Eugene Taking WWE By Storm
By Mike Mooneyham June 27, 2004 Move over Hulkamania – Eugenemania is running wild. World Wrestling Entertainment’s newest character may have the goofiest act in the wrestling business, but it’s also one of the hottest. The performer known as Eugene, whose apparently clueless, guileless persona hearkens back to the days of similar happy-go-lucky simpletons such [...]
Matches Made In Heaven
By Mike Mooneyham June 20, 2004 At first glance, pro wrestling and religion might not appear to be a very likely combination. But don’t tell that to Jim Palmer and Andy McDaniel. To the two local pastors, it’s a match made in heaven. Both longtime fans of old-school grappling, Palmer and McDaniel are joining forces [...]
Layfield Steps Out Of Bounds
By Mike Mooneyham June 13, 2004 Few symbols represent evil and hatred more than those associated with Adolph Hitler and Nazism. Somebody should have reminded WWE performer John Bradshaw Layfield. Last weekend during a Smackdown tour of Germany, at a time when many were commemorating the D-Day invasion that led to the fall of Hitler [...]
Smackdown Brand Badly Lagging
By Mike Mooneyham June 6, 2004 With World Wrestling Entertainment rolling into town in just a couple of weeks, now’s a good time to look at the company’s two divisions and how the brand extension is working. First off, I haven’t talked to one fan locally who’s sorry that the June 19 show at the [...]