10 Reasons Why Daniel Bryan Belongs On WWE s Mount Rushmore
Team Hell No, breaking Rumble records, and almost ruining KofiMania justify Daniel Bryan s position.
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Daniel Bryan is the greatest professional wrestler of all time.
You need only look at his impeccable runs literally everywhere he s gone throughout his illustrious career to warrant such a statement. Ring Of Honor? World Champion. Pro Wrestling Guerrilla? World Champion. westside Xtreme wrestling? World Heavyweight Champion. World Wrestling Entertainment? WWE Champion. Wrestling Observer Wrestler of the Year, Best Technical Wrestler, Match of the Year, Best On Interviews, Best Pro Wrestling Book, Best Pro Wrestling DVD, King of the Indies, multiple secondary championships, multiple tag team championships, the list could quite literally cover this entire introduction.
Gene Tunney and George Bernard Shaw, Photo courtesy of Jay Tunney.
The unlikely friendship between prizefighter Gene Tunney and dramatist George Bernard Shaw is explored in a new book by the boxer’s son, Jay Tunney.
There are many books about famous literary friendships. John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley have more than a few dedicated to them, as do Edith Wharton and Henry James; Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. While these relationships are certainly interesting to dedicated readers and valuable for scholars, the bonds between writers and their non-writer friends can be even more compelling because of their unexpected nature and their basis in something outside of literary pursuits. For instance, T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx exchanged letters for years; Mark Twain was a close friend of the Standard Oil magnate Henry Huttleston Rogers. As the recently published The Prizefighter and the Playwright explores, such a friendship exis
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WrestleMania XIX was not featured on Booker T’s A&E’s
Biography series on Sunday night. However, there were previous plans for the storyline to be included in the 2-hour documentary, according to writer and professor David Dennis Jr.
Dennis Jr. took to Twitter to reveal that he gave lengthy interviews talking about the WM19 storyline but knew that portion was “gonna get cut out” from the documentary. His other interviews on Booker T’s career did make the show.
He wrote the following in a now-deleted tweet:
“So one of the main reasons I was brought in was to talk about WrestleMania 19. I went in about it for a LONG time. But my ass knew it wasn’t making the final cut so I figured i was gonna get cut out from the whole doc lmao”
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Tonight s TV picks include Muhammad Ali: A Life in Ten Pictures, there s Casualty on the double, a new Scandi drama from Denmark, and some cracking movie options . . .
Pick of the Day
Muhammad Ali: A Life in Ten Pictures, 9.30pm, BBC Two
This series has been excellent so far, so expect nothing but TV gold here as ten photographs are produced to reveal more about the defining moments in the legendary boxer s remarkable life and career.
It features interviews with those who knew him best - including his daughter Jamillah Ali, journalist Gary Younge and Olympic swimmer Janet Evans.