Tuesday, May 30, 2006

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Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer
is reporting that Superstar Billy Graham was hospitalized last night and remains in the hospital today due to a bowel obstruction stemming from a prior operation.The goal right now is to be able to remove the obstruction without surgery, which is being touted as a very risky proposition.We will continue to follow this story as it develops.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

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Saturday, May 20, 2006

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- Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer has reported that former WWF wrestler Steve Doll is on life support this morning at The Baptist Hospital in Nashville. Doll's kidney's shut down on him this morning.

Doll was part of the tag team "Well Dunn" in the mid-90's as Steven Dunn. Doll was also a part of the very popular tag team, The Southern Rockers, in the Oregon area some 15 years ago.

On behalf of everyone at WrestleView, our thoughts go out Doll, his family and his friends at this difficult time.

Friday, May 19, 2006

Since kane came to the wwe he has been known as the monster from hell and being undertakers brother.
Relive Kanes Life in a video look back:
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006

It's spring 1996, back when the WWE was called the WWF and Shawn Michaels
hair wasn't thinning! LOL Speaking of Mr Michaels, he was well into his
first WWF Title run having captured the title from Bret Hart in an Ironman
classic at Wrestlemania XII and successfully defended it against his former
bodyguard Deisel in a great No Holds Barred confrontation at IYH:Good
Friends/Better Enemies. However at the previous months PPV IYH:Beware Of
Dog, Shawn Michaels and The "British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith were involved
in one of he most controversial matches of the time in which the referee
counted both mens shoulders to the canvas ruling the match a no contest! A
rematch was signed for King Of The Ring but this time there would be a
special guest referee. Lucky for the WWF, they had just the man for this
"special" job, "Mr Perfect" Curt Hennig, but anyone who remembers
Wrestlemania X knows Hennig is not a man to be trusted as a referee! On
paper this match had "classic" written all over it cause whenever Shawn
wrestled Davey Boy, they always produced a great match but tonight was
different because it was for all the marbles but how far would the WWF push
the "guest referee" angle in this one and would it spoil a potential
classic? Also on the card we had The Undertaker taking on Mankind, the
deranged psychopath, who first attacked him the night after Wrestlemania
XII. Anyone who knew Mankind from his WCW/ECW/Japan days as Cactus Jack
knew this man would do anything and i mean ANYTHING in or outside that ring
to destroy his opponants, even if it meant destroying his own body in the
process. On paper this match looked like it could be something special
indeed. The Ultimate Warrior would take on Jerry Lawler in a match that
everyone prayed would be a 30 second squash and nothing more! The Smoking
Gunns would battle The Godwinns for the WWF tag team titles in a match that
i doubt anyone was bothered about. Meanwhile WWF I-C Champion Goldust was
on a roll, playing his character perfectly and but Ahmed Johnson was in the
process of a big push and it was obvious he would be the new I-C champ at
this PPV which sucked cause Ahmed SUCKED! Finally we had the KOTR
tournament itself which was had been shortened from an 8 man tourney to a 4
man tourney this year to make way for other matches presumably, but when
you realise those matches involved The Ultimate Warrior, The Godwinns, The
Smoking Gunns and Ahmed Johnson you were left wondering why did they
bother?!? Anyway it was hard to pick a winner this year cause firstly you
had Steve Austin who had just broken away from Ted Dibiase and was making a
name for himself on WWF TV but after 6 months of being "The Ringmaster"
would anyone take this guy seriously? Jake Roberts was a possible favourite
and the fans already had a name to call Jake if he won: King Cobra! Vader
was getting pushed like a monster and was proberbly the top favourite to
win here as he and Shawn Michaels were already tipped to headline
Summerslam. Marc Mero was proberbly the only wrestler who you could "write
off" as KOTR as although he'd been getting a bit of a push, there seemed no
point in having him win as he was certainly not in line for a main event
push.


