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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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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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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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[Note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.] Atsushi Onita is one of the most influential wrestlers over the past 30 years of wrestling in the United States of America. In that same stretch of time—and you can go back to the end of his 1981-1982 North American excursion that took him…
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On Friday night’s edition of AEW Dynamite, Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page interrupted Sting and Darby Allin’s victory speech. Sting gets interrupted every time he speaks, so that’s nothing new, but what captured my attention was when Sky took the opportunity to tell Sting that he smelled nice at Double or Nothing, asking if…
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Tonight, Chris Jericho’s Inner Circle and MJF’s Pinnacle meet in a Stadium Stampede match that will determine, among other things, whether or not the Inner Circle continues as a going concern in All Elite Wrestling. It is just the third time these two factions have met in the ring since The Pinnacle’s March 10…
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I traveled to Jacksonville for AEW Dynamite last week for the sake of seeing Yuji Nagata wrestle in America for the first time since I was a child, when Nagata was a wrestler I liked because he did karate kicks in WCW/nWo Revenge and wrestled on B-shows like Saturday Night and {Pro}. I was extremely…
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I like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. I’m not alone in that, obviously—Johnson is one of the most popular wrestlers in history, a movie star who defines a generation of blockbuster action movies like Schwarzenegger and Stallone before him, and a decent enough social media presence if you’re into his particular brand of Cool Dad.…
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The WWE Network sunsets in the United States on April 4, as it becomes part of NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service. Launched in 2014 (after an initial conceptualization as a television network that never came to fruition), the WWE Network is one of the the promotion’s signature achievements, forever altering the global wrestling marketplace in…
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Non-fungible tokens—or NFTs for the sake of not gagging on the language of the digital carny—are the talk of the collectables market at the moment. I won’t pretend to understand the intricacies of what is, on the surface, a pyramid scheme that bilks the many for the profit of the few while further smothering…