Sports Illustrated’s Extra Mustard pro wrestling contributor Justin Barrasso has put together a really amazing Week In Wrestling over at SI.com.
This week Justin and Extra Mustard have released the following features going beneath the surface coverage of the business of pro wrestling:
- A Wrestlers’ Tribune from new Ring of Honor world champion Adam Cole
- “Five Questions with…” AJ Styles
- The weekly Top 10 in wrestling from Rocky Romero
- Jim Cornette’s take on SummerSlam
Here is an excerpt from Adam Cole’s Wrestling Tribune article this week looking at his ROH World Championship win:
Relief…but only for a moment.
In one word, that one emotion was what I was feeling back in 2013 when I won the Ring of Honor World Championship in Philadelphia for the first time.
I was 23 years old, still a kid in many ways, and the pressure of holding a championship of such importance was weighing on me heavily leading up to that night. I didn’t have time to enjoy it. I didn’t have time to “sit back and smell the roses.” I was already thinking about the responsibilities I would have and the expectations I needed to fill with being Ring of Honor’s world champion. However, in those few short minutes of holding that championship after the bell rang, I felt a sense of relief. “I did it. I accomplished a huge dream of mine.”
Here is an excerpt from Jim Cornette’s take on SummerSlam:
“We knew Brock had the credentials to be great, but he didn’t like the business and still doesn’t. He’s great at it because he’s a great athlete, but he could give a sh– whether he ever wrestles again if they don’t pay him millions of dollars.”
Cornette found the finish to the Lesnar-Orton affair at SummerSlam mind-boggling.
“I don’t know what the f— they’re thinking, and I commented on that for my podcast that drops on Thursday,” said Cornette. “The rule in the WWE is that there is no blood. Well, they just violated that rule, they had blood. They can say that it wasn’t self-inflicted blood, but no, this blood was inflicted by this big moose beating the f— out of Orton. If they’d have just said f— it, taken the blade, and done it the easy way, you couldn’t have proved different.
“This was worse than using a razor blade–a former UFC champion just elbowed a guy in the top of his f—— head and busted his head wide open. What problem do they think they’re getting out of by doing it that way? I don’t understand.”
You can read the full Week In Wrestling from Sports Illustrated by clicking HERE
