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MITCHELL'S TAKE
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 11 (2001): Titled “Freebird Way” - Mitchell reflects on the life and death of Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy and his Freebird partners
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 10 (2000): Titled “Death of Hardcore” as Bruce discusses the apparent end of the Hardcore Wrestling era and also suggests what ECW must do to regain relevance
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 9 (1999): Titled “Children” as Bruce discusses Vince McMahon's marketing approach toward children and how he deals with controversy like a child would (with a great opening line)
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 8 (1998): “Stolen Moments” - Bruce lays out case for Flair as Greatest of All-Time as he dealt with locker room politics in WCW Nitro era
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 7 (1996): Titled "Of bad news and acts of God" - Bruce looks at the jumps back and forth between WCW and the WWF and how WWF was showing signs of making a comeback
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 6 (1995): Titled “ECW - Everybody Sucks But Us” - Bruce raves about his first in-person experience at ECW Arena and what it is that made the whole event stand out
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 5 (1994): “The All-Fun League” - Bruce hatchets McMahon’s characterization of the WWF as all about fun and putting smiles on faces
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 4 (1993): “Turning to Televison, An Opportunity” - Bruce proposes WCW launch two-hour weekly live show long before Nitro
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 3 (1992): Titled “Twenty-Five Million Dollars,” a column on Joe Pedicino’s Global Wrestling Federation on ESPN that drew outrage from many people involved with the promotion
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 2: Assessing the beginning of Ric Flair's run in the WWF and why it was an early mess that reflected the politics of the era
25 YEARS OF BRUCE MITCHELL - DAY 1: Original column from 25 years ago in the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter on cronyism, charity pimping & an old-time ‘rasslin revival
MITCHELL AUDIO: Bruce Mitchell appears on Jim Ross's podcast - full break down of Night of Champions, plus other topics
MITCHELL VIDEO: Bruce Mitchell joins Greensboro Sports to discuss Dusty Rhodes
SHOW RESULTS - 5/30 WWE in Greensboro, N.C.: MITCHELL'S in-person report on the U.S. Title coming home in the steel cage, Horsemen history, more
MITCHELL: Front Row, Section D, the book
VIP - MITCHELL: Why C.M. Punk is an Ultimate Fighter
VIP - MITCHELL: DVD Review - Macho Man - The Randy Savage Story (#1383)
MITCHELL: Saturday night indy show does it right in ways that nobody nationally has in a long time
10 YRS AGO MITCHELL'S TAKE: A Better Taboo Tuesday Poll
MITCHELL FEATURE COLUMN: The Glory of the Big Gold
MITCHELL FLASHBACK: Feature column on WWE introducing "Silverback" moniker for Mark Henry (June 2007)
MITCHELL: Review of Andre the Giant: A Graphic Novel
MITCHELL: Ready for the Bad News?, Daniel Bryan isn't winning the WWE Title at Summerslam (VIP excerpt)
MITCHELL FLASHBACK: Memo Mempho Mojo Daddy ("Memphis Heat" DVD review featuring Jackie Fargo)
MITCHELL REVIEW: "The Hardcore Truth" - The Surprising New Book from former WWE wrestler Bob Holly
MITCHELL FLASHBACK: When Things Get Weird After WrestleMania Season, plus Five Ideas To Get People Talking
MITCHELL: Big Jay and the Red Chair (Newsletter Exclusive)
MITCHELL: The Rock - the Good News and the Bad News
MITCHELL FLASHBACK: WCW in Charlotte 20 years ago - Heyman wrestles Madusa, Austin vs. Muta, multiple no-shows
MITCHELL: Mojo Mitchell's Super Smackdown Stream of Mathews, Miz, Maddox, Mistico, Mysterio, and Marella
MITCHELL FLASHBACK: Your Guide to Misused Gimmick Matches & Stipulations in Pro Wrestling (including TLC)
MITCHELL: There is only one right finish for tonight's C.M. Punk vs. Ryback, and why WWE should make this bold move
MITCHELL: Open Field Running: Why Paul Heyman and the Game Are Right (10 Yrs. Ago Flashback)
MITCHELL: The Life and Death of the National Wrestling Alliance (#1270)
MITCHELL'S BLOG: What I'm Looking Forward To On Raw Tonight...
MITCHELL: The Pro Wrestling Torch Guide to Toutamania
MOJO MITCHELL'S 1,000TH RAW STREAM - First Caesar, Worst Wedding, WWE Brock Lesnar paying for UFC Brock Lesnar, Too much Steph, Too little Steve, some Rock news...
MOJO MITCHELL'S GREAT AMERICAN BASH SMACKDOWN 7/3: Stream of foreigners celebrating America, Bullied turning into bullies, Sam Houston, Paul Jones, Dick Slater
MITCHELL: The New Old Boom Cycle - The time has come - the boom is here
MOJO MITCHELL: Super-Sized Raw & Smackdown Stream of Legitimate, Young & Old, Wrong Stooges, AAA, An Old Chicken, And Yes, That's Right, the Longest Mojo Ever!
MITCHELL: WWE brings in the wrong Brock Lesnar to attack John Cena on Raw on Monday night
MITCHELL's Definitive Ric Flair & Four Horsemen Collection - audio listing & columns covering careers of 2012 WWE HOF'ers, review of "once in a lifetime" Horsemen Reunion
MOJO MITCHELL'S RAW 2/13: Stream of Neophytes, Humanoids, Walker Texas Ranger, Monty Python's...
VIP FREE PREVIEW - MITCHELL: All Hope Lies in Wrestlers
MITCHELL: An Open Letter to Ring of Honor Wrestling Fans... Guys, we have a problem
MITCHELL: Things You Think About When Watching An 83-Minute Wrestling Match (#1232)
MOJO MITCHELL'S 11/21 RAW: Rockless Stream of Back to Reality
MOJO MITCHELL RAW STREAM 11/14 - The Great One, The Good One, The Nice One, and The Rest
MITCHELL: ESPN was had... why the E:60 story made me angry and what ESPN missed
MITCHELL FLASHBACK (10-05-96): The Old World Order and the risk WCW (modern-day TNA) took trusting Hulk Hogan
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He hosted the weekly Pro Wrestling Focus radio show on KFAN in the early 1990s and hosted the Ultimate Insiders DVD series distributed in retail stories internationally in the mid-2000s including interviews filmed in Los Angeles with Vince Russo & Ed Ferrara and Matt & Jeff Hardy. He currently hosts the most listened to pro wrestling audio show in the world, (the PWTorch Livecast, top ranked in iTunes)


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