AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com From the trivial to the not-so-trivial… So let me get this straight. WWE owns the word “extreme”? Even EVOO….er, EV 2.0? Everyone knows that they have the legal right to the letters ECW; but now WWE, not being content to annhiliate TNA in [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com In an emotional afternoon at the ECW Arena,”Acid-Fest” took place yesterday afternoon, before an estimated crowd of 750 honoring the late Michael “Trent Acid” Verdi. The Verdi family did attend, and were seated ringside with neighborhood friends up in one of the Arena [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com CZW returned to “Markland’s Little Acres” in rural Townsend, DE for Tournament of Death 9 before a loud, large and enthusiastic crowd who got a hot day full of ultraviolence yesterday afternoon. The day opened with a ten bell salute for Trent Acid [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com I was getting all ready to write about the NXT angle. Then, one of two things happened. Either WWE is pulling off a really good work…or WWE has completely lost its mind, with the alleged claim on WWE.com that they fired Bryan Danielson [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com As many readers, especially in the United States and Canada, know…Philadelphia’s Flyers are tied 2-2 in the Stanley Cup Finals as of this writing on Sunday. This is one more improbable step in a Stanley Cup Playoff series that has seen: The Flyers’ [...]

By Jerome Wilen Now that ECW is gone, what do I think the best wrestling night of the week is?  It continues to be Tuesday nights.  Even though WWE’s new so called reality based show NXT is scripted, the WWE has done an excellent job showcasing some younger talent and mixing them in with the [...]

By Jerome Wilen What I have felt has been the best wrestling night in televison has come to an end.  Yes, while I do agree that the WWE version of ECW wasn’t working as a ratings draw.  The hardcore longtime wrestling fans never really accepted the branded verison of ECW even when they first tried [...]

By Jerome Wilen ECW did it again this past week.  ECW continues to be the show to watch.  I wish that the WWE and SyFy would take a better look at this show and make it either two hours or back to the old school days and give it and extra 30 minutes.  The main [...]

By Jerome Wilen The best wrestling action this week for WWE TV was once again ECW.  There has been a lot of talk and spectulation that both SyFy and the WWE are going to re-brand ECW.  Other rumors are that the WWE and SyFy could drop the ECW name or cancel ECW.  The WWE and SyFy would [...]

By Jerome Wilen Monday January 4th was a historic night.  Two wrestling shows in the same night.  It was the night of surprise which is something that has been missing from wrestling since the original Monday night war eight years ago – as you never knew who was going to show up on WCW Nitro [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com As 2009 moves into 2010, it’s time for the 13th annual AS I SEE IT Year-End Review. As usual, I should note that my selections are based on what I’ve actually seen this year, either live, online, on TV, or via tape/DVD; which [...]

By Jerome Wilen I finally watched the documentary part of the Rise and Fall of WCW which I ordered on Pay-Per View. I have been wanting to see this for quite some time as I own a copy of the Monday Night War DVD. For those who think that the Rise and Fall of WCW [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) Some thoughts on the passing of Eddie Fatu to open this week’s column. As I’ve said before, it seems all too often that I fire up my computer and find out about yet another wrestler dying as the result of the “occupational hazards” of wrestling, [...]

By Jerome Wilen I remember it like it was yesterday, Eric Bischoff and his group of investors back in the beginning of 2001 had announced they were purchased World Championship Wrestling from Time Warner/Ted Turner, but then an individual at Time Warner who knew nothing about professional wrestling made the decision that after over 20 [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com Again this week, more news on Holiday related charity events. If you have other news on holiday collections of canned food, Toys for Tots toy collections or other charity benefits, send them to me at this address. Special kudos to the fans of [...]

I will continue to say again that ECW at least for me has become the wrestling show to watch. I actually kind of found the Abraham Washington Show entertaining until Zack Ryder started jumping on the couch. Overall not a bad show. The Regal, Kozlov and Jackson storyline continues to peak my interest. The young [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com Again this week, more news on Holiday related charity events. If you have other news on holiday collections of canned food, Toys for Tots toy collections or other charity benefits, send them to me at this address. Missy Hyatt sent along the following: A while [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets of PWBTS.com (PWBTS.com) Happy Thanksgiving…and since Thursday officially begins the season…Happy Holidays to everyone. May you spend the long weekend with those you love. Again this week, more news on Holiday related charity events. If you have other news on holiday collections of canned food, Toys [...]

