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Brodus Clay tries horror in No One Lives
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling
If the movie is called 'No One Lives,' we're not ruining anything to say that Brodus Clay doesn't make it until the end. But like a good carpenter in wrestling, he sees his death as an important part of the plot.
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Iron Sheik documentary to show off real person
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling
Jian and Page Magen, twin businessmen from Toronto, want the world to know The Iron Sheik like they have known him throughout their lives -- as a hero, as a man who has had his personal ups and downs, as in iconic pop culture figure. To that end, the Magens are launching a funding campaign to complete a documentary on The Iron Sheik that they had been working on for six years.
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Raw: Trouble for Heyman guys amid turns and swerves aplenty
By NICK TYLWALK - SLAM! Wrestling
Tonight on Raw: Payback comes in many forms. Last night it came as a pay-per-view that included a homecoming for CM Punk and a brutal grudge match between John Cena and Ryback. What lies ahead for the WWE's biggest superstars? We'll find out as Raw goes live on USA from the home of the Griffins, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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'I Hate You, Fargo!'
By STEVEN JOHNSON - SLAM! Wrestling
"I hate you, Fargo!" I was carrying a message to Jackie Fargo from Al Greene, the notorious Tennessee heel who severed Fargo's peroxide blond locks during a savage 1972 feud that attracted standing-room only crowds to the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis.
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WWE hits home run with Payback
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
The name Payback was quite appropriate for WWE's latest pay-per-view endeavor. It was a night where the company paid fans back for some of bad pay-per-views they've put on with a night of tremendous wrestling action from top to bottom, culminating in a Three Stages of Hell match for the WWE Championship, capping one of WWE's best all-time pay-per-view events.
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Mike Snyder: Proud of his wrestling days, but prouder of his Dad's legacy
By RICHARD J. VICEK - For SLAM! Wrestling
Mike Snyder grew up in a family immersed in professional wrestling as his father, the legendary Wilbur Snyder, was an outstanding scientific wrestler during the early 1950s until his retirement in the early 1980s. Throughout Mike's childhood, the family moved countless times from California to Illinois to Texas to Illinois to California to Indiana to Minnesota to California and finally back to Indiana. For a few years in the 1970s, Mike Snyder gave his best to the professional wrestling business, first as the ring truck driver, then as a ringside photographer, then as a referee, and finally as a high-flying professional wrestler.
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Ottawa pro wrestler Devon Nicholson continues his battle against Hepatitis C
By TIM BAINES - Ottawa Sun
Devon Nicholson has been hit in the head by chairs too many times to count. It took 52 stitches to patch up his face when he was cracked with a coffee pot, he's had concussions, plenty of aches and pains ... but all the hurt the world of professional wrestling could lay on him pales to the battle he's now fighting.
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Storm left success in his wake
By JAN MURPHY - Chinlock.com
Many a professional wrestler will tell you about the first time they saw wrestling, that unforgettable childhood memory that drew them to the passion that would eventually become their life. For Canadian Lance Evers, better known as Lance Storm, that moment didn't come until much, much later.
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Smackdown!: The Shield handed their first loss heading into Payback
By DALE PLUMMER -- SLAM! Wrestling
Payback is coming. On Sunday, in fact, but before the Pay-per-View there is one last Smackdown! that will try to entice you into dropping sixty bucks on a show that runs shorter than a run-of-the-mill Monday Night Raw. Michael Cole and JBL bring us the action from Greensboro, North Carolina.
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TNA Impact: Bound for Glory Series takes shape
By NOLAN HOWELL - SLAM Wrestling
The Bound for Glory Series is a chance for any TNA star to come out of the woodwork and make their presence felt by earning a title shot. Tonight on TNA Impact, the series begins to take shape as qualifying matches continue. Additionally, what will "Rampage" Jackson and Kurt Angle have in store for each other after last week's confrontation? All that and more on this week's edition of TNA Impact!
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Jun 12 ... Al Snow turns focus to film

Jun 11 ... Último Dragón returns -- as a graphic novel

Jun 10 ... Raw: Bryan, Rollins tear house down

Jun 10 ... Finding comfort in Japan's Zero-1

Jun 9 ... Wrestling Queen a celebration of Vachons, wrestling of the '70s

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'I Hate You, Fargo!'

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