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Rob Hutton Sep 8, 2022. 5 minute read
“Speedball” Mike Bailey Made the Most Out of Exile
If you’ve been watching independent wrestling this year, and even if you haven’t, you’ve probably heard of Mike Bailey. Lately he’s been on a storm through the America’s biggest indie promotions, having the match of the night on seemingly every show. Earlier this year, he wrestled a staggering nine matches…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Apr 26, 2021. 9 minute read
Stacking Belts Like Pringles: Impact Wrestling Rebellion Recap and Review
Rather than pretend to an expertise that I don’t have, I’ll be up front: I don’t watch Impact Wrestling, and I never really have. The company’s 20th anniversary is next year, and over the course of that time it’s existed in a very strange universe of its own making, simultaneously…
READ MORE >Colette Arrand Dec 10, 2020. 15 minute read
Kenny Omega, Impact Player: AEW Dynamite Recap and Review
Winter Is Coming, last week’s MEGA Dynamite that featured not just the beginning of one of the most ambitious angles in wrestling history, but the launch of an AEW/Impact Wrestling crossover that may end up involving AAA, NJPW, DDT, FMW, and any number of other companies by the time it’s…
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Martin Douglas Dec 3, 2020. 11 minute read
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 the course of the past eight months. Mox as a character seemed to have a great…
READ MORE >Emily Pratt Oct 26, 2020. 11 minute read
Impact Bound For Glory 2020 Review: Demon Warfare When You Least Expect It
Bound For Glory, Impact Wrestling‘s biggest show of the year, aired this Saturday, and it had a lot going on. That “a lot” includes new champions, at least three Jokers, arguably false advertising, more demons than expected, and Daivari. I wouldn’t say this show was good overall, but it had…
READ MORE >Emily Pratt Jul 20, 2020. 8 minute read
At Slammiversary 2020, Impact Wrestling Makes The Case For Itself
To say Slammiversary 2020 came a weird time for Impact Wrestling implies that there’s ever been a normal time for Impact Wrestling or that any wrestling company on earth isn’t having a weird time right now. But Slammiversary 2020 came at a weird time for Impact Wrestling. At its previous…
READ MORE >Sean Neumann Jan 31, 2020. 8 minute read
Mergers, Weird Jokes and Racism: January’s Pro Wrestling News Roundup
Professional wrestling can be completely consuming—it’s both beautiful and intimidating in that way. There’s more hours of wrestling content being produced around the world each week than there actually are hours each week and when we get hyper-intoxicated by it, it’s easy to spend every extra second we have reading…
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