NXT In 60 Seconds for May 29, 2019
Is their takeover of NXT fully successful tomorrow?Photo Credit: WWE.comMia Yim and Bianca BelAir: both get slightly positive reactionsNigel McGuiness: notes as the latter comes out that she still...
View ArticleCalifornia Is Coming for WWE's Independent Contractor Abuse
California legislation had Vince likeWWE has abused the independent contractor label for about as long as Vincent Kennedy McMahon has run the company. In order to get around pesky things like OSHA...
View ArticleAEW And Accommodating Neurodivergency
AEW doing right by the autistic is radPhoto Credit: @TBroomeyWhen most people think of autism, they probably think of Autism Speaks, the biggest "charity" that supposedly "helps" people with the...
View ArticleBully Ray Is ROH's Secret Police
ROH doesn't act on women being abused until it happened to this dork's girlfriendPhoto Credit: ROHWrestling.comIt's bad enough that Ring of Honor has decided to give Velvet Sky a pity job for the sake...
View ArticleThe Importance of Presentation, or LOOK EVERYONE, IT'S TYLER
One match back in NXT, and Breeze is a star againPhoto Credit: WWE.comI know Butch usually covers NXT; he will have a Best Coast Bias for Takeover XXV on the site sometime this week, as he spent his...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: The Greatest Match in Wrestling History
What a match, what a rivalryScreencap via F4WOnlineOn June 3, 1994, Toshiaki Kawada and Mitsuharu Misawa wrestled the greatest match in professional wrestling history, a contest for the All-Japan Pro...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Blog's OFFICIAL Best in the World Rankings for June 3, 2019
The quintessential Pride wrestling banner!Via @NylaRoseBeastWelcome 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...
View ArticleA Follow-Up on the Bully Ray-Kidnapping-a-Fan Situation
Bully Ray, seen here in his Dudley days, dug himself deeper with his responsePhoto Credit: WWE.comSo yesterday, news broke that a fan, @xIAMHOLLYWOODx, was virtually kidnapped by Ring of Honor security...
View ArticleRIP Lyle C. Williams
Williams captured wrestling history, including this photograph of absolute titans of the sportPhoto Credit: Lyle C. WilliamsLyle C. Williams, the indie photographer synonymous with Combat Zone...
View ArticleThe Second Team for King of Trios Returns from Down Under
They're back!Graphics via chikarapro.comLast year, the Australian trio of Mick Moretti, Jack Bonza, and Adam Hoffman, known collectively as the Ancient Order of the Nations, took their fight all the...
View ArticleThe JT Lightning Invitational Tournament Is Loaded This Year, Guys
Vega is the headline talent for this year's JLITPhoto Credit: WWE.comAbsolute Intense Wrestling in Cleveland has had some endurance in the American indie scene. For the first part of the '10s, they...
View ArticleIt Gets Deeper: Fan Accuses ROH Wrestlers of Sexually Harassing Language
Maybe if Bully Ray cares so much about women, he should police his roster's behaviorPhoto Credit: ROHWrestling.comSo Bully Ray and(allegedly) Hunter Johnston respect women so much. They respect them...
View ArticleTwitter Request Line, Vol 262
Cody's slow match didn't take away from the fast ones, and vice versaPhoto Credit: WWE.comIt's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past...
View ArticleBest Coast Bias: Panama Sunrise, Cleveland Sunset
Adam Triple CrownPhoto Credit: WWE.comEven when forced to adapt on the fly into having their 25th Takeover into Bridgeport (last slam on them, promise), Takeovers are reminiscent of the old joke about...
View ArticleROH Responds to Bully Ray's Kidnapping, Doesn't Consult Fan (And More...
Bully Ray allegedly got "investigated"Photo Credit: WWE.comIf you're a ninny like, say, Vince Russo, and believe that any attention is good attention, well, you must be feeling really bullish on Ring...
View ArticleThe Goldberg/Undertaker Silliness, or Taker's A White Supremacist
The Phenom(enal Nazi)Photo Credit: WWE.comSo, if you, like me, didn't watch Super Showdown Friday, congratulations, you didn't indulge WWE's blood money fiesta for a genocidal regime in the most...
View ArticleDon't Look Now, but Meltzer Is A Krassenstein
Dave's set his sights on the PresidentPhoto via @ObserverQuotesThe Donald Trump presidency has been unique for several reasons, the most prominent being that he is the first President to treat social...
View ArticleThe Wrestling Blog's OFFICIAL Best in the World Rankings for June 10, 2019
Champ once again!Photo Credit: Scott FinkelsteinWelcome 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...
View ArticleThe Super J-Cup Is Coming to America
It's happening... in the States!Graphics via NJPWSmaller wrestlers didn't always have the cache that they have today. It took Tiger Mask and Dynamite Kid blowing the doors off arenas in Japan in the...
View ArticleEnes Kanter Training with DDP
Kanter about to be a pro wrestler?Photo Credit: Mary Altaffer/APEnes Kanter has made a career as a marginally above-average big man in the National Basketball Association. He's gotten more notoriety by...
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