Jabandgrapple.com recently sat down with Kevin Eck, writer for the Baltimore Sun’s terrific Ring Posts wrestling blog. This is Part Two of our profile and interview. If you missed Part One click here.
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The fact that pro wrestling and Ring Posts isn’t respected by all and recognized as stellar journalism and an always fantastic read is more an indication of outsiders’ misunderstandings and biases than objective reasoning. As an interviewer Eck is a quote machine – for example his two Scott Steiner epics or Larry Zybysko Q&A – who possesses a set of contacts for his sport that Peter King or …read more

Jabandgrapple.com recently sat down with Kevin Eck, writer for the Baltimore Sun’s terrific Ring Posts wrestling blog. This is Part One of our profile and interview. For Part Two click here.
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Pro Wrestling reporting has long been characterized by the Bill Apter’s iconic magazine Pro Wrestling Illustrated and the you-are-an-insider conceits of Dave Meltzer’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Both are still around but the immediacy of the Internet, the deluge of televised wrestling, and the power of Internet fan communities have made PWI a walking dinosaur. The Wrestling Observer, still subscription-based and recently merged with Figure Four Weekly, is also a victim of …read more

We at www.jabandgrapple.com enjoy the WWE character Santino Marella a great deal. Often his comedic talent and hilarious malaprops overshadow his ample wrestling skills. We’re not thrilled about his feud with Jimmy Kimmel’s Cousin Sal but assured that that side story only has about two more weeks of life.
So when we saw he was the subject of the Baltimore Sun’s Ring Posts blog’s most recent Q&A we were ecstatic and eager to find out what Santino’s like outside of the WWE. No such luck there. Santino does the whole interview IN CHARACTER! Considering Beth Phoenix’s recent in-character interview to …read more

Two terrific interviews have appeared out there in cyberspace over the past few days revealing a great deal about the underbelly of pro wrestling.
Over on fighthype.com there is an interview with former WWE writer Christopher Bell, director of the soon to be released documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*. He talks about which drug he thinks is the scourge of pro wrestling and definitively states the muscular legitimacy of one WWE Superstar. Here’s some hints: it’s not steroids and the wrestler in question made a triumphant return last RAW.
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