By Colin McGuire, ProWrestling.net Staffer (@McGMondays)
The great Jim Ross says it all the time and not once has he ever been wrong: The most powerful weapon in all of professional wrestling is the eraser.
And that weapon, it turns out, doesn’t even belong to anyone in a ring. Instead, it belongs to the booker, the person making the decisions about how cards are laid out, who wins, who loses, and how it all goes down. It’s a person who can make or break careers all the while pretty much defining the word “arbitrary” on a daily basis.
December 21, 2020
By Colin McGuire, ProWrestling.net Staffer (@McGMondays)
Wrestling and death. It’s fascinating when it comes in the form of a documentary. Take “Dark Side Of The Ring,” a good chunk of the WWE Network, and, say, the Andre The Giant movie that hit HBO a few years ago. By and large, most wrestlers’ lives are captivating, and as wrestling nerds, we can’t get enough of whatever information anyone is willing to share about everyone from superstars to mid-carders to failed promoters (what’s up, Herb Abrams?!).
But wrestling and death (in the real world, at least) is not why we are gathered here today. Instead, that goes to the infuriatingly invincible trope we occasionally see on companies’ programs during which wrestlers or characters on wrestling shows are written to die. As in, that’s it. As in, why aren’t the cops being called to stop this? As in, could you possibly put a more fake spin on the wacky, wide world of professional wrestling than you d