WWE Hopes Orton Next Superstar
By Mike Mooneyham Aug. 29, 2004 Once in a blue moon, a performer with all the right stuff emerges. Not only does he captivate the audience, he single-handedly creates a renewed interest in the product and generates an upturn in business. World Wrestling Entertainment has built its biggest boom periods around such performers as Hulk [...]
A Stunner For Stone Cold
By Mike Mooneyham Aug. 22, 2004 It’s been several months since “Stone Cold” Steve Austin has rocked WWE rings, but the beer-swilling Texan is back in the news. The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Austin got into a real-life altercation with ex-girlfriend Tess Broussard earlier this month at a Beverly Hills restaurant after [...]
Books, Reunions Reignite Feuds
By Mike Mooneyham Aug. 15, 2004 The recent spate of wrestling autobiographies, along with a growing number of legends reunions and fanfests, has opened up windows to the past for a new generation of grappling aficionados. Some of those windows, however, may be better left closed. Bobby Heenan and Ole Anderson, two of the more [...]
From Grappling To The Gridiron
By Mike Mooneyham August 8, 2004 He was known as “The Next Big Thing” in professional wrestling. Now Brock Lesnar is ready to prove he’s all that in the NFL. Lesnar, who was one of pro wrestling’s most promising prospects, shocked the grappling world earlier this year when he announced that he was chucking it [...]
Last Of The Old-Time Promoters
By Mike Mooneyham Aug. 1, 2004 I can’t help but think about Henry Marcus whenever driving past the old County Hall on King Street. Now an affordable housing complex known as the Palace Apartments, the building is long removed from the days when it was the place to be on Friday nights, wrestling was the [...]