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Wrestling Fans Who Yell “Grab His Dick and Twist It!”: A Review
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I think my ability to understand other people who like wrestling (I guess? Do they like the great sport of professional wrestling?) is shot.
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The French Fries Bret Hart and Sean Waltman Aren’t Eating: A Review
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Sometimes a plate tells a story.
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We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Chris Benoit
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Chris Benoit is one of the best wrestlers of all time. Chris Benoit also murdered his wife, Nancy, and his son, Daniel, before hanging himself over a three day period in June 2007. Leaving aside the issue of individual taste, the former statement is widely held to be true and the later is established…
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If There Is an Ethical Way to Watch WWE, It Is Via Piracy
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Money in the Bank, WWE’s failed attempt at turning a lukewarm narrative conceit into another stadium show, airs this Sunday on Peacock/WWE Network. Please do not pay for the pleasure of either means of watching WWE’s product. Actually, let me walk that back: I love The ‘Cock. It features great shows like Columbo and Murder, She…
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Wheeler YUTA Is the Lex Luger of the Blackpool Combat Club
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Please, before you boo me off of Fanfyte, let me explain. Wrestling stables are pretty interesting. They’re meant to be, obviously, a gathering of formerly disparate talents in the name of a common cause. A stable can come in three configurations before becoming a faction: there’s the three person stable, the four person stable,…
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Alien Ant Farm’s “Smooth Criminal” Wrestling Ring: A Review
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The first person to attempt a springboard moonsault in Alien Ant Farm’s ring dies.
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On SmackDown, Vince McMahon Asserted Himself As the Center of His Industry
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Yesterday, at 9:19am, the WWE Twitter account announced that Mr. McMahon would open SmackDown. It is crucial that they said Mr. McMahon and not Vince McMahon, as, since 1997, there has been some separation between the Vince McMahon who runs WWE in reality, and the Mr. McMahon who runs the product that WWE sells.…
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Tonight, Vince McMahon Addresses His Enemies
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Tonight, on SmackDown, Vince McMahon will reportedly appear in character as Mr. McMahon to address the allegations made against him in Wednesday’s bombshell Wall Street Journal report about his alleged use of company funds to buy the silence of several mistresses. Stephanie McMahon, who recently went on hiatus from her role in the company,…
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Vince McMahon Losing the Reins of WWE Is No Longer Impossible
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Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the board of World Wrestling Entertainment was investigating a secret $3 million settlement paid by Vince McMahon to an exiting employee in January of last year. There is so much to say about this, much of which the WSJ has already done, probing into an undetermined number…
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The Men’s Money in the Bank Briefcase Being Larger than the Women’s: A Review
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Hanging side by side for a couple of weeks now, the men and women’s Money in the Bank briefcases aren’t the same size. WHY NOT?