| Welcome to the Coffeyville Star, the online social platform for Montgomery County, KS residents and friends. We are a failed, prehistoric, underground, independent clandestine, news media of the future in a grayish, make-believe world that exists solely to hide the seedy undertakings of an insane, self-proclaimed preeminent, supreme, intergalactic, super-villain. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. Don't bother with Registration because it's probably complicated, slow, and very expensive. Be fair warned and just go away! Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features: |
| There Will Be Blood; The Brief History of Hardcore Wrestling | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: May 22 2012, 01:04 AM (88 Views) | |
| Entity | May 22 2012, 01:04 AM Post #1 |
|
Publisher
![]()
|
There Will Be Blood: The Brief History of Hardcore Wrestling Posted on April 25th, 2012 by John Hancock at Wrestling101 This Sunday is WWE’s yearly Extreme Rules pay-per-view, the company’s last, fleeting tip of the hat to the by-gone age of hardcore. With the future of hardcore wrestling in the WWE looking bleak, if at all existent, we here at Wrestling 101 think it’s fitting to look back on how we arrived in a world where a pay-per-view such as Extreme Rules could possibly exist, in a brief history of hardcore. In The Beginning Hardcore wrestling is a vague concept. What is hardcore? Is it weapons? Is it no rules? Is it gimmick matches? Or is it all of those and more? To really tell the story of hardcore wrestling, we have to decide exactly what we consider the start of hardcore to be. To find that point, we have to go back before the ladders, before the tables, before the chairs, before the cages, and the dog collars, and the thumb tacks, and the light tubes, and the barbed wire, and the C4, and the glass, and the staple guns, and the canes, and the garbage cans, and the baking trays, back to one simple addition that changed wrestling forever; blood. -read more |
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Entertainment · Next Topic » |








6:21 PM Jul 10