This is the next chapter of a year by year retrospective from my viewpoint as a wrestling fan. What did I watch, what was good, what was bad, which men and women were the best and what matches and moments stood out. 2016 was a year of major change and restructuring in WWE, and a … Continue reading My Wrestling Yearbook – 2017
My Wrestling Yearbook – 2016
This is the next chapter of a year by year retrospective from my viewpoint as a wrestling fan. What did I watch, what was good, what was bad, which men and women were the best and what matches and moments stood out. Man, did a lot change in this year. The floodgates opened to bring … Continue reading My Wrestling Yearbook – 2016
50 at 50: Favorite Matches
In celebration of turning 50, I've decided to come up with lists of '50 Favorites' for a few different subjects. I started with 50 favorite albums, and now I move on to my 50 favorite wrestling matches. Now I know how wrestling fans can be so let me lead off by saying that these are … Continue reading 50 at 50: Favorite Matches
WWE Supershow – Fairfax, 2023
As any frequent readers of this site know I try to get to at least one WWE House Show a year. This time around I made it back to the Eagle Bank Arena in Fairfax, Virginia to check out the Supershow. This was dual brand show featuring stars from both Raw and Smackdown. Five titles … Continue reading WWE Supershow – Fairfax, 2023
The Bloodline Timeline Part 4: The Evolution of Roman Reigns
With the Bloodline Saga reaching a huge climax soon, it's time to start chronicling what it all looked like to us. To do that here, Tanya of the Suplexes and Shea Butter Podcast has once again lent us her talents. You can find her at @TheWitchMilitia on Twitter. Check out Part 1 here, Part 2 … Continue reading The Bloodline Timeline Part 4: The Evolution of Roman Reigns
Favorites of 2021 – Wrestling
2021 is coming to a close and everybody likes to do those Best of the Year lists, and as I am prone to do I was overthinking mine. So instead of trying to make some academic case as to why this wrestler, this match, etc was objectively in the top five or whatever I figured … Continue reading Favorites of 2021 – Wrestling
Extreme Rules 2021 Thoughts
I had not planned on writing about this. Going in this screamed B level pay per view to get us to the draft, and only of the title matches was not a foregone conclusion going in. And yet here I am because it turned out to be much more than that. Liv Morgan vs Carmella … Continue reading Extreme Rules 2021 Thoughts
Thoughts on Money in the Bank 2020
We are now two months into the empty arena era, and I gotta tell you it seems like it's been a lot longer. Maybe that's because there's no end in sight, I don't know. But while I know some of you guys just aren't feeling the empty arena thing enough to watch every week I've … Continue reading Thoughts on Money in the Bank 2020
WWE Holiday Tour 2019
I closed out 2019 with the Holiday Tour in Baltimore. The Royal Farms Arena, formerly the Baltimore Arena, is one of the great midsize building to go to for a wrestling show (AEW was just here in November for Full Gear) and there has been some real wrestling history here. I've been here myself for … Continue reading WWE Holiday Tour 2019
WWE Heatwave 2019
I got a chance to go to the WWE Heatwave 2019 Tour in Washington DC. House shows are a great time and much easier to sit back and enjoy without some of the jerks who come to televised events. It's also fun for the wrestlers because they can just do their thing without having to … Continue reading WWE Heatwave 2019
Stroke of Genius 