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Tribute paid to Horizon Magna Motor Group founder and chairman Colin Sharpe
Passionate, driven and caring were among the terms used to describe Horizon Magna Motor Group founder and chairman Colin Sharpe after he died at the age of 77.
10 Things WWE Fans Should Know About The WWF War Zone Video Game
While it wasn't a huge success critically, WWF War Zone still played an important part in WWE's video game history. In 1997, the release of WCW/NWO World Tour for Nintendo 64 put wrestling video games on the map. The gameplay was smooth, extremely playable, and just downright fun, a homerun for developer AKI Corporation and publisher THQ. With the popularity of WWE skyrocketing in 1998, the anticipation for Acclaim Entertainment's WWF War Zone was palpable.
10 Best WWE Matches That Ended In DQ Or Countout
Share Tweet Share Email Fans were robbed of a definitive ending to these fantastic matches as they either ended in DQ or via Countout. WWE has had some classic matches over the years, but almost all ended with a pinfall or submission. It really is amazing how much a clean or decisive ending can color our impression of a match. Which makes one wonder: why would any wrestling company want to give the fans such a flat finish?
10 Things WCW Fans Should Know About Their Road Wild PPVs
Share Tweet Share Email WCW's Road Wild pay-per-views had a unique atmosphere that produced mixed results. WCW was known for its theme PPV events: Uncensored, Bash At The Beach, Fall Brawl: War Games, Halloween Havoc, and World War III. But perhaps the most distinct of all was Road Wild. Emanating from Sturgis, South Dakota, the outdoor, make-shift arena atmosphere was guaranteed to stand out to viewers at home.
10 Things Fans Forgot About WWE's The Million Dollar Corporation Stable
In 1987, "Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase arrived in WWE and was immediately a main event player. In the 1990s his injuries started to pile up, so he was put into a tag team with Irwin R. Shyster, winning the Tag Team Titles 3 times. But by 1993, a neck injury forced DiBiase into retirement. Still a charismatic orator, WWE decided to utilize those talents and keep DiBiase on television as an announcer.
10 Most Ridiculous WCW Moments In The Year 2000
WCW, like any other wrestling company, had some lean years. Prior to the mid-1990s, their box office statistics were up and down, to say the least. But their business was stimulated by the advent of Monday Night Nitro and the nWo angle, while profits rose every year through 1998. The quality of the WCW product took a sharp downturn in 1999, and business reflected that. But that was nothing compared to 2000.
10 Great Wrestling Documentaries You've Likely Never Seen
Wrestling has produced some classic documentaries: Beyond The Mat, Wrestling With Shadows, Dark Side Of The Ring, just to name a few. If you haven't seen those docs, you should definitely go out of your way to find them. But beyond the all timers, there are some lesser known wrestling documentaries that are well worth exploring. From tragic accounts of pro wrestling deaths to nostalgic trips down memory lane, there's no shortage of grappling education in these films.
10 Vince McMahon Moments That Hurt His Public Image
Share Tweet Share Email Vince McMahon is in the news for all the wrong reasons having announced his retirement, and these moments hurt his public image over the years. Before Vince McMahon finally retired from WWE, he was like Teflon, enduring bad publicity that would sink most CEOs several times over.
10 Failed Attempts At Recreating Classic Wrestling Characters
Share Tweet Share Email These wrestlers tried catching lightning in a bottle twice, only to end up with failed attempts at recreating classic characters. When in doubt, wrestling promoters tend to go with ideas that have succeeded in the past. Sometimes this works: Ric Flair borrowing "Nature Boy" Buddy Roger's gimmick, Hulk Hogan being heavily influenced by "Superstar" Billy Graham, and "Stone Cold" Steve Austin guzzling down beers like The Sandman had already been doing in ECW.
5 Wrestlers WWE Ruined During The Monday Night Wars (& 5 WCW Ruined)
Share Tweet Share Email The Monday Night Wars were rife with questionable booking decisions, and both WWE and WCW ruined several wrestlers. WWE has created some big stars over the years: Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena, just to name a few. The same was true for WCW: Ric Flair, Sting, Goldberg, DDP, and others. But for every main eventer, both companies squandered a laundry list of potential stars.
