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mer Jan 27, 2020. 10 minute read
Oh, Big Boys: WWE Royal Rumble Recap and Review
Surprise returns! Port-a-potty spots! The strap! An outdated transphobic joke! This show had everything and more. A very solid Rumble delivered us two unsurprising, but not undeserved, winners, and a great new GIF of Brock Lesnar making a 😮 face. Sheamus vs Shorty G (Kickoff) Sheamus starting off the preshow…
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Nigel Spudes Jan 27, 2020. 5 minute read
What Wrestling Should You Watch This Week? (1/27/20)
[Ed. Note: We’re messing with the format a little! If you’re a longtime devotee of The Fanfyte Wrestling Schedule, the big table of shows is at the bottom of the post.] Monday: Sendai Girls New Year Senjo (Streams at 8 AM EST on 1/27 on Nico Pro, available as VOD…
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mer Jan 26, 2020. 7 minute read
Continents Collide: WWE Worlds Collide Recap and Review
NXT and NXT UK collided last night, giving birth to a new Rumble weekend show. We saw some old rivalries renewed, a title change hands, and got to listen to Sam Roberts complain for 40 minutes on the kickoff show. What was that about? Why is he so mad at…
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Colette Arrand Jan 26, 2020. 5 minute read
Put Limp Bizkit in the WWE Hall of Fame, You Cowards
It’s 2001, and an era is ending. The World Wrestling Federation stands alone as the major wrestling promotion in the United States, purchasing and dancing on the corpse of WCW Monday Nitro while traveling the road to WrestleMania X7, which will be main evented by The Rock and “Stone Cold”…
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mer Jan 25, 2020. 8 minute read
WWE Recap: New Friends Succeed, The Fiend Learns to Write, and Undisputed Era has a Bad Time
WWE is rolling towards Worlds Collide and the Royal Rumble this weekend, where it will be every person for themselves, but their message this week is about family, friends, and the people you love. More specifically, it’s about how you and your friends should group together to beat up everyone…
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Emily Pratt Jan 24, 2020. 9 minute read
The 1992 Royal Rumble Holds Up, Even If It’s Older Than You
When it comes to pro wrestling, I almost never feel motivated to watch classics I haven’t seen before. I blame this on how much new wrestling is happening all the time and that like half the reason I got back into this stuff was to drink beer and yell in…
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Colette Arrand Jan 23, 2020. 4 minute read
All This and Unlimited Ice Cream: AEW Dynamite Recap at Sea
AEW ran a show on a boat, y’all. In the grand tradition of wrestling at malls, junkyards, motorcycle rallys, military bases, nightclubs, and New York City subway stations, last night’s Dynamite was part of the festivities at Chris Jericho’s Rock ‘n Wrestling Rager at Sea Part Deux: Second Wave, on…
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mer Jan 22, 2020. 4 minute read
WWE Royal Rumble Preview and Predictions
The Royal Rumble has always been my favorite PPV, because it manages to have everything I like about wrestling. Surprise returns, goofy comedy bits, a mix of established and upcoming talent, and old men who are way past their prime getting “you still got it” chants for making it down…
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mer Jan 21, 2020. 3 minute read
WWE Worlds Collide Preview and Predictions
“Worlds Collide” is almost definitely the title of a 90’s kids rap. It’s also WWE’s replacement for Takeover this weekend in Houston, allowing them to pit NXT UK against NXT original flavor. Last year, Worlds Collide was held at Axxess, but this year it has grown into a beautiful PPV…
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lb hunktears Jan 20, 2020. 2 minute read
Pro Wrestling Streaming Schedule for the Week of 1/20/20
Monday, 1/20 Tuesday, 1/21 Wednesday, 1/22 Thursday, 1/23 Friday, 1/24 Saturday, 1/25 Sunday, 1/26 New Japan CMLL Fantastica Mania 2020 (New Japan World, 4:30 AM EST)** Tokyo Joshi Pro 2020 Winter Wonderful Harmony (DDT Universe 4AM EST)† DDT Dramatic Swan Maiden 2020 (DDT Universe 4AM EST)† Ice Ribbon 1018 in…
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Colette Arrand Jan 19, 2020. 9 minute read
