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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 21, 2011

Wrestle War

"Superstar Billy Graham" on Art of Cutting Forehead for Fame and Fortune

Houston Press Abdullah the Butcher: WWE Hall of Famer. ​"Superstar Billy Graham," subject of our cover story this week, forwarded a press release this morning criticizing wrestling legend Abdullah the Butcher, who is going into the WWE Hall of Fame this weekend, for allegedly giving ... More >>

Superstar Billy Graham Made It Big in Wrestling -- Now the Steroids That Got Him There May Be Killing Him

Wrestlemania Preview and Predictions: Thoughts on Super Bowl of Wrestling and Superstar Billy Graham

Wrestling SuperstarsThe biggest wrestling shows of the year are this weekend.​Wrestlemania 27 is being held in Atlanta this weekend, coinciding with the release of our cover story on former WWF champion Superstar Billy Graham. We've got a preview of the big event after the jump, featuring Snooki ... More >>

Urban Brawl

WWE starts the week strong

WWE's WrestleMania XXVI Extravaganza Overexcites and Underwhelms

​Last night, Vince McMahon and his World Wrestling Entertainment crew took their one-ring circus and blew out of the Valley after almost a weeklong stay. WrestleMania 26 is over with and done, just like the carnivals and circuses from which professional wrestling sprang, the "sports entertainmen ... More >>

Wrestlemania XXVI, Paul McCartney, Caramelpalooza and SRP's Dragon Boat Festival Over the Weekend

​WrestleMania XXVI at University of Phoenix Stadium More than 72,000 rowdy wrestling fans packed into University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale to watch an afternoon of chaos and carnage as World Wrestling Entertainment presents its biggest sports entertainment spectacular of the year on Sunda ... More >>

WWE Fans Take Over Downtown Phoenix During WrestleMania Weekend

Benjamin LeathermanWrestling fans from Ireland at WWE WrestleMania Axxess at the Phoenix Convention Center. See more pictures from our slideshow.​ I've done some pretty crazy shit in support of my professional wrestling fandom. At age 12, I did backyard wrestling with a few of my sixth grade clas ... More >>

WWE's CM Punk Talks Straight Edge, Hardcore Kids, Favorite Bands, and More

Courtesy of World Wrestling EntertainmentWWE superstar and straight edge icon CM Punk​"I'm harder than any alcohol you can drink. I'm straighter than any line you can snort up your nose. And I certainly can hurt you a lot faster than any pill you can put on your tongue." CM Punk is one discipline ... More >>

Rock 'n' Wrestling

WWE's Chris Jericho Brings his metal act to Tempe During Wrestlemania Weekend

Top 10 Wrestling Entrance Themes

WrestleMania in the Valley

Mexican Standoff: Valley Lucha Libre Wrestlers Are Wildly Popular, but Local Stars Dream of Grappling for the WWE

WWE's Chris Jericho Talks WrestleMania 26, Being A Villain, and More

Chris Jericho has a busy weekend ahead of him here in Phoenix. Tomorrow night, the World Wrestling Entertainment superstar will rock Club Red in Tempe along with the other members of his heavy metal act Fozzy.Come Sunday, the Smackdown villain will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against E ... More >>

WWE's Top 10 Themes in Video: Stone Cold, The Rock, Ric Flair, and More

Courtesy World Wrestling EntertainmentTry imaging the Undertaker making this kinda entrance without his trademark funeral dirge.​In honor of World Wrestling Entertainment's action-packed WrestleMania 26 hitting the Valley this coming weekend, Mike R. Meyer assembled a list of the 10 best entrance ... More >>

March 25 In Blogs: Eric Holder, WWE, James Beard, and Tequila

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Eric Holder on Joe Arpaio Probe: DOJ Expects "Results," Investigation Ongoing Joe Arpaio ... More >>

