Show Reviews
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Wednesday Night War Week 7: The Curse of Full Sail University’s Parking Lot
I have a confession to make. I am one of the mythical lapsed fans AEW is always going on about capturing the attention of. Before the debut of Dynamite (and this column), the last major American wrestling event I watched live was WrestleMania 35. Before that, it was an NXT house show in Atlanta. I’ve…
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Crawling Through Broken Glass: AEW Full Gear Recap and Review
During the build to Full Gear, I started to realize that, some day, All Elite Wrestling will just feel like a regular wrestling promotion. That’s not a knock, just a fact inherent to the goal of making All Elite Wrestling a permanent fixture of the global wrestling landscape. If all goes well and the ice…
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Wednesday Night War Week 6: A Dialogue!
This week we decided to experiment with a different format: LB Hunktears and Colette Arrand typing paragraphs at each other in Google Docs. It’s kind of like a podcast, but for your eyes. You could get a computer to read it to you, if you want. We hope you like it! Hunktears: Hey Colette, we…
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Wednesday Night War Week 5: Asuka & Kairi Beat Rick & Morty Every Time
It’s been a busy week for professional wrestling. As I type this, WWE is cashing a gigantic novelty check written by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, recoiling from a 15% dip in their stock valuation, and doing their level best to spin NXT star Albert “Jordan Myles” Hardie Jr.’s public, painful, and ongoing discussion of…
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Wednesday Night War Week 4: Finn is mean now 🙁
We’re roughly a month into the eternal war between WWE NXT and All Elite Wrestling, and something of a familiar pattern has emerged: AEW seems fresh by virtue of being new and different, and NXT is solid because it’s been solid for a very long time. It’s easy to hand wins to AEW. Given enough…
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Wednesday Night War Week 2: AEW sk8s to victory
Last week, FanFyte editor Hunktears declared the first round of the Wednesday Night War a win for both sides, bringing some much-needed objectivity to an argument that is usually pretty pointless. Whether you’re Team NXT or Team AEW or Team How Am I Supposed to Watch Four Hours of Wrestling Every Wednesday, there is a…
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Beyond Delivers with Uncharted Territory S2 Premiere
Independent wrestling is the best thing on the planet. Sure, the sheen of major productions is cool or whatever, but indie wrestling offers you an opportunity to get up close and personal with the sport of kings. Like, close enough that there’s a chance you’ll run into someone you just saw get powerbombed through a…