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My possibly entry into the wrestling business

February 8th 2010 00:04
I have been looking at this for the last 2-3 years about my own venture into the business I have loved since I was a kid, I used to sit there glued to the TV watching WCW on TasTV here in Tasmania before WCW Pro was on Fox Sports,and then the WWF was introduced. I would always rent the videos from the WWE and as a kid I used to pretend that I was in a match, hell I even had my own ring music, well it was Bret's but for the purpose of the story it was mine.

I played football at junior level played for the Glenorchy District Junior Football Club my last number for them was 9, I used to play for my school and I thought I had potential, but chronic knee problems after a spill pretty much ended that dream. My knee has since ruled me out of a wrestling career as well, but I never had the desire to be a wrestler, do not get me wrong, I love and respect the business, I don't think I have the strength to be able to go through the training.


I would never want to waste a trainers time training me to be a wrestler, knowing that I would never make it. I would be wasting my money and wasting their time, but then I thought, hey I could be a ring announcer! A manager, an on air talent, or a writer for the WWE, TNA, or something. I am dreams of writing, I have dreams of breaking into a TNA or a WWE, and making my dream come true in one way or another.

I have been invited to two Australian wrestling companies one of which is the AWF which has seen Chris Candido, Sabu, Raven, Kid Kash, Marty Jannetty, CIMA, Bryan Danielson, Steve Corino, Nigel McGuiness, Rho Saito, Austin Aries, Billy Kidman, Masaaki Mochizuki, Super Shenron, Gamma, Taku Iwasa, Sean "X-Pac" Watman, and NOSAWA Rongai. some big names have come in through this company here in Australia, I have been invited to work there as a trainee and learn to be a ring announcer.


The other company was WresstleClash which is in Melbourne I have not heard much about this company, but I am looking forward to seeing what they have to offer. I have been offered a job on their ring crew and the chance to work from the bottom of the pack to the top. Just call me Mikey Whipwreck minus the ability to ever be able to wrestle a match, ever.


The dream will come at a cost, a move from where I live now to Sydney to train, or a move to Melbourne to work there and learn the business, one day, maybe then you will be seeing me, somewhere in the wonderful world of wrestling. While I write here almost every day I do two things I love, I write about wrestling, I love to write and I love to sit and watch wrestling on TV every time I get the chance.

In a perfect world there would be an easy venture into backstage working I would love to sit there with a person like Raven and write an angle for him, or re-write the Bret Hart return, the "Band"'s return, which I have to say has been done in a decent way minus the whole name The Band? Really? You were sitting in this for 6 months and The Band was the best you had?

I will work other ideas of angles in future blogs, but right now, I am hoping to either continue to write, and maybe be a sports journalist that can sit and write about wrestling more often, or be a ring announcer for a big company, but do not worry I won't ever consider doing an Adamle.

I won't even do a Mark Madden and become annoying even though storylines and everything may make me have to play that annoying character on the show. Or i could be just a ring announcer Howard Finkel, or Dave Penzer type stand there and try and make people interested in seeing another Batista match, wait, not even I could make someone interested in seeing Dave Batista, sorry Dave.

Whatever happens I am hoping to be writing about wrestling for some time to come, I have taken this blog over from Ryan West, I used to write my own Majestic Sports, and I aim to make this the best I can do, but Wrestling Asylum will now be my home to write my own thoughts, and other little tidbits on wrestling, oh, and mock Adamle here and there, and tweak a bit, don't worry, there's no Russo swerve coming.

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Farewell Tommy Dreamer

February 7th 2010 12:29


It was sad to see Tommy Dreamer depart the WWE, being the last ECW original it really made sense for ECW to finally be put to death, Dreamer was there from the beginning until ECW's untimely death. It seems appropriate now to pay tribute to the man that was the face of ECW during the last few years, a man that rose up through the ranks starting out as someone the fans hated until he won them over against The Sandman during their feud.

I feel Dreamer and Raven will always hold the best ever ECW feud it was a shame that the fued came to an end when Raven departed for WCW, at the time though Raven did want for Tommy to depart for WCW as well. But Dreamer was loyal to ECW, he never wanted to be the main guy, he never wanted to be the World Champion, he never seemed to want any type of titles, book him, let him do his thing and he will go home a happy man.

In fact in a quote for the Rise and Fall of ECW DVD Dreamer was quoted in saying...

I was actually pissed off. I wanted to go my entire ECW career without winning titles. The only reason I won titles is because guys left.

