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This week's 20,000-word issue features:
- One of our most popular features, a ROAD REPORT~! We spent three days traveling to a live X-Fighting MMA show, a Pinnacle Wrestling pro-wrestling indy event, and finally to my buddy Craig's house for the WWE PPV. Topics covered include:
- Why amateur indy fighting shows are sometimes the best of all
- Complete results of Friday and Saturday night's live X-Fighting shows in Tacoma
- How they drew
- How they did last time
- The 14-year-old fighter who whipped ass, and also CHEATED
- What was happening backstage
- Photos of the ring girls and where you can see them
- Backstage for Harry Smith's final indy match
- Thoughts on his match with TJ Wilson
- Holding an indy wrestlers eyeball in my hand
- How indy events draw as compared to fighting events
- Complete results of the WWE Judgment Day PPV
- Backstage notes on the show
- How to idiot proof a trip
- The funniest comeback ever
- See No Evil notes
- What the critics thought
- How much money it made
- Comparisons to DaVinci Code
- Rey/Chavo spoiler
- ECW TV update
- What the plans are
- What the ideas are for Harry Smith at this point
- When he debuts
- DX storyline spoilers
- HBK health update
- WrestleMania buyrate numbers
- The good news and the bad news
- Raw, Smackdown ratings
- What the agents think of Lashley
- What the agents think of CM Punk
- Why he has heat
- What happened at WrestleMania weekend that got him in trouble
- What Tommy Dreamer is pushing for
- The next ECW PPV after June
- Concerns about the Mick Foley storyline
- More on the MNM situation
- Why Melina has heat
- What is up with Nitro and Mercury
- The irony of them being sent to Raw
- What their status was going into the PPV Sunday
- New female wrestler signs
- Latest on Joe's knee injury
- Slammiversary line-up
- TNA at the ECW Arena line-up
- Indy wrestler passes away
- 80s star in bad shape
- 1PW update
- Stacy suffers seizure
- Detailed TNA, Ultimate Fighter ratings notes
- How many viewers each show had
- Quarter hour breakdowns
- Christian works ROH show
- How the deal went
- Japan update
- Muto in Mexico
- More huge Mexico business
- Sean Waltman and Juvie back working, perhaps together in the future
- Ultimate Fighter season IV news and notes
- What the plan is
- Who will be coaching
- Final UFC line-up for Saturday
- Hughes vs. Gracie notes
- Bushido tourney line-up
- Fedor Emelianenko needs surgery
- Openweight Grand Prix update
- The huge star that's been added
- Chuck Liddell injury update
- Why Quinton Jackson signed with WFA
- A huge TV review section: Ultimate Fighter III, Hogan Knows Best, TNA, Mexico's Guerreros Del Ring, OVW, Smackdown, TNA Impact, and Raw. We watch the shows so you don't necessarily have to!
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