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Problematic himbo Jake Hager was last night’s surprise debut, appearing at the end of AEW Dynamite to aid Chris Jericho, Santana, Ortiz, and Sammy Guevara in beating up The Young Bucks and Cody and Dustin Rhodes. Like when Shawn Spears appeared at Fight For the Fallen and whacked Cody upside the head with a…
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You may or may not know this, but AEW and NXT are going head to head tonight, and it’s kind of a big deal. Maybe you’ve chosen a side. Maybe you’re one of those wrestling fans who just wants everybody to do well. Maybe you’ve been mashing F5 in your web browser for the…
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The build-up to the Wednesday Night War is finally over. One year and some change removed from All In, Cody Rhodes’ and the Young Bucks’ gamble that they and their peers were capable of promoting a successful show, All Elite Wrestling debuts on TNT with Dynamite. In a week overstuffed with professional wrestling, AEW’s…
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I don’t watch WWE much these days. Outside of last night’s Royal Rumble and the majority of Saturday’s NXT Takeover, the last WWE telecast I saw from start to finish was the 2016 Money in the Bank pay-per-view. Call it disinterest or protest (it’s a little of both), but regardless it is impossible to…
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Note: This essay was originally written in 2015, and published in The Atomic Elbow #22 in June 2017. References to “this year” are to 2015. For more information on The Atomic Elbow, which is the best wrestling zine in the United States, check out its website. It’s March 21, 2015. Ring of Honor Television…
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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,…