See also: WrestleMania XXVI at University of Phoenix Stadium See also: WWE's WrestleMania Axxess in Downtown Phoenix Some major fights broke out inside US Airways Center last night as painful-looking hits were exchanged and the opponents risked life and limb. And thousands of people witnessed these donnybrooks taking place, cheering...
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In today's world, football season never really ends. Sure, the San Francisco 49ers take on the Baltimore Ravens Sunday in Super Bowl XLVII, which marks the end of the official NFL season. But football video games allow fans to relive the big plays of the 2012 season and even make...
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Rob Van Dam loves catching some air. The 6-foot, 238-pound professional wrestler (who performs for Total Nonstop Action) has a tendency to bust out with high-flying acrobatic moves during matches, causing much excitement in the crowds of wrestling fans that watch him. Some of his most spectacular maneuvers include the...
Picture Elmer Fudd as the lead in Oliver Stone's Nixon, and you've got Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in a nutshell. Truly, the FBI's massive, 3,000-plus page investigative file detailing its year-long probe of Horne's office reads like a tragicomic novel wherein a powerful but goofy politician does a colossal...
Bobcat Goldthwait is moving farther and farther away from Hollywood — the industry that paid him to star in three Police Academy movies and the geographical area of Los Angeles. Last week, he presented his new directorial effort, God Bless America, at a radio-station promo gig in Omaha and, a...
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Arizona's controversial immigration law SB 1070 has cause some heated confrontations across the country this week. In Washington on Wednesday, attorneys arguing both for and against the "papers please" legislation verbally duked it out in front of the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, opponents of the law were arrested by Phoenix police...
We're a music blog, sure, but damn, if we don't love our pro wrasslin'. The four-band F. Bom Smack Down lineup includes Japhy's Descent, St Ranger, Tugboat and Instructions. Prepare for a rock 'em sock 'em good time.There's no better way to spend a Friday night than checking out a...
Class 6 Theatre is a company that doesn't always perform in the same venue, which is a little challenging if for no other reason than that people are creatures of habit. Even with all kinds of social media at your disposal, your returning audience will sometimes try to go where...
Paula Varela wanted to show me something. During a recent visit to her modest, well-kept South Phoenix home, the small, 79-year-old woman led me to a dining room next to the kitchen and turned on the light. Spread out on a table were at least 10 plaques featuring photos of...
You shouldn't have any trouble locating Dangerously Intense Wrestling's weekend smackdowns inside the sprawling SwapSmart in North Phoenix. Just follow the sound of all the screaming fans and blaring rock anthems that echo throughout the gigantic indoor flea market every Saturday and Sunday afternoon. The noise seems to get louder...
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Wrestle War
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When it comes to summer music festivals, most people tend to think of well established, corporate-sponsored events like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, or the Pitchfork Music Festival. But one music festival that seems to be establishing itself as something of a big ticket in recent years is the annual Gathering of the...
The average Thanksgiving dinner typically lasts around 90 minutes or so (give or take a few hours for the usual family psychodrama), which leaves you more than 90 hours worth of time to fill over the holiday weekend. How are you gonna spend it? Watching maudlin movies, football, or holiday...
THE WRESTLER Coulda been a contender: What an astounding resemblance between Phoenix wrestler Billy Graham and Hulk Hogan ("Death Star," Gregory Pratt, March 31). No wonder Graham went crazy over the years thinking about what should've been: "I coulda been a contender." The prudish old man [Vince McMahon Sr.] cost...
Consider this the first anti-Arpaio ad for 2012, ironically produced by Arpaio's goons, and censored heavily by them as well....He's cost taxpayers $100 million in swiped county funds, has the blood of unfortunates such as Juan Farias Mendoza on his hands, was forced to settle to the tune of $1...
Wrestling fans in the Valley have few options for live shows (WWE only visits a couple of times per year and national independent promotions prefer to run shows in the northeast), so for now, Mesa's Elite Xtreme Wrestling is the closest thing we have to a local wrestling scene. Independent...
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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 an independent pro wrestler Hepatitis C...
WWE held its Wrestlemania pay-per-view at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta last night, with 71,617 fans attending and an estimated one million people watching at home. But anyone tuning in to watch wrestling at the biggest wrestling event in the world came away disappointed. On a four hour show, there...
"KICK HIS ASS, DAD!"It was Saturday afternoon in the arena at El Gran Mercado, and the young woman next to me was maniacally snapping photos and cheering on her father, a bald, tattooed, grizzly pro wrestler named Hatchet Jack. He was in the wrestling ring with five other guys, competing...
As I discuss at length in my column this week, state Senate President Russell Pearce wrestles almost daily with the truth, and so, too, do many of his supporters. So, not surprisingly, Pearce's main challenger in the Legislative District 18 recall election, Mesa educator and Republican Jerry Lewis, has become the...