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lb hunktears Jan 6, 2020. 4 minute read
Pro Wrestling Schedule for the Week of 1/6/2020
Monday, 1/6 Tuesday, 1/7 Wednesday, 1/8 Thursday, 1/9 Friday, 1/10 Saturday, 1/11 Sunday, 1/12 New Japan New Years Dash (New Japan World, FITE 4:30 AM EST)** 2AW (Nico Pro, 12:30 AM EST)†** AEW Dynamite (TNT 8PM EST)** NXT UK (WWE Network 3PM EST)† New Japan CMLL Fantastica Mania 2020 (New…
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mer Jan 4, 2020. 6 minute read
WWE Recap: SmackDown Brings Back Old Favorites While Raw Teams New Allies
In a week that gave us the most legendary wedding since Meghan and Harry, WWE showed they weren’t afraid to pull out all the stops to start the new year off on an incredibly aggressive note. JoeKO Rises Seth, Akam, and Rezar continue to terrorize Raw, but now our plucky…
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Colette Arrand Jan 3, 2020. 7 minute read
Asuka vs. Sara Del Rey Is the Wrestling Match of the Decade
If you’ve been following my series about the best wrestlers of the decade, you might think I’d give the honorific to the Okada/Shibata match that cut short the resurgence of Katsuyori Shibata’s career, but if there’s anything you should know about me as a critic, it’s that multiple things can…
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lb hunktears Jan 2, 2020. 8 minute read
Wrestle Kingdom 14 Card Preview: Oh Jeez It’s Two Nights Long
♫ It’s the most wonderful time of the year~ That’s right. Dumb Christmas and New Years are finally over and we can focus on the real reason for the season: Wrestle Kingdom! The biggest night of the year in New Japan, when fans from all over the world descend upon…
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Colette Arrand Jan 1, 2020. 5 minute read
Dustin Rhodes: Wrestler of the Decade
Dustin Rhodes is the wrestler of the decade. There is no critical gesture emptier than declaring something or someone the best of the decade. Look at who I’ve gone with thus far—Katsuyori Shibata, Daniel Bryan and Toru Yano. They’re great at what they do, but in declaring them the best…
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lb hunktears Jan 1, 2020. 5 minute read
A Comprehensive Review of the New Japan Titty Book
This is just the first of a new series of reviews in which I, hunktears, editor of Fanfyte, review wrestling photobooks. I’m going to keep doing them whether you like it or not, but I hope you like it. On a personal level. That’s my wish from me to you.…
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lb hunktears Dec 31, 2019. 2 minute read
Pro Wrestling Streaming Schedule for the Week of 12/30/19
Monday, 12/30 Tuesday, 12/31 Wednesday, 1/1 Thursday, 1/2 Friday, 1/3 Saturday, 1/4 Sunday, 1/5 WWE Raw (USA 8PM) NWA Powerrr (YouTube 6:05 PM EST)† AEW Dynamite (TNT, FITE 8PM EST)** NXT UK (WWE Network 3PM EST)† Pure J Climax 2019 (Nico Pro 12:30 AM EST)† New Japan Wrestle Kingdom 14…
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lb hunktears Dec 31, 2019. 2 minute read
The Bobby Lashley Lana In-Ring Wedding Was WWE As It Should Be: Delicious Garbage
WWE closed out the decade with an in-ring wedding. The in-ring wedding is a time honored tradition, a merging of spectacle and ceremony that allows us, the audience, to delight in people in formalwear pushing each other into cakes. This is Lana’s second in-ring wedding, the first was to Rusev…
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maverick Dec 29, 2019. 5 minute read
2019 in Wrestling: The Universal Comedy of a DDT Campsite Match
DDT Pro Wrestling is an independent Japanese promotion famous for high concept matches and providing audiences with unique wrestling experiences. Maybe you’re already a fan. Maybe you’ve only ever seen clips from that time Kota Ibushi wrestled a blow-up doll or Minoru Suzuki wrestled in the middle of an empty Tokyo Dome. The company…
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Colette Arrand Dec 29, 2019. 6 minute read
Daniel Bryan is the Wrestler of the Decade, but Not for the Reason You Might Think
Yes, he is the best wrestler in WWE, a title you can easily give him every single year he was active this decade. Yes, his 2014 conquest of Evolution at WrestleMania XXX may be the single best moment WWE ever produced. Yes, his return, despite being tied, three-legged race style,…
