Wrestling Links (5-31-11)

Posted on | May 31, 2011 | No Comments

Pro Wrestling: 10 Greatest Managers of All Time
Bleacher Report
When wrestling enjoyed a major boom period in the 1980’s, the manager figure had still had an integral role to play. Managers could add something to storylines and rivalries and sometimes they could create their own feuds out of nowhere. …
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Impact Wrestling Taping Results (6/02) *Spoilers*
Wrestling News World
TNA taped this week’s Impact Wrestling tonight from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida. They’ve banned cell phones so we were unable to do this live but they only delayed us a couple hours. * The show opens with Velvet Sky and ODB fighting backstage …
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Real wrestling returns to the ‘Peg
Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg is back on the wrestling map, and this time, it has nothing to do with Chris Jericho. After a seven-year absence, wrestling — the kind they have in the Olympics — will begin a new chapter in the city as the University of Winnipeg kicks off …
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WWE News: Kharma and the 23 Most Unstable Wrestling Personalities in History
Bleacher Report
The pro wrestling profession is a known life hazard that has been made infamous for swallowing its subjects whole only to spit them out. Once referred to, almost poignantly, by Jim Ross as “the wrecking lives leader” in sports and entertainment, …
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‘Pioneer of wrestling‘ among province’s top grapplers
NorthernLife.ca
A wrestler at heart, Whissell picked up BJJ last winter on a recommendation from a fellow wrestler. “I took his word for it, tried it out and I’ve been hooked ever since,” she said. In the last year alone, Whissell — a stock trader by career — has …
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WrestlingGear.Com Donates 100 Pairs of Wrestling Kneepads to Beat the Streets USA
Benzinga
Com, an online retailer of wrestling apparel and equipment, has donated 100 pairs of kneepads to the Beat the Streets, a program that aims help at-risk kids in urban areas through the discipline and structure competitive wrestling provides. …
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There’s a Hulk Hogan game coming…for Kinect
Lazygamer
Apparently there’s a brand new wrestling game headed for the Xbox 260 and Kinect featuring that most iconic, equally overwrought leather-skinned Hulk Hogan. According to the studio behind the game, Hulk Hogan’s Main Event will be “the first …
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UFC 130’s Johnson says advantages in striking, wrestling earned nod over Torres
MMAjunkie.com
And on the ground, I controlled the top in the wrestling. There’s two aspects of the game right there. “He was throwing submissions, but he couldn’t finish me. I passed guard and I kept coming. I was hurt. I never backed up. I always came forward, …
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Pulse Wrestling Recap: WWE Tough Enough, 05.30.2011
Inside Pulse
The first kid has a wrestling ring, that Stone Cold signs for him, Then Luke signs it saying that hopefully the whole thing will be worth something some day. The next kid asks Andy if he is Stone Cold’s helper. Andy says that he would consider himself …
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News On RAW, Randy Savage, ‘Domino’, Orton, & More
Wrestling Inc.
By Ryan Clark | May 30, 2011 | Comments — In Australia, the only wrestling show in the Top 100 on Paid TV was WWE RAW at #53 with 27000 viewers. — The Lexington Sports-Leader has an article up with Randy Savage’s former baseball teammates remembering …
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