The New Rockers(Marty Jannetty & Leif Cassidy:i.e Al Snow) vs The Body
Donnas(Skip & Zip:Chris Candido & Tom Prichard)-this was the "Free For All"
match taht took place during the countdown show for the PPV and despite the
lame gimmicks these teams had, they actually produced a rather good tag
team match. The ever delicious Sunny was shown watching the match on a
moniter backstage and looking disgusted that The Body Donnas had replaced
her with a new "female" MANager by the name of Cloudy-notice how i've
highlighted MAN in manager and you'll no doubt guess Cloudy's gimmick. The
babyfaced Body Donnas picked up the win in this decent lowcard encounter.
7.5/10-A very good match and proof that either
one of these teams should have been the current tag team champions, NOT the
bland Smoking Gunns or the awful Godwins who would face off for the gold at
the PPV!

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs "Wildman" Marc Mero-Excellent opening contest
in which both men display their truly underrated mat wrestling skills.
Austin gets his mouth busted open quite badly here in what appears to have
been a genuine accident. Austin gets the victory following his new
finisher, the Stone Cold Stunner, which he had debuted in the weeks leading
up to the PPV. 9/10-Wonderful technical wrestling, high spots and
suspenseful near falls make this match one of the best of 1996!

Vader vs Jake "The Snake" Roberts-Very short and poor contest! Jake wins by
DQ but Vader gets revenge after the match, Vader-Bombing Jake's ribs.
3/10-As i said before this match was poor but it served it's purpose in
hyping Vader as a bad ass monster and attempting to get the fans
rallying behind Jake in the final match where the injured Jake would be
the definite underdog.


The Ultimate Warrior vs Jerry "The King" Lawler-Ok it's bathroom time! This
match sucked beyond belief and it would have been a whole lot better if
they just let Warrior win in squash fashion, like he did with Hunter Hearst
Helmsley at Wrestlemania XII. 1/10-That one point is for Lawler's trash
talking the fans at the start of the match, watch that, but fast forward
the match!

The Undertaker vs Mankind-This match was a big disappointment! It had a few
high spots with Mankind doing his usual crazy bumps but the majority of
this match was quite boring really. 6/10-Not bad, not great but thankfully
these two would produce some true gems in the future!

The Smoking Gunns vs The Godwinns-Why either of these teams are in a tag
title match is beyond me! As i said earlier, truly talented teams like The
New Rockers and The Body Donnas deserved this spot despite their awful
gimmicks! 2/10-The match sucked! But thats not really suprising is it? Two
points for the stunning Sunny. I saw a recent picture of Tammy Sytch(Sunny)
in Power Slam Magazine-a sad and shocking sight indeed, especially when you
consider she's only in her early 30's!

Ahmed Johnson vs Goldust-Goodness me, this must be a nightmare! First off
we had the Ultimate Warrior/Jerry Lawler travesty, then The Undertaker and
Mankind had a match that was well below their abilities, then we were
subjected to two of the worst teams in WWF history, The Godwinns and The
Smoking Gunns and now we have one of the worst "wrestlers" of alltime Ahmed
Johnson in an Intercontinental title match! The underrated Goldust was at
the peak of his brilliantly played Psycho-sexual gimmick here but noone and
i mean noone could drag a good match out of Ahmed Johnson! Well a good
singles match anyway(he did have a few decent tag matches obviously carried
by others). The best part
about Ahmed Johnsons matches were the hilariously bad interviews he'd give
before the matches! LOL Sadly Ahmed won the title here but thankfully his
reign was shortlived after Faarooq(Ron Simmons) debuted in the WWF and put
Ahmed Johnson on the shelf. 2/10-Dire match!


Brian Pillman comes down the aisle on crutches and cuts a "psuedo-shoot"
promo, where he insults the crowd and calls Jim Ross a "stupid son of a
bitch". Unfortunately most of the WWF crowd don't know who Brian Pillman
is! Sadly Pillman was on the injured list and when he finally did return to
action in 1997 he was a shell of his former self-a high flying, master
technician who was one of the most popular superstars in WCW as both a face
and a hell. Even more sadly, Brian Pillman would pass away just over a year
after this PPV appearence.

Steve Austin comes down the aisle for his match and he and Brian glance
each other for the first time on WWE TV-about 3 years after they RULED the
WCW tag team division as The Hollywood Blondes!

