Stone Cold Steve Austin is still one of the biggest names in wrestling. Nineteen years after his last match, Austin makes an appearance tonight in Arlington, TX as a special guest on the KO Show, Kevin Owens’ talk show. It is one of the most anticipated events of WrestleMania night one. There is little doubt…
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WWE was in the midst of a transformative shift. What had once worked wasn’t working in the market where substance was again being valued over style. As fans turned from the larger-than-life personalities to everyman, so pro wrestling follows. From the remanence of a long-tenured tag team arose a workhorse. A competitor whose talent could…
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We’ve added a new video podcast on the Fight Game Media YouTube channel. It’s called EXCELLENCE and is all about Bret “The Hitman” Hart. Hosts Justin Knipper and David Lovell talk about Bret’s run during the 1993 King of the Ring on Episode 1.
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The Royal Rumble is this weekend. If you haven’t listened to our Royal Rumble preview podcast, you can do so below. Here, Andy Marshall looks at the state of the big show and what it means for talent who win. The history of World Wrestling Entertainment can be traced back to the huge gamble Vince…
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The main marketing angle for WWE Backlash, which is this weekend, is that you are going to see the greatest wrestling match ever between Randy Orton and Edge. I’m sure that Orton and Edge will have a really good match. It’s already been taped and they can edit it as much as is necessary. Is…
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On Fight Game Media this week, you’ll see essays from our writers based on one simple question I posed to them. Which wrestler made you fall in love with wrestling? While I’ve titled the series as First Favorite Wrestler, it’s also about which wrestler put the hooks into our writers to make them fans for…
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As you know if you’ve been reading our essays on our First Favorite Wrestler, a group of contributors wrote about their early pro wrestling fandom, which included which wrestler hooked them on wrestling. There were others from our Fight Game Podcast Facebook Group who wanted to contribute but didn’t want to contribute full essays. We’ll…
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Growing up in Central Canada, options were limited for a young wrestling fan in the early 80s. We pretty much just had the AWA which had run forever on one of the local channels. In, or around, 1986, Vince McMahon and the WWF bought the time slot and a lot of the stars I had…
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I can’t actually remember becoming a fan of pro wrestling. It just seems to have been with me all my life. Vince McMahon bought his father’s wrestling promotion the same year of my birth, and soon, the popularity of his World Wrestling Federation would skyrocket nationwide. That Christmas when I was two months old, Terry…
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John and GG are back to discuss the CM Punk interview, G1, AEW, and Canelo. Subscribe: Stitcher / Google Play / SoundCloud / RSS
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