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Wrestlemania Challenge Day 24

Columns Jim LaMotta - 05/02/2020

Before there was a performance center, Wrestlemania 24 was hosted in Orlando, FL at the Citrus Bowl, as over 70,000 fans witnessed the final...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 23

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/30/2020

The Wrestlemania brand returned to Detroit, the same place where the franchise held the event twenty years earlier in front of over 93,000 fans...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 22

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/30/2020

The Wrestlemania brand went to Chicago in 2006 and I was actually there live, but will keep this article of the Wrestlemania Challenge series...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 21

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/28/2020

The Wrestlemania Challenge series continues as "The Showcase of The Immortals" returns to the west coast with the Staples Center as the venue for...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 20

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/27/2020

The twentieth anniversary of Wrestlemania saw the event return to Madison Square Garden, the legendary venue that hosted countless WWF cards throughout the years,...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 19

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/26/2020

As we arrive in 2003, the retrospective will more or less rightfully tell you that it was the beginning of a dip for the...

Find Out Who Alan Angels Is

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/26/2020

At a time when the world is experiencing unprecedented circumstances with a global pandemic that has impacted virtually every aspect of society, these are...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 18

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/25/2020

The first Wrestlemania of the post-Attitude era took the brand to Toronto, where nearly 68,000 fans packed the Sky Dome for an electric atmosphere....

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 17

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/24/2020

The 2001 edition of Wrestlemania would be a defining event in not only the direction of the industry, but in the history of the...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 16

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/23/2020

The Wrestlemania Challenge series goes to the first WM of the new millennium, a time when the end of the world was thought to...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 15

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/22/2020

Wrestlemania 15 brings us to 1999, where pro wrestling is the highest rated show on cable and the industry is in the middle of...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 14

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/21/2020

We're two weeks into the Wrestlemania challenge series and just like the pandemic, this chronicle of the showcase of the immortals had it's ups...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 13

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/20/2020

It's 1997 and the WWF was in the midst of not only struggling to keep pace with WCW, the Turner group that had taken...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 12

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/19/2020

We have arrived at a dozen Wrestlemania events for the Wrestlemania Challenge series and this particular show ushers in glimpses of what would eventually...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 11

Columns Jim LaMotta - 04/18/2020

After Wrestlemania 10 helped redeem the franchise with the stellar performances of Bret, Owen, HBK, and Razor, Wrestlemania XI was a reminder of the...

Wrestlemania Challenge Day 10

Writer Jim LaMotta - 04/17/2020

After yesterday's dismal WM 9 review, thankfully the Wrestlemania challenge series will redeem itself as the "showcase of the immortals" returned to Madison Square...