“tries to gain a foothold” Read more

Knows who Vince Russo is, pretends not to be a pro wrestling fan. Read more

...this actually underlines just how thick they laid it on, doesn’t it? And one of the women in the match, Sarah Stock, also works for them as a coach and producer! Read more

As far as anyone can tell, this is just for these special events. WWE programming already airs in the country. Read more

Actually not just a “faux PPV.” It’s live airing on PPV on the carriers that still show them. Read more

Optics is also a corporate term for appearance the way you’re using it. Read more

The talent is a bunch of low-rent homeless drifters with nothing else to do Read more

His most famous and glorified moment, the “do you want to be a fucking fighter?” speech, is him yelling at a bunch of broke-ass dudes who asked to be paid more than zero dollars to fight on national television. Read more

I agree, I am definitely not Dan McQuade. :) Read more

I adore MJF, but other than the Invisible Man stuff with Ethan Page, I didn’t think he got the *opportunities* to shine. Though I haven’t watched CZW (and thus his match with KTB) yet. Read more

Lakeland was their record until New Orleans. Read more

I didn’t want to get too into the weeds with that, but ROH setting their record an hour away from Orlando last year made me think it was at least possible. Read more

I wouldn’t necessarily say that. He sued the McMahons for reasons having nothing to do with David not long after the initial retirement (that he was not paid his promised percentage and told that it didn’t apply to MSG TV rights because they weren’t bring paid even though they were). That kept David out of the… Read more

This is actually a pet topic for me. In a sense, the WWF had better job guys because they had a lot more aggressively shitty job guys who looked like total losers than most territories. In most promotions, while they would pick up some randoms, a lot of the job guys were prelim wrestlers who would face off with each… Read more

WHAT THE FUCK IS MOSCA JR. DOING!?!?! Read more

That sellout figure is an old guesstimate, BUT it’s not really worth arguing because a big part of why a lot of shows didn’t sell out (that there was no WWWF TV show in the NYC market for a good portion of the ‘60s) has nothing to do with Bruno. The vast majority of his run also had no kids under 14 allowed into MSG… Read more

...I’ve been covering wrestling at least weekly here for over a year and twice a week for the last six months. Where the hell have you been? Read more

Barring Giancarlo getting signed somewhere, I think he’s in it for the long haul. The core GCW group is super tightknit, especially Giancarlo and Joey. Read more

That’s...an interesting question. Read more

Joey is an interesting wrestler. He’s pretty talented and incredibly smart, but he really, really likes to do crazy and weird stuff and that can rub people the wrong way. To me, the most impressive thing about him as an in-ring wrestler is that he has a ton of different speeds. Read more