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We’re less than two weeks away from WrestleMania 32, and it looks like most of the card is at last set in stone. It’s the time of year where veteran fans get increasingly wistful and nostalgic about WrestleManias past, and are now able to enjoy all 31 prior events through a certain handy on-demand service.

Instead of trying to wrap one’s head around the convoluted storytelling in the Shane McMahon-Undertaker match, you can dial up, say, WrestleMania V, and wrap your head around the convoluted chatter in the Piper’s Pit segment.

A couple of weeks back, I penned (or typed) a piece on ten interesting WrestleMania facts that aren’t so well-known, and it appears that it was a hit. As someone that loves to mine statistics and facts with as much enthusiasm as someone overindulging in a niche hobby could possibly do, I’ve...

We are fast approaching the 30th annual WrestleMania event and it is the time of year when many wrestling fans look back on the famous event and revisit the moments that, for whatever reason, were memorable to them. Through the years there have been plenty of memorable moments at WrestleMania and dozens of wrestlers have carved themselves into the tree-bark of history with their performance on the grandest stage in professional wrestling. One of those wrestlers, of course, is the man who called himself “The Heartbreak Kid” and was labelled by fans and critics alike as “Mr WrestleMania”. That man is Shawn Michaels, and this DVD/Blu-ray package is about his legacy on WWE’s main stage.

Shawn Michaels made his WrestleMania debut as part of The Rockers tag team with Marty Jannetty to take on The Twin Towers in 1989 at the fifth annual show, and his last wrestling appearance...

So sue me, I'm a wrestling fan. I first got into what WWE head cheese Vince McMahon prefers to call 'sports entertainment' these days way back in the early 1990s, in the era of (then) established stars like Hulk Hogan, Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper, 'Million Dollar Man' Ted Dibiase, Mr Perfect, Big Bossman and a colourful, gravel throated character known as the 'Macho Man, aka Mr Randy Savage.

Born Randall Mario Poffo in 1952, Savage was a supernova among stars in the WWF roster, a character so much larger than life that even the red and yellow machismo machine that was Hulk Hogan struggled to match him in the charisma stakes.

Coming from athletic stock (his father Angelo Poffo, a well known wrestler in his own right in the 1950s and 60s who at one point held the World Sit Up record), Savage initially aspired to be a baseball player,...

Furious sits alone on a hill underneath a single tree that shades it. Its buddy Fast is out gallivanting around town with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, jacking Supras and drinking Corona like it holds the key to eternal youth, and Furious is sad. That’s okay, Furious, we still like you. And it’s not like Fast Five is going to open huge. It’s not as if we’re looking at another $70+-million opening for a Fast and Furious entry. Fast couldn’t do that without you. Oh, wait, the Rock is in this one, too. Yeah. It probably will. Sorry, Furious. We’ll catch you next time. Maybe. Big Hitters Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. Death Wish V: The Face of Death. The Dream Child. Seed of Chucky. Wrestlemania V featuring Hulk Hogan Vs. Randy Savage. What do all of these have in common? None...