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A few days ago, I went to the All Elite Wrestling show at the downtown arena. The show aired live on TBS, and I had a very good seat near the entrance ramp. And although I blogged about the show itself … I did NOT have a chance to actually SEE what happened on TV…

Nicole Bass was a professional bodybuilder and part-time professional wrestler. She had an incredibly sculpted body that came from years of dedication and training. Unfortunately, her time in professional wrestling was marred by people accusing her of being a man. The comments were hurtful and repulsive. And this was at a time when pro wrestling…

It’s no secret. I enjoy the pro wrestling duo known as The Acclaimed. Max Caster and Anthony Bowens come to the ring with one of the coolest entrances – Caster throws diss tracks at the opponents, while Bowens hypes up the crowd with shouts of “The Acclaimed Have Arrived!” Don’t believe me? Look at this.…

It is no secret that I enjoy professional wrestling. Good people know not to bother me on Wednesday nights lest they interrupt my AEW Dynamite binging. That being said … the passing of Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri yesterday caught me off-guard. He was a professional wrestler in the late 1970’s and 1980’s, working under the…

Bobby Fish is a professional wrestler. He’s appeared with the major companies, he was part of a very popular stable in WWE’s NXT brand as members of the “Undisputed Era,” a group that featured professional wrestlers Adam Cole, Roderick Strong and Kyle O’Reilly.. Eventually, Cole, Fish and O’Reilly moved to the superior AEW wrestling corporation,…

Max Caster could have been any other up-and-coming professional wrestler. He competed in several independent organizations, just another generic grappler in a sport of larger-than-life personalities. Anthony Bowens could have been just another up-and-coming professional wrestler. He also competed in several independent programs, and even had a match or two on the WWE’s developmental NXT…

The last time I went to a pro wrestling live event was, oh, I don’t know, many years ago. I think the Albany arena that hosted it was called the Pepsi Arena back then. I think it was a Monday Night Raw taping, back when Raw was only an hour long and they taped four…

Ah, a relaxing evening watching professional wrestling. And for me, that’s All Elite Wrestling’s Dynamite broadcast on TBS. Hell of a set of matches last night – Wardlow defeated Orange Cassidy in a rare face v. face match; Swerve Strickland and Keith Lee overpowered two teams to claim the AEW tag titles, AEW is bringing…

Although I haven’t really watched WWE’s professional wrestling shows of late, I sometimes take a glance if I know that a couple of the promotion’s best wrestlers are competing against each other. That’s usually the case when you get a match between Japanese wrestler Asuka and Irish wrestler Becky Lynch. The two of them work…