Welcome to tonight's WWE RAW broadcast from Hartford, Connecticut, home of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and his family and so, in a very real way, home to the brain that made wrestling what it is today, for better or for worse. Tonight we'll be seeing matches out of Sheamus, John Cena, Kofi Kingston, members of Legacy and more, and we will also more than likely see some high-larious antics involving Degeneration X and their midget.

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Tags: dx, jerishow, john cena, raw, sheamus, the bellas, who on earth is timbaland?, wrestling, wwe

I got some highly exciting, interesting DVDs this Christmas, in addition to some pretty cool books, and am currently watching through the Rise and Fall of the WCW (which teaches us that, yes, a company being bankrolled by Ted Turner can fail if the management is inept enough), The Life and Times of the Nature Boy Ric Flair (whoo!), WWE's All Time Greatest Ladder Matches (including one of the brutal bouts between Matt Hardy and Adam 'Edge' Copeland when there was still a lot of legitimate heat between the two men, over the Amy Dumas issue) and the Greatest Moments in 15 Years of WWE's Monday Night RAW.

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Tags: attitude era, deconstruction, dx, kayfabe, musings, nwo, predictions, reconstruction, wcw, wrestling, ww(f)e

Welcome to tonight's WWE Smackdown event from Orlando, Florida and Merry Christmas. Tonight should bring us contests between Rey Mysterio and the Undertaker and The Hart Dynasty and Degeneration X.

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Tags: dx, hart dynasty, nattie (she's always a part of my discus, smackdown, wwe

I've decided to dedicate a few minutes to tearing into this slap nuts, Timmy90, from the Divas Dirt home page. I will say that it is generally my favorite site dedicated to all things female in the wrestling world, but this poster really got my goat, and I don't like having my goat got.

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Tags: discussion of mickie james storyline ind, nattie (she's always a part of my discus, pwnage

This would have only worked, mind you, back in the glory days of the old ECW when the Mutants haunted Hamerstein.

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Tags: ecw, revisionist booking, revisionist history

Welcome, tonight, to our coverage of ECW action on SyFy (which still sounds like something that Captain Kirk might pick up from a green Orion slave girl). ECW on SyFy, because nothing says science fiction like professional wrestling. Well, they do kinda have a wrestling superhero in Hurricane Helms, and Shelton Benjamin might actually be able to fly, and I think it's possible that Ezekiel Jackson is a Klingon, so, yeah, maybe they're right at home on SyFy.

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Tags: ecw, recap, wrestling

Here I sit coming at you live from, uh, my chair, in my living room, sitting next to my commentary partner/shih tzu Dohdoh. In spite of my illness, which might actually be pneumonia, and is certainly something nasty enough to have made my chest lock up so tight that it won't even rattle, I'll be bringing you the results, news and views from tonight's WWE RAW program in Tampa, Florida. We'll be joining guest host Johnny Damon and stars like Triple H, John Cena, Shawn Michaels, Maryse and... miscellaneous others like Santino Morella, Hornswoggle and whatever the hell The Miz might be.

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Tags: big show, commentary, dx, hornswoggle, randy orton, raw, sheamus, wrestling

That's what my grandmother used to call going over, passing on, joining the choir invisible and/or kicking the bucket. I've been sick for the past few days--nothing spectacular but just aches and pains and a little shortness of breath--but this morning I can't talk at all (no, really, when I tried to call for help it came out at 'aaaughwa? uuuuuuuhh!') and my equilibrium is so fundamentally, royally screwed up that I face-planted upon trying to pick up my shih-tzu. And yet, in spite of all this, I am still frying sausage. This could be a bad decision, but I guess I need something to eat and, since I like sausages, they'll be a lovely way to get prepared emotionally for my visit to the doctor's office this evening. I absolutely HATE going to the doctor, and had intended to call this morning and cancel the appointment, but am so absolutely and utterly miserable that calling to say, "Not coming. Too sick," would have been ridiculous, not least of all because not going to the doctor because one is too sick seems a bit silly under any circumstances. Besides, it would have come out as "Nroogh tchickt," and that wouldn't have meant anything and might have been interpreted as obscene.

I had planned to write something really cool today, probably about the use of music as a mood setter and part of the spectacle in live/multi-media performance, but that doesn't seem like it's happening right now. I may do it later, after I've medicated myself into near oblivion so that I can imitate Hunter S. Thompson/Uncle Duke/Spider Jerusalem, but right now my whole commentary would run along the lines of "Wooooooo, Waterproof Blonde RAWKS, dude, they RAWK." In light of this I decided that discretion might be the better part of valor and am holding off until at least tonight.

Something which a lot of people may not know about me, a piece of trivia from my early life, is that I was a fairly decent folkstyle wrestler in high school. Similarly, I trained in Greco-Roman style grappling, which emphasizes body-locks and head and arm throws, in my senior year and, had I not been side-lined by an injured knee, might have gone on to have a successful amateur and college wrestling career. I still work-out my moves whenever I can--it's an excellent form of cardiovascular exercise--and follow pretty closely all three forms of amateur wrestling practiced in the United States: folkstyle, Greco-Roman and the fast, flowing freestyle of wrestling.

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Tags: folkstyle, freestyle, greco-roman, gut-wrench, headlock, wrestling

One of my favorite wrestlers, the Edge Adam Copeland, has been out of action since May 2009. A history of nagging injuries caught up to him and, in the form of a final, awful Achilles tendon tear, the Edge was thrust out of the limelight and into a hospital bed. Now, after surgery and a long rehab process, Edge plans to return in the first part of 2010. How should the former world champion make his comeback? He should push kayfabe right up to the edge.

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Tags: angle writing, edge, jericho, wresling, wrestlemania