About: Art0Donnell

A wrestling fan ever since the days of Wrestlemania IX, Art graduated from college in the same building where Art Donovan called King of the Ring 1994. He also runs the "How Much Does This Guy Weigh?" blog, where he reviews New Generation-Era Monday Night Raws. Follow him on Twitter @Art0Donnell. Email at: art@wrestlecrap.com

Recent Posts by Art0Donnell

Induction: Gary Garbutt, the Masked Janitor – Drew mops the floor with Cedric Alexander

15 Submitted by on Thu, 04 March 2021, 20:58
WWE, 2019 At Extreme Rules 2019, The Undertaker and fellow Big Dog Roman Reigns teamed up to defeat Drew McIntyre and Shane McMahon. If you don’t remember this match, you can be forgiven – it was the opening match, and it was thrown together rather hastily to wash out the bad taste of Taker’s recent Goldberg match. For the go-home Continue Reading...
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Induction: The Smackdown Karaoke Showdown – Just Idol-ing until the crowds come back

20 Submitted by on Thu, 18 February 2021, 20:42
WWE, 2020 File another one under, “Only in 2020”. This week’s induction focuses on a segment nobody asked for, but that nobody was around to say “No” to. As usual, the July 10th, 2020 edition of Smackdown opened with a number of graphics promoting that night’s matches, including one featuring four WWE women Superstars competing against each other. But this Continue Reading...
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Induction: RETRIBUTION – The 2020 Gooker Award winner

60 Submitted by on Thu, 04 February 2021, 20:00
RETRIBUTION was a faction that could only have emerged in 2020. For one thing, it was that summer that saw historic unrest in American cities, sparked by numerous deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police. Coast-to-coast Black Lives Matter protests, violence between Antifa and right-wing groups, destructive anarchist riots, often-brutal reprisals by law enforcement – these events would fundamentally Continue Reading...
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Induction: Help! I’m Trapped in a Professional Wrestler’s Body – Middle School of Hard Knocks

16 Submitted by on Thu, 21 January 2021, 20:00
Book, 2000 For decades, a staple of American public schools has been the Scholastic book fair, where booksellers take over the school’s library for a week so kids can bring home the newest edition of Animorphs, Goosebumps, or whatnot. And while he’s no RL Stine, author Todd Strasser seems to have made a decent living churning out short chapter books Continue Reading...
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Gooker 2020 – Vote for the Very Worst in Wrestling!

118 Submitted by on Thu, 07 January 2021, 19:57
There’s no need to recap why 2020 was such a messed-up year, and there was certainly enough awful stuff happening off-screen that could qualify as “the worst in wrestling”. This past year was no doubt the strangest in wrestling history, with wrestling promotions having to figure out ways to run shows without a live audience. Some of their ideas were Continue Reading...
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