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Here’s what I know about MMA in the United States: Georges St-Pierre rules. It was kind of funny when people branded Ronda Rousey’s success as some kind of feminist achievement. Dana White sucks. Joe Rogan sucks. Dan Severn and Don Frye. Ken Shamrock. UFC 1 and UFC 2. The original UFC logo. That whole…
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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 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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The evolution of AEW World Tag Team Champions Matt and Nick Jackson continued last night on Dynamite, as the Young Bucks hit the ring for the opening contest sporting new mustaches. Fellow Elite member Kenny Omega also sported a new style of facial hair, but a friend of mine just shaved his beard down to…
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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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In a real loss for me, a person who lives to see expensive stuff get wrecked for the sake of the great sport of professional wrestling, AEW’s Arcade Mayhem match from this week’s Dynamite featured more “wandering through the arcade cabinets looking for something to play” action than the CRT smashing I was hoping…
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I was suckered into watching two hours of AEW Dark: Elevation by the promise of its main event and the amount of advertising that went into its debut, but, being honest here, no, it’s not.. It’s just AEW Dark with a subtitle, an endless stream of competitive enhancement matches filmed before an audience of…
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At this point, I think my love of Sting is pretty well-documented. I know it’s nostalgia, and I know it’s my weird thing for watching old men continue to push their bodies well beyond the point of sanity, but I care for this slab of aged beef and want him to do well or…