At the last show I worked, I had the honor of being in the venue before belltime, listening to Tracy Smothers hold court before a group of wrestlers preparing for Absolute Intense Wrestling to broadcast Absolution VIII around the world on internet pay-per-view. It’s unfortunate...
Tomorrow, at 6:30 p.m., Absolute Intense Wrestling’s Absolution VIII goes live to a worldwide audience. It is the company’s second internet Pay Per View offering following Girls Night Out 8, but, in many ways, it’s the promotion’s first: the first time AIW is presenting its...
Background: The Repo Man—one of Barry Darsow’s many faces once the Demolition well ran dry—is, in my humble opinion, one of the great bad gimmicks of all time. (For the record, Darsow’s stint as angry golfer “Hole in One” Barry Darsow on WCW Saturday Night is another.) During this...
Background: In 1992, The Ultimate Warrior, according to official WWE company line, pulled one of his stick-up jobs on the WWE. Vince McMahon, bearer of the world’s largest grapefruits, did not budge in the face of Warrior’s demands and changed the main event of Survivor Series...
