In early 2012, I got to realize a pretty incredible dream: I was going to be teaming up regularly with Bill Apter on a video podcast. Now make no mistake about this, Bill Apter was a HUGE influence on me. Back when I first got into wrestling, there was no place better to get news than the legendary Apter mags, Continue Reading...
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WCW vs. Charmed: Witches vs Wrestlers? My Money’s On Alyssa Milano!
0 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 21:05WB Network, 2000 Text by Steve Taylor & RD Reynolds From 1999 to 2000, pro wrestling reached unheard of heights in TV ratings as fans flocked to watch The Attitude Era of the tnen-WWF and to follow the exploits of the nWo in WCW. Countless batteries were worn out on remotes across the country in attempts to watch both Raw and Nitro, what with us all Continue Reading...
Kronik vs. The Brothers of Destruction: A Legendarily Bad Match Turns Out To Be…Yeah, Pretty Horrible
10 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 21:04WWF, 2001 Text by RD Reynolds I feel like I’ve been doing this a lot lately, but confession time: I’ve never seen this match. I’ve heard about it. Oh boy have I heard about it. It’s been called one of the worst matches ever, one of the worst matches The Undertaker has ever been involved in, which is something I personally Continue Reading...
Six Sides of Blindfolded Steel:The Most Brutal Blindfold Match Ever!
5 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 21:02TNA, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds If you’ve been following pro wrestling for, oh, ten minutes or so, you know there is no shortage of goofy match types. Right off the top of my head, we get tag team matches, triple threat matches, strap matches, chain matches, dog collar matches, inferno matches, tuxedo matches, cage matches, blindfold matches. Oh, and those Continue Reading...
INDUCTION: Jesse on Renegade: The Body’s Got a Machine Gun…And Midgets Ain’t Got Time to Bleed!
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:57Syndicated TV Show, 1992 Text by RD Reynolds So the other day I was online chatting with my buddy John. I’m not sure I’ve ever talked about John on the site before, but I’ve known him for a few years and I’ve come to view him as a really good friend. We met as we share a love for pinball, and Continue Reading...
WWE, 2008-2010 Text by RD Reynolds You know, I’ve been wanting to write this induction for a couple of years. It may not have been first on my list, but it was definitely ON my list, and I knew that one day it would come to pass that I’d be doing the screen grabs and pecking away on my MacBook Pro Continue Reading...
Classic Induction: The ConMan, Rob Conway: Just Look at Me…Ain’t I a Sight to See?
4 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:50WWE, 2005-2007 Text by RD Reynolds I’ve had people asking me for literally years to induct The Con Man, Rob Conway. I’ve always resisted. You know why? Because of this. The greatest entrance music in WWE in at least 15 years. In fact, I love it so much I am going to transcribe every single word of it! Just look at Continue Reading...
Lex Luger as SuperBoy: Look at that Image…Does This Induction Really Need Text?
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:48TV Show, 1990 Text by RD Reynolds; Gazillion thanks to Cory Hendricks for his assistance with this induction! The tiny white text up there below the big green text up there is 100% correct. I mean, seriously…look at this: What could I possibly type that would live up to such majestic imagery? I could write the next Grapes of Wrath and Continue Reading...
Trytan: TNA’s Warrior-Terminator-Somethingorother
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:44TNA, 2005 Text by RD Reynolds Even though it’s been a few years since I last wrote a book for them, I’ve maintained a good relationship with the folks at ECW Press. And with good reason, when you think about it – they gave me my first crack at writing a book when they had no viable rationale for doing so. Continue Reading...
The T’s Versus Boogeyman: Amazingly, It’s Not Even the Worst Mania Moment in This Induction!
3 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:42WWE, 2006 Text by RD Reynolds Over the years here at WrestleCrap, we’ve let a few inductions slip through the cracks that we didn’t consider, you know, horrible. I know some folks have viewed us as the final word as what is bad in wrestling, and we consider it a compliment. Unfortunately, it’s just not the case. Well, it’s not always the case. Continue Reading...
