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  1. writtenin1981

    The Promotional Lineage of WWE

    Reading through Ballyhoo and researching the early days, I am starting to wonder if there can be a direct or broken lineage between Jack Curley (one of the first major wrestling promoters of the 20th century) to the modern day World Wrestling Entertainment. Jack Curley was one of the key...
  2. writtenin1981

    Watching STARDOM PPVs in the United States

    I am very tempted to order Sunday's STARDOM event, but this would be the first time I've ever attempted to order an international PPV. Has anyone gotten one of STARDOM's events via PPV before? If so, how difficult was the process (if it is even possible in the U.S. for that matter)?
  3. writtenin1981

    The 2020 Era Starting to Become a Retroactive Guilty Pleasure

    Here is something unusual I have noticed after the last year of Triple H booking WWE: the better the promotion has gotten at re-focusing on good wrestling and solid booking, the more I find myself softening up on the bizarre, "cinematic" era of 2020 WWE. At the time, you could not have found a...
  4. writtenin1981

    Ballyhoo

    I picked up Ballyhoo!: The Roughhouses, Con Artists, and Wildmen Who Invented Professional Wrestling by Jon Langmead about a week ago, and I have been completely enthralled so far. If you have any interest whatsoever in the earliest days of American professional wrestling, I could not recommend...
  5. writtenin1981

    First Time in a Forum in a LONG Time

    Good evening everyone. My name is Will, and I am trying the forum thing for the first time in probably over a decade. I don't know if this will be a better environment to discuss pro wrestling than wide-open social media or if it will be even more chaotic. I am thinking the former, but maybe I...