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Your Midweek Links: Chikarawesome!
Jervis Cottonbelly injured? NOOO!Photo Credit: Scott FinkelsteinIt's hump day, so here are some links to get you through the rest of the week: Wrestling Links:- The World Is Not Enough: A Chikara Road...
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Inspire Pro's No Turning Back Review
Thank you, RachelPhoto Credit: Kelly Kyle/Texas AnarchyI'm going to go on record, right here at the top of the review, and claim that Inspire Pro Wrestling is the best independent wrestling company in...
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Vince Russo and TNA Part Ways
Russo's gone from TNAPhoto via the Pyro and Ballyhoo Facebook pageDays after news of Spike TV giving TNA Wrestling the ol' heave-ho, Vince Russo announced via his Twitter that he and the company were...
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Best Coast Bias: Seeing Red Again
The WWE's Honey Badger had a red letter TuesdayPhoto Credit: WWE.comFor the past few years, given the galactic polarity that'll orbit John Cena well after he goes into the ground (assuming he's not...
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The Tyranny of American Corporatism in the Squared Circle
Vince McMahon and his WWE are emblems of rotten American capitalism at workPhoto Credit: WWE.comRicardo Rodriguez was released last night, and if the rumblings coming forward from the WWE's fiscal...
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KENTA Loves Waffle House
Pretty soon, KENTA's gonna get streamers whenever he walks into a Waffle House if he keeps professing his love for the jointPhoto Credit: Scott FinkelsteinThe great romances in professional wrestling...
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The Lunacy of Dean Ambrose, the Heelerific Seth Rollins, and the Empire of...
Together or apart, you have to believe in The ShieldPhoto Credit: WWE.comAs the Shield, Dean Ambrose, Seth Rollins, and Roman Reigns were a dominating faction within the WWE. For months and months they...
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Sandow's 60 Tying It All Together
Sandow's still your intellectual better, cosplay humiliations be damnedPhoto Credit: WWE.comMany fans have bemoaned Damien Sandow's descent into cosplay, myself included. How could such a...
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Impact Report: 100% Full Throttle All The Time
YOU HAVE TO GO BACK, DIXIEPhoto Credit: ImpactWrestling.comWell, uh, this is awkward. I had fully intended to just review this episode without addressing the situation with TNA possibly losing their TV...
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Twitter Request Line, Vol. 87
One of my favorite SummerSlam matches everPhoto Credit: WWE.comIt's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past and present, and answer them...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: The King of Rock Who, the King of Rock What
My relationship with Degeneration X has always been love-hate, but in the early days, it was hard for me not to love them. Granted, when WWE produced an album full of rap and hip-hop remixes for theme...
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Hey Vince, Non-Americans Like Professional Wrestling Too And There Are A Lot...
I swear, this is the best pic I could get. CM Punk once said that Vince McMahon is a millionaire who could be a billionaire. I don't think even he knows how true this is. WWE is run by people whose...
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The Polling Place: NXT, TNA, Upcoming Events
KENTA signed on the dotted line, but how amped are you to see him strut his stuff?Photo Credit: WWE.comWelcome to The Polling Place, where I pose the questions and you pick from a field of multiple...
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The NXT Process: Charlotte
Charlotte's journey is not done yet, but she's come a long wayPhoto Credit: WWE.comCharlotte perhaps had the best match on last night's episode of NXT. It helped that she was in the ring with a bona...
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Something Old, Something New, Something HOLY SHIT: Inspire Pro In Their Blood...
Portia Perez stares the NWA Women's Champion downPhoto Credit: Joel LoeschmanIn the TH Style. I highly recommend you buy the DVD from Smart Mark. Or get the video-on-demand.Highlights:Matthew Palmer,...
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Dispatches from the Lake: Busted Wide Open
The rise of SLATER GATORPhoto Credit: WWE.comAfter a solid episode last week, there wasn’t anything special happening on Superstars this week. I’m still pleased with the effort going into the backstage...
View ArticleFrom the Archives: QuackSaw vs. Team Uppercut
Hey kids, you like Daniel Bryan and Antonio Cesaro, right? RIGHT? Well, what if I told you they tag teamed together in CHIKARA. Would you like them even more? Yeah? Well have I got a treat for you this...
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Fan Fiction Book Report: Revenge a.k.a Being Killed, But Not Dying
Art via FanFiction.netHello! This is the first edition of Fan Fiction Book Report. This will be a new feature for TWB where I offer reports on wrestling fan fiction stories out there on the Internet....
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Death and Rebirth: How To Rebuild the "Modern" Babyface in Big-Box Wrestling
The Rock and John Cena are two examples of bad babyfaces in the mainstreamPhoto Credit: WWE.comFor the vast majority of the history of professional wrestling, there has been the idea of babyfaces (or...
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Wrestling's Best-Worst Feud Has Ended
OH SH...Via @MattJackson13Way back in the Eldritch times of 2011, the Young Bucks, Southern California's premiere wrestlers and best tag team in the country, received a WWE tryout fresh off their...
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