10 Cringey Jerry Lawler Moments We Completely Forgot About
Share Tweet Share Email Jerry Lawler is definitely a product of his time, which has led to a ton of cringey moments, some of which we completely forgot about. Jerry Lawler boasts one of the most legendary wrestling careers of all time. He was "The King" of Memphis wrestling, a huge draw in Tennessee for decades, having famous feuds with Bill Dundee, Terry Funk, Andy Kaufman, and many others.
10 Cringey WCW Moments We Completely Forgot About
Share Tweet Share Email WCW crashing and burning gave fans a bunch of cringeworthy moments, some of which we probably forgot about. From its inception, WCW was seen as the Pepsi to WWE's Coke. And just like in the Cola Wars, WCW/Pepsi eventually surpassed WWE/Coke for a few years. But when WWE regained control of the Monday Night Wars, WCW started to feel more like RC Cola, or at their worst, even Faygo.
10 Cringey WWE New Generation Era Moments We Completely Forgot About
Ah, the New Generation Era, the firstborn child of the Golden Era; always getting overlooked for their younger sibling, the Attitude Era. Some critics might say the mid-90s was one big cringe-fest for WWE, but there was still some great matches and storylines courtesy of Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Shawn Michaels, Razor Ramon, 123 Kid, etc. That aside, the New Generation Era was not a prosperous time for WWE, and the company's desperation to regain its popularity lead to some truly embarrassing moments.
10 Cringey Hulk Hogan Moments We Completely Forgot About
Hulk Hogan is one of the most instantly recognizable celebrities in the world. His Fu Manchu mustache, platinum blond hair, and bandana make his face an emblem that screams "pro wrestling," and in the 1980s, he handled that fame with calculated grace. 10 Cringey Moments From Hogan Knows Best However, somewhere along the line, The Hulkster seemed to lose his way. As the years have gone on, Hogan has gotten caught deeper and deeper in his web of absurd fibs, and scandals.
10 WWE Characters That Made No Sense
To be a wrestling fan, you have to suspend your disbelief. For instance, nobody would use an Irish Whip in a real fight, and if they did, their opponent certainly wouldn't bounce off the ropes and willingly run back into a waiting clothesline. But as long as wrestling follows its own internal logic, fans will accept almost anything. WWE's Worst Gimmick Every Year For The Past 10 Years However, at times wrestling goes too far, and fans just can't get on board.
Why These 10 Talented WWE Wrestlers Failed In The Company
Share Tweet Share Email WWE is known for squandering the talent of promising wrestlers, but just why did these ones fail? Any wrestler who makes it to WWE is far from a failure. But sometimes their performance in the company fails to live up to expectations. The reasons can range from bad creative, talent dropping the ball, or Vince McMahon just plain not liking them.
Transcriptional Changes in the Ovaries of Perch from Chernobyl
Fish have been highly exposed to radiation in freshwater systems after the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) accident in 1986 and in freshwater and marine systems after the more recent Fukushima NPP accident in 2011. In the years after the accident, the radioactivity levels rapidly declined due to radioactive decay and environmental processes, but chronic lower dose exposures persisted.
SendGrid v3 API + Postman
Developers use a wide array of different applications, code libraries, and methodologies to build out their SendGrid integrations for sending all types of mail related to their businesses. From transactional type order confirmations, password resets and identity emails to promotional newsletters to drive sales or introduce new products or services.
Relating protein functional diversity to cell type number identifies genes that determine dynamic aspects of chromatin organisation as potential contributors to organismal complexity
Organismal complexity broadly relates to the number of different cell types within an organism and generally increases across a phylogeny. Whilst gene expression will underpin organismal complexity, it has long been clear that a simple count of gene number is not a sufficient explanation. In this paper, we use open-access information from the Ensembl databases to quantify the functional diversity of human genes that are broadly involved in transcription.
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