Jan 16
WWE portray the Wyatt Family as heels, you know the typical ‘bad guy’ intent on ruining things for the perceived ‘good guy’. However the Wyatt’s are far from heels, they maybe pushed that way on TV every week, but they don’t come across like that. Yes, they look dominant on TV and in segments, but …
Jan 09
Following NJPW’s very successful Wrestle Kingdom 10 on Monday 4th January, news broke on social media that WWE were on the verge of signing AJ Styles, Karl Anderson, Doc Gallows & Shinsuke Nakamura. On 5th January, AJ was excommunicated from the Bullet Club and said goodbye to NJPW, WWE published a story on their website …
Jan 08
Welcome to the SLTD PPV Rewind, a retrospective column looking back at the PPVs of 2006, a decade after they happened. I’d like to thank everyone at SLTD for welcoming me to the team and we’re kicking this off with New Year’s Revolution 2006. I’ll be rating each match out of five then accumulating the …
Jan 06
Brian Pillman had the potential to be a wrestling megastar, unfortunately on October 5th 1997 he suffered a fatal heart attack and passed away. At the time of his death Pillman was 35 years old, what made it worse is that he had only recently recovered from a devastating car wreck to return to the …
Jan 05
First off, as I hope all readers and fans have had a happy holiday season, and a happy new year to all. We return to WWE RAW, the first of the new calendar year of 2016. In recapping, we had our WWE Oscars equivalent, the Slammy’s, and last week’s drummed up return of John Cena …
Jan 02
What an exciting 2015 it was for the former ROH, PWG & NXT Champion. After debuting at the NXT TakeOver special in December 2014, he quickly ascended the NXT ladder, in February he captured the NXT title by defeating Sami Zayn at TakeOver Rival. The match was praised by fans and critics alike, the feud that …
Dec 31
To cap of my review of 2015 I’m going to take a look at the Slammy Award Winners and see where if different what choice I would have made. To avoid nonsense I’m just focusing on wrestling related awards. Tag Team of the Year: WWE Winner: The Uso’s Tag Team of the Year: Ciaran_1986 Winner: The New …
Dec 27
2015 was a year of ups and downs for WWE. While Wrestlemania 31 was a huge success and NXT has been home to tremendous programming all year long, there’s been a lot of flaws and set backs which has really hurt professional wrestling as a whole. Believe it or not, all of professional wrestling relies …
Dec 26
In December 2014 the WWE universe was awaiting the return to action of former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Daniel Bryan. A year later Daniel Bryan, WWE and the fans are in the same predicament. 6 months ago I wrote a piece detailing Bryan’s latest injury scare and his departure from WWE programming, when Bryan and …
Dec 24
Whether you’re a long-time reader of SLTD Wrestling, you’re a member of staff or you’re just passing by, I hope you’re having a splendid holiday season, no matter what holiday you may be celebrating. Hopefully you’re enjoying some much-deserved time off and are enjoying it with the people you love. For those of you unfamiliar …
Dec 18
Smackdown Spectacular: Sizzle or Subpar? This episode of Smackdown this evening had much review of the happenings and developments from Monday Night RAW. The preview and opening segment featured new WWE champion Roman Reigns. In his first Smackdown as champion, Reigns took to the microphone and addressed his success and ardent feelings about winning the …
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