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Slipping Blue Chew Into My Skinny Latte: AEW Dynamite Recap
Dynamite rolled into Atlanta this week, Cody Rhodes’ hometown and one of the most significant wrestling cities in America. That concept—individual cities being wrestling hotbeds—has largely been lost to the sands of time (the exceptions being New York and Chicago), but Atlanta’s roots run very, very deep, and the card AEW put out in…
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Every Member of the nWo, Ranked
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 for the Hall of Fame means that there’s room for everybody. Can’t remember who was in…
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Die Mad About It: Nyla Rose Is the AEW Women’s Champion
On this week’s episode of AEW Dynamite, Nyla Rose became the company’s second Women’s Champion. We’ll get to the significance of that moment shortly, but let’s begin here: She should have been its first. Think back to the beginning of All Elite Wrestling as a going concern. The way it went about determining the…
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A Free Tooth Extraction For the Good of Public Health: AEW Dynamite Recap
AEW has a lot going on lately. Hangman Page is drunk all the time. The Dark Order are, for some reason, trying to recruit Christopher Daniels. People keep losing eyes. Britt Baker is stomping out teeth. Oh, and MJF whipped Cody Rhodes with a belt on live television. With all of that going on…
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The XFL is Back! Is it Any Good?
I went to a sports bar yesterday. That’s not wildly aberrant behavior—the joint I go to has good, cheap sandwiches that come with onion rings—except for the fact that, for the first time in half a decade, I was there to watch the (less) great (than professional wrestling) sport of professional football, as presented…
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Four Eyes, Nine Lives: An Interview with Veda Scott
I was in the crowd for Veda Scott’s seventh match. It feels like a lifetime ago at this point, my first Absolute Intense Wrestling show, my third independent wrestling show, a three day weekend that finished with a match between Sara Del Rey and Claudio Castagnoli, but I still remember Veda’s match, her seventh,…
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A Non-Violent Form of Entertainment: The WWE and the 1999 Super Bowl
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, a day where Americans across the country gather together to either watch the NFL Championship game or pretend to not know what “sportsball” is. It’s a bloated, glorious spectacle, a day where everything from individual plays to the halftime show to Budweiser commercials are watched and picked apart by people…
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Put Limp Bizkit in the WWE Hall of Fame, You Cowards
It’s 2001, and an era is ending. The World Wrestling Federation stands alone as the major wrestling promotion in the United States, purchasing and dancing on the corpse of WCW Monday Nitro while traveling the road to WrestleMania X7, which will be main evented by The Rock and “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, the two…
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All This and Unlimited Ice Cream: AEW Dynamite Recap at Sea
AEW ran a show on a boat, y’all. In the grand tradition of wrestling at malls, junkyards, motorcycle rallys, military bases, nightclubs, and New York City subway stations, last night’s Dynamite was part of the festivities at Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n Wrestling Rager at Sea Part Deux: Second Wave, on tape delay from a…
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Will Ospreay Isn’t Even a Top 25 Junior Heavyweight
I’m just going to come out and say it: I’ve never been much for Will Ospreay. I thought his much hyped IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match against a returning Hiromu Takahashi was terrible. I wish it wasn’t. Takahashi is an insane genius, a star burning so bright that his next flurry of offense may…