Wrestlezone used to be a lot more respected than it is. Guys like Chris Cash had so many connections, and he used to get tens of thousands of listeners on VOW and all that jazz. Assholes like Ryan Clark are the reason there's a WWE blackout on Wrestlezone. Notice there are website that wrestlers will give interviews and whatnot for. Some of them are great; some of them fly under the radar enough to avoid the shit list. But people will not talk to wrestlezone, nor will they even admit we exist a lot of the time. It's because Ryan Clark fucked us over to the point where I've been told to never associate or post anything about him, ever. It's because of that that we aggregate things now. We used to have more exlusive content than PWT and the Observer, but we can't do anything these days. It's stupid, but that's why I've got my foot in the door with Crave (the company that owns Wrestlezone). Crave is still well respected throughout the entertainment industry, and pending an interview goes well, I could actually be making a decent living...
That isn't correct at all.
WrestlingINC during its affiliation with Clark has gained interviews with Steve Austin, Mick Foley, Edge, Booker T, Roddy Piper, Bret Hart and others. Ryan Clark himself as Piper noted on his podcast last night has interviewed him for WZR, so I wouldn't place the entire blame on Clark.
I think you're being told what they want you to believe. WrestleZone, for as far back as I can remember has always been dirt reading of the wrestling world. Why else would they have Mark Madden employed to write articles? You know who WrestlingINC, again a site affiliated with Ryan Clark gets to come in and write articles? Former members of WWE Creative. We had a very big interview with Court Bauer who worked for WWE Creative back during the Attitude Era into the Ruthless Aggression era and he gave us so much info we'd to split it into four separate interviews, and we're gaining huge numbers off it.
Shane Helms has wrote for our site before, as has Lance Storm. Again, who does WZ have? It gets the odd thing from Andrew Goldstein or Chris DeJoseph, after that you guys again, have Mark Madden writing editorials. The worst commentator in the history of professional wrestling, and yes I would put him firmly below Mike Adamle.
I work with guys who have worked with Labar and they've told me all I need to know about him. Self obsessed, pretentious, cocky, believes he's better than Dave Meltzer, believes his own hype, because he had a couple weeks riding with WWE production years back. His accuracy is appalling, and whats even worse is from reading how he comes across, he doesn't like any wrestling outside the small indy promotion he is affiliated with and WWE, I've read numerous articles from his B/R account taking swings at TNA and ROH.
Again, I think you've been very misinformed.
