Ashley Naftule Apr 8, 2022. 5 minute read
Big Fishes at the PC: WWE Midcarders Living Their Best Life on NXT
This year’s WrestleMania weekend offered one of WWE’s strongest lineup of matches and sheer spectacle in years. As the kickoff show before WrestleMania, NXT’s don’t-call-it-a-TakeOver Stand & Deliver event started WWE’s in-ring offerings off on a high note with a series of fast-paced and chaotic matches. For all the grousing…
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Ashley Naftule Mar 14, 2022. 7 minute read
Shake On It: Chris Jericho & Eddie Kingston Fought For Respect at Revolution
November 13, 2021: Eddie Kingston loses a grudge match to CM Punk at Full Gear. Punk, his battered face veiled in blood, stretches his hand out to Eddie—offering him the respect he’s denied Kingston for so long. Eddie doesn’t take it. He turns and sulks off, so bitter at his…
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Ashley Naftule Nov 22, 2021. 7 minute read
Four Wrestlers in Search of an Angle: Cody, Pac, Malakai, and Andrade
A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpiper, and an army major wake up inside an empty cylindrical room. They don’t know who they are, where they are, or why they are here. “A collection of question marks,” Rod Serling calls them as he does the intro for the…
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Ashley Naftule Jan 27, 2020. 5 minute read
What’s Inside Erick Rowan’s Cage?: An Investigation
What’s in the box? Ask Pandora, Brad Pitt, and J.J. Abrams for an answer and they’ll tell you—it’s never anything good. Since November 2019, Raw viewers have been teased with a What’s In The Box story. It all began when Erick Rowan—wrestler, winemaker, swole Nick Frost body double—started bringing a…
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