Will Ospreay Isn’t Even a Top 25 Junior Heavyweight
I’m just going to come out and say it: I’ve never been much for Will Ospreay. I thought his much hyped IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship match against a returning Hiromu Takahashi was terrible. I wish it wasn’t. Takahashi is an insane genius, a star burning so bright that his next…
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mer Jan 18, 2020. 8 minute read
WWE Recap: Seth Rollins Has a Cult, Time is Split, and Knoxville Loses a Mayor
The Royal Rumble is just around the corner, and if you’ve forgotten the rules or what it takes to be eliminated, don’t worry, because Michael Cole will remind you every 15 minutes. This week WWE really ramped up the stories, giving us some big match ups and some new alliances.…
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lb hunktears Jan 16, 2020. 5 minute read
No Beaches, Lots of Perverts: AEW Bash at the Beach Recap
AEW’s version of the WCW classic PPV event Bash at the Beach happened last night as an episode of AEW Dynamite, and it was not at the beach. I felt betrayed, bewildered, bedeviled, and uh… I felt bad. I wanted my Bash at the Beach to be on the beach!…
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Colette Arrand Jan 16, 2020. 5 minute read
Will AEW Getting More Television Time Fix Their Narrative Issues?
A funny thing happened while Hunktears and I were watching AEW Dynamite last night. We were talking, as geniuses do, about Diamond Dallas Page, doing our level best to ignore an SCU promo, when Adam Page showed up on the scene, three fingers of whiskey on hand, to sploosh that…
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David Bixenspan Jan 15, 2020. 5 minute read
The Other Guy, or the Case of Two La Parkas
On Saturday, the pro wrestling world suffered a major loss with the death of La Parka, a longtime top star wrestler in Mexico’s Lucha Libre AAA promotion. Real name Jesús Alfonso Escoboza Huerta, 54, Parka succumbed to organ failure stemming from in-ring injuries that he suffered in October. The wrestling…
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lb hunktears Jan 13, 2020. 3 minute read
Pro Wrestling Schedule for the Week of 1/13/2020
Monday, 1/13 Tuesday, 1/14 Wednesday, 1/15 Thursday, 1/16 Friday, 1/17 Saturday, 1/18 Sunday, 1/19 ROH Wrestling Episode #434 (FITE, 7PM EST)† Ganbare ☆ Wrestling Ganbare Conference (DDT Universe 5:30 AM EST)** Tokyo Joshi Pro 2020 Winter Wonderful Harmony (DDT Universe 4AM EST)† New Japan CMLL Fantastica Mania 2020 (New Japan…
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mer Jan 11, 2020. 7 minute read
WWE Recap: New Decade, But a Lot of the Same Old Story
WWE is building towards Royal Rumble with some rematches, some returns, and Andrade dressed like a creamsicle. I actually don’t cover that in this recap but please look at this fit. He and Zelina look like they’re cosplaying as sexy traffic cones. God, I love them. Big Boys Unite After…
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Colette Arrand Jan 10, 2020. 7 minute read
In 1992, Jushin Liger and Brian Pillman Changed American Wrestling
I love Jushin Liger. I’m hardly alone in the sentiment, but I’m still avoiding Wrestle Kingdom because it hurts a little knowing that I’ll never see him wrestle again, and hurts even more knowing that I’ll never get to see him wrestle live. It’s a shame because I think Liger…
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Crasspants Jan 9, 2020. 2 minute read
Merchseum: Rise of the Death Machine
Empires are built on blood. The engine that drives imperialism takes bodies in and reduces them to coin for the wealthy. This endless cycle of exploitation and homogenization is the beating heart under the floorboards of Sami Callihan’s “Samibreed.” This shirt is dominated by three images, each signifying a different…
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lb hunktears Jan 6, 2020. 12 minute read
New Japan Wrestle Fashion Kingdom 14: A Review
Wow, 2020 really feels underway now that both nights of Wrestle Kingdom 14 are behind us. I’m going to get my recommended matches out of the way before I start talking about fashion and spoilers, so if you want to watch before you read, here’s what I think you should…
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