This week’s Mount Rushmore of pro wrestling features my top four announcers of all time. Like a pro sports radio or TV personality, a good announcer can put the product...
Over the last few weeks, I’ve given you my choices for my Mount Rushmore of heels, babyfaces, tag teams and managers. This week I am going to dive in a...
At its best, pro wrestling boils down to good versus evil. The better the good, the more hideous the evil, the stronger chance there is to create heat. And more...
Tag team wrestling has often been an under-appreciated facet of pro wrestling, generally eschewed by promoters who looked on tags as no more than additional payoffs. In their minds, why...
Turn on professional wrestling today (if you can stomach it) and you will find managers to be few and far between. But go back a few years and managers were...
Heels, or the bad guys, are in some ways even more essential to a good pro wrestling story line than a babyface, or good guy. It’s great to have a...
Anyone who watches professional wrestling is well aware of the importance of stables, groups of wrestlers who band together for a common cause. Some of the most exciting moments in...
It can be dangerous to meet your hero. A lifetime of adoration and worship can be wiped out in a few seconds if the meeting doesn’t go as expected. To...
Welcome to the first edition of Blading with Bill, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø’s new column on professional wrestling. Since launching in September of 2017, 17³Ô¹ÏÍø has covered every local sport imaginable. You name...