I appreciate professional wrestling. I appreciate the storylines, the athleticism, the drama, the passion, the spectacle of it all. Not the WWE stuff, mind you – I kinda left that world behind. For me, it’s All Elite Wrestling and its subsidiary company, Ring of Honor, that captures my attention. There’s incredible talent in AEW; you…
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The greatest wrestling match you’ve NEVER seen… and never WILL see
In a college music theory class, I learned that avant-garde composer John Cage once crafted something called 4’33”, a performance that featured no instruments. Just silence. For four minutes and thirty-three seconds. And I initially thought … that’s a bit of a cop-out. Like telling your teacher that you wrote your homework on invisible ink.…
Read MoreThis doesn’t seem like a fair pro wrestling trade … but I’m good with it.
There are two major professional wrestling companies in America – the WWE and All Elite Wrestling (there’s also TNA, but they’re a distant fourth in a three-horse race). When a professional wrestler’s performance contract is not renewed, or if the company cuts the performer off the roster due to budget cuts, the wrestler has to…
Read MoreSo are the IInspiration #AllElite??
Yes, I enjoy professional wrestling. I’ve enjoyed it since the days of weekend broadcasts on WRGB with heroes like Haystacks Calhoun and Chief Jay Strongbow defeating the likes of Stan Stasiak and Ken Patera. As the years progressed, I’ve watched professional wrestling in one form or another – whether it was the WWF / WWE…
Read MoreSo those horns aren’t sung to the lyrics of “John Cena Sucks” after all??
So apparently wrestler John Cena is on his farewell tour. He’s scheduled to wrestle one more match – against a top WWE star named Gunther – and then Cena will hang up his wrestling sneakers and put away his jorts. And we won’t hear that classic John Cena intro song ever again. Yeah, that one.…
Read MoreHulk Hogan don’t work for me, bruddah.
I will give Hulk Hogan his flowers. He revolutionized the appeal of professional wrestling. He was a larger than life character in a sport full of larger than life characters. He had charisma in buckets. He was marketable like no one would believe. He could sell out an arena in nothing flat. For over twenty…
Read MoreIt only took 14 years for John Cena to respond back.
If there was ever a defining moment in professional wrestling where fans just went, “Did that actually happen? That wasn’t part of a script? What in the ever-loving soul of Bruno Sammartino is going on here?” – it would have to be the events of June 27, 2011. During a live telecast of the WWE’s…
Read MoreCan we give Harley Cameron ALL the belts?
There are moments when, as a pro wrestling fan, I see nuggets of storylines evolve into something bigger and better and broader. A one-note character with limited microphone skills and limited in-ring abilities slowly morphs into a capable squared circle tactician who can spit fire with promo time. And such is the case with AEW’s…
Read MoreHe’s a “Real American” in the worst possible way.
I’m not going to lie. Hulk Hogan always rubbed me the wrong way. In professional wrestling, he was the good guy, or “babyface” that you hoped would get beaten to a pulp by the bad guy, or “heel.” And when he turned heel later on in his career, his persona just completely sucked the life…
Read More“I’m sorry, Mr. Miller, but your ticket for tonight’s wrestling show has been blocked.”
Last night, All Elite Wrestling held a taping at the MVP Arena for AEW Collision, the wrestling company’s Saturday evening two-hour show of grappling and action. Normally the show airs live, but lately AEW has started pre-taping events so as to give their talent a better work schedule and easier travel. Plus, they can also…
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