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What: www.pwinsider.com

To paraphrase WWE superstar the Rock, finally, an informative pro wrestling site has come back to the Internet.

Pro wrestling reporters Dave Scherer, Buck Woodward, Mike Johnson and Jess McGrath have formed their own website, and it is easily the best place for discovering news and answering questions about the wacky world of professional wrestling.

Wondering where the Undertaker has been and when he’s coming back? Want to know the real reason “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was not on TV for a while? Then this is the place to go.

Scherer, Woodward, Johnson and McGrath have all come from www.1wrestling.com, a site that was the leader in wrestling news for years. Scherer’s contract with the owner of 1wrestling.com recently expired, and he decided to start his own site, with help from his friends. Scherer was the linchpin that held 1wrestling.com together. His new site is easy to navigate, filled with interactive polls, and already a top wrestling site after only one week of existence.

And wrestling is a favorite topic in pro sports locker rooms throughout the United States. Several NFL players have incorporated pro wrestling gestures into their touchdown celebrations, and wrestling pay-per-views in recent years have featured the likes of Karl Malone, Dennis Rodman, Kevin Greene, Lawrence Taylor and many, many more current pro athletes.

The centerpiece of the pwinsider.com site is Scherer’s “Daily Lariat” column, which is filled with news on what is happening in wrestling around the world. The WWE is notorious for not releasing any information to the public, so pro wrestlers will just disappear from the scene. Just imagine if Shawn Green weren’t on the Dodgers one day, with no explanation as to what happened.

That occurs frequently for pro wrestling fans, as athletes come and go with no rhyme and reason. But pwinsider.com has the behind-the-scenes story, and it is a must for any wrestling fan.

Or, as “Nature Boy” Ric Flair might say about the site: “You don’t have to like it, but learn to love it, because it’s the best thing going today.”

-- Houston Mitchell