UFC 45 Revolution - TV Review

This week we take a slight detour away from the world of professional wrestling, as we move toward the mixed martial arts field, and take a look at the Ultimate Fighting Championship's tenth anniversary show, Revolution, from last November.

WWE Raw, September 12th, 2003 - TV Review

With a great deal of time on my hands, yours truly is unveiling a first for you today - the first time I've reviewed a Raw show. So here goes.....

WWE Wrestling Classics (Actually WCW Worldwide), September 11th 2003

A change from the norm this week, as this British-based writer takes a look at the WWE Wrestling Classics, shown on Sky Sports this past Thursday, which is actually an old episode of WCW Worldwide from the spring of 1991. Confused, then blame the tree huggers and the panda lovers for this state of confusion.

4th September 2003

Hey J-Raddicts. What's up. It's that time of the month again when this ageing hack let's you know what's going on in his life, stuff he can't tell you in his regular wrestling column because there's tons of people around the world who probably don't give a shit. Which is why this column is exclusive to this website.

30th August 2003

We who follow the wrestling industry always hear about the great success stories. We love to hear about how well people have done, how they've battled adversaries both in and out of the ring to get to where they are. This happens in all aspects of this business.

12th August 2003

British wrestling referee Steve Lynskey.

"Global Wrestling Force: What Could Have Been."

There seems to be a recurring theme in my columns here at 1 Stop Wrestling - what if? Last time I put forward my idea of what should have happened at last year's October Outrage IV show in Norwich. This time, I'm going to talk about what could have been, if it hadn't been for wrestling politics.

11th August 2003

Hey gang. What's popping? It's been a while since I laid down a few words of a personal nature on this site, and quite a lot has happened on old planet Two Sheds since my last diary entry way back when.

2nd June 2003

An interesting question was asked of me some time ago  why don't I stage my own wrestling show? The feeling was that as I was a man full of ideas, I would, therefore, make a good wrestling promoter.

Holly

Imagine how you would feel if you picked up the newspaper one day and saw a front-page headline telling you that a friend of yours had died.

Losing Faith in the System

Let's take a brief trip back in time, just a few months, to January 23rd, 2003. Having seen the article written about him on this very web site, my former employer, Mark Edwards, decided to take the law into his own hands.

7th May 2003

It's late at night here in Cromer. The Milan derby in the Champions League semi-final is playing on the television, I'm just getting to grips with this fancy new keyboard, so I thought that now would be a good time to update my personal ramblings a little.

4th April 2003

 It's been quite a while since I put pen to paper and wrote a Personal Ramblings column for the old TSR website, and with WWE Raw playing in the background, and with nothing else to do, now seemed like a good time.

WWE Wrestlemania XIX - TV Review

Over the past couple of years many fans have said that Wrestlemania isn't that special any more, that because we now have a pay-per view, a big show, every four weeks, that Wrestlemania is just another big show. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's wrong.

Choose 80's Dance - Album Review

As you begin to read this article, you're probably starting to wonder "what the hell is this? What is Julian Radbourne, self-confessed heavy rock fan, doing buying a dance music CD?"

The Next Big Thing - Bubba Ray Dudley

Ever since the departure of Stone Cold Steve Austin from the WWE a few months ago, many names have been mentioned with regards to who will become the next big name of the Raw brand. A name that has been mentioned countless times is Rob Van Dam. However, while I am a great admirer of RVD's work, I don't think that RVD is the man - yet.

So who is going to be the man to step up to the plate, to step up to the plateau that is currently occupied by Triple H?

Raw Has Lost a Viewer

It's Tuesday night, around 11:20pm, here in Britain as I write this. I haven't watched No Mercy yet, because I didn't have the stamina to stay up until four in the morning, having partied the night away with my World Association of Wrestling buddies.

I've just taken one of my antidepressants. The pill takes a little while to kick in. I normally get a little sad this time of the evening, but tonight, I'm sad because I feel like I've lost an old friend, something that has been with me, through good times and bad, since 1989.

I haven't seen Raw yet. Us Brits don't have that honour until the Friday after it airs in the US But this Friday, I probably won't be making the effort to gather together some heavily-salted snacks, a few soft drinks (I'm not allowed my beloved beer at the moment), and a couple of chocolate bars, in anticipation of two hours of top notch entertainment.

I've read the reviews, and the condemnation. It's all over the Internet. Triple H gets dressed up as Kane, and, well, you know the rest.

Chris Jericho - Your Country Needs You

Ever since July 4th, the anniversary of the day in which the Great British Empire got rid of a piece of dead weight called the USA, I've been getting a strange feeling of deja-vu. It all began when Canadian citizens Lance Storm, Christian and Test stormed to the ring during a Smackdown broadcast, and proclaimed that everything in the good old US of A sucked. And so, the Anti-Americans were born.

Obviously, I am not, and will not be, the first, or the last, to draw comparisons to two other Canadian/anti-American scenarios in the world of professional wrestling. But this time, there is one significant difference.

Let's step into the time machine and journey back to 1997. Bret Hart, now a Yank-hating heel, sought the aid of old comrades Owen Hart, Jim Neidhart, Davey Boy Smith and Brian Pillman in forming the second incarnation of the Hart Foundation. Despised on American soil, they were national heroes in Canada. They proclaimed everything in the good old US of A sucked.

Random Ramblings March

It has now been about three months since I stopped writing about the American wrestling scene on a regular, weekly basis. While many, okay, a few, have told me they miss my weekly comments, the same few have also asked me if I missed writing about them. If I am to be totally truthful here, then I would have to say that no, I don't.

There were two main reasons I gave for giving up something that was becoming nothing more than a tiresome chore. Last December, I wrote that I was finding it difficult to report on the US wrestling scene while living here in Britain. The demise of ECW and WCW meant that, because no British television station has the guts to take a chance on an American indy show, all we get here now is the WWF, and I didn't really find that inspiring.

18th December 2002

Well, it's exactly a week before Christmas. The original Psycho (a film I've never actually seen the entire way through) is on television, and you know what, I feel fucking great.

6th December 2002

 It's nearly midnight on this cold Friday evening, and seeing as I haven't written one of these pieces in a while, I thought I'd turn what could be a couple of hours of extra boredom and write down a few thoughts.