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Mike Quackenbush vs. Thomas Santell (CHIKARA, 9/11/2019)
Mike Quackenbush celebrates 25 years in wrestling by spending a few minutes in a knuckle lock with Thomas Santell.
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Watching Myself Watch Wrestling
In yesterday’s piece about how wrestling continues undaunted through a pandemic, I mentioned that my relationship to wrestling was growing strained as a result, that I didn’t know if it would be possible to repair my relationship to it. The reason I haven’t completely broken away from wrestling in this moment is that I’ve…
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Asuka vs. Sara Del Rey Is the Wrestling Match of the Decade
If you’ve been following my series about the best wrestlers of the decade, you might think I’d give the honorific to the Okada/Shibata match that cut short the resurgence of Katsuyori Shibata’s career, but if there’s anything you should know about me as a critic, it’s that multiple things can exist as the best,…
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Sara Del Rey: The Wrestling Queen
Any time I tell somebody or some other person tells somebody that I ran a movie blog, inevitably the person gets around to asking a question that I assume everybody in my particular line of nerdery dreads. The same goes for small talk with new people in sports, literature, music…on and on and on,…