by Daniel Johnson In some ways it has been a banner year for championships and champions in WWE. There is finally one unified WWE World Heavyweight Championship, love her or hate her the most over diva in WWE holds the… Read More ›
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Bryan Skyline Interview
by Daniel Johnson Interviewer’s Note: Bryan Skyline is an independent pro wrestler based in Michigan. Skyline began his career in 2007 after having trained at Dan Severn’s Michigan Sports Camps in Coldwater. Skyline has wrested for IWA: Mid-South, JAPW and… Read More ›
A History of Women’s Wrestling at SummerSlam
by Daniel Johnson Believe it or not tonight’s SummerSlam will be only the second in the event’s over twenty year history to feature two matches where women are participants. Prior to tonight, SummerSlam 2000 was the event, which saw the… Read More ›
5 Great SummerSlam Cruiserweight Matches You Forgot About
by Daniel Johnson Cruiserweight wrestling and WWE have never quite mixed. The folks who run the company have been aware of it’s potential since at least the Tiger Mask/Dynamite Kid series back in the early 1980s, but for whatever reason… Read More ›
WWE Pay-Per-View Roundtable: Summerslam (2013)
by Daniel Johnson, Kyle Childers and Bad Booking – Dean Ambrose (c) vs. Rob Van Dam for the WWE United States Heavyweight Championship Daniel Johnson: Dean Ambrose should really be on the main show. Rob Van Dam, I am not… Read More ›
The Importance of an Opener
by Daniel Johnson Logan Shulo vs. Michael “The Bomber” Facade Wrestlers appearing on the first match of a card are often negatively referred to as curtain jerkers. Yet, I would argue that the opening match is more often than not… Read More ›
5 WWE Feuds That Accomplished Nothing
by Kyle Childers Sports entertainment is a product based on feuds. The conflict between performers is what drives the angles at the core of almost every wrestling program produced post 1985. The innovator of the story driven overhaul of the… Read More ›
Site News 10/1/12
The Johnson Transcript is expanding by adding two new features this month! The first is that from now on there will be at least one new interview with a wrestling personality featured every month. The first is available right now… Read More ›
WWE SummerSlam (2012) Review
WWE SummerSlam 2012 had a couple of great looking matches going into it. No, really it was just a couple. Okay, maybe putting Chris Jericho/Dolph Ziggler in there to kick the show off makes three. HHH and Brock Lesnar’s fight had the… Read More ›