Wrestling Links (8-24-11)

Posted on | August 24, 2011 | No Comments

Jerry Bruckheimer and The Rock Producing ’80s Wrestling Drama For NBC
/FILM (blog)
Real wrestling fans know anyone hoping to make a television show based on the professionalwrestling boom of the 1980s will be hard pressed to beat Hulk Hogan’s Rock ‘n’ Wrestling. The Saturday morning cartoon series featured Hogan and some of the …
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Wrestling for popularity
The Hindu
The origins of social networking can be traced back as far as the birth of the Internet itself. What began as a novel way of having computer-mediated communication has quickly transformed into a lucrative market that has huge corporations vying with …
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The Hindu

TNA Impact Wrestling Spoilers and My Thoughts for the 8/25/11 Taping
Bleacher Report
Jeff Hardy’s coming back soon; I hope he shows up in the condition to wrestle and doesn’t cost TNA anymore money; they can’t afford another Victory Road. Personally I don’t think they should bring him back. They have plenty of top names, and they don’t…
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Wrestlers debate their ‘WWE 12’ ratings
ESPN (blog)
By Jon Robinson Call professional wrestling scripted all you want, but the pain is all too real for the performers risking their necks every night with suicide dives and DDTs. I guess that’s why Randy Orton is a big fan of his video game doppelganger …
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ESPN (blog)

Wednesday’s TV Highlights: ‘Slammed: Inside Indie Wrestling‘ on Nat Geo
Los Angeles Times
NO HOLDS BARRED: Aspiring pro wrestlers leave it all in the ring in the new special “Slammed: Inside Indie Wrestling” at 7 and 10 pm on National Geographic. Inside the Human Body: This new installment focuses on conception and birth (7 pm TLC). …
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Reid column: They called him Coach Parks, he gave much more than he received
San Jose Mercury News
Parks brought his Menlo-Atherton wrestling team over to deliver an orchestrated cheer in a show of school spirit. I thought, now there is a coach. I first got to know Coach Parks, as he preferred to be called, when I was sports editor of the Free Lance …
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Exclusive Clip: Tom McCarthy And Joe Tiboni Discuss Win Win
Cinema Blend
It’s like I always say: if there’s one thing we need more of, it’s movies about high schoolwrestling.* Thankfully, even if you could care less about kids roughhousing in unitards, there’s a bit more going on in the indie comedy Win Win, …
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WWE Tag Team Wrestling: 15 Teams the WWE Needs To Revamp the Division
Bleacher Report
Ah, tag team wrestling—what a lost art in the WWE nowadays. I remember when I looked forward to seeing The Hardy Boyz against Edge and Christian more than any main event on Monday Night Raw. Or even not too long ago seeing the return of Degeneration-X …
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WWE/TNA News: Matt Hardy, Please Shut the Hell Up (Then Get Some Help)
Bleacher Report
The professional wrestling industry has no shortage on the embittered and rant-happy. Sure, it can be an ugly business with? unhappy endings, and those who choose to sound off about its pitfalls have every right to be heard. But there eventually comes …
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Iowa Scene: Wrestling, basketball, track, gymnastics
DesMoinesRegister.com
WRESTLING: The National Wrestling Hall of Fame Dan Gable Museum in Waterloo will induct Rulon Gardner into the Alan & Gloria Rice Greco-Roman Hall of Champions. A ceremony will be Oct. 1 in Minneapolis. Gardner had a shocking win at the 2000 Olympic …
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