2Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 04 March 2021, 20:58
WWE, 2019 At Extreme Rules 2019, The Undertaker and fellow Big Dog Roman Reigns teamed up to defeat Drew McIntyre and Shane McMahon. If you don’t remember this match, you can be forgiven – it was the opening match, and it was thrown together rather hastily to wash out the bad taste of Taker’s recent Goldberg match. For the go-home Continue Reading...
24Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 25 February 2021, 20:00
WWE, 2001 Woo hoo! Psyched today as we are going to venture back to the early days of the internet via another Deadsite! I so love doing these columns, and not just because I blatantly stole the idea from one of my favorite destinations on the World Wide Web, the legendary DinosaurDracula.com. (Seriously, if you’ve never checked out Matt’s work…what Continue Reading...
19Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 18 February 2021, 20:42
WWE, 2020 File another one under, “Only in 2020”. This week’s induction focuses on a segment nobody asked for, but that nobody was around to say “No” to. As usual, the July 10th, 2020 edition of Smackdown opened with a number of graphics promoting that night’s matches, including one featuring four WWE women Superstars competing against each other. But this Continue Reading...
32Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 11 February 2021, 20:00
WWF, 1986 Every once in a while, I hit upon an induction I cannot honestly fathom we’ve never covered. You wouldn’t even think that was possible after nearly 21 years (!!!!), but today we have one that somehow has slipped by: the early WWF days of the legendary Honky Tonk Man…when he was a good guy. Mercy mercy, sakes alive! Continue Reading...
55Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 04 February 2021, 20:00
RETRIBUTION was a faction that could only have emerged in 2020. For one thing, it was that summer that saw historic unrest in American cities, sparked by numerous deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police. Coast-to-coast Black Lives Matter protests, violence between Antifa and right-wing groups, destructive anarchist riots, often-brutal reprisals by law enforcement – these events would fundamentally Continue Reading...
24Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 28 January 2021, 20:00
MTV Sports Show, 1999 Confession time: I was not planning on writing this induction. The original plan today was for the 2020 Gooker Winner Retribution to be posted, but that is such a gigantic steaming pile of garbage that it’s taking a bit longer than planned for us to digest and regurgitate it all. Unsure of what to do, Continue Reading...
14Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 21 January 2021, 20:00
Book, 2000 For decades, a staple of American public schools has been the Scholastic book fair, where booksellers take over the school’s library for a week so kids can bring home the newest edition of Animorphs, Goosebumps, or whatnot. And while he’s no RL Stine, author Todd Strasser seems to have made a decent living churning out short chapter books Continue Reading...
4Submitted by RD Reynolds on Sun, 17 January 2021, 19:45
Movie, 1989 Check out Part I here! Check out Part II here! Check out Part III here! No Holds Barred: The Film: Act I As in the script, the film makes sure the first image we see is that of our hero, but unlike the script there is now a voice-over of two announcers, bickering, and discussing how this is Continue Reading...
13Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 29 October 2020, 20:00
WWF, 1985 When you say “Halloween” around these here parts, it means just one thing: “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. Whether it be the legendary safety tips we’ve played on WrestleCrap Radio for years or the time when he knocked out Brother Love with a pumpkin on Prime Time Wrestling, it seems no one better exemplified the spirit of the holiday than Hot Continue Reading...
35Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 22 October 2020, 20:00
UPN television episode, 2003 In my last induction, I noted that Australia’s version of Are You Being Served? set a Wrestlecrap record for the earliest wrestling episode in a TV series’ run, and that only the impossible-to-find first episode of The Mullets could possibly dethrone it. Well, lo and ye shall behold – within days, a kind reader emailed me Continue Reading...
25Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 01 October 2020, 20:00
TV episodes, 1979, 1980 This week on Wrestlecrap, we take a look at the classic British comedy, Are You Being Served? The show, a bawdy workplace comedy, derived most of its humor from the type of double-entendres that naturally abound in a clothing store where salesmen stuffed their drawers and the saleswomen took down their underwear. Throw in the occasional Continue Reading...
19Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 24 September 2020, 20:00
WCW, Early 1990’s You may have not noticed, but WrestleCrap is often late to the party when it comes to capitalizing on internet trends. While we were once a trailblazer on the world wide interwebs, we have largely done the same thing we’ve always done since day one over twenty years ago: find something stupid in pro wrestling, then do Continue Reading...
20Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 17 September 2020, 20:00
WWE, 2004 The way the music industry has changed over the past two decades, it’s no wonder that WWE doesn’t put out CDs anymore. Now it’s standard practice to just dump CFO$’ latest compositions on iTunes or Spotify, where they can be safely ignored by wrestling fans. For example, you probably weren’t aware that WWE Music has release thirteen different Continue Reading...
23Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 10 September 2020, 20:00
1995, Phillips CD-i Videogame I’d heard rumor of this for years, couldn’t believe it could possibly be true. A television show starring Hulk Hogan (that I am pretty sure I’ve inducted TWICE already!) was made into a video game. That part I can actually believe. There have been a lot of horrendous video game licenses over the years (and Continue Reading...
13Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 04 September 2020, 20:00
WWE, 2018-2020 Tag team matches are such a staple of pro wrestling that it’s hard to imagine that they started out as a gimmick match at the turn of the last century. For the past half a century at least, every promotion on earth has had at least one set of tag team titles. Imagine if in a hundred years, Continue Reading...
