Wrestling

For the second year in a row, the Monday Night Raw crowd was able to make the night after WrestleMania feel almost as special as the blockbuster event. WrestleMania 29 was about as predictable of a wrestling show as I've seen in years, and apparently the New Jersey crowd felt the same...

Last week we discussed the problem that the WWE locker room has had with Vince McMahon using part-timers (Brock Lesnar, The Rock, The Undertaker) to up the amount of WrestleMania buys. The Rock has been their champion since the first PPV of the 2013, Royal Rumble, and has since appeared on WWE TV sparingly...

WrestleMania 29 was live from Metlife Stadium last night. No episode of Monday Night Raw gets more hype than the one following Mania, so it's time to get the thinking cap out, and do some predicting. It's been said that WrestleMania 29 was disappointingly predictable (I was 7-2 on my predictions), and a lot is riding on tonight's Raw being full of surprises...

WWE WrestleMania 29 is over. Here are the official results from the 2013 spectacle of sports entertainment live from East Rutherford, NJ.

Simple entrances for both men. It took the match and the crowd a while to get turned up. I expected a hot crowd from start to finish, but it didn't sound that way on my TV. A lot of rest holds and punching. They began busting out the power moves, like Rock with a Samoan drop and Sharpshooter...

Shawn Michaels came out first, which is weird because Brock came out next. I've never seen that before. I guess they wanted to save HHH's personal viking set piece for last. These two went into insta-brawl mode. The first rough bump of the match was taken by HHH in the form of a belly-to-belly suplex...

Who won Wrestlemania 29? Who were the winners and losers of the biggest wrestling event of 2013? Who won the World Tag Team Championship match at WrestleMania 29? Who won between champion Alberto Del Rio and challenger Jack Swagger? Who won the Intercontinental Championship...

The band Living Colour played CM Punk to the ring with their song 'Cult of Personality.' Undertaker came out with the crowd beneath him, reaching up through the smoke like zombies. One of his more impressive Mania entrances. The set just puts the whole thing over, it's like a demon version of Godzilla has come out of the Hudson to destroy CM Punk...

Jack Swagger didn't get an entrance, but Zeb Colter cut a pre-match promo instead. Del Rio's entrance made up for Swagger's lack of one, as the firework display was double what Jericho had, and Del Rio has a new entrance robe. It looks more Karate Kid than Nature Boy, but still pretty cool...

Fandango with the first impressive entrance production of the night. A bunch of ladies danced for a bit, and then Fandango, and his usual dancing valet, made their way to the ring. Good stuff. Jericho's entrance one-upped Fandango, with some actual fireworks over Jersey...

The match began with Dolph Ziggler giving AJ Lee a kiss, which was mocking Daniel Bryan who lost his title at WrestleMania 28 for doing the same. Daniel Bryan kicked Ziggler in the head, and nearly won the match, but Ziggler kicked out at 2...

Ryback came down the entrance ramp rocking some new green gear for WrestleMania 29! The match began with what basically amounted to a Sumo wrestling competition. That is, until Henry crushed Ryback. The next five minutes were all Mark Henry...

The Shield made their usual entrance through the crowd, only it's MetLife Stadium, so the entrance was far more impressive. Big Show found himself on the wrong end of The Shield cutting off the ring. It's unorthodox to have the biggest guy in the match getting dominated, but that's what so great about The Shield...

Even with all of the excitement that has come with WrestleMania week, there seems to be a dark cloud hanging over the event, and I'm not talking about New Jersey weather. Ever since The Rock returned to part-time action for the WWE two years ago, he's methodically taken the spotlight away from everyone in the WWE not named John Cena...

WrestleMania 29 is mere days away. The card is loaded with amazing matches from top to bottom and the New York and New Jersey area is pumped to have the 'Grandaddy of Them All' right in their backyard.

WrestleMania 29 features matches and superstars from every end of the professional wrestling spectrum. You have the part-time mega-stars (The Rock, Brock Lesnar, etc), and a bunch of guys making their in-ring WrestleMania debuts (The Shield, Fandango, Big E Langston, etc)...

For years we've heard rumors about in-ring moves being banned by the WWE. Sometimes it's for safety reasons, like when they banned the piledriver, which is the act of driving an opponent down onto their head/neck. Other times they ban moves to make them seem more exclusive when a Superstar pulls it off as their new finisher...

It had been nearly fifteen months since Evan Bourne appeared on WWE TV.

Beggars can't be choosers, and in the world of professional wrestling there is only one chooser -- Vince McMahon. Some guys leave the WWE because they want to do movies, or MMA, or both, or neither, but it seems they all come crawling back to kiss Vince's ring. Currently, two such past stars are doing just that.

There are few wrestling stories during WrestleMania season as widely discussed as WWE Hall of Fame snubs. Every year, the WWE names about five former greats in the business to induct and every year the fans scream about classic wrestlers who didn't make the cut...