Rick Scaia

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Rick Scaia is a wrestling commentator and recapper on the internet who is best known for his work on Sportline'sWrestleLine.com, which was shut down in 2001, and is the feature writer for Online Onslaught.

1 History on the Internet
2 Writing style
3 Trademark Columns
4 External links

[edit] History on the Internet

Scaia began contributing to wrestling on Rec.sport.pro-wrestling where he was known for his debates with puroresu aficionado Herb Kunze. He would start his own website called the News from Dayton based on where he was living at the time and rehashed the columns from wrestling journalist Alex Marvez and provided his own commentary. He also wrote a column for someone named "Shadow" called "My Own Damned Opinion." He would later change his site name to the more hip sounding "Online Onslaught" or OO for short. Scaia would then merge with Mike Samuda's Micasa and create Wrestlemaniacs. Wrestlemaniacs would subsequently become part of Wrestleline which was part of CBS Sportsline and Scaia was actually paid for his contributions. When Wrestleline shut down, Scaia went independent again and retained the Online Onslaught name.

During the height of the NWO angle, Scaia and IWC colleagues Sean Shannon and John Petrie started the nWWWo or New World Wide Web Order where they created nicknames for themselves and wrote opinion columns on wrestling. Scaia would receive some critical praise for his essay The Critique of Pure Wrestling.

[edit] Writing style

Rick Scaia's writing has been called both "balanced and often inoffensive" and "scathing, yet constructively critical" depending on the person speaking of it. His fans praise his writing as a welcome alternative to the more more negative columns in the internet wrestling community, while fans of a harsher or more critical style view Scaia's attitude as wishy-washy or bland, rather than balanced.