On Ratings, a Happy Workforce, the Changing Landscape, and the Need for an...
Punk's not the only guy who'd benefit from time offPhoto Credit: WWE.comIn 2013, there are people who still keep track of ratings week to week like they're gospel. Honestly, there are a million reasons...
View ArticleKentucky Fried Chikara, Plus Wrestling Is Art... INDEED
Matt Cage and Alex Castle, better known as the Kentucky Buffet, will be making their Chikara debuts in the Tag World Grand Prix. I've seen a bit from these guys in the last year, and they have promise...
View ArticleAny Shows This Weekend? iPPVs, Free or Otherwise
Big weekend for Sami CallihanPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinAs with any weekend, there is a ton of pro wrestling going on over the next couple of days. However, it's not just for people who want to...
View ArticleInstant Feedback: Of All the Weeks Smackdown Picked to Be Good
Smackdown can't catch a break. It wasn't even this week that it was particularly bad or underwhelming like it's been over the last few months. There were recaps - goddammit, the recaps were annoying -...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Podcast's FUN TIME MAILBAG EXTRAVAGANZA JAMBOREE Call for...
I want YOUR questionsPhoto Credit: Amanda HolzermanIf you notice, there's no TweetBag going up today. Why? Because I spent all night alternating between playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and fantasy booking...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: Primo vs. The Miz from WWECW
I miss WWECW. I've written that before, right? Well, I do. It was a great showcase show full of wrestling that allowed dudes like pre-John Cena feud Miz and Primo Colon get several minutes to do the...
View ArticleShould We Even Care about the United States and Intercontinental Championships?
Pictured: A moment not important to WWE CreativePhoto Credit: WWE.comIf I had to gather a guess, the combined records of the standing Intercontinental and United States Champions since 2010 in...
View ArticleA Great and Devious Entry into the Grand Prix
They were Incoherence, then two-thirds of Team Frightning, and now, they are emissaries of a Spectral Envoy that seems to be the only group in Chikara immune to the promotion-wide fracture that is...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Blog's OFFICIAL Best in the World Rankings, April 22nd
YEEE HAWPhoto Credit: WWE.comWelcome to a feature I like to call "Best in the World" rankings. They're not traditional power rankings per se, but they're rankings to see who is really the best in the...
View ArticleInstant Feedback: DIAGRAMS!
Daniel Bryan had diagrams drawn up. Diagrams and strategies, man. He was prepared for his battle with The Shield, but I bet he had diagrams drawn up for years. As a guy who grew up watching wrestling,...
View ArticleThe Goddamn Undertaker
Photo Credit: WWE.comTwenty years ago, it wouldn't have been all that surprising if the Undertaker or Mean Mark Callous or whatever he was being called at the time were thrown in the ring to savage...
View ArticleMore Every Day Annoyances, Please
All this over a parking spot... and I approvePhoto Credit: WWE.comRemember when Chris Jericho and Kane started a feud over a cup of spilled coffee? It's been a running joke for years, man, almost a...
View ArticleWWE Divas Getting a Reality Show
The Bellas and company are getting a new showPhoto Credit: WWE.comVia WWE.comThis tells me a couple of things. One, another network wants WWE on its airwaves? No though, weekly parsing of ratings is so...
View Article"It's Just Wrestling" Is the Worst Excuse Ever, and Be A Star Is Always Relevant
The act of someone worthy of cheering? Fuck and noPhoto Credit: WWE.com"It's just wrestling."That's the response that the fan who was cheering vociferously for D'arcy Dixon to get her head taken off by...
View ArticleWrestling Six Packs: Indie Matches That Need to Happen in 2013
Give us this rematch!Photo Credit: Gregory Davis/DDSOkay, we haven't had a Six Pack in a few weeks. Life has been kicking my ass lately. But never fear, I haven't forgotten it! Therefore, let's ease...
View ArticleThe Best Moves Ever: Omega Driver
I know, I know, it has another name too, but I'm not a fan of that at all. However, I am a fan of the move itself. But then again, I like Chuck Taylor, and I love reckless-looking head drops. Here it is.
View ArticleYour Midweek Links: Forget Rand Paul, THIS Is the Best Filibuster Ever
YES! YES! YES!Photo Credit: WWE.comIt's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week:Staff Shots:- The Wrestling Podcast, Episode 94: Guest, Dylan Hales [Street Survivors...
View ArticleA Quick Thought on Michael Bay Telling Rock What He Should or Should Not Do
"[He] needs to grow up." -- A douchebagPhoto Credit: WWE.comVia WrestleChatMichael Bay, director of such cinematic masterpieces as Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and Pearl Harbor, recently had...
View ArticleDavey Richards, WWE, and an Admission of Arrogance on My Own Behalf
WWE-bound or not, I have to respect his popularityPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinAt the St. Louis Anarchy show Friday, Davey Richards, after his match with ACH, announced to the crowd that he was...
View ArticleThe First Females in the Tournament Are Feisty Ones
Saturyne and Heidi Lovelace will be teaming up to enter the Tag World Grand Prix. They'll be the first females in the fray, but if I were a betting man, I might think they won't be the last. They're...
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