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WWE Monday Night Raw

he night after its epic pay-per-view, the WWE Superstars head downtown for a night of "madness and mayhem." The stars of Hot Tub Time Machine will guest host. Mon., March 29, 5:30 p.m., 2010...
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Top 10 Wrestling Entrance Themes

With Wrestlemania coming to Glendale on Sunday, pro wrestling fever is taking the Valley by storm. In addition to the big event itself, there are numerous auxiliary events happening all weekend, including a Friday gig at Club Red by World Heavyweight Champion Chris Jericho's heavy metal band, Fozzy. In honor...
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Cypress Hill

Far be it from me to deny these reefer-rap legends the freedom to reinvent themselves, but seriously: What's the deal with Cypress Hill's new album, Rise Up? From a cover-art standpoint, it looks like runoff from a Billy Bragg sample book — all played-out Bolshevik lithography and overdeveloped forearms. Not...
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Rock ‘n’ Wrestling

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, and one of the many talking heads featured on such VH-1 programs as 100 Most Shocking...
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Cyndi Lauper Is Kicking Ass and Taking Names on Celebrity Apprentice

If you're anything like me, you really enjoy watching trashy television, but hate admitting it in public. I've decided to blow my cover for the sake of Cyndi Lauper.I've been watching Celebrity Apprentice in quasi-secret. For two hours every Sunday night, we all have the opportunity to watch celebs plan...
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Rock vs. Wrestling

The musical genre of rock 'n' roll has had something of a curious symbiotic relationship with the bombastic world of professional wrestling over the past decades. Both experienced major heydays in the 1950s and inevitably became intertwined in the early 80s when such grapplers as the Fabulous Freebirds began using...
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Uncovering the Vast Conspiracy to Kill Nonpoint

Full disclosure: I'd never heard of Nonpoint before sitting down to write this article about Nonpoint. They're a raised-fist groove-metal band. I'm more a neuroses-infused post-punk guy. I like it when bands shred, but I want them to mitigate their shreddiness with a little irony, some artful doubt. Nonpoint does...
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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...
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WWE’s Sergeant Slaughter Coming to the Valley as Honorary Race Official

The gruff ex-wrestler known throughout the world as Sergeant Slaughter will be gracing an event at the Phoenix International Raceway later this month.Stock-car racing and professional wrestlers -- this just screams class.On November 15, Slaughter will serve as the Honorary Race Official for the Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500...
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WWE Smackdown in 140 Characters or Less

As the terrifying titan known as the Undertaker walked through clouds of smoke during last night's WWE Smackdown tapings at U.S. Airways Center, thousands of raucous wrestling fans held up their cell phones like Zippos at an arena rock show to pierce the darkness with glowing points of light. That's...
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WWE Smacks Down the U.S. Airways Center

While this will undoubtedly cause a certain amount of disgust to our readership, World Wrestling Entertainment's visit to the Valley last night had much in common with many of the concerts we've reviewed on this blog: blaring rock music, bad makeup jobs, spandex tights, and plenty of pyrotechnics. The U.S...
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Smackdown on Jefferson

For Valley pro-wrestling fanatics, March 28 can’t get here quick enough. That red-letter date is when next year’s WrestleMania XVII comes to town, and the pay-per-view extravaganza (dubbed the “Super Bowl of wrestling”) promises to be one hell of a party. For grappling groupies, it’ll be like Woodstock, Christmas, and...