Many people in the grappling business would have you believe that wrestling fans are never happy. In truth, we’re almost comically easy to please. All we want is a show…
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Team Raw vs Team Smackdown (Live) WWE Survivor Series Toyota Centre, Houston 19th November 2017 The Match We open with the usual pulsating video package, most notable for Shane McMahon…
It feels like a bit of a cliché to describe anyone or anything in pro wrestling as ‘problematic’. It’s not like it’s untrue or unfair, but it’s unoriginal at this…
Here’s something a little different. Novara Media recently dedicated an episode of their podcast Novara FM to wrestling – or, more specifically, to the issues of “trash cultures”, framed through the…
As was dealt with in January’s feature on Our Hopes and Fears for 2017, WWE has of late aspired to Florentino Perez-like levels of acquisitiveness in ramping up its ambitions to…
In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, which I got for Christmas, Anna Lowenhaupt-Tsing uses the term “salvage accumulation” to…