The biggest night for RAW at the Garden was the ongoing feud with Kofi Kingston and Randy Orton. The WWE did an excellent job Monday night building this match for the Survivor Series. The action between these two was phenomenal. I have always been a fan of pull apart brawls if they are done correctly. [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) In a great plug for indy wrestling in general and Philly indies in particular… Philadelphia City Paper, one of the two major free weekly papers in Philadelphia ran a cover story on Philly Indy wrestling called “Invasion of the Body Slammers… How South Philadelphia became [...]

Since I have not really been much into TNA IMPACT as of late (although I am curious to see what happens with Hogan) I have been watching the WWE more. This past Tuesday, I again watched ECW. While I never really cared much for the original ECW, the current WWE branded ECW as of late [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) This week, more news on Holiday related charity events. If you have other news on holiday collections of canned food, Toys for Tots toy collections or other charity benefits, send them to me at this address. Scheduled events with Toys for Tots colections/holiday benefits are: [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) With Halloween over, the countdown to the Holidays begins. Expect ads for toys and the newest electronic stuff to come soon…just after the Election Day ads end (not soon enough). So it’s also time for me to call on wrestling promoters (and fans who see [...]

RAW was a fun show this week with both Kyle Busch and Joey Lagano hosting. Our cable provider does have both the west and east coast USA feed, so I get RAW at 6:00 PT and 9:00 PT. I am a NASCAR fan thanks to my five year old son who has been watching it [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) Back on October 27, 2000, I wrote a column that had nothing whatsoever to do with wrestling, but was a lot more important. Longtime readers might remember this one: ‘ Yup….this is going to be another one of those columns where we don’t talk about [...]

As a long time wrestling fan, I grew up watching wrestling in the 80’s, which should tell you or not tell you my age. When then the WWF changed to the attitude era in the late 90’s to compete with WCW who was putting them out of business made me ill. This old school wrestling [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) The sun rose in the west this morning. They’re wearing sweaters in hell. And Shane McMahon resigned from WWE. In an event that was apparently shocking even within WWE, Shane McMahon resigned his position in World Wrestling Entertainment on October 16. McMahon’s statement read “It [...]

I have gone back and forth with this decision so many times, but I think I’m finally there. I’m going to say good-bye to Linda’s Thoughts. I don’t know if it’s me, or the fact that I’m just not enjoying Raw or Smackdown like I used too, but I am finding it an effort to [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will do a four show series of concerts over the next two weeks, followed by Leonard Cohen on October 22; Hall and Oates/Hooters/ Todd Rundgren on October 23; and a final four show series by Pearl Jam October [...]

Hey this will shock you I liked HIAC and I also liked Raw. What? Does that mean there won’t be a list? It sure does mean that. I have to say I was quite happy with both shows, but not too happy about how many I got right on Sunday. I only got three right, [...]

This is the second week in a row I found myself to have watched ECW on SyFy. The shows actually have not been that bad. This week’s show again kept my attention. The show opened up with William Regal still thinking he was the Interim General Manager. Regal made himself the #1 Contender for the [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets The recent disaster in Samoa with a deadly combination of an 8.0 earthquake and the deadly tsunami that followed hit several within professional wrestling, including Samoa Joe and Afa The Wild Samoan. Samoa Joe is using Twitter to lead an effort to send support and donations [...]

Before I give you my predictions for tonight’s show there are two things that I want to mention. The first is my comment this past week about Bret Hart and his lack of charisma. A few of my readers were kind of enough to email me and tell me that this guy definitely had charisma. [...]

This week’s IMPACT was a better show than last week. I watched it on SPIKE.com commercial free as I always do. It is normally posted sometime on Friday or Saturday. I did not read the spoilers ahead of time. I am not exactly sure what TNA creative is doing with Mick Foley. Back in the [...]

