The Sports Business Journal and Figure Four Online examined the annual ESPN Poll which took a look at the popularity of Boxing, MMA and professional wrestling. The poll suggests that MMA is primed to take over the fight landscape. The conclusion is that the UFC is primed to take over boxing and it is buoyed […]
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The Wrestling Post: Lawler, Hulu and the color Pink
Welcome to another edition of The Wrestling Post. We talk about Jerry Lawler’s new t-shirts, a new WWE partnership and the color Pink. “Long Live the King” T-Shirts emerge after near tragedy A week after a near tragedy on live television, WWE capitalized on the situation by selling Jerry Lawler T-shirts. Lawler suffered a heart […]
The Pro Wrestling Post: Lawler suffers heart attack on RAW
It was a surreal Monday Night Raw from Montreal as Jerry “The King” Lawler suffered a heart attack while commentating a match. Emergency personnel on hand acted swiftly in getting Lawler the help he needed and saved his life. Although it appears that Lawler will make a recovery, the WWE was faced with another decision […]
The Pro Wrestling Post: Analyst upgrades WWE stock
The Pro Wrestling Post: Saturday AM and WM on NBC ratings
Welcome to another edition of The Pro Wrestling Post. This time we take a look at the debut of the WWE’s Saturday morning show and ratings from the Wrestlemania repeat. Saturday Morning Slam does better than TUF F4WOnline.com (subscription required) reports the debut episode of WWE’s Saturday Morning Slam garnered an average 1,126,000 viewers for […]