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For all its creativity, the main purpose of professional wrestling has always been to part as many rubes as possible from their money. Wrestling is not compelling despite this goal, but because of it:...
The new World order are going into the WWE Hall of Fame this year, and while the company is limiting the group to its three founding members, I’d like to believe that the lack of a physical building f...
When it comes to pro wrestling, I almost never feel motivated to watch classics I haven’t seen before. I blame this on how much new wrestling is happening all the time and that like half the reason I...
Bea Priestley cost Britt Baker the Casino Battle Royale at All Out, and now Dr. Britt Baker DMD is out for blood. In the latest episode of AEW Dark, she yelled into the camera at Bea Priestley that sh...
This week we decided to experiment with a different format: LB Hunktears and Colette Arrand typing paragraphs at each other in Google Docs. It’s kind of like a podcast, but for your eyes. You coul...
I feel kinda bad for Smackdown right now. They set up two of the biggest storylines going into Wrestlemania, and then got one of them taken away, leaving them with what? Two whole storylines for the w...
Four years ago, my favorite wrestler purchased a dilapidated Shoney’s in Acworth, Georgia (across from the Cabela’s). It was such a notable event in Shoney’s history that the restaurant chain posted a...
Even the best WWE storylines, the ones that mostly make sense and pay off in the end, usually include a lot of filler and at least one creative misstep. Good or bad, angles are often presented in thei...
It’s October 8th, 2017 in the Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen, Germany and the bell has just rung to signify a finish to the main event of wXw’s World Tag Team League. Standing in the center of the ring a...
Wrestling fans are, generally speaking, a thirsty people. The way some of y’all talk about this great sport, this legitimate athletic endeavor where it generally behooves a competitor to be smooth, oi...
News broke last week that Vince McMahon had decided to put Paul Heyman (former ECW impresario, current day onscreen personality) and Eric Bischoff (former guy who ran WCW) in charge of Raw and S...
On Wednesday, months of public discontent and years of simmering tensions with AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa boiled over when she announced that she was taking time off to deal with a nagging back...
What took so long? Seriously, what took so long?
Among other things, last week marked the 50th anniversary of the release of Paranoid, Black Sabbath’s second album of environmentally conscious, doom-laden Christian metal. Unquestionably the...
It has been twenty years since the Twin Towers collapsed on September 11th, a cataclysmic tragedy that rocked the world to its core. The term “9/11” was stitched into our lexicon, ideologies ending wi...
El Generico: the man, the myth, the legend. Sometimes erroneously referred to as “Sami Zayn when he was on the indies,” a statement which is clearly not true as Zayn himself has denied it, and El Gene...
At the risk of repeating myself, it is insane that there is still professional wrestling on television right now. It is irresponsible that there is still professional wrestling on television right now...
[Content Warning on this piece for discussion of sexual violence and trauma.]
Maybe I get too carried away with subtext. While Jon Moxley racked up days, weeks, months carrying the AEW World Championship, I watched raptly as being the company’s top star wore him down over the c...
As Eddie Kingston enters the arena for the biggest match in his career, the last thing anyone notices is his gear. First and foremost is Eddie’s focus. His intensity radiates off the screen. There’s n...
