Blu-ray 29 Dec 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Belatedly Watching the Ultimate Warrior Blu-ray The Ultimate Warrior, a.k.a. the man who legally changed his name to just Read More
TV 22 Dec 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Scarcity and Boo-Tista II? How many of you heard/watched Vince McMahon on Steve Austin's podcast? It was Read More
TV 15 Dec 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Try a Little TLC, Green Ranger WWE's Tables, Ladders, Chairs (and Stairs) event this past weekend was both significant Read More
Movies 8 Dec 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: We Interviewed the Iron Sheik Again Last week we interviewed Igal Hecht, director of the Iron Sheik documentary The Read More
Cartoons 1 Dec 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Punks, Flintstones and Genderswaps Hmmm...what to talk about in wrestling today? Anything happening? Oh yeah...CM Punk went on Read More
Toys 24 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Of Austin Statues and Sting Possibilities I've spotlighted McFarlane WWE statues before - Undertaker and Randy Savage have gotten Read More
TV 17 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Middle-Aged Fan WWE How old do you imagine the average WWE fan to be? Given the prominence Read More
TV 10 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Grumpy Cats and Handsome Heroes First things first: Grumpy Cat will be appearing next week on Monday Night Read More
TV 3 Nov 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Ryback and Think of Angles To fully understand the extent to which WWE dropped the ball with Ryback Read More
TV 27 Oct 14 Luke Y. Thompson Top-Down Smackdown: Help Them, Obi-Wan Kenobi As finishes to main-event matches go, it was certainly original. After a back and Read More