What Were Your EARLIEST SOURCES Of Wrestling News?

What Were Your EARLIEST SOURCES Of Wrestling News?

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Solomonster answers a listener question about the first wrestling scoop he heard or read about, and poses the question of what were some of your EARLIEST sources of wrestling news?

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  2. I'm old as dirt too lol;

    1994… Called a FREE entertainment line (movies playing, top 10 music hits, joke of the day, ect). They soon added Wrestling News. Obviously being a big fan, I hit 4 on my big ol' touch tone phone. That's when I learned that Joey Marella was killed in an auto-accident, while driving with Harvey Whippleman. Also the same source I found out about Eddie Gilbert's passing (and that he left behind a widow in Missy Hyatt).

    Then came along my discovery of WZ in '99 and the rest was history.
    WrestleZone even posted one of my submitted stories ("Celebrity In Attendance At Summerslam '99" … Zakk Wylde, having sat next to me and yes we're shown together when Shane & The Mean Street Posse are beating up on Test in the crowd. I'm the long haired kid shouting just inches away, at them.. It's on the Network lol).

  3. I'm in my early 30's but I didn't get hip to the behind the scenes scoops until 2008 really. In the 90's I had no concept of behind the scenes scoops on pro-wrestling and even into the early 00's. I just kind of took pro-wrestling at face value for a long time. In 2008 when I started to want to dive deeper in the news and rumors, for me it started with this Canadian on line newsletter called SLAM! One of the first new items I got from them was when Christian decided to leave TNA and return to the WWE. SLAM! had reported that about a good 4-5 months before Christian returned to WWE in early 2009. SLAM! was also the place where I first got the report of Umaga's death also. Then about a year and a half later I discovered NODQ through YouTube. I don't listen to NODQ anymore these days but shout out to Aaron Rift and the work he does for his site.

  5. Hey Solomonster. My early source for wrestling scoops was PowerSlam by Fin Martin. This was a UK magazine. Was it available in your neck of the woods?

  7. My first exposure to wrestling sources was NoDQ and Wrestling Inc. In 2014, around the time Punk left.

  8. I remember finding NoDq.com after finding their YT channel and the first big story I saw was that Christian was coming back at the Royal Rumble to cost Jeff Hardy the World Heavyweight Championship in either a TLC or Ladder match to Edge. After being so excited for weeks, I quickly found out that plans change.

  10. The old magazines in the 80s/90s, then compuserve 94-95ish, and later 90s Solie's Vintage Wrestling boards and some other various scoop sites I've since forgotten that were usually wrong. 😛

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