The past several weeks have been a doozy in the world of professional wrestling, particularly in the Internet Wrestling Community. Since January there has been a manufactured campaign to get fans to turn on Cody Rhodes, highlighted by a painfully inaccurate equating of the situation to 2014 going into the Royal Rumble with Rhodes in … Continue reading The Right Call
Broken heart, lost soul
The past few years during WrestleMania season I've run a couple of pieces on women's wrestling, submitted by Tanya of the Suplexes and Shea Butter Podcast. You can find her at @TheWitchMilitia on Twitter. Her previous work from 2021 can be found here and here, and from 2022 here There is a gigantic void in … Continue reading Broken heart, lost soul
HHH at Six Months
We just passed the six month mark of HHH's tenure as head of creative and head of talent relations. How's he doing? What's good, what's not so good? What's gotten better and what hasn't changed much? I thought I give a few answers of my own here. Now before we get started let me make … Continue reading HHH at Six Months
Royal Rumble 2023 Review
After a year of reverting back to having two January Premium Live Events, things reverted back to the norm of the Royal Rumble being the first PLE of the year. Day 1 was a fun enough show last year but it ultimately proved to be unnecessary, was hurt by last minute absences, and had some … Continue reading Royal Rumble 2023 Review
Mandy Rose, Time and Money for Women in Wrestling
No doubt one of the biggest stories at the end of the year in professional wrestling is Mandy Rose's sudden release from WWE after some of the adult content she was producing on the side got leaked onto the internet. Rose's 400 plus day NXT women's title reign came to abrupt end when the December … Continue reading Mandy Rose, Time and Money for Women in Wrestling
Brand Warfare: A Survivor Series Retrospective
With the recent announcement that Survivor Series will now be more storyline based and include the Wargames matches as part of the show, we have reached the end of an era. Survivor Series has gone through several forms and iterations since it's inception in 1987. For the first 4 years it consisted only of the … Continue reading Brand Warfare: A Survivor Series Retrospective
Women’s Wrestling on TV in 2022
Note: this is an ongoing project that will be updated throughout the year as more or better information comes in, or any corrections need to be made. All the data on matches and match times were taken from http://www.profightdb.com and http://www.cagematch.net. All numbers are based on final tallys for the year, with any necessary corrections … Continue reading Women’s Wrestling on TV in 2022
WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event
I had a free weekend so I made the two hour drive to good old Reading, PA to check out the WWE's post-WrestleMania tour. The company has renamed their Saturday house shows after the old Saturday Night's Main Event TV show, thus the name of this one. This was also a do over of sorts … Continue reading WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event
Who should dethrone Roman Reigns?
This question has become a bit of a thing lately, to the point of being asked almost every day on Twitter it seems. And it's wild to see because four years ago, after the debacle that was the WrestleMania 34 main event, I was in this space asking "What to do about Roman Reigns?" The … Continue reading Who should dethrone Roman Reigns?
Naomi & Sasha Banks: Team BAD’s Good Day
And hopefully good future Note: This is a follow up piece to The Meaning of the Boss, published a few days before WrestleMania. Thanks again to Tonya to sharing her thoughts on another historic WrestleMania match. You can find her at @TheWitchMilitia on Twitter. On Sunday, April 3, Sasha Banks and Naomi made history when they … Continue reading Naomi & Sasha Banks: Team BAD’s Good Day
Stroke of Genius 