RESPECT Magazine - Issue #5
RESPECT concludes the year with a wrestling retrospective. We take a look at Total Non-Stop Action, World Wrestling Entertainment and independent companies from around the world to see what was memorable and what flat out failed. It was a year filled with shock releases, huge debuts, new faces, new titles and so much more.
Mickie James was released from the WWE but found a new home in TNA. Alissa Flash made history by capturing the RCW Heavyweight Championship from Joey Spektor in a highly publicised series of matches. European wrestling received a much needed injection from the inception of Pro Wrestling: EVE. WSU made its way onto iPPV. Beth Phoenix made her Royal Rumble debut; the only woman to have done so behind ‘The Ninth Wonder of the World’.
Outside of the annual think-back, we talk to the woman of a thousand holds and member of the Pro Wrestling: EVE roster Jenny Sjodin. ‘The Female Fight Machine’ who impressed many with her Catch-Division bouts on early EVE events tells us about her ambitions of incorporating mixed martial arts into professional wrestling. We also hear about a typical day training amongst other things.
Ahead of 2011, we dust of a mystical ball that we found in a nearby skip. Coincidentally its theorising is strictly wrestling related, so we figured we’d see what it had to say. According to the magic ball Gail Kim will be re-joining TNA, Mickie James and Velvet Sky will taste gold, Saraya Knight will hold the EVE Championship and Alundra Blayze will be inducted into the 2011 Hall of Fame.
‘Super Hardcore Anime’ LuFisto writes exclusively for RESPECT in the first of a long-standing series of ‘Guest Writer’ articles. LuFisto, who has been at the forefront of nCw Femmes Fatales, talks to us candidly about a stroke that has changed her life and career forever. LuFisto shares with what happened on that unfortunate night and talks about the recovery process.
Elsewhere RESPECT writer Taylor Taite reviews the most recent instalments of SHIMMER action in Volume 31 and 32.
