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Cheap Pops - October 4, 2015

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

This week!

- NXT Takeover Predictions

- WWE sets new record for low ratings

- PWS Results - October 3, 2015

This week!

- Night of Champions Results
- Lucha Underground Season 2!!!!
- Review: WWE Network: Legends With JBL Episode 1 (Eric Bischoff)
- NXT Results

CBS and NFL Network are reporting a 40% increase, in overnight ratings, from last year. The Giants entered the contest having lost their first two games of the season, holding hands with the Philadelphia Eagles at the bottom of the NFC East. A third loss, would have severely threatened the Giants chances at reaching the playoffs, before the end of September.

With a divisional matchup against the Washington Redskins, this game was a playoff game within itself. The Giants first loss came against the Cowboys and starting the year with two divisional losses would have all but eliminated them from contention. It's no surprise that football fans (Giants fans in particular) were locked into, what could be billed as, a mid-September elimination game. The game brought in an 11.9/20 household rating/share.

The NFL is all about parity. This year, however, it's full of 'have's' and 'have not's'. According to ESPN, since 1990, only 22 of the 160 teams to start 0-2 have made the playoffs. With a total of 9 teams still seeking their first win of the 2015 season, let's take a look to see which ones have the best chance of turning things around and marching, or in some cases stumbling, into the playoffs.
 

Cheap Pops - September 20, 2015
by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

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Loosen the noose and slowly step off the chair. Climb back inside from that window ledge. Shut the engine off, put out the cigarette and open the garage door. The Philadelphia Eagles are 0-1 to start the 2015 season, but there's no reason to write them off just yet. As a matter of fact, I'll give you 5 reasons why the sky isn't falling (yet).

Late last night, WWE made the following announcement on their Instragram feed:

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

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- Superfly charged with murder….30 years later…

- MSG on WWE Network

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

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By Mike Maillaro, Josh Pollard, Jeff Ritter, & Graham Scherl

This Week:

• Summer Slam Predictions

• More “Best of the WWE Network”

I try to not write columns or reviews with any real agenda beyond “Hey, this is really good, people should hear about it.”  Or “Wow, this is terrible, people should stay far, far away from this.”  But this article is going to be a little different.  I am actively looking to shame a company for their mediocre product and horrifying customer service policies.  

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

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- WWE gets into the S+M Business

- Stardust...you have failed this city!

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

Over the next two weeks, Lucha Underground is doing their big “season finale” event called Ultima Lucha.  It starts this week and will finish off on August 5th with a big two-hour blow out.

I do want to comment on how impressed I’ve been with the build-up for this show.  Lucha Underground basically put together a coherent season-long story line.  Many of these matches have been building for a long time.  I did think it was a little odd that the Black Lotus storyline seems to have vanished, but I suspect that might have been because Chavo Guerrero’s injury.  Hopefully if they have a season 2, we will finally get to meet Matanza. 

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

This week we sound off on Hulk Hogan and Sunny talking out of orifices other than their mouths, WWE Battlegrounds, NXT and Lucha Underground! Let’s get right to it!

Hulk Hogan No Longer Exists!

Cheap Pops - July 12, 2015

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

This week!

- Beast In the East Results

- WWE2K16 Cover revealed

Cheap Pops - June 30, 2015

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

This week!

• TNA Resurgence?

• What does Bret Hart think of the WWE?

• Best in our World - Managers

• NXT Results

• Lucha Underground Results

by Chris Delloiacono, Mike Maillaro and Jeff Ritter

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SAINT LOUIS (June 18, 2015) –  After weigh-ins at Scottrade Center on Thursday, Kimbo Slice and Ken Shamrock will finally settle their “Unfinished Business.”

“Bellator MMA: Kimbo vs. Shamrock,” which airs live and free on Spike at 9 p.m. ET / 8 p.m. CT, features a main event between the aforementioned Slice and “The World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The fight is nearly seven years in the making, after a fluke accident caused the cancellation of their first planned meeting.

Despite the formal declarations of Jeb Bush and Donald Trump announcing their bids for the Republican presidential nomination, the continued handwringing over a white woman running an NAACP office—and doing a good job running it from what I understand—the continued tensions in the Ukraine and St. Louis’ own struggle with violence and an out-of-control homicide rate that is doing wonders for tourism, the big news in this town today was, of course, the St. Louis Cardinals. More specifically, it was the news that they are being investigated by the FBI for hacking the Houston Astros proprietary database.