Kings of Professional Wrestling

Kings of Professional Wrestling and King of the Ring

Pro wrestling has featured big over all wearing farmers, crazy maniacs who talk to themselves, playboys, american heroes, terrorists, assassins, giant mummies, and anything your creative mind can conjure up. But nothing can beat royalty. In particular, wrestling kings. Kings in professional wrestling have mostly been self proclaimed. Who wouldn't want to be a king of something? With the nice velour robes and … [Read more...]

UFC Hall of Fame: The Elite ( 2003 to 2006)

UFC Hall of Fame and Royce Gracie

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a cut-throat business. Only the strong survive inside the octagon and no one gets a free ride to a contract. With thousands of fighters trying to get into the biggest company in MMA, spots aren't given, their earned. The percentage of fighters that get into the UFC and last is very low and Dana White, the figurehead of the company doesn't take lightly the need to keep the sport … [Read more...]

The Absolute Worst Summer Jobs for College Students

Worst Summer Jobs and the Door to Door Salesman

The idea of earning some extra cash over the summer sounds great but what if it involves working on a terrible job? There are some great summer jobs for college students out there but which ones are the jobs which will leave you tearing your hair out in frustration or breaking down in tears? Anything to do with … [Read more...]

Royal Rumble Since 1988

Royal Rumble and Stone Cold Steve Austin

Every year since 1993, the winner of the Royal Rumble has been granted a WWE Championship match at Wrestlemania, the "Grandest Stage of Them All". The Royal Rumble was invented by WWE's first Intercontinental Champion Pat Patterson in 1988. The concept, a battle royal type match that starts with two competitors and another wrestler entering ever so many minutes, was at first, presented as a bragging right to the other … [Read more...]

WWE Small Giants: Ten Smallest Wrestlers

WWE Small Giants and Hornswoggle

Professional wrestling was born from athletes that were bigger than life. For the first fifty years most of the wrestling talent were big and burly. Men like Hulk Hogan and Andre The Giant ruled the squared circle. Then came the luchadores of Mexico and in walked the most famous little giant of them all - Rey Mysterio, and everything changed. Here are the smallest wrestlers in WWE. Hornswoggle (4'4, 130 lbs.) The … [Read more...]

Rise of the Wrestling Women: Volume 1

Athena and the Rise of the Wrestling Women

Pro wrestling has mostly been dominated by men. With talent such as Hulk Hogan and Ric Flair being the names that people relate to pro wrestling, many fans forget that women have existed in pro wrestling as long as the men. Things are changing very fast! Promotions are popping up everywhere that are dedicated to strictly or mostly women wrestlers. Companies like Shimmer Athletics, Shine, and Ice Ribbon in Japan have shown … [Read more...]

Hollywood Grapple: The Best Pro Wrestling Movies

Best Pro Wrestling Movies and Body Slam

Nothing goes together like Hollywood and Pro Wrestling! Not Peanut Butter and Jelly, not Laurel and Hardy, and not Abbott and Costello. With drama and out of control characters, sometimes you can barely tell the difference. Pro Wrestling has been included in movies for over forty years and some of them are, dare I say, pretty good! Here are some of the pro wrestling movies that need to be seen. Body Slam … [Read more...]

Arcade Fever: Arcade Games of The Past

Arcade Games of The Past and Galaxy Game

Arcade games ( or coin-op) have been around almost one hundred years. Yes, you heard it right. The earliest "arcade games" were at the midways of amusement parks in the 1920s. Fortune teller games and ones that played mechanical music were very popular at places like Coney Island. In the 1930s, pinball machines were introduced giving way to the pinball craze of the late 1960s and early 1970s. The first-person shooter game … [Read more...]

Appetite For Patience: Guns N Roses Through The Years

Appetite For Patience: Guns N Roses Through The Years

The history of Guns N Roses has been one of tragedy and triumph, greatness and failure, and a story that needs to be told. The group has had many top hits and dozens of songs that were better than those who came before and after. With key members leaving the group and relatively unknown musicians added, Guns N Roses still have a place in the history of rock in which they revitalized. Some of their better songs from the … [Read more...]

From Sea To Shining Sea: Trucker Songwriters

Trucker Songwriters and Dave Dudley

The life of a trucker can be lonely, yet full of stories. Seeing parts of America that others will never travel. The origin of trucker songs started in the 1930's with a combination of blues and storytelling. The genre didn't catch on until the late 1960's and early 1970's, with a new breed of singer/songwriters rising in music. Trucker music was born. With stories of the open road, these artists hit a chord with common … [Read more...]