The Best Butts in Professional Wrestling

“Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin’ everywhere!” – Bubba Sparxx “Whatcha gon’ do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?” – Will.I.Am, or maybe the other guy

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 ...

Did THAT MJF Promo Make You Uncomfortable? Good. It Was Supposed To.

On Wednesday night, at the AEW Dynamite and Rampage taping in Bridgeport, Connecticut, MJF did something different.

How Tony Schiavone's AEW Comeback Saved His Reputation

I can’t think of another person in wrestling who has had the career trajectory of Tony Schiavone. Yes, wrestling has seen a million comebacks, but this is more than a comeback. Imagine working at a ca...

Adam Cole, Jungle Boy, and the Depth of AEW's Main Event Scene

The intersecting paths of Adam Cole and Jungle Boy started off as a pitch-perfect red herring.

The Extremely Incremental Progress of AEW's Women's Division

Not to bury the lede before I even write it, but I know AEW’s women’s division is far from perfect. I’m quite aware that in spite of all the lip service and anticipation for it that AEW came in on—the...

What Messages Do CM Punk's Shoes Hold For Us This Week?

Last week, FanFyte’s Emily Pratt reported on a largely unnoticed bit of one of the most watched, most analyzed pieces of professional wrestling in recent memory: The fact that Punk had written two...

78 Degrees of Wrestling: The Major Arcana of AEW (Part II: The Soul of Will)

To read the previous installment of Martin’s exploration of the major arcana of AEW, click here. 

BARON VON RASCHKE AND THE CLAW!!! (And the Minneapolis Street Fight)

Prior to watching the Minneapolis Street Fight, my longtime friend (and fellow lifelong wrestling fan) and I had not spoken in about a week. I wasn’t even sure if he was watching AEW’s Full Gear live....

It's Conspiracy Time: Something Was Up With CM Punk's Shoes On AEW Rampage

CM Punk‘s return to wrestling in the opening segment of this Friday’s episode of AEW Rampage was emotional and perfectly executed. The promotional strategy of heavily teasing his arrival but n...

Remembering Brodie Lee

Jon Huber, known in wrestling as Brodie Lee and Luke Harper, passed away suddenly on December 26, from non-COVID related lung issues. He was 41. In a year rife with shock and tragedy within the wrestl...

AEW Full Gear Card Preview & Predictions

Bea Priestley cost Britt Baker the Casino Battle Royale at All Out, and now Dr. Britt Baker DMD is out for blood. In the latest episode of AEW Dark, she yelled into the camera at Bea Priestley tha...

Wednesday Night War Week 6: A Dialogue!

This week we decided to experiment with a different format: LB Hunktears and Colette Arrand typing paragraphs at each other in Google Docs. It’s kind of like a podcast, but for your eyes. You coul...

REPORT: What's Going On with Thunder Rosa? New Sources Speak

On Wednesday, months of public discontent and years of simmering tensions with AEW Women’s Champion Thunder Rosa boiled over when she announced that she was taking time off to deal with a nagging back...

Actually, Wrestling Is the Last Thing We Need Right Now

At the risk of repeating myself, it is insane that there is still professional wrestling on television right now. It is irresponsible that there is still professional wrestling on television right...

A Brief History of Creeps In Professional Wrestling

[Content Warning on this piece for discussion of sexual violence and trauma.]

Winter is Here: AEW Dynamite Recap

Maybe I get too carried away with subtext. While Jon Moxley racked up days, weeks, months carrying the AEW World Championship, I watched raptly as being the company’s top star wore him down over t...

Interview: Eddie Kingston Travels the Mad King's Road

As Eddie Kingston enters the arena for the biggest match in his career, the last thing anyone notices is his gear. First and foremost is Eddie’s focus. His intensity radiates off the screen. There’s n...

It's (Not) Just A Minor Treat: CM Punk's Ice Cream Bar Reviewed

I spent the day before CM Punk’s debut in AEW anxiously texting my friends because wrestling, especially in America, is a mechanism for disappointment. We’re so used to our favorites being ignored, or...

CM Punk and Sting's Facepaint: A Review

Last night, Sting wrestled in the Greensboro Coliseum, the venue in which his superstardom was launched due to his Clash of the Champions match against “Nature Boy” Ric Flair. AEW has done a good job ...