The Hall of Fame is a crock of shit, right? That’s what the ‘smarks’ always say. It’s a marketing tool; it draws mainstream attention; you either get inducted because Vince…
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Like most followers of Japanese wrestling, I was pleasantly surprised when Stan Hansen was announced for the WWE Hall of Fame last year. Surprised because, aside from a main event…
If you saw the first round of the WWE UK and Ireland Championship tournament, you saw the best of British wrestling. The matches were fine, with a few great exceptions, but…
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…
Some people are natural talkers. You know the types – they walk into a room, people hang on their every word and they know how to spin a yarn. Others…
Wrestling fans… they’re here. Behold, the first round of results from our very own end-of-year awards, the Stompies. We, the members of the Facebook group which gave birth to this…
Drew Gulak vs Mike Quackenbush Chikara Supremacy 3rd of December 2016 Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, USA Watch the full match on Chikara’s Facebook page. The match: Supremacy is supposedly over,…
American Alpha vs. The Revival NXT Takeover: The End 8th of June 2016 Full Sail University – Orlando, Florida , USA The Match: What am I, your Mum? Do you want me…
The match: Remember how Triple H entered WrestleMania 30 on a throne, flanked by masked bikini-clad women? Later we learned they were Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss. As if…
Sami Zayn vs Kevin Owens WWE Battleground 2016 24th July 2016 Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. The match: It’s a masterpiece. Brutal strikes, ludicrously ambitious moves (did they really get away…
In many ways it’s been a great year to be a fan of women’s wrestling. More and more indies are embracing and developing women’s divisions, and Japanese promotions are knocking…
Tyler Breeze/Fandango vs. Goldust/R-Truth WWE Money In The Bank Kickoff Show 2016 19th of June 2016 T-Mobile Arena – Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The Match: The idea behind this is…