by OWW Contributor | May 3, 2015 | Columns
By The Masked Man, writer for Grantland.com: Extreme Rules is in the past, and if there’s one thing we learned from that show, it’s that the new WWE season is definitively here — the big match hype of WrestleMania is almost completely gone and the Rollins Era is in...
by OWW Contributor | Apr 11, 2015 | Columns
The Plate-Glass Ceiling: Marty Jannetty, Paul Orndorff, Arn Anderson, and the Silver Age of Wrestling Second Bananas By The Masked Man, Grantland.com writer: When the Rockers debuted on WWF television in 1988, there wasn’t much distinction between Shawn Michaels and...
by OWW Contributor | Oct 25, 2014 | WWE
Photo courtesy of WWE.com: The Hell With It by The Masked Man, Grantland.com writer Hell in a Cell — featuring the giant, five-ton cage that was built by mystic metalworkers and encloses the ring and the ringside floor — has a place in the history of WWE gimmick...
by OWW Contributor | May 2, 2014 | WWE
Grantland.com writer The Masked Man, David Shoemaker, is the author of the new book The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Pro Wrestling. In this article he ranks the top prospects in WWE. On Monday night’s episode of Raw, WWE showed highlights of a press conference...
by David Buckler | Mar 12, 2014 | WWE
Courtesy of Grantland.com: Welcome to the WWE Network Grantland’s resident wrestling junkies break down the cutting-edge delivery of the WWE’s Internet-only channel by Bill Simmons and The Masked Man on March 7, 2014 Editor’s note: David “The Masked Man” Shoemaker...