Mar 12
Welcome to the first edition of our WrestleMania Rewind series, written by yours truly, exclusively for everyone here at SLTD Wrestling. The aim of WrestleMania Rewind is to review every WrestleMania in roughly 2,000 words. We’ll also archive every one of these reviews, so you can read them at your leisure. Let’s start with the …
Nov 07
It’s officially Movember, and to celebrate the people coming together to defeat male cancer in a hardcore match, I thought it’d only be apt to count down the most iconic moustaches in wrestling history. Honorable Mentions Cody Rhodes – Rhodes is already a handsome man, but having a gimmick surrounding the fact he had a moustache …
Sep 05
The top rope elbow drop is probably the best know top rope move out there. Even if you’ve never watched wrestling before, you could probably tell what an elbow drop is. However, even with a move this common, there are certain superstars who have made the move their speciality. This list breaks down and explains, …
Sep 03
I am back with the next instalment of looking back at Backlashes of yesteryear, so let’s see how many “Who booked that” moments we can get. Backlash 2002 Well it did take long to find the first who booked that moment of the article as at Backlash 2002, a 49 year old Hulk Hogan …
Aug 13
Welcome to part three of Old Skool View presents……Summerslams of yesteryear. In this instalment i’ll be looking back at the Summerslams from 2000-2009, where no doubt many of you witnessed your first summerslam, but as i’m old and all that i’ve got a bit of time on you haha. Anyway, Summerslam 2000, the first Summerslam …
Jul 30
With Summerslam not so far away i’m going to spend my next few articles looking back at the previous Summerslam events, breaking it down to 80s/90s/00/10’s which will take us right up to this years event. The first Summerslam event took place August 28th 1988, and as you could have guessed, took place in the …
Mar 28
In the debut episode of Prime Time, Ryan Davis discusses why we should forgive Hulk Hogan for his racial remarks. Also on the episode, Ryan questions whether Charlotte is as good as everyone says and talks about the need to tear down WWE’s “Invisible Wall.”
Mar 28
Wrestlemania Top 5: As follows, let’s take a look back at the greatest Wrestlemania matches. It’s a toast to Wrestlemania and all the fanfare, glitz, glamour and memories we have remembered that makes this show and industry great. The first match on this list is the Hogan-Andre bout at Wrestlemania 3. The most famous match …
Mar 14
Ryan Davis talks about his thoughts on the ending of WWE Roadblock, why Roman Reigns isn’t over and Dean Ambrose is, and how delusional and out of touch Vince McMahon really is. Follow Ryan Davis on Twitter: @RyanDavisSpeaks TSWP on TuneIn Radio | TSWP on Stitcher Radio | TSWP on iTunes | TSWP on YouTube [mixcloud …
Aug 01
So another month has passed in the world of professional wrestling and as we near the biggest show of the summer, much has happened since my last report at the end of June. The WWE icon that is Hulk Hogan has been fired and blacklisted by WWE without a backward glance, the WWE’s resident phenom …
Jul 26
It’s a damn shame when you put so much effort into writing an article about all of the positive changes that are occurring in professional wrestling today, only to turn around and have one of the industry’s all-time biggest stars featured in worldwide news for being a pompous, bigoted asshole. We as WWE fans have …
Jul 11
“In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of staged events within the industry as “real” or “true,” specifically the portrayal of competition, rivalry and relationships between participants as being genuine and not of a staged or pre-determined nature. Kayfabe has also evolved to become a code word of sorts for maintaining this “reality” within the …
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