‘RUNNING THE ROPES by Phil Allely’ Archives
TNA PPV Review: Against the Odds 2012
Following up on their hugely successful UK tour TNA dug deep in planning February’s Against All Odds Pay-Per-View, the event promised title matches, challenge matches and appearance by all the company’s big players. The end result saw new champions crowned, feuds [Read More]
Former TNA star wins IWGP title
Kazuchika Okada, who worked for TNA as Samoa Joe’s masked cohort Osaka is the new IWGP Heavyweight Champion. At the company’s The New Beginning Pay-Per-View this past weekend Okada ended Hiroshi Tanahashi’s epic 13 month reign as champion. The PPV also saw the duo of [Read More]
DVD Review: WWE Unauthorised
WWE unauthorised is a reasonable look at the empire that is Vince McMahon’s WWE, the difference between this and other releases is that this is an independent production and as such has not reason to gloss over events or situations as other official one shave in the past. [Read More]
New WWE Star’s Country Roots
As reported by entertainment website TMZ, Country Music legend Kris Kristofferson’s 6’2″ son has begun his career as a wrestling superstar by starting work for WWE developmental territory FCW. “Big Country” Jody Kristofferson as he is billed [Read More]
WWE DVD Review: Night of the Champions 2011
Night of the Champions has been a welcome addition to the WWE Pay-Per-View calendar, being one of the few shows where each title is defended and pretty much anything can happen during said defences. The 2011 event was an above average effort and one that fulfilled a lot of [Read More]
TNA’s Abyss – Conference Call Highlights
TNA’s Abyss took part in a conference recently and spoke about his time in TNA, their Ra Ka King project in India, the Abyss character and the development of the character over the past 10 years. Running The Ropes’ Phil Allely was one of the journalists offered the [Read More]
TNA Live Show Review – Manchester: January 2012
TNA’s annual UK tour/European tours have become huge deals. Each one building on the last and as the company’s popularity rises the quality of the roster has met it. Past tours have seen the cream of the crop make appearances on UK shores, this year was no different as [Read More]
TNA DVD Review: Enigma – The Best of Jeff Hardy Volume 2
Now back in favour with TNA management this is perhaps the best time to take a look at this recent double DVD set based on the most recent stint in TNA by the ever-popular Jeff Hardy. Hardy when on form is a wonderfully entertaining and exciting grappler. This release takes [Read More]
TNA Knockout Tara Interview
TNA Knockout Tara spoke to our very own Phil Allely this past week about her career to date, her hopes for the future and the upcoming TNA UK Tour, below are highlights from that interview. Having started her career as a member of the Godfathers Ho Train Tara can relate to [Read More]
The Ladder Match 2 – Crash and Burn – WWE DVD Review
This triple disc WWE release (available on DVD & Blu-ray) is the follow up to 2007’s highly enjoyable tribute to the ladder match concept. Whilst the first effort took us down the more well-known and (most likely if you are a real fan) already owned match-up route, [Read More]
