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I Guess Ric Flair Is Wrestling His Last Match? Well, That Kinda Sucks.
“Nature Boy” Ric Flair, the 73-year-old professional legend who, in 2021, was one of the focal points of the docuseries Dark Side of the Ring‘s episode on the infamous WWE “Plane Ride From Hell,” most notably for allegedly sexually assaulting flight attendant Heidi Doyle, will be coming out of retirement for one more match on July…
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Eleven Years Ago Today, John Cena Announced the Death of Osama bin Laden
May 1, 2011 was a day like any other in WWE history, a pay-per-view in Tampa Bay, Florida whose content, unless you’re a true weirdo, I can’t imagine you’d remember. Highlights from Extreme Rules 2011 include Randy Orton defeating CM Punk in a Last Man Standing Match, Jack Swagger and Michael Cole beating Jerry Lawler…
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Malcolm Bivens and Dakota Kai’s Releases Show How NXT 2.0 Has Changed
Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp reported earlier today that Malcolm Bivens and Dakota Kai have been released from WWE. Both having been fixtures of NXT 2.0 (and NXT beforehand, as far as Kai is concerned), the releases are reverberating through the wrestling community as something of a dull shock — it’s never a question of if…
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Casual Wrestling Fans Are the Myth We Can’t Stop Talking About
On Wednesday, All Elite Wrestling announced a collaborative supershow with New Japan Pro Wrestling, Forbidden Door. Immediately, this poured gasoline on one of this era of wrestling’s favorite topics, whether or not AEW is alienating the Casual Wrestling Fan. Why? When I watch wrestling, I don’t concern myself with what other people think of the…
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Will AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door Be Any Good?
Yea, probably. More Professional Wrestling Why Do People Hate it When Tony Khan Makes a Huge Announcement? Jon Moxley and Wheeler YUTA Reveled in the Ecstasy of Combat Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe Was a Dream Match Stuck In the Real World In a Tale of Two Dream Matches, FTR Took On the Briscoes and…
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Why Do People Hate it When Tony Khan Makes a Huge Announcement?
They are the seven sweetest words in professional wrestling: “Tony Khan will make a huge announcement.” Every time AEW posts a match graphic about Tony Khan and his huge announcements, Twitter goes buckwild, as if the very soul of professional wrestling is at stake. Tony Khan will be making a huge announcement tonight, and theories are…
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Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe Was a Dream Match Stuck In the Real World
Minoru Suzuki and Samoa Joe wrestled for the Ring of Honor Television Championship in the main event of Dynamite last week. It was fine. When I say “it was fine,” I don’t mean it dismissively. Both Joe and Suzuki are presence guys at this point, and that meant that the high points of the match…
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Is Bret “Hitman” Hart Better Than “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels?
Yea, in a fuckin’ wash. More Professional Wrestling The Kliq’s Legacy Is Their Bond, Not Their Backstage Politics Pro Wrestling Tees’ Powerbomb Pizza Made Me Like Wrestling a Little Less Reexamining Shawn Michaels Losing His Smile 25 Years Later Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows Transcends the Genre It Pioneered
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Is AEW Better Than WWE?
Yes. More Professional Wrestling How Tony Schiavone’s AEW Comeback Saved His Reputation Did THAT MJF Promo Make You Uncomfortable? Good. It Was Supposed To. In Failure, Eddie Kingston Is the Wrestler of the Year Join Us: Every AEW Faction Ranked On Eddie Kingston, CM Punk, and Whether People Can Really Change 11 Years Apart, Bryan…
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Scott Hall, Wrestling’s Bad Guy, Was Eternally Cool
Scott Hall died on Monday, March 14, of after an attempted hip replacement surgery loosed a blood clot which caused three heart attacks two days earlier. He was 63 years old. I have been struggling for two days to think of something to say about his passing, but it’s difficult. I’m not an historian, nor…