Secrets of Wrestling 1987: Including, Yet Not Limited To, Smoking Bags and Self-Induced Wedgies
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:37VHS Tape, 1987 Text by RD Reynolds Special Help for this Induction Provided by the Awesome Sucio from the F4WOnline.com Board .Be sure to check him out on Twitter by clicking rightchere! First things first: no, I have NOT posted this before. I can understand why you WOULD think that, as years ago I covered “EXPOSED: Pro Wrestling’s Greatest Secrets Revealed!” (hey look, a bonus Continue Reading...
The Truth Commission: Wisely Segregated From Good Gimmicks
2 Submitted by Justin Henry on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:28WWE, 1997-1998 Text by Justin Henry The ‘foreign heel’ is far from a foreign concept in the annals of wrestling history. From Nazi sympathizers like Hans Schmidt and Fritz Von Erich, to desert-dwelling madmen such as The Sheiks, both Iron and regular, to admirers of the Iron Curtain in Nikolai Volkoff and Vladimir Kozlov, you could fill a UN conference Continue Reading...
WrestleMania 27: A Bigger Folly For The Rock Than Doom
21 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:26WWE, 2011 Text by Justin Henry After writing countless Headlies for WrestleCrap, providing numerous one liners for the Headlie Trolla, calling in a few times to WrestleCrap Radio (my favorite instance was playing “Zombie Stu Hart”), and giving feedback to Uncle Deal himself, the time has come to check off another box on my WrestleCrap Bucket List. I’m writing an Continue Reading...
Chris Jericho and Lucy the Dog: Worst WrestleMania Main Event Build EVER
4 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:23WWE, 2002 Text by RD Reynolds With WrestleMania fast approaching, I was bouncing around in my skull any horrible WrestleMania stuff we hadn’t covered over the years. And there it was, way back in the recesses of my gray matter. Something I had long repressed because of just how much I hated the whole thing. The Saga of the Undisputed Champion Continue Reading...
Teddy Long vs. Eric Bischoff: Someone Saw This and Thought, “We Need to Do This Again”
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:22WWE, 2005 Text by RD Reynolds This year’s WrestleMania card is nearing its final stages, and this week we got our “Let’s Cram Some More People on the Show So Everyone Gets a Pay Day, And Hey, We’re Not Doing Money in the Bank This Year So We Need to Do Something” encounter: Team Teddy Long vs. Team John Laurinaitis. While Continue Reading...
Brakus: Mein Name Ist Brakus, Und Mein Musik ist Lacherich!
11 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:18WWF, 1996 Text by RD Reynolds Shew, got my work cut out for me this week. I mean really, how can I possibly stretch an entire induction out of a guy who I can find three matches and two promo videos on? And to cap that off, in the videos, he speaks a foreign language! An impossible task to be sure, Continue Reading...
All Things Michael Cole: The 2011 Gooker Award Winner
8 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 20:12WWE, 2011 Text by RD Reynolds I knew it was going to happen. I just knew it. It was never in question, and that, more than anything, made me dread it all the more. Before the Gooker voting even started, I knew that Michael Cole was going to “win”, which meant I was going to lose. And no, I didn’t make Continue Reading...
Knucklehead: Wait, WWE Studios is Losing Money on Gems Like These?
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:55
WWE Films, 2010 Text by RD Reynolds As some of you know, my quote unquote “real job” (which probably didn’t need ‘quote’, ‘unquote’ and actual quotation marks to specify it as such) often sends me away from WrestleCrap HQ for extended periods. Such is the case this week, as I am over in Europe doing work in Germany, Belgium, and the Continue Reading...
Christy Hemme vs. Big Fat Oily Guy: Don West: “This is Like Bad Porn”
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:49TNA, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds It seems odd to me that as TNA, err, excuse me, IMPACT Wrestling nears its tenth year in existence, they’ve never quite figured out who they want to be. They seem to change on a weekly basis from being a company that wants to be the attitude era of the WWF to wishing to be Continue Reading...
Shaniqua: Hate WWE Being PG? You Won’t Be After Reading This!
5 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:47WWE, 2003 Text by RD Reynolds One of the biggest complaints I hear about WWE today is that it’s PG. People don’t like that things are toned down, censored if you will, and long for the ‘good, ol’ days.’ I get it. I understand it. It’s because people remember seeing stuff like this: See, that’s the kinda thing you don’t forget. Continue Reading...
