too Long Review posted will be for Elimination Chamber 2010. And since this is being posted on Saturday I can now officially mark out. »»

The Way Too Long Review for KayfabeCommentaries - YouShoot: Jim Cornette

Shoot interviews and myself have a long history together, but sometime around, oh, March of 2004, we fell out of love.  Mostly because the main shoot interview guy on the web got caught doing things he shouldn't have been doing, and I can't support his company now any more then I can the Catholic »»

The Way Too Long Review of the 2010 WWE Royal Rumble

Yea, I'm not updating as much. The truth is I'm pinging off most of my backlog, one match at a time. The problem is the four WWE sets I haven't finished aren't really that interesting. So for the sake of my own sanity, I'm going to have a Ring of Honor review up in the near future. Should be interes »»

The Way Too Long Review of TLC 2009

It's finally time to close out the year 2009's run of pay-per-views.  TLC was the latest in the cynical "let's just make a gimmick pay per view" idea that caused all sorts of booking problems for the WWE.  As I said in a previous podcast, I'm sure the idea sounded good on paper, but in rea »»

The Way Too Long Review of the 2008 Royal Rumble

So this is the final Royal Rumble show I need to review to have done them all.  Like any series of pay-per-views, there have been some hits and some misses.  The Royal Rumble, in my opinion, has been more hit then miss. Thumbs Up: '88, '89, '90, '95, '96, '00, '01, '02, '04, '07 Thumbs D »»

The Way Too Long Review of History of the World Heavyweight Championship: Disc Two

So we're back with more World Heavyweight Title matches.  Some of the choices in disc two are VERY questionable.  We shall see if my hunch that the quality is about to nose-dive is correct. Match #7: WCW Championship (c) Ric Flair vs. Scott Steiner 1/30/91 Clash of the Champions XIV Oo »»

The Way Too Long Review of the 2009 Survivor Series

I'm back.  It's been a couple months since my last original review on the Pulse, but you can expect a few this month.  The Hulk Hogan review is nearly done and it's epic in size and scope.  I just have to make sure all the facts check out to the best of my ability before I finish the fi »»

The Way Too Long Review of WWE Bragging Rights 2009

I'm officially suffering from what is medically known as Hulk Hogan Fatigue.  The review is coming, but I need to cleanse the palette a little.  Thus, Bragging Rights.  When the main event of this show was announced, I nearly got to the point where I was legitimately ill.  But from what »»

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