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. 2015 started out as a bit of a crossroads. The Shield, now all … Continue reading My Wrestling Yearbook – 2015
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
Grading the Royal Rumbles
I did a little exercise back in 2022 where I looked back at the brand vs brand Survivor Series shows and handed out some accolades and rankings of sorts, so with some time having passed I thought it would be to look at the Royal Rumble during the brand split era that started in 2016. … Continue reading Grading the Royal Rumbles
New Year’s Aspirations
2024 is here! And in the name of the new year instead of New Year's Resolutions I have six New Year's Aspirations, things that I would like to see happen, think would be a good idea, or am just flat out hoping for. Adam Copeland, AEW World Champion The logic behind this is very simple. Copeland is … Continue reading New Year’s Aspirations
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
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 an abrupt end when the … 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
2021 NY 50
So it's that time of year again where me and some friends on the internet submit ballots for the NY 50, our top 50 WWE performers for the year. This is my fourth one and in previous years my winners were Charlotte Flair (2018), Kofi Kingston (2019), and Drew McIntyre (2020), and in this year's … Continue reading 2021 NY 50
Stroke of Genius 