INDUCTION: Tekno Team 2000: Erik Watts Dropkicks His Way Into the Future!
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:29WWF, 1995-1996 Text by RD Reynolds Sometimes, things in a wrestling ring just leave you speechless. Things like this. I put serious thought into just posting that image, and being done with this induction. Poor Erik Watts. He threw that horrible dropkick like 20 years ago, and hardcore poindexters such as myself remember it to this day. The sad thing is Continue Reading...
Is Big Show Smarter than a Fifth Grader: Big Show. Children. Boobies. Wait a minute, what?
0 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:26Australian TV, 2009 Text by RD Reynolds I gotta admit, I’ve been pretty bummed out this week. My seemingly never-ending battle with step throat remains…uh…never-ending, and that, combined with Blade suffering yet another concussion (I think it’s time to buy that boy a helmet) have delayed WrestleCrap Radio #200 yet again. It really stinks, because I have been looking forward to Continue Reading...
Jericho and the Planet of the Apes: Why 2J?
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:24WWF, 2001 Text by RD Reynolds I know I’ve mentioned it countless times over the years, but I am a huge fan of Chris Jericho. And not just because he emailed me once saying he made fun of the Hardys when I posted the Jynx Brothers induction. No, it’s because I think, when given free reign to do whatever he wants, Continue Reading...
TNA Last Rites Match: Beware the DEATH BED!
0 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:18TNA, 2007 Text by RD Reynolds How did this disaster survive for years without an induction? Look, I’m the first to admit that as I’m getting older my memory is going. I see things that I know are Crap-worthy, and after the grace period of the calendar year, I put them up for the Gooker voting. If they lose…I forget them. Continue Reading...
Super Mario Super Show: Capt. Lou Teaches You to DO THE MARIO!
1 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:11Syndicated TV Show, 1989 – 1991 Text by RD Reynolds If you’ve been around this site for any time at all, you know that your old buddy and your old pal RD Reynolds is a huge video game freak. Whether it be rushing out to eBay hunting down old Dreamcast games, having a full-sized WrestleFest machine in my house, or playing Continue Reading...
The Lockbox Challenge: Daffney Strips…and It’s Crap. Welcome to TNA!
3 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:03TNA, 2010 Text by RD Reynolds Hot off the Faxtrolla comes the news that TNA is changing its name and will now be known simply as Impact Wrestling. While many in the know, such as Dave Meltzer, claim that this change will have zero effect on the struggling company and is more or less a waste of time, I respectfully disagree. Continue Reading...
Georgia: George Steele in Drag. We Think.
0 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 19:00WWF, 1987 Text by RD Reynolds Oh man, here we go again. Time for another “guy dresses up as a woman, amuses no one” induction. Can I just cut and paste the text from the Harvina induction and call it a night? Or Sammy? Or Kloudi? Sigh. After 11 years of writing inductions, I notice that a few of the same Continue Reading...
Drew Carey: WWE Inducted Him. Why Wouldn’t We?
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 18:42WWF, 2001 Text by RD Reynolds You know what I love? You know what really makes me laugh? The folks who point to the WWE Hall of Fame as if it’s some legitimate entity that really decides who the best in the business are. I can’t even fathom there are people in this world who really believe that this sham is Continue Reading...
Repo Man: He Repossessed from Deadbeats. How is He a Heel?
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 18:41WWF, 1991-1993 Text by RD Reynolds Let it be known that back in the early days of WrestleCrap.com, I got a lot of hate mail from folks who vehemently disagreed when something they had fond memories of hit the site as an induction. That was always strange to me; did people truly feel that if I wrote something it was cast Continue Reading...
The Abraham Washington Show: Pros: Tony Atlas Laughing. Cons: Everything Else.
2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Wed, 26 December 2012, 18:38WWE-ECW, 2009 – 2010 Text by RD Reynolds There were warning signs. There were warning signs that I shouldn’t do this induction. Now please don’t misunderstand me: there were no warning signs that The Abraham Washington Show shouldn’t be inducted. That was never in doubt, because that thing was horrible, and it was horrible for like 80 weeks straight or however Continue Reading...