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Mania Moments: No. 27 - Hogan returns
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
Matt Bishop's Mania Moments will take a look at the top 28 moments in WrestleMania history as we lead up to WrestleMania 28 on April 1 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Today, it's proof that Hulkamania still ran wild 20 years later.
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'My son's not dead,' says Rex King's mom
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling
It was a roller coaster Tuesday for Shirley Fellows, the mother of Timothy Smith, who worked as Rex King in the Southern Rockers and Timothy Well in Well Dunn. The erroneous news of her son's death had spread like wildfire through the gossip-hungry wrestling community. One problem -- it isn't true.
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Smackdown: Tuesday night titans
By DAVE HILLHOUSE -- SLAM! Wrestling
A rematch of the best televised contest in recent memory featuring Daniel Bryan and CM Punk is on tap, and the season of looking and pointing at the Wrestlemania sign is now in full swing. Plus, the battle between Teddy Long and John Laurinaitis starts to get serious, bro.
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Ring ka King: Tag tourney ends; Morgan defends; fat guy bends (and breaks)
By BOB KAPUR - SLAM! Wrestling
This week on Ring ka King, the tournament to decide the new Tag Team champions comes to a close - will the results be what "the boss" was hoping for? Elsewhere, various contenders vie for Matt Morgan's Heavyweight Championship, and they'll do whatever it takes to get a shot - including destroying a fat guy.
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Aftermath's Arda Ocal living his dream
By JAN MURPHY - Kingston Whig-Standard
At one time, his Wikipedia entry read something like this: “Arda Ocal can eat an extra large pizza by himself.” That pearl was courtesy of some of his University of Waterloo buddies. Yes, even in his post-secondary days, Ocal had a Wikipedia entry, perhaps a sign of the greatness he was destined for. Nowadays, that Wikipedia entry reads like something out of a sports or sports entertainment almanac.
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Terry Funk pulled from Toronto WrestleReunion
By JASON CLEVETT - SLAM! Wrestling
One of the biggest names scheduled to be part of WrestleReunion 8 in Toronto will no longer be part of the weekend. The company announced on its website that Terry Funk has been pulled from the event.
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Raw: Undertaker's reverse psychology and Cena's new attitude pay off
By NICK TYLWALK - SLAM! Wrestling
There’s no stopping it now. And when I say “it,” I mean the figurative WWE bus roaring down the road to Miami and WrestleMania. Tonight we’ll find out who CM Punk will face on wrestling’s biggest stage thanks to a 10-man battle royal with everyone who didn’t win the Elimination Chamber matches Sunday night. Raw is live from the Target Center in Minneapolis.
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Mania Moments: No. 28 - Edge's last match
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
Matt Bishop's Mania Moments will take a look at the top 28 moments in WrestleMania history as we lead up to WrestleMania 28 on April 1 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Today, he looks at Edge's last match at WrestleMania 27 in Atlanta.
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Good matches but not enough of them at Elimination Chamber
By DALE PLUMMER and NICK TYLWALK -- SLAM! Wrestling
It’s always tricky trying to anticipate what might happen at Elimination Chamber since it sits between two of the WWE’s biggest events in any given year. Suffice it to say that the WWE must find it difficult to put together as well, because Sunday’s show in Milwaukee had a serious case of multiple personality disorder.
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Countdown to WWE Elimination Chamber

Titans in Toronto 5 teams with WrestleReunion for breakfast
Titans in Toronto 5, the fifth fundraiser for the Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame (www.pwhf.org), teams this year with WrestleReunion (www.wrestlereunion.com) for an extra-special breakfast with the biggest names yet.
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