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John Warren Mar 16, 2020. Less than a minute
Fanbyte Evening News March 16, 2020
Here’s your audio roundup for this evening’s news! Direct link here or use the embed below. You can find our Morning, Evening, and Sunday edition short podcasts on the Fanbyte FM feed of your favorite podcatcher.
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Colette Arrand Mar 15, 2020. 6 minute read
Wrestling In a Time of Pandemic
There shouldn’t be any wrestling right now. The fact that wrestling is a going concern, regardless of how many people are or aren’t sitting in the audience, is wildly irresponsible. One of the only live sporting events on television on Friday, SmackDown’s broadcast from the WWE Performance Center was restricted to…
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Sean Neumann Mar 11, 2020. 4 minute read
Pandemics, Global Politics, and a New Women’s Champ: February’s Pro Wrestling News Roundup
February was a historic month for professional wrestling and one that reassured me why the art of wrestling can be such an important outlet — one that, when it develops in a progressive and meaningful way, can provide incredibly satisfying and important moments. There was a lot to reflect on…
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Colette Arrand Mar 9, 2020. 8 minute read
Two Miles of Chain But Not That Horny: WWE Elimination Chamber Recap and Review
The Elimination Chamber is a ridiculous concept. We’ve had it for 18 years now, and while it’s capable of generating drama (which we’ll get to later), the TWO MILES OF CHAIN and FOUR LEXAN PODS and the, uh, REGULATION WRESTLING RING are all kind of rote at this point. You’ve…
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Colette Arrand Feb 24, 2020. 6 minute read
Macho Man Randy Savage: the King of Photographs
At this point, everybody knows the picture—”Macho Man” Randy Savage, clad almost entirely in denim, looking pensively into the distance while sitting on a rocky shore. It’s an indelible portrait of one of wrestling’s most beloved figures, something at once cartoonish and real, completely sincere and utterly ridiculous. It’s my…
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mer Feb 22, 2020. 6 minute read
WWE Recap: A Sermon, a Meltdown, and the Destruction of an Entire Orchestra
The Bella twins are going into the Hall of Fame! A huge congrats to two of the biggest female stars of WWE’s 2010s, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. This week we also got a Goldberg appearance, Becky paying her dues, and Matt Hardy being brutally murdered while a…
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mer Feb 17, 2020. 6 minute read
NXT TakeOver: Portland Recap and Review
TakeOver is a testament to the fact that WWE is capable of putting on a good show when it doesn’t have to be 5+ hours long and full of matches people aren’t very interested in. We were in and out Sunday night in a tight 3.5 hours, and honestly even…
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Colette Arrand Feb 16, 2020. 12 minute read
Every Member of the nWo, Ranked
The new World order are going into the WWE Hall of Fame this year, and while the company is limiting the group to its three founding members, I’d like to believe that the lack of a physical building for the Hall of Fame means that there’s room for everybody. Can’t…
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mer Feb 15, 2020. 7 minute read
WWE Recap: Old Friends, New Fashion Statements, and Romantic Troubles
WWE, purveyors of all things romance and heartwarming, gave us some beautiful, loving stories this week. We had the connection between a woman and somebody else’s neck, the lust between one man and another man’s wife, and the crushed dreams of a guy in a sleeveless tux at an expensive…
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lb hunktears Feb 11, 2020. 2 minute read
Shayna Baszler Biting Becky Lynch Is Normal Actually (for Werewolves)
Last night on Monday Night Raw, former two-time NXT Women’s Champion Shayna Baszler blind-sided Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch, bit her in the back of the neck, and bailed. The Man, in a state of panic, was escorted to an ambulance, which she then stole and drove away herself. To…
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Colette Arrand Feb 9, 2020. 6 minute read
The XFL is Back! Is it Any Good?
I went to a sports bar yesterday. That’s not wildly aberrant behavior—the joint I go to has good, cheap sandwiches that come with onion rings—except for the fact that, for the first time in half a decade, I was there to watch the (less) great (than professional wrestling) sport of…
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mer Feb 8, 2020. 7 minute read
WWE Recap: Friends to Enemies, Queens to Nightmares, WCW Legends to Funky Clowns
Super Showdown is happening in three weeks, but literally everyone in the world forgot about it. Don’t worry, because WWE is excited to remind you about their blood money system with a few #1 contender matches, an Otis makeover montage, and Brock Lesnar shouting incoherently. Riotous Reunion We started Monday…
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mer Feb 1, 2020. 7 minute read
WWE Recap: Betrayals, Bros, and Buckets of Dog Food
It’s the road to WrestleMania, baby! Everybody’s dusting off their pirate suits and getting ready to do a lot of pointing, but first we’ve got a few Rumble rematches to get through. You’re Invited to a Claymore Party A handful of weeks ago, Drew McIntyre underwent a blink and you’ll…
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Sarah Kurchak Jan 31, 2020. 4 minute read
Sheamus’ Workout Videos Feature Wrestlers at Their Most Relatable
I started lifting weights after almost literally walking into Trish Stratus at the grand opening of WWE Niagara Falls. She was one of three Superstars brought in to christen the briefly successful retail store and ride on Clifton Hill. I was a scrawny and physically awkward 20 year old music…
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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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Ashley Naftule Jan 27, 2020. 5 minute read
What’s Inside Erick Rowan’s Cage?: An Investigation
What’s in the box? Ask Pandora, Brad Pitt, and J.J. Abrams for an answer and they’ll tell you—it’s never anything good. Since November 2019, Raw viewers have been teased with a What’s In The Box story. It all began when Erick Rowan—wrestler, winemaker, swole Nick Frost body double—started bringing a…
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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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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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