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I thought I posted this yesterday, but left it sitting here. Eh, whatever: Read more

You mean former U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team Assistant Coach The Iron Sheik? Read more

No, it’s not Brian or anyone that people would know from online wrestling stuff. Read more

Alvarez may be best known for his crazy wars, but he’s a really sharp technical fighter, and it took the best version of him we’ve ever seen to beat Gaethje. Rewatch that fight when you get a chance: It’s an absolutely brilliant performance. Read more

If anything, slightly late. It should have been called when he slumped into the fence with his arms limp at his sides. Read more

Not sure if this comment edited properly; it should say “boycotting ROH is more likely to hurt the talent than hurt Sinclair in the grand scheme of things.” Read more

It’s an interesting argument and I’m not sure where exactly I fall. Read more

That’s what I’m thinking, too, though you would expect him to have a better answer ready. Read more

But that doesn’t even make any sense. Omega is sort of obliquely out as bisexual, but the whole line of questioning was about ROH characters and how they’re being identified with. Read more

Barring something like not wanting it talked about in the same article as Sinclair corporate, I was more surprised by how it didn’t seem like he had an answer ready for what’s probably the most interesting topic in ROH & NJPW from a mainstream point of view. That he dove headfirst into the Sinclair stuff (albeit Read more

Yeah, I was surprised that so much of the match was Cody getting the heat on Kenny, but it still turned into a Kenny Omega match in the end, and that’s going to be hard to follow under the best of circumstances. Read more

Any reason Jay Lethal wasn’t mentioned among the “signature stars” list? Read more

I felt bad for everyone who was used to cities where Uber and Lyft are always cheaper and didn’t bother to check out what a regular cab company would cost. The company that the hotel next to the civic center was calling was giving their usual flat rate for the airport. Read more

Maybe I shouldn’t have put “real” in quotes, but the point was that the demographic studies in question are all comparing WWE/pro wrestling to traditional competitive sports. I’m not someone who’s gonna argue the sport/not a sport thing past when people complain that it’s covered here. Usually, this one from five

You lose points for not including some variation of “and Andre died not long thereafter,” though. (For those who don’t know, Hogan injected that into his version of WrestleMania III for years even though Andre died six years later.) Read more

All of the recent demographic research into pro wrestling fans shows them leaning to the left of fans of almost every “real” sport. Read more