WrestleMania XXVI

Bob Uecker to Be Inducted Into WWE Hall of Fame at Phoenix WrestleMania Event

www.blueraymedia.com Bob Uecker, seen here as Harry Doyle in the baseball classic Major League​ We just learned this afternoon that when the World Wrestling Entertainment comes to Phoenix for WrestleMania this weekend, Bob "Mr. Baseball" Uecker will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fam ... More >>

Rock vs. Wrestling

Chris Jericho to Bring Fozzy to Club Red During Wrestlemania Weekend

WWE Superstar Chris Jericho (second from left) and his vanity hard rock band Fozzy.​Chris Jericho is one prolific mofo. Besides his day job as a dastardly villain for World Wrestling Entertainment (on its weekly Smackdown TV show), the 40-year-old Canuck is a published author, indie film actor, ... More >>

"Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase Coming to Phoenix for WWE Hall of Fame Induction

www.sonicey.com "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase and his "bodyguard," Virgil​ "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase's arrogant claims throughout the 1980s and 90s that he could buy his way into professional wrestling immortality may have come true. It was announced the other day that the ba ... More >>

WWE Hall of Fame Tickets On Sale Tomorrow

​Less that three months remain until Vince McMahon brings his ginormous "Super Bowl of Wrestling" (a.k.a. Wrestlemania) to the Valley of the Sun in March, which is gonna be a major deal. In fact, the entire week before the big event happens at University of Phoenix Stadium will be filled with ... More >>

Wrestlemania XXVI Pre-Sale Party, Arizona State Fair's Demolition Derby and DOSE Over the Weekend

​Wrestlemania XXVI Pre-sale Party at Westgate City Center Rasslin' fanatics from around the Valley and across the country converged on Westgate City Center in Glendale on Friday, November 6, to get first crack at primo tickets for Wrestlemania XXVI (a.k.a. the "Superbowl of wrestling") a day b ... More >>

Wrestlemania XXVI Tickets Available Friday During Massive Pre-Sale Party at Westgate

Rasslin' fans from around the Valley and across the nation are gonna descend on the Westgate City Center en masse tomorrow afternoon, as the Glendale shopping/nightlife Mecca is throwing an Andre the Giant-sized outdoor party that's gonna be attended by a few superstars from World Wrestling Entertai ... More >>

Smackdown on Jefferson

Grappling groupies stave off March madness with WWE appetizer

WWE Officially Announces WrestleMania XXVI in Glendale

Jonathan McNamaraJohn Cena and Ken Whisenhunt. See more shots in our Wrestlemania slide show. World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon and a cadre of his superstars rubbed elbows and traded jokes with Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt during a press conference this afternoon announcing ... More >>

WrestleMania, the Super Bowl of Wrestling, Coming to Glendale; Announcement Expected Tomorrow

We received an e-mail stating that World Wrestling Entertainment will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon at the stadium to announce a "major international event" occuring there in spring 2010 that will "draw visitors from around the world for five days of activities." Although the e-ma ... More >>

Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Vince McMahon’s one-ring circus body-slams the PHX

WWE Will Rock You

Future Shock: Tori Amos, Peelander-Z, Melvins, and more

Austin's Powers

Stone Cold is hot, but hypocrisy is not

Slam-o-Rama

Smarking the territory

Y'all Weren't Ready — Then and Now

The critics are unanimous

Like a Rock

Wrestlers leap to the screen

Dead Man Driving

Unless you believe in ghosts, a traffic-busting photo contraption screwed up in Mesa. Plus, the plumed crusader joins mourners at WWE wrestler Eddie Guerrero's send-off

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Shilling an Arab

Turban warfare hits WWE RAW

BEST PLACE TO CATCH A RISING WWE SUPERSTAR

Impact Zone Wrestling at The Sets

Ring Leaders

Smackin' down at AWA

Turf War

Fiesta Bowl touches down in Tempe

Train Station

Impact Zone shows wrestlers the ropes