It would be SO easy for me to do another dreaded list about Monday’s Raw, but why should I put all of you through that again? The show was an absolute train wreck. The last Raw before Hell In A Cell, and this is the show we got? It’s beyond pathetic. And if you don’t [...]

AS I SEE IT Bob Magee Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com On October 24, 2009, the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance (TWA) will return to the Philadelphia-New Jersey area independent wrestling scene. The Tri-State Wrestling Alliance was founded by Joel Goodhart in 1989 and produced live events from 1989-1991 in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com On October 24, 2009, the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance (TWA) will return to the Philadelphia-New Jersey area independent wrestling scene. The Tri-State Wrestling Alliance was founded by Joel Goodhart in 1989 and produced live events from 1989-1991 in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Delaware tri-state area, [...]

Okay it’s not the time to panic yet, and yet is the key word, but I’m starting to feel that Smackdown is losing the wonderful momentum it has had for months and it’s slowly getting back to the Smackdown that was just bearable to watch. Hopefully this is just a minor set back that’s why [...]

Before I start the list of hell, I wanted to tell you the reason why I have kept a low profile, or basically the reason why I haven’t posted any columns since my Breaking Point Predictions. I have been sick with Bronchitis. Tomorrow will be two weeks since it hit me. This thing has really [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets PWBTS.com) Many of you know you’ve done it…at least once. You’re at a wrestling show. A wrestler blows a spot…a major league awkward moment. No way to really hide it or cover it up. All of a sudden coming out of your mouth is “you f$#ked [...]

Wow another pay per view tonight, it seems like we just had one three weeks ago, oh wait we did, Summer Slam. I remember when this pay per view was called Unforgiven, but now it’s called Breaking Point. And this show has quite a few submission matches. The worst part of predicting tonight’s show is [...]

By Jerome Wilen During the week as I was other websites, I saw a banner ad that said not to miss the first five opening minutes of IMPACT. As I began to watch it Friday night (I watched it online this week) the show opens up with the action already in progress in the ring. [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com ) It’s the tenth anniversary of Brian Hildebrand’s passing after fighting a two year battle against cancer. There are few people within wrestling who were held in such universally high regard at the time of their passing. When people eulogized Brian, the words they used [...]

Okay I missed a Raw column this week, but honestly I think I did you all a favor. If I had written one believe me it would have been anything but kind. That show was just miserable. In fact I think it rates right up there with the shows hosted by Jeremy Piven and ZZ [...]

This is a follow up to my last column, TNA changes: For better or worse? The September 3rd IMPACT was packed full of action. I watched this week’s show online (SPIKE.com) and only found myself fast forwarding through part of the women’s tag team title tournament match, because I could predict the winners for that [...]

What a feud, what a show. Of course I’m talking about Smackdown and the rivalry between CM Punk and Jeff Hardy. As much as I loved Raw and I did, Smackdown really blew me away. I have so many positive things to say about almost everything that we got, with of course just a few [...]

By Bob Magee of Pro Wrestling: Between the Sheets (PWBTS.com) Some sad news this past weekend as another wrestling venue is being demolished, the home of the first wrestling I ever saw, a story I’ve written about before when watching the Sheik’s TV off of CKLW in adjacent Windsor, ON one Saturday as a seven [...]

By Jerome Wilen Reports have been out that since Jeff Jarrett has been “sent home” until further notice, TNA President Dixie Carter wants to give IMPACT a more sports oriented feel to it. The first big change was promoting Don West to do what he does best, and that is sell products. What better man [...]

I am in such a great mood. Why you ask? Because Summer Slam was a fantastic show and Raw was so much fun last night. So getting back to Summer Fest I mean Summer Slam I am so happy and proud to say that I got every match right except one, that’s right you read [...]

I am in such a great mood. Why you ask? Because Summer Slam was a fantastic show and Raw was so much fun last night. So getting back to Summer Fest I mean Summer Slam I am so happy and proud to say that I got every match right except one, that’s right you read [...]