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“What do you call an ex-champ? A chump!” – Bobby Heenan Every new championship reign has its casualties, first and foremost being the dethroned former champion. Giving up a title is typically seen as a […]
Welcome everyone! After a week off, we are back! What a wild a crazy show on Wednesday with AEW Dynamite “Blood & Guts.” So let’s look back at who I feel is rising and falling […]
“Champions are made, not born.” – Vince Lombardi The narrative of WWE centers around champions, those competitors who distinguish themselves by winning prestigious titles. What does the word champion really mean? The word stems from […]
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet Our names do not define us, quite the contrary. Consider the true […]
William Danforth wrote, “The more you give, the more you get.” This holds true in life. The nature of humanity is to look out for oneself, but prioritizing the needs of others paradoxically helps us […]
Welcome everyone! While WrestleDream may not have been AEW’s biggest, or best, show it did prove that when you put down $50-60 for an AEW PPV, those wrestlers are going to go all out, pun […]
Everyone loves a good twist. The shocking reveal at the end of “The Sixth Sense” made M. Night Shyamalan a household name. This week’s Raw concluded with a shocking twist of its own, perfectly framed […]
Welcome everyone! We are just days from AEW WrestleDream and I for one am really excited for the show, despite what you are about to read. Dynamite is almost here, so let’s get to the […]
Never meet your heroes, or so they say. Like all celebrities, wrestlers aren’t truly the superhumans they appear. We only see them at their very best, especially if they’re booked well. A good booker plans […]
Welcome everyone! Another week of AEW is in the books. Darby Allin was in the main event on Dynamite and I love that. Despite what I’ve said about his use of fire, Darby has been […]
Out of sight, out of mind. In the world of professional wrestling, the only way to become and stay relevant is to have significant exposure and maximize its impact. Performers who are on our TV […]
Welcome everyone! I hope I didn’t lose a bunch off you after my rant last week. Then AEW and Darby Allin doubled down as he ended the show with a flame thrower while trying to […]
A striking look, in-ring excellence, and star charisma… pick any two. No one is perfect. WWE wrestlers are rightly portrayed as larger-than-life, even superhuman, paragons. The performers who portray them, however, are flawed human beings […]
Welcome everyone! After a week away AEW’s Rising and Fading Stars returns with a post-All Out Toronto edition. Oh boy do I have a lot to say about something specific. AEW’s All Out fallout episode […]
“Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize?” – 1 Corinthians 9:24 We are all winners in life… just not all of the time. The […]
As the “Macho Man” Randy Savage famously told Mean Gene, the cream rises to the top. Talented performances simply stand out. Sadly, failures are also easy to recognize. This week’s WWE programming was rife with […]
Welcome everyone! Another week of AEW has gone by and we are just two weeks from All Out in Canada. So let’s look back and see how I felt this week came off. First, if […]
September’s Wrestlepalooza harkens the beginning of the ESPN era of WWE PPVs, along with the promise of a new stage and new opportunities for WWE performers. In professional wrestling, momentum is everything – and it […]
Welcome everyone! Another week of AEW television is about to kick off on the road to Canada and All Out. So let’s look back at the first week of the 2300 Arena (a/k/a ECW Arena) […]
“One day I feel I’m ahead of the wheel, and the next it’s rolling over me.” (Rush, “Far Cry”) The drama of professional wrestling centers around winners and losers. The narrative expression of this drama […]
Welcome everyone! The follow up Dynamite after Forbidden Door is about to happen so let’s look back on the last week of AEW. Last week’s Dynamite was a weird show (threat of murder, anyone?) with […]
A proving ground for young talent as well as veterans new to WWE style, NXT programming gives wrestling fans a peek at tomorrow’s main roster stars. Most of today’s Raw and Smackdown wrestlers did time […]
Welcome everyone! This week is PPV week! Let’s go! The stars of AEW will be heading across the pond for a dual taping of Dynamite and Collision in Scotland and Forbidden Door in England. The […]
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