And it turned out, because he was deposed in one of the Warrior-WWE lawsuits, that Chris Lewis is a real person. Whether he wrote the emails and not Warrior, I dunno but yes, surprisingly an actual dude. Read more

But when he changes his name to match his wrestling character, his wife (who’s complicit in, at best, whitewashing him, but probably also his bigotry) is billed as "the widow of The Ultimate Warrior," etc, you can't divorce them. At all  Read more

This is covered some in the article I wrote in March. He was working for a conservative think tank who, I guess, felt like he'd be good at reaching certain demographics. But he was being invited by campus Republican groups, not the schools. Read more

Well, you definitely missed the point of the article. Read more

Well yeah. But at this point he's absolutely the most famous wrestler when the most crazily bigoted public legacy. Read more

Well, fans never REALLY thought it was a real competition the way that people who think they thought it was completely on the level actually thought it was. Even in super wrestling crazy cities, like Charlotte, newspaper surveys would rarely find fans that believed it was fully legit. It was more than the fans knew… Read more

Or if it was being done with even a shred of irony, even that would be a start, too. But it’s not. And now that it started with WWE and Warrior’s seemingly complicit partner in such obvious bad faith, it will never make any sense for anyone to try to do this genuinely. At least barring a truly unexpected shift from… Read more

Complicating all this is that Ferguson’s late punch wasn’t necessarily even illegal: The horn/bell doesn’t end the round. It is the signal for the referee, the sole arbiter of the fight, to know that the time limit for the round is expired, but only the referee can actually end the round. With Miragliotta so far away… Read more

I think it’s suitably creepy in the context of the Fun House segments, but yes, that’s another weakness I should have mentioned; That the Fiend mask looks like he went to Tom Savini or whoever with a picture of indie tag team The Carnies and said “make me a big budget scary version of this,” mainly Tripp Cassidy’s… Read more

It’s supposed to be! Read more

I’d never heard of or seen this before, and now I want to go cry somewhere. Read more

Yup. Doing things differently in a good way always helps in pro wrestling, but at a time where WWE content is more color cutter than ever—even with certain tropes becoming more pronounced on the developmental shows—being THIS different makes him feel like part of a different show. Again, in a good way. Read more

Seriously, as much as everyone who had worked with him would go on about just how damn creative he was, I don’t think we really saw it before. Charismatic and capable of great delivery? Sure. But the Firefly Fun House stuff is like the Broken Hardys stuff in Impact was, such that even if you don’t like it, the… Read more

What would the fees be? Read more

Russo? That’s not exactly what he was. Read more

This was an interesting dynamic at the scrums. Some people left it to big picture questions that had nothing to do with in-ring. Some wrestlers sort of took the lead as far as if they were going to be in storyline mode, while some reporters maybe dipped their toes in the storyline pool too eagerly. You had to kind of… Read more

No, even live it didn’t really click. They shouldn’t have debuted them that way, especially without new names ready. Read more

Where did he say he thought the show did 200,000 buys? Read more

For some reason when I was looking at the comments again my first reply wasn’t there, so that’s why I said this twice. Read more

I should add this, though: Read more