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Revisiting WWF’s ‘The Wrestling Album’ track by track
My father yells, “What you gonna do with your life?” And there he is. It’s the video to Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and that man...
Wrestlers’ Court: John Cena, we’ll see you around
On Saturday July 6, at the Money the Bank Premium Live Event in Toronto, John Cena announced his impending retirement. Cena’s announcement hits...
Wrestlers’ Court: Cody Rhodes is an anti-hero superstar
A recent social media flurry suggests that current WWE Undisputed Champion Cody Rhodes should turn heel as soon as possible. I think a heel turn is...
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Mat Matters: WWE business is good, but the booking …
WWE is on an incredible run at the box office. They have had a series of sellouts and gates along with merchandise sales that are the best they have had in at least a decade or two. So, what they are doing with their product is working in a purely financial sense. The...
Wrestlers’ Court: TNA-NXT cross-pollination is intriguing
Forgive me. While I’ll try to keep this column brief, I will bounce around between the three main US professional wrestling promotions: WWE, All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and TNA (and a bunch of others). In recent memory WWE stood alone in wrestling fans’ consciousness....
Wrestlers’ Court: AEW’s foreign objects
Over the past few weeks, I have followed and occasionally joined an online discussion about AEW's woes. I'm not as down on the company as others seem to be, and I think that AEW has a bright future ahead if it can lock down its place in an American professional...
Wrestlers’ Court: Completing the Bray Wyatt and Uncle Howdy trilogy
Over the past week or so I have written two columns considering the impending debut of the character Uncle Howdy and his apparent faction, originally known as the Wyatt 6. I noted the challenges that may come with bringing these characters to life without their leader...
Wrestlers’ Court: AEW facing an identity crisis
On May 26, AEW aired its Double or Nothing pay-per-view, marking the promotion’s unofficial fifth anniversary. Opinions about the show and the state of AEW have become increasingly divided. SlamWrestling.net’s John Powell wrote a blistering critique of the card and...
Mat Matters: It is time to cancel AEW
Having spent a couple of months observing X (formerly Twitter), I already know what is coming. I will be called an “E-Drone” just for the headline of this article. There will be calls of tribalism. You see, no criticism of AEW is valid even from experts on the...