21Submitted by Art0Donnell on Fri, 21 August 2020, 20:18
WCW, 2000 The year 2000 was a special year for Wrestlecrap, a year that not only saw the site launch, but also provided material for it for years and decades to come, particularly in the form of WCW programming. That was the year that WCW passed the point of no return, hemorrhaging money, alienating viewers, and cramming segments with hot-shot Continue Reading...
20Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 13 August 2020, 20:00
Video Tape, 1987 For whatever reason, the other day I was thinking about when I was a lad…and the things that were ‘sexy’ in the 1980s. Giant hair. Torn up jeans. Neon colors that would burn your eyeballs. We look back on some of these things now, and we kinda chuckle. No harm no foul as the kids used to Continue Reading...
15Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 06 August 2020, 20:09
TV pilot, 2011 In the 80s and 90s, there was no shortage of vehicular sports adding wrestling elements. In the monster truck genre alone, there was Sgt. Slaughter’s battle with Bigfoot, plus the Monster Wars TV series with its wrestling-style promos. But when it came to bringing elements of motorsports into the wrestling ring, the best the wrestling world did Continue Reading...
27Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 30 July 2020, 20:00
Syndicated TV Show, 1989 I was very saddened to hear this week of the passing of someone I’d classify as true show business legend: Regis Philbin. I was never an avid watcher of any of his shows (my schedule didn’t really jive with the original airings), but any time I would catch him with Kathie Lee or Kelly Ripa, I Continue Reading...
16Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 23 July 2020, 20:00
Movie, 1949 Between Roddy Piper in the ‘80s and The Rock today, a lot of wrestlers have crossed over into Hollywood to become not only household names, but genuine movie stars. Not every wrestler who has tried to make the jump onto the silver screen has succeeded, though. One superstar, a bleach-blond WWE Hall of Famer who was the most Continue Reading...
29Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 16 July 2020, 19:11
TNA, 2007-2008 Not sure how many folks are aware of it, but every Wednesday night I do a live chat of AEW Dynamite. I don’t advertise it here on the site so pretty sure only like a dozen people on planet earth even know I do that. But yes, each and every week, I yuk it up with my friends Continue Reading...
16Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 09 July 2020, 20:00
WWE Books, 2006 Big Apple Takedown was the second and last official WWE novel. Like the Kane biography Journey Into Darkness before it, the book struggled to find an audience mature enough for its adult content but immature enough to read a novel about what TV wrestlers might do in their spare time. To clarify Big Apple Takedown’s intended audience, Continue Reading...
26Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 02 July 2020, 20:00
WWF, 1993 The trope of a brave American protecting his country from evil foreigners inside a wrestling ring may be as old as the business itself. It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if our pal Karl Stern dug up stories of Abe Lincoln hitting a stove pipe driver on someone named Sombrero Sam during the Mexican-American war in the Continue Reading...
21Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 25 June 2020, 20:24
TV show, 2007 Trish Stratus left wrestling at the top of her game, retiring the Women’s Champion in her hometown. So naturally, she wanted to parlay that momentum into a career in law enforcement – and CBS wanted to make that career change a reality. In December 2006, Trish and four other celebrities joined the Muncie, Indiana Police Department for Continue Reading...
21Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 18 June 2020, 20:00
WBF-WWF, 1992 This may come as a shock to you, but I think it is possible that Vince McMahon has something of a muscle man fetish. I’d attempt to explain further, but instead, let’s just go with this legendary GIF to best showcase it: I know, I know, we’ve all seen it 1,000 times. But in many ways, it really Continue Reading...
37Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 04 June 2020, 20:00
WWE, 2019 Wrestling has a long history of whodunnits: Who ran over Austin? Who drove the white Hummer? Who leaked those Paige sex videos? This week, we’ll explore one of the more recent mystery storylines in WWE. The story began at the 2019 Raw Reunion, a night of nostalgia held in honor of Raw’s 1,365th episode. Among the attendees was Continue Reading...
32Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 28 May 2020, 22:13
WWF – CHSC, 1995 Going to go out on a limb here and guess that a lot of you are seeing the title of this induction and thinking of skipping out without reading it. If you fall into that camp, all I can say is your really owe it to yourself to hang out for this one. There is a Continue Reading...
21Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 21 May 2020, 20:52
UWF, 1991 Herb Abrams was a big-time wrestling fan, and a wealthy one, at that. Abrams was one of the first to prove what a dangerous combination that was, launching the Universal Wrestling Federation in 1990, signing up all the big names he could and putting them on TV before their paychecks bounced. But if Abrams wanted the UWF to Continue Reading...
33Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 14 May 2020, 20:04
TNA, 2004 Not sure I’ve ever mentioned Fred, my buddy from high school on here before, but if ever he need to be brought up, today’s the day. Because Fred was just about the biggest “Macho Man” Randy Savage fan I’ve ever met. He also was a huge influence on my early wrestling fandom, which led to this site, which Continue Reading...
28Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 07 May 2020, 20:00
WWF, 1992-1995 When the new XFL folded mid-season due to the global pandemic, it was not the first time that a Vince McMahon venture had fallen victim to bad timing. Back in 1991, Vince McMahon launched the World Bodybuilding Federation just before scandal erupted regarding steroids in the WWF. Now, far be it from me to compare a federal investigation Continue Reading...
