What IS a Special Attraction Anyway?
Is Lesnar a special attraction? Maybe.Photo Credit: WWE.comSummerSlam is right around the corner, so that means Brock Lesnar is scheduled back for the run-up to the event. Lesnar, who holds the...
View ArticleLearning to Live with Smackdown
Did Lana deserve her title shot?Photo Credit: WWE.comHello, friends! I did not expect my absence to last as long as it did. I haven't been able to watch any wrestling for over a month, so I've only had...
View ArticlePat McAfee Wants to Be a Wrestler
The next football crossover success story?Photo Credit: USA Today Sports ImagesIf not for professional wrestling, the National Football League would be my preferred form of sporting entertainment...
View ArticleTwitter Request Line, Vol. 190
America's left woke bae grappling the world's foremost onePhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinIt's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past and...
View ArticleNXT In 60 Seconds
This week: Hideo and the Castigo ExcesivoPhoto Credit: WWE.comHeavy Machinery: Weights and steaks! Shakaloo!Some Rando Background Extra From Cool Runnings and A Renamed Dylan Miley: smile awkwardly in...
View ArticleOh That Pete Dunne...
These two are always at it, aren't theyPhoto Credit: WWE.comBack in 1998, wrestling was red hot, and strangely enough, MTV still played music videos. For a generation that grew up knowing MTV as the...
View ArticleNew Japan's Long Beach Shows Are Mostly Set
Your next IWGP World Champion? (No, not The Miz)Photo Credit: WWE.comJuly 1 and 2 are furiously advancing on the calendar, which means the New Japan Pro Wrestling G1 Climax Special shows in Long Beach,...
View ArticleNew Japan Pro Wrestling: Hot Fire Followed by Scorched Earth
Best of the Super Juniors once morePhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinOn June 3rd, New Japan Pro Wrestling wrapped up their Best of the Super Juniors tournament, in which 16 light heavyweight competitors...
View ArticleBraun Strowman's Return Is NIGH
Braun back?Photo Credit: WWE.comWhen Braun Strowman was announced as injured, the WWE-following wrestling world took a deep collective sigh. Out for six months? RAW would be devastated. Even though...
View ArticleLeftism and Wrestling: Unions Unions Unions
Don't vilify Riddle; instead, support unions so everyone can have his cloutPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinEven though capitalists and conservatives run and populate the wrestling business, as an...
View ArticleYour Midweek Links: Wrestling Under Socialism
The midweek links mean it's OKADA TIME, BAYBAYPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinIt's Wednesday, Wednesday, gotta get down on Wed... no? Of course, you get down on Friday. You read the best wrestling...
View ArticleRusev Back?
HANDSOME RUSEV COMING BACKPhoto Credit: WWE.comRusev has been on the shelf for awhile thanks to a bum shoulder, but it looked like he was on his way back when he started showing up in videotaped...
View ArticleWhich WWE Wrestlers Would Do the Best in the G1 Climax?
Cena in the G1? FUCK AND YES, PLEASEPhoto Credit: WWE.comFor most American wrestling fans, the G1 Climax is about as foreign as the female climax is to your average men's rights activist. For others,...
View ArticleLearning to Live with Smackdown
Almost a giant spoiler for Sunday saying "NOT GOING TO HAPPEN"Photo Credit: WWE.comThis week on Smackdown I'm learning to live with:A Good Tag MatchI'm trying very hard not to resent the New Day for...
View ArticleSo Meltzer Gave a Match 6.25 Stars...
This is Meltzer when you rage over a star ratingI try not to navel-gaze at the wrestling news/writing industry too much because look, it's ultimately meaningless. It's not that wrestling news and...
View ArticleTwitter Request Line, Vol. 191
THEY DON'T WANT, THEY DON'T THEY DON'T WANT NONE (none meaning fandom without problem)Photo Credit: WWE.comIt's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in...
View ArticleNXT In 60 Seconds
This feud must continue~!Photo Credit: WWE.comDrew McIntyre: gets an entranceRed Shirt: does notEverybody: Oh, okay, it's one of these.DMC: Who's house? 98% of the offense, ClaymoreReferee: Your hou......
View ArticleThe First Names for the Mae Young Classic Have Been Announced
Logan is one of four announced for the tournamentPhoto Credit: WWE.comWWE's big Mae Young Classic women's tournament is fast approaching, and finally, the company has announced some dang competitors...
View ArticleMansplaining in the Bank
Not the right message to send with the first ever women's Money in the Bank matchPhoto Credit: WWE.comMoney in the Bank opened last night with a HISTORIC briefcase ladder match featuring for the first...
View ArticleRIP Chandler Biggins
Biggins shown here with Roddy PiperTaken from @ChandlerBiggins Twitter pageChris Bryan, better known to Cleveland and indie wrestling fans as Chandler Biggins, passed away early this morning from...
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