First rule of pro wrestling(*) – you NEVER know what’s going to work. Mick Foley spent years breaking his body in the indies, but he became a superstar when he put a sock on his hand. Steve Austin barely avoided being called the “Ice Dagger”, made fun of a bible passage at King of the…
The professional wrestler C.M. Punk truly made his mark and broke free of the shackles of mid-card obscurity by way of his infamous pipe bomb shoot promo. For those not in-the-know, a shoot in wrestling is an interview (or soliloquy some of the time) wherein said grappler breaks the fourth wall. As relived in this…
So I was considering going on a long-rant/love-letter to the WWE, whose Summer Slam pay-per-view and Monday Night Raw this week were just fantastic. I was going to highlight how no other company producing week-to-week content for an audience of millions has the balls they do when it comes to allowing their villains to complete…
It’s been a few weeks since my pro-pro-wrestling tirade. With another pay-per-view about to hit the airwaves in a day, I figured I’d check in on my on-and-off-now-on again male soap opera. And just as I remembered it, here I sit with a head full of opinions and 1062 words to blather out into the…
In the wrestling world, they say “never say never”. After a new movie on shelves now and the big action flick, THE EXPENDABLES, hitting screens soon, will Stone Cold ever get back in a WWE ring? We asked him for a straight answer and he gave it to us – plus TORCHWOOD is (really) back…
Like the medium or not, you do have to admit that there are a lot of similarities between pro wrestling and comics. In years past, there hasn’t been a successful bridge between the two, but creator Mike Kingston is taking a totally new approach with his Headlocked series. ComicMix Radio talks to Mike about his…
