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I Guess Ric Flair Is Wrestling His Last Match? Well, That Kinda Sucks.
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“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…
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Casual Wrestling Fans Are the Myth We Can’t Stop Talking About
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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…
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Will AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door Be Any Good?
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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…
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Why Do People Hate it When Tony Khan Makes a Huge Announcement?
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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…
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Minoru Suzuki vs. Samoa Joe Was a Dream Match Stuck In the Real World
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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…
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Is AEW Better Than WWE?
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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,…
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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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In Failure, Eddie Kingston Is the Wrestler of the Year
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I have abandoned a half dozen attempts at writing about Eddie Kingston. In theory, I gave myself an easy assignment. Eddie Kingston was the best wrestler of 2021. He was the best in the ring. He was the best on the microphone. I know those things are true, but I’m not drawn to them.…
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CM Punk and Sting’s Facepaint: A Review
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Last night, Sting wrestled in the Greensboro Coliseum, the venue in which his superstardom was launched due to his Clash of the Champions match against “Nature Boy” Ric Flair. AEW has done a good job of treating Sting matches as celebrations of the places that mattered to his career, and last night’s Dynamite was…
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Bryan Danielson’s Jumping Jacks: A Review
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Last night, Bryan Danielson and “Hangman” Adam Page wrestled to a 60-minute time limit draw. It was a brilliant match, utterly breathtaking in the way it wasted exactly zero of the 60 minutes it was given, full of references to other epic championship clashes and even more packed with its own original ideas. I…