A few months ago, I started watching NXT from the first episode they taped at Full Sail University. It was a fun trip down memory lane, seeing some of the brightest stars of WWE’s last decade in their formative years, before the championship glory and WrestleMania main events. But one act caught my attention, just […]
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Hikaru Shida was crowned the new AEW Women’s World Champion just three weeks shy of the biggest show in the company’s history, ALL IN, and is now walking into Wembley Stadium with gold around her waist. Her journey there wasn’t easy and also had multiple obstacles that she needed to overcome to get there. The
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Terry Funk is pro wrestling. Among Funk admirers, that’s a common sentiment, the simplest way to embody what he’s meant to our differing fandoms. This evening, news broke that Funk had passed away and though after recent reports, I wasn’t stunned, my emotions quickly unravelled. It wasn’t the news that shocked me, it was that
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STARDOM The STARDOM 5STAR Grand Prix continued with a show at Korakuen Hall with 1.519 fans in attendance, the highest attended Korakuen Hall show of the year, and one of the highest in the history of STARDOM. The 5STAR GP Matches kicked off with a Blue Stars Block Match between Momo Watanabe (2-0-0) and Saori
Honestly, for the first time in a while, I’m not sure that it actually is an especially big week for pro wrestling. In fact, this week very much feels like the calm before the storm, with an awful lot of headlines ahead. Even still, we have some matches worth covering, including the 1-2 punch of
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The G1 Climax is one of the most wonderful times of the year, well… it usually is. This year’s G1 Climax wasn’t the best experience, to say the least. Reasons ranged from a lot of bloat in the list of participants, to some very questionable booking decisions. While the tournament itself wasn’t that enjoyable, the
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August 11, 1973. DJ Kool Herc, a young Jamaican man who moved to the United States when he was 12, hosted a back to school party in the recreation room in his apartment building in the Morris Heights section of The Bronx, New York. There, Kool Herc laid the foundation of hip-hop. With disco being
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There came a time that when you thought about AEW, their focus on tag team wrestling was one of their most clear strengths. During the early days of the company’s existence, Matt and Nick Jackson made it clear that they wanted to have the best division in the world, and there certainly was a period
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STARDOM STARDOM had a packed week last week, holding three 5STAR Grand Prix show, and also the yearly STARDOMxSTARDOM PPV in Osaka on Sunday, with Megan Bayne challenging Tam Nakano. The first of the four shows happened in Kyoto on Tuesday, with four 5STAR Block Matches that all delivered on a high level. This show
Yep, you guessed it, another big week in pro wrestling. This past weekend, the G1 Climax concluded, with Tetsuya Naito rolling back the years for two epics in a row. Elsewhere, other tournaments rolled on, with Stardom’s 5STAR Grand Prix producing another hit while NOAH’s N1 Victory found one of its first. Meanwhile in Gotham,
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