"Stone Cold" Steve Austin vs Jake "The Snake" Roberts-This match is
basically Steve Austin beating the living hell out of Jake who manages to
get a few punches in before attempting his DDT but Austin counters by
ramming Jake's already injured ribs into the turnbuckle. Austin then puts
"The Snake" out of his misery with a Stunner and we have a new "King Of The
Ring". 4/10-Not much of a match but it served it's purpose.

Steve Austin then delivers a legendary interview that still gets the hairs
standing up on the back of wrestling fans necks no matter how many times
they have seen it! "The first thing i want to be done, is to get that piece
of crap outta my ring!" roars Austin who then goes onto say that all Jake
needs
is a bottle of "thunderbird" to get back some of the courage he had in his
prime! "Talk about John 3:16,.....Austin 3:16 said i just whipped your
ass!" proclaims Austin who draws a massive cheer from the crowd and we have
just witnessed the birth of a legend in the making! The only dodgy thing
about this promo was that Austin challenged the next WWF champion no matter
who it was but for some reason Austin never saw a title shot until the
following year and at the following WWF PPV "Summerslam 1996" Austin was
seemingly demoted to "free for all" duty in a match with Yokozuna that
lasted less than 5 minutes!

Shawn Michaels vs "The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith(with special guest
referee "Mr Perfect" Curt Hennig)-These two have always had awesome matches
together and this match is perhaps their best ever. An epic battle
featuring scientific wrestling, high spots from Shawn, powermoves from
Davey Boy and Owen Hart plays a brilliant part both on commentary and as
Davey Boy's ringside cheerleader. Mr Perfect plays less of a role than you
might imagine as he's not actually the "real" referee in the match-only the
outside official! 9.5/10-A true classic even though the ending feels abit
"too soon"!

All in all King Of The Ring 1996 was a decent PPV and a major improvement
on the abysmal KOTR 1995, with two must see matches
and one must see interview! It's a shame the WWF decided to cut the
tournament down to size this year to "semi finals" only as it took the
"gauntlet" feel of the tournament away. Also matches like The Smoking Gunns
vs The Godwinns, The
Ultimate Warrior vs Jerry Lawler and Goldust vs Ahmed Johnson are best
forgotten and The Undertaker vs Mankind was a pretty mixed bag but these two
would produce much better matches in 1996's following PPV's "Summerslam",
"IYH:Buried Alive" and "The Survivor Series". If only they'd kept to
tradition and had the full 8 man Tournament on the PPV, which included
promising looking matches like Owen Hart vs Marc Mero and Jake Roberts vs
HHH, this show would have been alot better! This PPV is well worth your
time and gets 7.5/10-two must see matches and the Austin speech alone makes
it mandatory viewing for any wrestling fan!
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Saturday, May 13, 2006

Who will be crowned kinfg of the ring come judgment day may 21. Bobby lashley beat finlay(a.k.a fit finlay) on friday night smackdown last night.With booker parading saying he is the king and calling the fans his subjects that he has it in the bag with support from his gobby wife former miss black america sharmell.I just think bobby lasley will win king of the ring segment get the crown and cloake then sharmell can ditch her loser hubby booker t and go out with a real man of bobby lashley.

Monday, May 08, 2006

As the wwe storyline goes now days with the undertaker he was frightened of a month ago by the arrival of The Great Khali a some what 7ft tall monster .Click Here for khali info.
Now smackdown general manager stated that he heard from the undertaker and a match with khali and taker will take place at judgment day 2006 on 21st may.This isn't the only time that the undertaker has gone up against a giant in recent wwe history the undertaker has gone up against the likes of El Gigante also known As Giant Gonzalez.As clicking here will detail their rivalary.

Friday, May 05, 2006

Hip toss history takes you back to wrestling history through the years.....
that's right just click here as usual.

It was all about the leotards and the funny costumes that got you in to the days of great wrestling.....Check Out This Site: Click Here And remember those wwf wrestlers strange but weird.

It was all about the leotards and the funny costumes that got you in to the days of great wrestling.....Check Out This Site: Click Here And remember those wwf wrestlers strange but weird.

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

MISS Elizabeth died 1st may 2003.
R.I.P