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Miro’s Promos: A Review
Miro is the best talker in the game. Every time he speaks, he has three objectives: Give glory to God, give praise to his wife, and give notice to his upcoming opponent that his time on this plane of existence is coming to a short, brutal end. In an industry where time on the…
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Wrestling Fans Do Not Own Wrestlers In Their Worst Moments
Content Warning for discussions of suicide, expressions of suicidal ideation, law enforcement’s role in crisis intervention, and depression. If you are in crisis, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 or the Trans Lifeline (currently operating at partial capacity) at 1-877-565-8860. Last night, as AEW Dynamite came to a close, news…
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WWE Monday Night Raw: A Review
WWE Monday Night Raw has been on the air since January 11, 1993, or 28 years of weekly wrestling television. Often hailed (by its creator) as breathing new life into how wrestling was presented, Raw has, instead, been mostly terrible for the duration of its long-running, weekly onslaught against people who like wrestling, old…
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Dan Lambert: A Review
Here’s what I know about MMA in the United States: Georges St-Pierre rules. It was kind of funny when people branded Ronda Rousey’s success as some kind of feminist achievement. Dana White sucks. Joe Rogan sucks. Dan Severn and Don Frye. Ken Shamrock. UFC 1 and UFC 2. The original UFC logo. That whole…
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What Messages Do CM Punk’s Shoes Hold For Us This Week?
Last week, FanFyte’s Emily Pratt reported on a largely unnoticed bit of one of the most watched, most analyzed pieces of professional wrestling in recent memory: The fact that Punk had written two sets of initials, AC and CF, on the soles of his Vans. To us, it looked like the start of a…
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The Guide for the Suplexed: John Cena (8/17/2014)
I love suplexes. They may be the best possible of all wrestling moves, something requiring both technical skill and brute force. Many of my favorite wrestlers use suplexes regularly—Bret Hart and his vertical suplex, The Steiner Brothers and their vast array of them, Eddie Guerrero’s Three Amigos, Taz and his varied Tazplexes, Kurt Angle’s,…
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CM Punk Is Back. I Am Happy.
I know it has to have happened at some point in the history of wrestling, but I am drawing a blank: There has never been an event like CM Punk’s AEW debut, his return to professional wrestling after over seven years of retirement. It’s weird: Everything and nothing was working against his return. In…
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Bret Hart Calling It “The Summerslam” Instead of “Summerslam”: A Review
The Summerslam was unquestionably Bret Hart’s PPV. Yes, he has his fair share of WrestleMania and Survivor Series classics, bangers littered around King of the Ring tournaments and In Your House shows where he wasn’t expected to carry a feud against Jerry Lawler that would have sunk anybody even a little less talented than…