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		<title>Trying to figure out why I will never forget Jose Luis Rivera</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ask me why, but I&#8217;ve had my mind on Jose Luis Rivera recently. Rivera was a jobber in the WWF in the 1980s, and even though he rarely won a match, he is easily one of the most remembered prelim wrestlers ever. Why? I&#8217;m not entirely sure. I mean, he wrestled all of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=789&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Muhammad Ali turns 70 &#8212; he was a special guest ref for the first WrestleMania</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Freddie Blassie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy birthday to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who turns 70 today. It&#8217;s easy to forget that Ali was a big part of the promotional machine behind the first WrestleMania in 1985. He served as a special guest referee for the Hulk Hogan and Mr. T. vs. Rowdy Roddy Piper and &#8220;Mr. Wonderful&#8221; Paul Orndorff main [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=784&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big angle in 1981: Greg Valentine suplexes Pedro Morales on the concrete floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, 30 years ago is didn’t take a lot to get an angle over with the audience compared to today. There may be no greater example of that than when Greg “The Hammer” Valentine taunted Intercontinental Champion Pedro Morales into match on TV. To set the stage, in late 1981 Morales had just regained the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=781&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killer Khan fought Andre, challenged Hogan in the 1980s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 04:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andre the Giant]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask most fans from the 1980s what they remember about Killer Khan, and they&#8217;ll probably recall his 1980s WWF feud with Andre the Giant. Khan was a big, thick Japanese guy whose gimmick was that of a savage, out-of-control Mongolian. His facial expressions usually consisted of an exaggerated, lip-curling grimace, and he was bald except [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=775&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jay and Jules Strongbow refused to leave the ring until they got their tag title rematch</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/jay-and-jules-strongbow-refused-to-leave-the-ring-until-they-got-their-tag-title-rematch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was a little embarrassed when I recently realized that this blog had virtually no mention of the Strongbow Brothers, Jay and Jules. Well, they weren&#8217;t really brothers, and Jay wasn&#8217;t really an American Indian (I&#8217;m not sure about Jules). But as a tandem, these guys were quite popular when they defeated Mr. Fuji and Mr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=772&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piper breaks a gold record over Captain Lou&#8217;s head</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/piper-breaks-a-gold-record-over-captain-lous-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 07:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cyndi Lauper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 27 years ago this week that the WWF shot one of the early angles leading to the original WrestleMania, when Rowdy Roddy Piper smashed a gold record over the head of Captain Lou Albano. The incident took place in 1984 at Madison Square Garden. Pop star Cyndi Lauper (a hugely underrated contributor to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=766&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lanny Poffo remembers Macho Man this holiday season</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/lanny-poffo-remembers-macho-man-this-holiday-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Genius&#8221; Lanny Poffo &#8212; the brother of the late Randy &#8220;Macho Man&#8221; Savage &#8212; released a video poem in tribute to Savage on TMZ this week. Many of us remember Poffo&#8217;s poems that he would read before the matches in 1980s, under the gimmicks of both the Genius and Leapin&#8217; Lanny. I remember many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=761&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tony Garea sticks his neck out for Jesse “The Body”</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/tony-garea-sticks-his-neck-out-for-jesse-the-body/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Ventura]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my boss at work mentioned that he recently checked out an episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura. After a few minutes, he became unimpressed with Ventura’s strange choice of people to interview. &#8221; &#8216;The Body&#8217;s&#8217; Conspiracy Theory show had about as much credibility as he did when he beat Tony Garea in 1985,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=758&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stand back, it&#8217;s another crappy WWE Slammy Awards show</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/stand-back-its-another-crappy-wwe-slammy-awards-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harley Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WWF Slammy Awards were silly when they started back in 1986, and the modern WWE version is just as bad. Yet there was the Slammy Awards show on Monday Night Raw this week &#8211; it just doesn&#8217;t seem like the best gimmick to fall back on when so many fans are clamoring for change. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=749&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brutus Beefcake tells TMZ he and Hogan will sue Hulk&#8217;s ex-wife, Linda</title>
		<link>http://bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com/2011/12/12/brutus-beefcake-tells-tmz-he-and-hogan-will-sue-hulks-ex-wife-linda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 04:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brutus &#8220;The Barber&#8221; Beefcake, of all people, got mentioned on TMZ this week after Hulk Hogan&#8217;s ex-wife, Linda, claimed Beefcake and Hogan had a homosexual affair at one point. Beefcake told TMZ that wasn&#8217;t true, and both he and Hogan have indicated they will sue Linda. Unless she has proof of the alleged gay love affair, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bostongardenbalcony.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11500615&amp;post=746&amp;subd=bostongardenbalcony&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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