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AEW out-Manias WrestleMania

AEW has been such crazy fun and so ridiculous that it pretty much makes me a hypocrite on a weekly basis. I’ve said, on more than one occasion, that trying to compare AEW and WWE is pointless and a bit too cynical. They’re two different things, even if they’re in the same general industry. And […]

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AEW boss Tony Khan buys legendary independent promotion Ring of Honor

The fingerprints of those who elevated Ring of Honor from a tiny independent promotion designed to help save a fledgling video distribution company to cult-favorite national phenomenon have their smudge inked all over professional wrestling’s landscape. Look at a random ROH show lineup from 2009-11. Plenty of… Read more…

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C’mon AEW, give us an intergender match

There’s a picture of Kris Statlander and Adam Cole from last week’s Dynamite that’s been the basis for a lot of chatter on Twitter lately. It’s led to the lot of fans calling for something simple, something totally possible, and yet something not ever considered by the company itself: Read more…

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Trae Young finds a way to get booed at Madison Square Garden during the offseason

Last night’s WWE Smackdown card included a 10-man tag team match, which in itself is fairly uncommon. The match was scheduled to be Sami Zayn, Otis, Apollo Crews, Dolph Ziggler and Robert Roode (the heels) to battle Big E, Rick Boogs, Shinsuke Nakamura, and Rey and Dominik Mysterio. Read more…

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WWE will finally kill NXT

I guess the folly for all of us was thinking the NXT we loved could last a long time in the world of WWE, if reports are to be believed . I have to admit that I’m biased. While Daniel Bryan was the reason I started watching wrestling again, NXT was the reason I became […]

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WWE wields the axe again, but at much bigger targets, meaning what?

News of WWE releases have become regular happenings, and yet some of the most anticipated in some ways. That’s because these days, fans can dream of where their favorite, underused, and now free, performers could go to fulfill their promise and have all the creative freedom they lacked with WWE. It’s not just AEW,… Read […]

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AEW wins the Wednesday Night Wars with WWE, if they ever really started

It’s been in the water for some time, but WWE made it official today. They’re moving NXT from Wednesdays to Tuesdays two weeks from now, just after Wrestlemania. What they didn’t announce is that they’re essentially giving up on the “Wednesday Night War” against AEW on TNT. WWE would never admit defeat, but it sure… […]