Jimmy Van
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Wrestling
Exclusive: GSP’s Management Thought Fight with Anderson Silva was a Done Deal
Former UFC champion and mega-star Georges St. Pierre announced on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani this past Monday that he considered himself a free agent and was no longer under contract with UFC. The news came after St. Pierre hired New York-based…
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Wrestling
Site Update: Changes Coming To Fightful.com!
Those of you who visit the site multiple times in a day have probably noticed a few aesthetics changes today as we continue to improve the site’s look and functionality. Sean has done a great job canvassing our audience so that we…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: WWE Talents Who Deserve A Demotion
In a previous article I wrote about WWE performers who could have been main eventers had they been booked correctly. This time out I’m going to talk about WWE talent that deserves to be pushed down the card (something that…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: WWE’s Refusal To Utilize Talent
One of the long-time knocks on WWE has been their inability to create new bankable main event stars. Aside from John Cena who has been a proven draw for many years, and arguably Randy Orton, the company has had a…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: Promotion Haters Don’t See The Big Picture
I grew up in the 1980s in Ontario, Canada, in a small town with no cable television (there is still none to this day) and only a couple of channels that we could catch with an antenna. But one of…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: “Sports Entertainment” Applies To MMA And Boxing, Too
In 1989 when Vince McMahon was battling the New Jersey senate over the regulation of pro wrestling as a regular competitive sport, he coined the term “sports entertainment” in an effort to classify wrestling as entertainment and have it be…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: Advocating Jobbers
This one is going to get me some heat with the Internet wrestling community, or “IWC” as Vince Russo says but – I am in favor of WWE bringing back enhancement matches on television. In the 1980s which is when…
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Wrestling
Fightful Comes To Terms With Matt Riddle For Weekly Show
When I came up with the idea for Fightful.com, I wanted it to be a true crossover site that covered all combat sports – primarily pro wrestling, mixed martial arts and boxing – because I'm a fan of more than…
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Wrestling
SITE UPDATE: Almost There!
Almost There! Hey guys, I’m not a developer and won’t pretend to know my stuff technically. I basically rely on a team of people to get things done and this week as we’ve looked to add more features to the…
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Wrestling
Jimmy Van: NXT Sparked My Renewed Interest In Wrestling
Anyone who visits Fightful.com with regularity knows that our resident Wrestling Insider Vince Russo is a little disenchanted with the business, and although he still finds things about the WWE product that he deems entertaining or even great, most of…