It was a shame when Dreamer came to the WWE that he was never really used in a way that he could have been, he always seemed to be the midcard jobber that came to work went home and had no real storylines. Even during the Invastion angle but I guess that was Dreamer's career, he just wanted to a guy out there working matches and putting others over. There are not many men in the business like Dreamer, a lot of workers are looking at doing whatever they can to claw their way to the World Title and to be the man that is always in the spotlight, what was Dreamer? Enhancement talent.

Sure he would get a win here and there and a title here and there he even captured the WWECW Title before his WWE departure it does seem that Dreamer's career as a wrestler is over. At least on the main stage, reports suggest that Dreamer has a job as a road agent waiting for himonce the 90 day no compete clause, if there is one ends. Though it would be good to see the Raven/Dreamer feud one last time on the main stage, with Raven and Stevie who have since vanished since the new TNA began attacking Foley and Abyss, why not bring them back to do this, and then Dreamer, who was a friend of Foley's in the past, Funks come into the company and attacks Raven and Richards and this could then set up a match?

Dreamer will be making some appearances on the Indy scene though, he will be appearing at UCW (Universal Championship Wrestling) "Payback" his match there which is on February 20th is against another former ECW star Shane Douglas, the event will be taking place in Ardmore, Oklahoma. It will be interesting to see how far he goes with that company, as he has been added to their roster as well.

I would imagine that Dreamer has a lot more left to give to wrestling, TNA for example are looking for mentors to mentor some of their young wrestlers, or so Hogan has been saying when he wants to bring in the likes of Randy Savage, who now looks like Santa Claus. Dreamer could work one last year, if he wanted to as a wrestler, surely a feud with Raven, Abyss, Stevie Richards, and Mick Foley could be a good way for him to go out, that's if he wants to do that it probably never happen that way and Dreamer may never work a match with TNA, but there Jay Lethal could have him come in as apart of the Jay Lethal Invitational angle that seems to have died now.

You do not need to worry about Dreamer being one of the guys that would put himself above the younger TNA stars, he would be there solely as someone ready to enhance a star. He's pretty much the new Terry Funk in that regard a guy that will probably struggle to leave the business, but always know where the future of this business lies now that they are old. The business needs a few more of these types, who will do their best to get over young stars and will not try and make themselves the best thing there and win all the belts.

Wouldn't that be grand? Seeing an old guy there to make someone look good, instead of holding him down? That's something that WCW could have used. Whatever happens with Tommy Dreamer, whether it be a TNA Road Agent, TNA Wrestler/Road Agent, or just a father who leaves the business entirely and finds a new living to do now that his wrestling career has passed him by, I am sure Tommy will do it in the best possible way, and will always be the Innovator of Violence.

Good luck Tommy, you have entertained so many of us ECW fans for years, now it's time for you to re-enter the real world, and grow old with your loved ones, saviouring the moments you once had in the business. You are going to be missed by many.
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Scott Steiner released by TNA?

February 7th 2010 07:15
Scott Steiner pictured during his tenure in TNA


TNA have recently removed the profile of Scott Steiner, which could mean that Steiner has been released from the company. It was reported a few weeks back that Steiner's future with TNA was up in the air if this is true it will end Steiner's four year tenure with the company and would probably spell the end of Steiner's career in a major wrestling promotion.

Steiner had been feuding with Bobby Lashley, which on a recent imPACT! Lashley was "fired" by Eric Bischoff possibly ending whatever feud Steiner had with Lashley.
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Bubba The Love Sponge vs Honky Tonk Man

February 6th 2010 14:59


Bubba The Love Sponge has gotten himself another opponent, this time he is facing a war with The Honky Tonk Man who has started a "Hire Honky Tonk Man Fire Bibba The Love Sponge" group on facebook you can view it by Clicking Here there is also more info on his website at this link here Click Here I am not sure what to think of this,part of me in reading this the other day laughed, because imagine my surprise to see Bubba and Honky having a battle, but also what would Honky really bring to TNA? Would he be a road agent? Well you know what? I am not the world's biggest Bubba The Love Sponge fan, so I would be all for a signing of Honky just so Bubba was given his marching orders, who would want to see Bubba in TNA anymore anyway


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Awesome Kong remains with TNA

February 6th 2010 04:39
Former TNA Knokout & Current Knockout Tag Team Champion Awesome Kong


TNA has denied Awesome Kong's release request before they headed to England for their tour, Awesome Kong was involved in a backstage punch on with Bubba The Love Sponge recently after his remarks about Haiti and since then she has requested that TNA grant her a full release from her TNA contract


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NXT replacing ECW

February 5th 2010 16:09
WWE have announced that ECW will be no more, the show will be replaced by NXT which will be known as Next Generation, a show that will be featuring the future stars of the WWE. This will mean the established stars of the show will be moved to a new home, WWE are reportedly having a draft after Westlemania they may push the draft forward and send some of the guys to other shows, WWE will have to do something with this show to keep people interested, I fear that the show will have a very very short future. ECW has struggled in the ratings since the shows inception, and I really do not see the future stars of the WWE bringing the ratings of the show up.

