OPPORTUNITY. This is an opportunity. Believe what you want to believe and see what you want to see, but this is an opportunity. Randy Jackson has given me an opportunity to help reach more people with the JZ Brand, the White Shades, the other half of the heavenly Angels Champion, the Bojangles’ Champion. Just like […]
UFC on FX – The Flyweights Cometh On Friday Night, March 2nd, the Octagon returned to the Allphones Arena in Sydney, Australia for the second Fight Night on FX. Although Thiago Alves vs. Martin Kampmann was our advertised main event of the evening, most of the buzz around this event centered on the creation of […]
Saturday Night, January 14, 2012, the octagon returned to Brazil, the “birthplace of mixed martial arts,” for only the second time in almost 14 years. The last time the Ultimate Fighting Championship came to Rio de Janeiro, a little less than five months ago, we were treated to some of the best Brazil had to […]
Hello everyone and welcome to my debut column here at topropebelts.com. My name is Joe R. Beason, and for the foreseeable future, I will be here with you each and every week giving my views on some of the bigger stories of the week in Pro Wrestling and Mixed Martial Arts. I have been a […]
AND HE’S AWEEEESSSSSSOOOOOMMMMEEEEEE! A lot of people are up in arms that the Miz is the new WWE Champion. They feel he didn’t pay enough dues, or put in enough time to become the Champ. I personally have a different take on the situation because, as an interested observer, I tend to like it when […]
So it was Sunday morning and we just had a great show at the Balch Springs Recreation Center in Balch Springs, Texas. I was feeling good about the direction my Indy Pro Wrestling Company was going. So I made a few calls, invited over some of my close friends and decided we were going to […]
All to often, the worlds of professional wrestling and MMA collide in the most peculiar ways. A couple of months ago, after a huge wrestling show in Fort Smith, Arkansas, some fellow workers and I were enjoying some after show brews and wings at Hooters. It just so happens that we had the WWE Hall […]
You are either Nexus or Against Us! That’s what they say, anyway. But I am beginning to really enjoy this whole storyline. WWE has FINALLY realized that younger talent needs to be brought along to help push the product to new heights. With the Undertaker likely only having a year or two at the most […]
Now that I have had the weekend to digest and reflect on the career, life and legacy of General Skandor Akbar, or Ak as those of us in the business call him, I can calmly, and less emotionally write about what he meant to me.
