WWF Still Struggling
By Mike Mooneyham Oct. 28, 2001 Seven months after gobbling up the competition, the World Wrestling Federation finds itself vulnerable and desperately searching for answers. Forget the notion of “the curse of WCW.” The WWF has created many of its own problems, including a badly botched invasion angle that had the potential to be one [...]
Cheering Stopped Long Before Adams’ Death
By Mike Mooneyham Oct. 20, 2001 World Class Championship Wrestling once boasted some of the top stars and hottest shows in the industry. Today, sadly, the long-defunct Dallas-based promotion is more remembered as a graveyard for a stable of wrestlers who died far too young. News of the most recent casualty of a company whose [...]
Chris Adams Latest Casualty of World Class Era
By Mike Mooneyham Oct. 13, 2001 Few wrestling arenas in the country have generated as much lore and fable as the now aged Dallas Sportatorium. The heart and soul of World Class Championship Wrestling during its heyday in the early and mid-1980s, it was here that the lives of wrestling heroes somehow became entwined with [...]
WWF Needs Austin Back On TV
By Mike Mooneyham Oct. 6, 2001 Steve Austin will return to Raw on Monday night to challenge Kurt Angle for the WWF heavyweight title. It’s about time. Austin has been purposely kept off television the past two weeks as part of a storyline. It doesn’t make a lot of sense – from a ratings or [...]