You would think that with the contract coming up for renewal with the network unless the WWE can manage to pull a rabbit out of it's hat with this show I think it's done for. But I do not see why they are making a drastic move like this, change the name yes, but leave the stars there. These stars on the ECW roster are good workers, add 1 more hour to the show, start getting more writers to write more storylines and then you may see the show pick up. ECW has not been as bad as it's rating suggests, it does need more storylines, there has been a lack of them on the show


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The new Wrestling Asylum

February 5th 2010 03:57
I have taken over this blog and will be posting all my wrestling blogs here, and The Sports Box will be renamed and will have Football blogs, and Majestic Sports will still have sports. There are a lot of old posts here, I started my blog in January, so anything before January aren't mine, they are the owner of Wrestling Asylum before me.

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Monday Night Wars Troisième Partie

February 4th 2010 05:12
Maryse Ouellet is not the only one that can throw out a bit of French here, my French is limited, but we're entering the next installment of the Monday Night Wars, and I feel why not call it Part 3? (You see it's catchy., no? Don't worry in 2020 when WCW Part 3 comes along, it will be relevant then.)

But the point is the Monday Night Wars are back! And boy am I excited. So excited I will ignore the Maryse Ouellet comment there, and move straight into it, March 1st and TNA will be going head to head with Raw, on a regular basis, it would appear that TNA are going to work this as a life event once and awhile, and a taping every week, not that this will help TNA's cause if they are going to continue to confuse everyone in the imPACT! Zone by taping 3 shows in a night and slicing the tapings to fill out 3 weeks, out of order.. Confused? So are they, I will try and explain here, TNA has taped 3 shows in a row, but they have taped the segments for the 3 shows in different parts, and their production team magically figures out where they go to put together a show


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The Bubba The Love Sponge Saga - TNA in disarray

January 23rd 2010 13:46
Watching TNA Impact I am beginning to wonder, why TNA, why bring in The Nasty Boys, and Bubba The Love Sponge? You have effectivity lost two talented female wrestlers, and angered many others to bring in a friend of Hogans? Seriously if I see anymore of Hogans friends, namely one Ed Leslie who I saw work the worst match in my life, in person. Yes, Ed, when you worked that Superstars of Wrestling Tour in Australia back in 2000 against Barbarian you had the worst match I have ever had the mispleasure of seeing, and as I sat there watching this match I thought “Is there a man backstage with a drum?” as they hit the canvas, it was that bad.

Blown moves everywhere, the match was so bad that Kennel From Hell was barable, thankfully after 5 minutes and that was the end of that nightmare forever. Now Hogan is in TNA, his friends are getting jobs, well some I mean, right now Leslie who has more failed gimmicks then Paris Hilton has IQ Tests has not been signed, we haven't seen other members of the “We know Hogan we get a job” gang. But we do have Bubba The Love Sponge, a guy who being in Australia we do not have to suffer at all, unless we activity search out this guy working there. The worst of all is he can make comments that he did, now without defending Awesome Kong, his comments from a strictly business point of view were stupid. Every wrestling news site reported what he said, everyone knows what he said and now TNA has to weather the shit storm


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Hart Attack, or Hart Failure - The Bret Hart return rebooked

January 21st 2010 07:06
November 9th 1997 is a date that is going to be remembered in wrestling history forever, it was the the night that Bret Hart was screwed out of his WWF Title at the time. That same year Bret saw his 20 year WWF contract vanish, and saw him end up in WCW, even though he had no real desire to go there. We've heard the story from different sides for years, but now it seems to have become a dead point, well between Hart, and Michaels on screen, maybe even in person who knows.

The bitterness seemed to really chew up and spit Bret Hart out, a guy that was one of the top wrestlers throughout the 1990s went from working for the one company to working for a company that's own success was their own down fall in the end...but more about WCW at a later date. 1999 saw a screwjob ending repeated this time Hart, who in that same match suffered the blow that would later end his professional wrestling career was on the other end. He and Goldberg battled for the WCW World Heavyweight Title, only for the match to have an ending that saw the formation of n.W.o 2000, anyway the point is, we have seen this real life incident turned into an angle over and over again, why not use it to bring in Hart


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