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mer Dec 28, 2019. 6 minute read
WWE Recap: SmackDown Ends the Decade on a High Note, Raw Invites You to a Wedding
Another decade of WWE in the books and management is already looking forward to eliminating competition in the new year, proving that Now, Then, Forever isn’t just a promise, it’s really more of a threat. This week we saw Raw get in the Christmas spirit with a lot of vaguely…
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mer Dec 27, 2019. 4 minute read
2019 in Wrestling: The Resuscitation of Jon Moxley, Wrestler of the Year
Dean Ambrose was one of the reasons I got into wrestling. I don’t even remember how I found him specifically, because I know it wasn’t in a match, but I have a very distinct memory of watching him cut a promo back in 2016 with greasy bangs and a leather…
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lb hunktears Dec 27, 2019. 6 minute read
Five of the Decade’s Best Wrestler Entrance Themes
Entrance music is one of the most important aspects of a professional wrestler’s image. Even before you lay eyes on them, their music sets the emotional and aesthetic tone for the performer you are about to see. I will frequently base my initial opinion of a wrestler on their entrance…
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JR Goldberg Dec 26, 2019. 3 minute read
A Eulogy for Mr. Niebla
There is a cultural obsession with the idea of the troubled troubadour; the performer who is so talented that even in their darkest moments, the unromantic and ugly ones, they are capable of producing something beautiful. An image of a travelling man (almost always a man), unable to get out…
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Colette Arrand Dec 26, 2019. 6 minute read
Wednesday Night War Week 13: Here’s Some Money, Go See a Star War
Wrestling and Christmas—they go together like legs and feet. Holidays are kind to wrestling in general. They’re days when American families eat heavy meals at 2:00 in the afternoon and stagger out into the bleak grey afternoon looking for something to do. Movie theaters are open on Christmas. Companies like…
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Kath Barbadoro Dec 26, 2019. 5 minute read
2019 in Wrestling: Invisible Man vs Invisible Stan at Joey Janela’s Spring Break 3
Marking Out As A Form Of Religious Ecstasy For all its creativity, the main purpose of professional wrestling has always been to part as many rubes as possible from their money. Wrestling is not compelling despite this goal, but because of it: it’s a form of entertainment that has evolved…
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Colette Arrand Dec 23, 2019. 4 minute read
Toru Yano Is the Wrestler of the Decade
It’s been a depressing decade, the 2010s. Like, one of its mascots is a cartoon dog sipping a cup of coffee in a burning house. Like, the things keeping me going are professional wrestling and the promise that John Wick: Chapter 4 and The Matrix 4 are gonna come out…
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lb hunktears Dec 23, 2019. 2 minute read
Pro Wrestling Streaming Schedule for the Week of 12/23/19
Monday, 12/23 Tuesday, 12/24 Wednesday, 12/25 Thursday, 12/26 Friday, 12/27 Saturday, 12/28 Sunday, 12/29 NWA Powerrr (YouTube 6:05 PM EST)† Cliff Edge Pro Wrestling (DDT Universe 5AM EST) WWE NXT (USA 8PM)† Dragon Gate (Dragon Gate Live 4:15 AM EST) AIW: Baby It’s 2 Cold Outside (FITE 7:30 PM EST…
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Colette Arrand Dec 20, 2019. 7 minute read
Wednesday Wrestling Week 12: Coming to you in glorious picture-in-picture
At the risk of repeating myself, I want to talk a little about commercial breaks and their function in wrestling in an era where advertisers are so desperate to be seen that they’re willing to share space with what they used to interrupt. NXT made a big deal about running…
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Crasspants Dec 20, 2019. 6 minute read
The Wrestling T-Shirt That Defined the Decade
Wrestling moves fast. By the time I finish writing this paragraph, there will be a new trending phrase on Twitter based off of a single throw-away line in a promo. By the time you read it, someone will be in the front row of AEW Dynamite wearing a shirt with…
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