Animal, Ax Team For First Time
By Mike Mooneyham Nov. 26, 2006 A unique piece of wrestling history will be unveiled 75 miles up the road Saturday night when a pair of grappling legends join forces for the first time. Joe Laurinaitis, better known in mat circles as Road Warrior Animal, and Bill Eadie, the man behind the Demolition Ax character, [...]
Sputnik Monroe: One Of A Kind
By Mike Mooneyham Nov. 19, 2006 He was the diamond ring and Cadillac man – “two hundred and thirty-five pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal with the body men fear and women love.” Long before “Stone Cold” Steve Austin became a national symbol for the anti-establishment movement, there was Sputnik Monroe, a salty-tongued, anti-authoritarian [...]
Bischoff-Flair’s Rocky Relationship
By Mike Mooneyham Nov. 12, 2006 It wasn’t that long ago when Eric Bischoff ran the most successful wrestling organization in the world, and Ric Flair was one of his top stars. For both, however, it now seems like an eternity. It was at the height of the Monday night wrestling wars when Bischoff, the [...]
Brooke Hogan Album Falling Flat
By Mike Mooneyham Nov. 5, 2006 The verdict appears to be in for Brooke Hogan’s debut album, and the results aren’t good. Abandoning the innocent, spoiled-daddy’s-girl image portrayed on the hit VHI reality series “Hogan Knows Best” for a much more sexy, risqué one as the latest tanned teen pop princess hasn’t seemed to help [...]