Yes, it happened, all right! Hart wrestled in Amarillo, TX at ECW Wrestlefest, in what was (to be one of) Terry Funk's last hurrah. Awesome wrestling match, that was actually chronicled in the feature film documentary Beyond The Mat. It's still very weird to hear Joey Styles calling a Bret Hart match, especially in that era. Enjoy!

Ah... A commercial block from the original ECW Hardcore TV syndicated show. I'd sneak down late on Friday nights just to watch this on MSG Network (and later, TV 31 in New York - a station my uncle owned) at 2 am. I'd be wrecked all of Saturday, but it was worth it ( Read more... )

7:29 - Foley gets caught up in the tightened ropes and rips off half his ear.

8:15 - You can see his ear drop to the floor, and the referee pick it up.

Enjoy!

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Thanks to Mike Johnson of PWInsider for the following news story update:

"As I mentioned a few days ago on my PWInsider.com Elite Hotline, the word going around is that the recently fired Mike Bucci is looking to move on from professional wrestling altogether after being let go by World Wrestling Entertainment ( Read more... )

Thanks to PWInsider for the following:

"Today, an ABC News story today states that was, in fact, a condition from which Benoit suffered ( Read more... )

From 1986 in the Boston Garden, a young, black-and-blue clad 'Hitman' Bret Hart tangles with WWF/E's Poet Laureate, 'Leaping' Lanny Poffo. Enjoy.

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Wow... Lots of suspensions and firings. I guess when it rains, it snows (as TMBG might say). It's a sad confusing mess that just keeps growing. Everything right is wrong again. Alright, enough with the TMBG references ( Read more... )

Thanks to Dave Scherer of PWInsider for the following breaking news...

"According to numerous sources, WWE talent executive Mike 'Simon Dean' Bucci was released today by WWE from his post in talent relations. Bucci was largely the manager for the developmental territories, leaving his career as an active wrestler to take the management position ( Read more... )

Here's a classic goodie from the very early days of ECW...back when it was known as Eastern Championship Wrestling. Enjoy.

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Hey everyone. Well, things have calmed down here for now. I finally finished the first draft of the design for the current website I'm building, and I have continued playing the WWF No Mercy game on N64. I've played through all the story modes, and pretty much unlocked everything I had, before the cartridge defaulted to factory settings (again) ( Read more... )