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Wrestlemania 26 at University of Phoenix Stadium is less than three weeks away and wrestling fans in the Valley and beyond are gearing up for pro wrestling's "Super Bowl." As WWE focuses on its biggest annual event, its biggest competitor, TNA, is essentially going for broke.Beginning tonight, the eight-year-old company...
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Rock ‘n’ Wrestling
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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"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 disciplined cat. As his athletic physique indicates, the World...
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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...
"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 bad-guy wrestler will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame at a ceremony at the...
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...
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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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...
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: Joe Arpaio's New Counsel Kris Kobach, and His Disingenuous Statements to Fox 10 Up on...
After nearly a half century in the spotlight, it's surprising to see Paul McCartney do much of anything new. How about two new things in a single night, as McCartney did while kicking off his Up and Coming Tour with a stellar sold-out show at Jobing.com Arena? Maybe I'm amazed.The...
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 Entertainment. The M.O. for...
Over the past five years, Pyra Sutra and the other voluptuous vixens of Scandalesque have rarely been shy about stripping down to their unmentionables for the delight of local lookie-loos. As of tonight, however, the Valley's premier burlesque troupe is getting completely Shameless. No, gutter brains, that doesn't mean these...
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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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...
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
It's gonna be plenty toasty this weekend. Like, unbearably uncomfortable, or even Hell-worthy hot. The ever-smiling weatherbots of the 10 o'clock news set have been predicting for the past few days that its gonna get up to 115 gawdamned degrees (gulp) by Sunday afternoon. So it might be wise to...