This is the story of how I lost my faith in God... Read More

I feel like, at my age, I really shouldn't have to defend or explain why I like stuff by Katy Perry or Mariah Carrey, anymore... Read More

To me, the "good ol' days" were 1996 through 2000 on Monday Night, 8PM Eastern on TNT. Read More

Did you know that Avril Lavigne and Katy Perry are Radiohead fans?  According to their songs, they are! Read More

Mike Johns on how Popular Music has affected his worldview on racial Harmony, including the infamous "Accidental Racist" by Brad Paisley & LL Cool J!
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Paying tribute to one of most important figures in Modern Wrestling, ROH Original and SHIMMER Co-Founder Allison Danger, who announced her retirement this past weekend in Illinois... Read More

 Mike Johns talks about  Resistance Pro, SHINE, WrestleMania weekend , SHIMMER 53, and more!
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It's the X-Men... in High School. 
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Mike Johns takes a break from his X-Men Retrospective to share with you some of the things he has learned about youthful rebellion over the years, simply by listening to popular music. Read More

Mike Johns' on-going X-Men Retr ospective continues with a look at the 1990s X-Men Animated Series produced fo r the Fox Kids' Network.
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Mike Johns' X-Men Retrospective continues with a look at the various X-Men TV series, beginning with the ill-fated 1989 TV Pilot, Pryde of the X-Men.
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Here we are. 8 weeks and nearly the entire film franchise later, we're finally talking about X3, the X-Men movie where everything just goes wrong... Read More

I feel X2 is vastly superior to X-Men in just about every conceivable way. In fact, until the release of The Dark Knight in 2008, I'd dare say X2 was the greatest superhero movie ever made. Read More

While X-Men may lack in the action of Spider-Man or The Avengers, nor is it quite as realistic or cerebral as Nolan's Batman trilogy, it's still a pretty good film, especially for what it was, and for what it's allowed to come about since. Read More

Before we can talk about the first X-Men movie, we need to take a look back at what the superhero genre of film was like before X-Men was even released...
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A Wolverine origin movie, based off the best-selling comic? How bad could it be? Read More

"Is this a prequel, or a reboot?" Once you answer that, you'll know, right off the bat, whether or not you're going to enjoy it. Read More

This week, I'm going to attempt to bring you up to speed on just some of the X-Men's greatest villains. Read More

Today's column is my incredibly feeble attempt to share with you, both the X-Fan and the X-Rookie, a brief description and history of who I consider to be the "major players" of X-Men continuity... Read More

Mike Johns returns with an introduction to a new series taking a retrospective look at Marvel Comics' X-Men and their various incarnations over the last 35 years.
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...that's how the entire year in WWE felt - someone came in, did some stuff, something went wrong, and now they're gone. Read More

Yes, even my beloved SHIMMER had a rough go in 2012, and now you're going to hear about it!
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Now, call me crazy, but I don't particularly like being trolled by my wrestling shows... Read More

Ultimately, all the DGUSA merger has done for EVOLVE is make it about a million times less boring by incorporating the characters and storylines of DGUSA. It, unfortunately, still suffers from virtually every single one of its setbacks, and even managed to pick up one more in the merger... Read More

From the silver stage of the WWE to the Indy show at your local armory, just about everyone took a beating in 2012, and now, we're going to talk about it, company by company, starting with the internet's sacred cow - Ring of Honor. Read More

This week, your resident music geek takes a break from the Playlist in order to talk about the greatest evil plaguing our planet today, the Teenage Girl!
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This Week on the Playlist, Mike Johns shares a personal story of discovery, as well as a fan theory on the concept behind one of his all-time favorite albums, Fantastic Planet by 1990s alt-rock band, Failure.
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Looking for something new to add to your iPod?  Check out Mike Johns' Playlist, a new feature here where ClubWWI's resident DJ talks about some of his favorite bands, their best songs, and why they're worth your time to check out!  This week, Mike looks at the nu metal liberal activist band, OTEP...
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As the third woman to hold the SHIMMER Championship, Madison catapulted to the top of the Indy Wrestling World in 2010... Read More

I remember when I used to look forward to seeing the next wrestling show. Whether it was WCW, WWF, or ECW, I used to go crazy waiting for that next wrestling show to come on. Even the bad ones. Read More

When talking about what makes a good babyface, as well as any protagonist in any other form of fiction, there appears to be at least two schools of thought... Read More

November 6, 2005 - A fledgling promotion based out of the Chicagoland Area held its first ever show at the Eagles Club in Berwyn, Illinois. Read More

Why is it so hard for the big companies, with all the money and 19 hours of TV a week to do whatever the hell they want, to hire actual female wrestlers and use them to even the least of their full potential... Read More

Sara Del Rey, to even most causal observer of the American Joshi Movement, isn't merely a leader in the movement, she IS the movement. And thus, when the biggest wrestling promotion in the world finally hires her, her role in that company is going to be analyzed and scrutinized by almost everyone who's ever taken a vested interest in American Joshi... Read More

With WCW now jumping into the Divas game, and Sable now long-gone, the WWF decided to bring in a pair of women who, whether they realized it at the time or not, would go on to define an entire generation of Women in Wrestling - Lita and Trish Stratus... Read More

When it comes to the history of Women in Wrestling, Chyna holds a very unique position of being the only mainstream wrestling star to ever successfully cross over into men's competition and be taken seriously. Read More

Sable, in and of herself, is by no means a feminist icon that one should look to as an example of what women can or even ought to be. She is, though, the first female wrestling star to have been a major success on her own. Read More

Basically, the KO3 is an excuse for CHIKARA to tap talent from just about anywhere on the planet to come and play in the CHIKARA sandbox for a weekend, alongside their regulars, in what is, for the most part, a serious, straight-up 6-man tag tournament... Read More

Ultimate Warrior vs. "Macho King" Randy Savage at WrestleMania VII, a match that, even now as an adult, I claim to enjoy.   But watching it again, just recently, I begin to wonder what it was about the match that I thought was particularly good... Read More

...the once-great legacy of the wrestling folk hero that was Chris Benoit is forever tainted by his own actions in his final days, a stain that, for better or worse, overshadows everything else he ever accomplished.    Read More