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Paired with Magnus, Samoa Joe hoping for explosive 2012
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
In December, Samoa Joe and Magnus were paired together in TNA's Wild Card Tournament with seemingly no direction for either team. Two months later, Joe and Magnus have caught fire, becoming one of wrestling's hottest rising tag teams due to their uncanny synergy inside the ring.
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WWE NXT: Hawkins, Reks dubiously win main event
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
Tonight on WWE NXT: Show host Matt Striker is giving opportunity on this edition of the show, thus we get five matches, including probably the best televised match of the week between Tyson Kidd and Trent Barreta. In the main event, The Usos battle Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks. Should be a good one!
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The Rock shakes up Journey 2
By JIM SLOTEK - Toronto Sun
HONOLULU -- Everyone who's seen the trailers for Journey 2: Mysterious Island knows that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has a move called "the Pec Pop of Love." Here -- in the Oahu hometown where he spent his teen years getting repeatedly arrested -- a more centred, grown-up Johnson is happy to talk about using his body as a 3D special effect.
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Raw: Triple H says no, Jericho calls everyone a copycat
By NICK TYLWALK - SLAM! Wrestling
This week's show opens with a voice-over hyping last week's confrontation between The Undertaker and Triple H. What is going through the mind of the Cerebral Assassin, the voice asks rhetorically? We just may find out tonight from Oklahoma City as Raw goes live on USA.
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Matt Morgan wins Ring ka King Championship
By BOB KAPUR - SLAM! Wrestling
Week 2 of Ring ka King, TNA Wrestling's Indian company saw Matt Morgan win the tournament to crown the promotion's first Heavyweight Championship, the debut of the Knockouts in India, and a number of faces - both new and familiar - make in-ring appearances. Aao mere yaro (Come, my friends), let's check out what happened.
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Smackdown: Teddy Long’s Chamber of Horrors
By DAVE HILLHOUSE -- SLAM! Wrestling
Teddy Long makes what is probably supposed to be a big announcement: Smackdown will be joining in the Elimination Chamber match festivities in two weeks’ time. Plus, which Hall of Famer has Santino roped in as his new partner, and how short can a Divas match be?
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Impact: Hogan returns, Storm wrestles twice
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
Tonight on Impact Wrestling: For the first time, Impact comes to us from overseas as London sees Hulk Hogan's return to the company after a several month absence, as he is revealed as Garett Bischoff's trainer. Elsewhere, James Storm's request to face both Bobby Roode and Bully Ray is granted, so he faces both men in singles action.
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WWE NXT: Riley, Watson add excitement in main event
By MATT BISHOP - SLAM! Wrestling
Tonight on WWE NXT: As the show rolls on forever and ever and ever, at least the fans are getting some good action. That was the case tonight as the show featured two excellent matches as Trent Barreta battled Tyson Kidd and, in the main event, Alex Riley teamed with Percy Watson to battle former blood rivals Titus O'Neil and Darren Young. Should be a good one!
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The French Angel was more man than monster
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling
Maurice Tillet -- The French Angel -- was one of wrestling's biggest stars in the late 1930s and the 1940s, and provided some wonderful copy by the newspapermen of the day. The St. Louis Post Dispatch, reporting on Tillet's win over Leo Lefebvre on March 19, 1940, provides one such example: "The 'Angel,' stripped, proved to be a misshapen specimen of manhood. True, his big hideous head scared the women around the ringside, and probably would alarm even Boris Karloff. He has a barrel-like chest, a long torso, but his arms did not seem possessed of unusual strength and his legs were the legs of a 36-year-old man."
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PWG and breakfast with wrestlers wrap up WrestleReunion 6
By JASON CLEVETT - SLAM! Wrestling
Home in Calgary after my third consecutive year of WrestleReunion in Los Angeles, let me give the readers of SLAM! Wrestling some advice. If you are going to be in Miami for Wrestlemania weekend, or are able to be in Toronto April 13–15th, go immediately to the WrestleReunion website and get yourself tickets to the conventions in those cities. It was very clear early in the weekend that the fans were having the time of their lives. The experience is worth every penny.
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Nostalgia reigns at WrestleReunion
Foley's faces, Cabana's comedy, LA's legends and DGUSA's Golden Gate kick off WrestleReunion 6

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