26Submitted 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...
16Submitted 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...
1Submitted by RD Reynolds on Tue, 19 January 2021, 19:58
Movie, 1989 Check out Part I here! Check out Part II here! Check out Part III here! Check out Part IV here! Check out Part V here! No Holds Barred: The Film: Act III We start with a mid-torso walking through nothingness, with… the Winged Eagle on a white strap across his waist. And as Rip enters the studio and Continue Reading...
2Submitted by RD Reynolds on Mon, 18 January 2021, 19:51
Movie, 1989 Check out Part I here! Check out Part II here! Check out Part III here! Check out Part IV here! No Holds Barred: The Film: Act II We see a large stained glass window of Christ and a woman playing a harp below it in evening wear. Erm, okay. She sits behind a balustrade a floor above an 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...
1Submitted by RD Reynolds on Sat, 16 January 2021, 19:32
Movie, 1989 Check out Part I here! Check out Part II here! No Holds Barred: The Script: Act III When we last left our hero, he found out his perfunctory love interest has been kidnapped and evil network executive wants him to throw the fight to the evil bad guy champion after ten minutes, else the love interest will be Continue Reading...
2Submitted by RD Reynolds on Fri, 15 January 2021, 20:00
Movie, 1989 Check out Part I here! No Holds Barred: The Script: Act II When we last left our hero Ripper, he was making men crap their pants. Next scene: a French restaurant. Sam and Ripper are seated in a corner table and Sam indicates she was not sure if Ripper was going to like this place and hopes there Continue Reading...
15Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 14 January 2021, 20:00
Movie, 1989 Quick note from RD: Folks coming to WrestleCrap.com of course know about No Holds Barred, the rather infamous 1989 film starring Hulk Hogan. One of the first inductions I ever penned over twenty years ago covered it and we all had (I hope) a good chuckle at it. With the passage of time, there has been I think a Continue Reading...
118Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 07 January 2021, 19:57
There’s no need to recap why 2020 was such a messed-up year, and there was certainly enough awful stuff happening off-screen that could qualify as “the worst in wrestling”. This past year was no doubt the strangest in wrestling history, with wrestling promotions having to figure out ways to run shows without a live audience. Some of their ideas were Continue Reading...
31Submitted by RD Reynolds on Thu, 17 December 2020, 20:00
1988, Made for TV Movie Note from RD: We’re nearing the end of December and you know what that means around these parts – time to induct another horrible (non-wrestling!) Christmas movie! It’s been an annual tradition for all these years…you can check out the ghosts of Christmas past here! And without any further adieu, let’s dive right into this Yule log! This Continue Reading...
20Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 03 December 2020, 20:12
TV episode, 2008 Kenny vs. Spenny was a Canadian comedy reality show where two friends compete in a new challenge every week. Spencer Rice, aka “Spenny” (in wrestling parlance, the “babyface”) usually plays each challenge straight and usually loses. Kenny Hotz (in wrestling parlance, the “total scumbag”) usually cheats and usually wins. Spenny must not watch the show, like most Continue Reading...
28Submitted by RD Reynolds on Mon, 23 November 2020, 19:41
Syndicated TV Show, 1991 As we kick off Thanksgiving week in the US o’ A, thoughts tend to our families. And whilst many of us won’t be able to celebrate with them in person this year thanks to a pesky virus, we will no doubt think back fondly upon past years when we weren’t mired in such dire circumstances. Sitting Continue Reading...
30Submitted by Art0Donnell on Thu, 12 November 2020, 20:00
The results are in, and over 60% of voters on Twitter agreed that Bob Backlund’s presidential candidacy belonged in the hallowed halls of WrestleCrap. Don’t blame me – I’m just carrying out the will of the people. WWF, 1995 Mr. Backlund, the delusional moral crusader and purveyor of malapropisms, was easily one of the best characters of the New Generation 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...
22Submitted 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...
22Submitted 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...
30Submitted 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...
27Submitted 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...
22Submitted 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...
