1. XWA Wrestling Recap: Valentine's Massacre 02.11.2012

    Well it didn ’t take the FRAT long to make their mark in 2012. Not only did Gyration Nation dethrone the Wave Riders and reclaim the XWA Tag Team Championship ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 4 days ago 249 reads 1 comments

  2. Chris Jericho Returns to the WWE: Sheer Brilliance or Underwhelming?

    Well, it’s closing in on a week since the Millennium Man himself, Y2J Chris Jericho made his “surprise” return to Monday night, and the net is still buzzing...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 month ago 3,361 reads 39 comments

  3. XWA Wrestling Recap: Christmas Chaos

    Canadians are passionate about their country, and rightly so. We’re peacekeepers, not warmongers. We’re uniters not dividers. We like to believe that we stand up for all the good things in the world...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 2 months ago 296 reads 6 comments

  4. WWE Vengeance 2011 - How it SHOULD be booked and how it WILL be booked

    There are always two ways to cut it in professional wrestling: how the cards SHOULD be booked, and how they actually WILL be booked. And they are not always one in the same...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 4 months ago 601 reads 3 comments

  5. XWA Wrestling Recap: Aftermath 10.01.2011

    Their bodies are still bruised and battered. The thrill of victory for some was in stark contrast to the agony of defeat for others. Not one but two belts found themselves around the waists of newly crowned victors...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 4 months ago 339 reads 0 comments

  6. XWA Wrestling Recap: Quest For Gold 9.17.2011

    Much of what we’ve witnessed over the past few months in the XWA has led up to this momentous Saturday evening here at the Lord Beaverbrook Arena in Saint John, New Brunswick...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 5 months ago 236 reads 0 comments

  7. WWE Night of Champions 2011: How Kevin Nash Will Play a Factor

    Kevin Nash — Night Of Champions X Factor It’s Sunday morning and I’m thinking about today’s Night of Champions PPV and starting to get a very bad feeling...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 5 months ago 2,207 reads 8 comments

  8. XWA Wrestling Recap: Retribution 8.14.2011

    The leaves aren’t quite falling off the trees yet, but each and every morning it seems there is more and more of a chill in the air. And that can only mean one thing. It’s August here in the Port City...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 6 months ago 202 reads 0 comments

  9. XWA Wrestling Recap: Roll The Dice 07.09.2011

    Welcome to this month’s installment of XWA wrestling action entitled “Roll The Dice," one of the premier summer events put on by the Saint John based promotion...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 7 months ago 324 reads 0 comments

  10. XWA Wrestling Recap: Top Rope Turmoil 05.07.2011

    Not since the days of my misspent youth had I ventured into the Lord Beaverbrook Arena here in Saint John New Brunswick with the sole intention of taking in a professional wrestling event...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 9 months ago 803 reads 5 comments

  11. Alberto Del Rio Shifts His Focus from the Big Gold Belt to John Cena's WWE Title

    [WARNING – this content contains spoilers] A lot of us went into WrestleMania with high expectations. We had The Rock back on our TV screen teasing some form of altercation with John Cena, and perhaps even The Miz...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 10 months ago 2,356 reads 22 comments

  12. WWE: How It Can Deliver The Goods At Wrestlemania 27

    Let me first confess right off the bat that I barely had a chance to sneak in a viewing of the Monday Night RAW episode that just aired on 2/7...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 year ago 2,523 reads 19 comments

  13. 2011 Royal Rumble: Del Rio Wins While Diesel Pops Huge

    Here we are just a few days removed from the 2011 Royal Rumble. This puts us firmly on the Road to WrestleMania (even though we still have have one more PPV scheduled to take place before the "grand daddy of them all")...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 year ago 1,561 reads 10 comments

  14. TNA and WWE: Matt Hardy's Dramatic New Look and Missed Booking Opportunities

    Last week I was poised to take a close look at the TNA Genesis PPV during which (to nobody's surprise) coat tail riding brother Matt Hardy made his TNA PPV debut against one seemingly "fallen down the food chain" RVD...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 year ago 1,361 reads 23 comments

  15. CM Punk - Will The Newest Member of Nexus Breathe Life Into The Fading Faction?

    CM Punk has been successful in various aspects of the wrestling business (random point of interest… the CM in CM Punk is said to have been a reference to "Chick Magnet," something Punk periodically denies these days)...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 year ago 1,336 reads 11 comments

  16. Juan Cena, the Peak of WWE Creative Laziness or Comedic Relief

    Like a lot of things in the cartoon world of wrestling (as Bret Hart described it), what happens in the ring and with the talent tends to evoke a very strong response from the fans...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about 1 year ago 3,419 reads 55 comments

  17. To WWE and TNA: Where Have the Wrestling Managers Gone?

    For as long as we have been watching grown men toss each other from pillar to post in little tight spandex outfits snuggling their junk, there have always been other fundamental ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 807 reads 25 comments

  18. Train Wreck or Genius: Will the Real Scott Hall Please Stand Up

    Whether you know him as Razor Ramon, "the bad guy" or even "that drunk idiot at Iron Sheik’s Roast," Scott Hall has been one of the most influential and toxic wrestlers of the last 25 years...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 860 reads 5 comments

  19. Sting: Wrestling Icon Or Tarnished Legacy

    What can I say about Sting that hasn’t already been said. Men want to be him, women want to be with him… Wait, I’m getting confused with that dreadful Sable and the silliness ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 1,363 reads 56 comments

  20. Introducing Your Next WWE Champion, Wade (The Nexus) Barrett

    I’ll admit, I over thought it entirely. The writing was on the wall. The poster for Survivor Series laden with Nexus, the house show circuit with various listings of “person ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 2,028 reads 26 comments

  21. Does RAW Need Chris Jericho?

    All indications are that Jericho will be off on another hiatus with his band Fozzy, in an ongoing attempt to fulfill his other childhood dream of becoming a rock star. Good for you, I hope you sell out lots of high school gymnasiums...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 2,452 reads 95 comments

  22. Kane: The Return of the Mask

    First the lights went out, the music began, the fire shot forth, the massive flames burned the sky, and finally you saw it emerging from the smoke, that black and red mask...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 4,079 reads 61 comments

  23. Who Will Bill Goldberg Face at Wrestlemania 27?

    The stage has been set, the hints have been dropped, and certainly out of Goldberg's camp, he's made it clear. He has openly stated that he would be willing to have one final match "so that his family could see him wrestle once in person...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about over 1 year ago 9,338 reads 115 comments

  24. Back To Basics: Top 10 Changes Needed For WWE/TNA Matches

    On the heels of a superb Wrestlemania 26 match between the Undertaker and Shawn Hickenbottom (aka Shawn Michaels,) I basked (as I am sure many did) in the afterglow of what some are ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about almost 2 years ago 1,373 reads 20 comments

  25. How the Columbus Blue Jackets Will Shock the Hockey World and Win It All

    No, there's no typo in that headline. About every 10 years or so, something happens. Something so big, something so contrary to everything we believe in, something so unheard of, that ...

    Peter Hopey Written by Peter Hopey about almost 3 years ago 187 reads 14 comments