by OWW Contributor | Jul 5, 2015 | Columns
By No Leaf Clover, writer for http://www.cagesideseats.com: So here’s the thing about CJ Perry, who works for WWE under the name Lana; she gets it. For all intents and purposes, she is not a lifelong wrestling fan. In another time, she’d be one more in the...
by David Buckler | May 29, 2015 | Columns, David Buckler
Hitting the Ropes: Worth Paying For? By David Buckler, OWW editor-in-chief This weekend is WWE’s Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. The return of the Chamber! What’s incredible is that the month of May features two…TWO…WWE pay-per-view events (and one special NXT...
by OWW Contributor | May 29, 2015 | Columns
By Greg Oliver, Producer, SLAM! Wrestling: Tessa Blanchard is an old soul. Though she’s only been wrestling for a little more than a year, she’s been around it her whole life. Consider her pedigree — her grandfather was wrestler and promoter Joe...
by OWW Contributor | May 20, 2015 | Columns
By Robin Warder, writer for http://www.cracked.com: Today, everyone knows that professional wrestling is a predetermined stage show – Vince McMahon himself publicly admitted it 23 years ago. However, for most of the last century, wrestling fans believed every...
by OWW Contributor | May 14, 2015 | Columns
By The Masked Man, writer for Grantland.com: The Reality Era may have started with CM Punk — the wrestler who wasn’t seen as main-event material by WWE bigwigs, but made his way to the top via work shoots — but it was taken to its apex by Daniel Bryan. Bryan was twice...
by OWW Contributor | May 8, 2015 | Columns
By Philip Frazer, theSportster.com writer: Once upon a time kayfabe – the act of portraying staged events as real – was an unbreakable tangent, used to try and get the audience as invested as possible in the clashes of heroes and villains. Some wrestlers refused to...