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A Kickstarter Project for Wrestling Fans: IWC Independence Day Online PPV

May 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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Wrestling fans if you've ever wanted to help put on a wrestling show and you're tired of the products being put out today, you should head over to Kickstarter and help fund Turbo Charged Wrestling's "IWC Independence Day" online PPV. It's being billed as the wrestling PPV for the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community), by the IWC. The project, which is asking for $20,000 to be funded, was set up by wrestling fan Nash Bennett in association with LordsOfPain.net columnists Aaron "Hustle" Hyden (who is serving as creative consultant) and Al Laiman (who will be providing the play by play). As many of our more long time readers know, I used to write for LordsOfPain.net before leaving that site to start this one to focus mostly on writing about video games. Such an event, if funded and … [Read more...]

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Quick Thoughts on Fire Pro Wrestling Returns

May 14, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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I bought this off of PSN last night for $9.99. This is the first experience I've ever had with the series after years of hearing mostly nothing but great things and a ton of hype. I had seen it and heard about for years, but never had a PS2 (I was an Xbox guy back then). It's been on PSN for a little while now, and I finally bit after watching some matches on YouTube last night. Now that I've gotten a hang of it, I have to say that I think it definitely lives up to the hype. It may be the best wrestling game I've ever played and I would've been happy paying more than $10 for it. The wrestling in this game is top notch and I've never encountered such realistic wrestling in a wrestling game. Sure, the WWE games have the presentation nailed and does a mostly good job with the wrestling, … [Read more...]

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Poll Results + Question of the Week: Which Extreme Rules Match Are You Most Looking Forward To?

May 14, 2013 By 1 Comment
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The results of last week's "Question of the Week" are in, and somewhat surprisingly on a few games received votes. Of the 15 votes cast, Grand Theft Auto V was the winner with 7 votes, good enough for 46.67%. In second place was the new IP Watch_Dogs with 3 votes or 20%. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and The Last of Us both tied for the third with two votes or 13.33%. There was one vote placed for other, but it's disqualified since the game has been out for six months or so... Black Ops 2. Call of Duty: Ghosts, Battlefield 4, Pikmin 3, Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Beyond: Two Souls, The Puppeteer, and Rayman Legends all failed to receive a vote. Thanks to everyone who voted, even the person who wrote in the already released Black Ops 2. This week's question is for the site's … [Read more...]

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WWE 2K14 Gets An October 29th Release Date

May 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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WWE 2K14, the first WWE game to be published first by 2K, now has a release day: October 29th. That's not surprising, as the game released on October 30th last year. It's getting to be an annual tradition at this rate to have the newest WWE and Assassin's Creed games to release on the same day. No details on the game have been revealed yet, and the game isn't going to be at E3 (2K isn't going this year), but that'll probably change late this month. The only known thing comes from a Stephanie McMahon tweet where she revealed that The Rock will be the cover star. You can pre-order the game now from Amazon for $59.99. WWE 2K14 is coming to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. … [Read more...]

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Review: Heroes Of World Class

May 6, 2013 By 2 Comments
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STARRING: Kevin Von Erich, Chris Adams, Gary Hart, plus many more. DIRECTOR: Brian Harris WRITER(S): n/a STUDIO: Right Here Pictures RUNTIME: 2 1/2 hours RATED: n/a OFFICIAL RATING: Four Stars Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-World-Class-Wrestling-Directors/dp/B000I2JDD0 Film maker Brian Harrison has set out to make the be all end all documentary about the Von Erichs and World Class Championship Wrestling (Not knowing that he would have to compete with a WWE DVD released shortly after this one). In Heroes Of World class both the meteoric rise and tragic fall of both the promotion and the family behind it are vividly detailed through various interviews with many of the people who lived through the WCCW experience themselves. While writing this review sometimes it is … [Read more...]

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DVD Review: Barbed Wire City

April 28, 2013 By 4 Comments
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Barbed Wire City Starring: Various ECW Wrestlers, Fans, & Journalists Directors: John Philapavage and Kevin Kiernan Genre: Documentary Runtime: 169 minutes Released: April 25, 2013 Does the wrestling world really need another documentary on the late promotion known as Extreme Championship Wrestling? (1993-2001) I don’t know man, I don’t know. All I can say here is that this documentary managed not to bore me, and for the most part did a good job with what it had to tell the story it wanted to tell. The WWE did a superb job (if admittedly biased in their own favor as you’d expect) with The Rise and Fall of ECW DVD way back when, so good in fact that it went on to become one of their biggest selling DVDs ever, and lead to two ECW reunion pay per views, and the failed … [Read more...]

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Impact Wrestling **Spoilers** for 05/02/2013

April 27, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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TNA taped the May 2 episode of TNA Impact Wrestling on Thursday night from the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex in Indiana, Pennsylvania. Here are spoiler results: … [Read more...]

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DVD Review: For All Mankind – The Life and Career of Mick Foley

April 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
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WWE has the biographical DVD down to an art form at this point. I’ve seen dozens of these things put out over the years and have yet to run into a truly bad one. Not saying they have all been great or that they haven’t put out a bad release, but since I usually only check out the ones made for the guys I am a fan of, I normally find the stories to be somewhat interesting at the very least. Now, the story of Mick Foley is one that has already been told many times. His life and career have been reminisced before by Foley himself in a half dozen or so autobiographical books, including a New York Times bestseller, a previous WWE home video release, a WWE DVD release (Hard Knocks & Cheap Pops) and even a TNA DVD release (Mick Foley: Hardcore Legend) that looking it over, actually … [Read more...]

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