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Colette Arrand Jun 12, 2022. 6 minute read

The Greatest Wrestler of All Time (The Fourth Ten)

Yes, it has been awhile since I’ve written about the Greatest Wrestler of All Time, but it’s not for lack of Greatest Wrestler of All Times-es. If you remember, this project started because a friend of mine who doesn’t care about wrestling called me to the floor for naming at…

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Colette Arrand Apr 14, 2022. Less than a minute

Is Bret “Hitman” Hart Better Than “The Heartbreak Kid” Shawn Michaels?

Yea, in a fuckin’ wash. More Professional Wrestling The Kliq’s Legacy Is Their Bond, Not Their Backstage Politics Pro Wrestling Tees’ Powerbomb Pizza Made Me Like Wrestling a Little Less Reexamining Shawn Michaels Losing His Smile 25 Years Later Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows Transcends the Genre It Pioneered

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David Bixenspan Mar 24, 2022. 5 minute read

The Kliq’s Legacy Is Their Bond, Not Their Backstage Politics

When hardcore wrestling fans were introduced to the concept of Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, and Triple H having consolidated their power in the WWF as “The Kliq,” it was not in the most flattering of terms. Editor’s note: The Kliq was initially spelled “The Clique,” until…

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David Bixenspan Feb 15, 2022. 5 minute read

Reexamining Shawn Michaels Losing His Smile, 25 Years Later

February 13, 1997’s Thursday Raw Thursday special  has, in the past 25 years, become synonymous with one thing: Shawn Michaels, in the process of giving a speech where he vacated the WWF Championship, told the viewing audience that, in addition to sustaining a career-threatening knee injury, he had “lost [his] smile.”…

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Colette Arrand Jan 9, 2022. 8 minute read

The Greatest Year in the History of Our Sport (1997 Week 1)

I was nine years old when wrestling was cool. The thing is, I didn’t know it was cool back then; it was just wrestling, just something I watched. Now that I’m older, I still don’t know if it was cool. It was popular, but it was approached less like Nirvana…

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