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The Best of WWE In Your House (DVD Review)

The best of In Your House

Look past the camp name and cartoonish logo, and the introduction of In Your House to the WWF’s pay-per-view calendar in May 1995 marked a sizable change in direction for the company: a change that is still felt by the industry to this day. Under pressure from a soon-to-be dominant WCW, In Your House events were introduced to run each and every month in between the WWF’s ‘big five’ shows: Royal Rumble, WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam and Survivor Series. It was, in many ways, a curious time for the WWF to increase its pay-per-view output: 1995 is regarded by many longtime…

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WWE Elimination Chamber 2013 (DVD review)

WWE Elimination Chamber 2013 (DVD review)

The annual February pay-per-view offering from WWE has, historically, been somewhat of a mixed bag. Lumped in between the Royal Rumble and WrestleMania, it typically is an event that is designed to bolster buy rates and increase interest for the company’s biggest show of the year, by providing a platform to further feuds en route to the big showdowns at the ‘Granddaddy of Them All’.   Occasionally, though, it does much for than that, by providing memories and moments that have gone down in wrestling’s history books. While it may have gone through several different names, February’s pay-per-view has, in the past,…

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WWE The Best of Raw and Smackdown 2012 (DVD review)

WWE The Best of Raw and Smackdown 2012 (DVD review)

As my esteemed colleague Ben Veal pointed out in his WWE Best Pay-Per-View Matches DVD review, 2012 featured some pretty memorable moments. And, whilst many of these culminated in huge PPV encounters, it was Raw and Smackdown that played host to many of the standout moments of the last year.  ‘The Best of Raw and Smackdown 2012′, available to buy now on DVD and Blu-Ray from WWEDVD.co.uk, distils twelve months down to three discs, cutting most of the wheat from the chaff and leaving us with a glorious collection of vignettes, interviews and matches that showcase a lot of what is…

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Our WWE WrestleMania 29 Predictions

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THE ROAD TO WRESTLEMANIA is almost complete – this Sunday night, the 29th edition of WrestleMania comes to New Jersey! Last year, CollarAndElbow.com‘s writing team went head to head with their predictions, with our editor, Ben Veal, narrowly picking up the win to become the first ever C&E WrestleMania Champion. Who will reign supreme in 2013? Brace yourselves, as we offer our insight into the showcase of the immortals… Tag Team Champions Team Hell No vs. Dolph Ziggler and Big E Langston David Blackburn-Clarke: I see this one being a title move. They need to give something to Big E quickly…

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Rest In Peace, Paul Bearer (William Moody 1954-2013)

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Wrestling fans around the world have awoken this morning to the sad news that William Moody, aka WWE’s Paul Bearer, has passed away at the young age of 58. Beloved by fans across several generations, Bearer was one of WWE’s biggest stars during the boom period of the company, and played a big hand in shaping the careers of superstars including The Undertaker, Kane and Mankind. Our resident Undertaker expert, James Musselwhite, remembers the legacy of one of professional wrestling’s greatest managers… In February 1991, a red-faced preacher sold a contract to manage a wrestler to a short man, with…

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What does WrestleMania 29 have in store for former WWE Champion CM Punk?

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IT’S OVER. Last night, at the 2013 Royal Rumble, the longest WWE Championship reign in the past 25 years came to an end, as CM Punk stared at the ceiling for the returning ‘Great One’, The Rock, in a controversial yet unsurprising climax to the first pay-per-view of the year. On a night that surprised few, ‘The People’s Champ’ claimed his first WWE Title in more than a decade in front of a capacity crowd in Phoenix, Arizona – whilst his long-time rival, John Cena, won the 30-man battle royal to secure his spot in the main event at WrestleMania XXIX.…

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WWE SummerSlam 2012 Review: A Perfect Storm?

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The 25th edition of SummerSlam carried with it a lot of high expectations. From the opening match to the main event, this show had the potential to be one of the best PPV’s that the WWE had put on for quite some time. With a main event billed as ‘The Perfect Storm’, would SummerSlam prove to be a lighting night or a light drizzle? Keep reading to find out… For whatever reason, I’ve never really bought into SummerSlam as one of the big events. Sure, it’s one of the original and therefore longest running PPV’s so deserves respect for that…

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