Daniel KramerDo people still watch professional wrestling? We stopped watching when the Rock left to make awful mummy movies and Stone Cold Steve Austin started fighting women instead of other dudes in black Speedos. That, and we graduated high school.
Nonetheless, World Wrestling Entertainment's Wrestlemania XXV is hitting Reliant Stadium April 25, and AC/DC will be the musical guest. WWE CEO Linda McMahon announced at a press conference last week that the classic rockers would be
Houston, you have had a tough few months.Ike hit. The Texans missed the playoffs. And now -- most crushingly of all -- comes news that Mickey Rourke won't be coming to Wrestlemania after all.Of course, this being professional wrestling, things may change a half-dozen times before the event. Still, a Rourke spokesman managed to keep a straight face when she announced that the star of The Wrestler "is focusing entirely on his acting career." (Such as it is.)The charm of Wrestlemania has long elude
Logo courtesy WWEIn the world of professional wrestling, there appears to be a smackdown going on outside the ring.Hair Balls was alerted to this controversy after reading an article in Professional Wrestling Insider -- one of our favorite sources of news about big sweaty thespians pretending to beat each other senseless with folding chairs -- accusing World Wrestling Entertainment of poaching talent from local wrestling legend Booker T's charity event, slated for the same weekend as WrestleMani
Gonna be upfront here: I don't get the whole pro-wrestling thing. Never did.I grew up in New Jersey, where every pizzeria had a glossy shot of Bruno Sammartino on the walls, but it just never took.With that in mind, here is my analysis of the matches in the upcoming WrestleMania 25, which is the single biggest event to happen in Houston since ever.All info is taken from the official website, so you know it's good.Photos courtesy WWE
Triple H vs. Randy Orton: Contrary to what I initially believe
Cameras flashed, the crowd oohed and ahhed, and WWE superstar Jeff Hardy carefully painted a nose onto an oversized white canvas.
The WWE onslaught that culminates with Sunday's Wrestlemania XXV eased its way into Houston this evening in an unusually genteel (and slightly unsettling) fashion -- a charity auction called WrestlemaniArt.
Waiters in bow ties carried around trays of hors' doeuvres, and some of professional wrestling's more outrageous characters -- Jerry "The King" Lawler, Santi
With Wrestlemania in town for its 25th anniversary, Rocks Off thought we could take a little stroll down memory lane and relive some of the WWE's best wrestling theme songs.
Nowadays, the WWE can afford to purchase the rights to slick, well-produced songs by popular music acts such as Saliva, Our Lady Peace, Rob Zombie and plenty of others. It wasn't always this way, though. In the earlier days, wrestlers had to come up with a way to incorporate older, public-domain music as their themes, a
Photo by Dan Kramer"Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making its way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog than you've seen me," Bruce Springsteen sings in the title song to The Wrestler.Well, we've never seen a one-legged dog, to be honest, but we could have seen Mickey Rourke if we went to last night's WrestleMania extravaganza at Reliant Stadium. We could also have seen lots of fireworks, manic dives, complicated plot lines, and 70,000 ecstatic fans.Luckily Dan Kramer was th
Last Sunday's WrestleMania promised to bring the faithful to Houston,
and in that regard at least, it didn't disappoint (unless by "faithful"
you were expecting personages of some religious significance, in which
case you'd certainly be a little disappointed). Let's take a look back
at some of the more colorful rasslin' aficionados that descended upon
Reliant Stadium.5. Smiles, Everyone...Smiles!
This was taken right before Triple H's climactic entrance, but for the
life of me I can't figure o
As you well know if you've been reading our sister blog Rocks Off (and Lord knows you should be), U2 is in town tonight.The new tour requires something like 90 huge trucks to cart around the massive stage they use so as not to detract from the quiet beauty of their ballads. Or to keep the people in the cheap seats entertained, we're not sure.At any rate, it's the biggest show at Reliant Stadium since Wrestlemania 25 came to town, unless you count the Texans' implosion against Jacksonville.Wrestl
