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Hate Within Limits: CM Punk vs. Seth Rollins (1/6/25)
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WWE kicks off its Netflix era with an Archive of Our Own dream match between CM Punk and Seth Rollins.
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Mike Quackenbush vs. Thomas Santell (CHIKARA, 9/11/2019)
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Mike Quackenbush celebrates 25 years in wrestling by spending a few minutes in a knuckle lock with Thomas Santell.
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Roddy Piper vs. Mr. Perfect (WWF, 1/25/91)
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Roddy Piper and Mr. Perfect battle over the Intercontinental Championship for the 10th of 26 times. It rules.
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Jade Cargill’s TBS Championship Victory Was Her Best Match Yet
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Jade Cargill is the first TBS Champion. It’s deflating, but also a strong show of potential.
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Obviously, Katsuyori Shibata’s Return to Pro Wrestling Ruled
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In 2019, I declared Katsuyori Shibata a wrestler of the decade. The last six words of that essay were “I hope he never wrestles again.” I both do and don’t stand by that hope. I do because there’s a heightened awareness of wrestling’s inherent danger when someone like Shibata or Bryan Danielson or Edge…
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Dominic Garrini and Minoru Suzuki Made Me Love Indie Wrestling Again
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I did not go to Fargo to have my love of independent professional wrestling rekindled. All I wanted was to see Minoru Suzuki, the bonus being that he was wrestling Dominic Garrini, a wrestler I knew and felt very attached to despite our paths never crossing. But how do you deny Timebomb Pro’s fans,…
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In 1997, Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio Jr. Wrestled A Perfect Match
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Eddie Guerrero’s birthday was this week. He would have been 53. Wrestlers die young—it’s an unfortunate reality of an industry whose primary corporation lobbied away state athletic commission oversight, largely looked the other way on steroid usage and drug and alcohol abuse, and created a concussion-heavy product that only changed in the wake of…
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I Don’t Know How to Process Money in the Bank
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I haven’t engaged with WWE since WrestleMania 36, exhausted by the concept of empty arena wrestling and the unending parade of decisions that, even for a company as brutal and ruthless as the worldwide leader in sports entertainment is, seemed extraordinarily cruel and tin-eared. How do you watch a wrestling promotion that’s not only…
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Apocalyptic Wrestling: The Self-Sacrifice of Atsushi Onita
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The first thing you need to understand is this: The world is coming to an end. Not “the world” as in the planet Earth. Not “the world” in its metaphoric context, which is to say the world as it is perceived by the human consciousness one assumes will cease perceiving at the end of…
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In 1992, Jushin Liger and Brian Pillman Changed American Wrestling
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I love Jushin Liger. I’m hardly alone in the sentiment, but I’m still avoiding Wrestle Kingdom because it hurts a little knowing that I’ll never see him wrestle again, and hurts even more knowing that I’ll never get to see him wrestle live. It’s a shame because I think Liger had a really good…