Ste Evil - The Complete WWF Video Guide Volume II

This book was not originally intended nor optimised for Kindle. It was designed to be read in its physical printed form, and for the full Complete WWF Video Guide experience, we strongly recommend checking out the full 346 page version available on Lulu.com (and soon here on Amazon). The full book has over 50 unique pieces of artwork, all of the video sleeves, even more stylised bios, and is generally far more user-friendly as a video reference guide. Still, if you have chosen the Kindle version then thank you, you will still get every review in full as well as all our ranting and raving about everything else. Hopefully it will make you a fan of our work. Any questions, comments or suggestions are always welcome at jamesdixonwriter@gmail.com

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THE COMPLETE WWF VIDEO GUIDE

VOLUME #2

James Dixon

Arnold Furious

Lee Maughan

Evil Ste

Bob Dahlstrom

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INTRODUCTION

All of the contributors in this book have been wrestling fans for a long time, probably longer than we would care to admit. Some of our favourite memories of our early wrestling fandom involved renting video tapes and watching them repeatedly. However, there has never been one truly all encompassing guide to those tapes, and what turns up on them. Yes, there are some great sites on the internet here and there, but nothing ever published. No guide book. Here at History of Wrestling , we decided that we would write that book. With a century of combined viewing between us, we have lived through all of this many times over. We decided to bring that knowledge and love of wrestling, to you. While the opinions you will read are often controversial, off-the-wall or just plain moronic, they are from likeminded people who put wrestling before almost anything else. Disagree with them if you wish, certainly the office has seen its fair share of furniture thrown and occasional bloodshed (there was an unpleasant incident with a stapler that was later resolved with a pint). So, for the first time anywhere ever, here is a complete guide to every official WWF release that has ever been produced. This is going to take a few volumes, so get comfy and enjoy...

THE TEAM AT WWW.HISTORYOFWRESTLING.INFO:

ARNOLD FURIOUS

Arnold Furious began his wrestling life aged five when his paternal grandmother introduced him to World of Sport. From then on the larger than life characters and hard-hitting action fascinated a young Arnold. He grew up on a steady diet of wrestling from all corners of the globe. From WWF to WCW to an expanded world learned from the internet in the second half of the 90s. Names like Misawa, Kanemoto and Hayabusa went from being just names to becoming tapes in a growing collection. As the tape collection grew so did the thirst for involvement in wrestling. Arnold began writing for online sources, syndicating a column named The Furious Zone around an assortment of low-rent sites before taking over the Guru section of SmashWrestling . After 200 such instalments of the Furious Zone, Arnold began tape reviewing; a pastime made popular by 411Mania.com. During his tape reviewing career Arnold has covered virtually every major show, and many minor ones, of the last 30 years of professional wrestling. Making friends and enemies along the way. Outside of wrestling Arnold is a big fan of movies and wrote Furious on Film for 411. Like most writers hes a raging drunkard, with an enthusiasm for good beer, bourbon and red wine. He also has an enormous collection of comic books, graphic novels and Japanese language films. Remarkably, considering all the previous information, he lives with his loving wife Maria and their daughter in Bromsgrove, England. You can follow him on Twitter @ ArnoldFurious . Most of his tweets involve football, Xbox games or 30 Rock.

JAMES DIXON & EVIL STE

James Dixon has been watching wrestling for over 20 years. Inspired by the likes of Davey Boy Smith, Bret Hart and The Undertaker, Dixon was drawn to the business like any other fan, for reasons that are difficult to explain. A hobby quickly became an obsession, and Dixon was determined to get involved in wrestling by utilising the one thing he could do: write about it. While James has penned a few books alone, he prefers to work with his good friend and writing partner; Evil Ste. Dont call him Steven! Ste has been watching wrestling for just as long as James, though he has little patience for anything post-2002, and much prefers 80s grappling. Curious really, because as you will see in these pages, he spends a lot of time complaining about it. The pair write together because James is too straight laced and boring to go it alone. On the other hand, Ste is too bitter and angry, and needs someone to keep him in check. Together they are practically symbiotic, a gestalt entity if you will. Stes evil nickname comes about for two reasons. The first is that he is, well, evil. A more angry man you will likely never meet. The second is because of the curious fact that he has no last name. At least not one that he has ever revealed. He is the Madonna of wrestling writing. Or so he likes to think. When reading their reviews, you will notice they are written in a conversational style, broken down into JD (James) and ES (Ste). This is because when they watch wrestling, they have a discussion about it, and the nonsense they come out with drops onto a page. James and Ste have been writing together for what seems like a lifetime, and neither has any plans to fly solo at any point in the future. Both currently live in the North of England, where it rains the majority if the time.

LEE MAUGHAN

Lee Maughan has been a fan of the professional wrestling industry for as long has he can remember, dating back to an embryonic memory of sitting on his grandparent's living room floor, his eyes transfixed to British household names Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks belly-busting their way through ITV's World of Sport . Somehow this wasn't enough to deter him, and young Lee was rewarded with having the incredibly good fortune to be within the WWF's target demographic just in time its early 90s UK boom period. He was hooked, his bedroom quickly becoming a wall-to-wall palace of video tapes, action figures, magazines, posters and any piece of tat all stamped with the WWF insignia. His thirst for the quasi-sport was ravenous but unfortunately, his family were too cheap to subscribe to Sky television, home of the WWF. His quencher? WCW International Pro , broadcast well past his bedtime on regional terrestrial station Tyne-Tees. Those WWF magazines soon found themselves piled up alongside copies of Pro Wrestling Illustrated and Superstars of Wrestling , making Lee possibly the most clued-up eight year old wrestling superfan in the entire TS14 postcode. It's possible, nay probable thanks to a further 20 years of research, that Lee is still the most clued-up wrestling superfan in the entire TS14 postcode. A trader of tapes, a distributor of DVDs and a purveyor of pixels, Lee keeps up with everything from New Japan to CHIKARA whilst continuing to catch up with the classics of pro wrestling's territorial days. Away from the grapple game, Lee likes to watch sitcoms, rock out in punk bands, and play video games with a strong preference for old school platformers and kart racers. Despite this, he even found the time to graduate from the University of Teesside in 2005 with a degree in media production, and after much soul searching and stints making Christmas cards for a living and working as a producer and on-air talent for a community radio station, is now taking the tentative first steps into the world of film video editing. He also tweets with a reverently dry sense of humour @ atomicbombs , but reserves the right to ignore you entirely unless you want to pay him to write about wrestling, guitar bands or 80s pop culture for your book, website or magazine.