WWE Money in the Bank 2022 (7/2/22): The Intimate Confines of The Board of Directors
Change is inevitable, but WWE was going fast. One-time heir apparent Triple H followed an awkwardly public demotion by announcing...
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Top 10 WWE Matches of the Month – June 2022
In the middle of June, the Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell that felt like it was coming years ago,...
Stardom Fight in the Top ~ Nagoya Summit Battle (6/26/22): A Perfect Combination of Violence and Practicality
It’s the summertime and a couple weeks ago I didn’t secure our garbage can lids well. Long story short, we...
AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door (6/26/22): Happy Thoughts From The Last Row
In the few weeks since I sat in one of the United Center’s very last rows for AEW and NJPW’s...
NJPW New Japan Road (6/21/22): The Sound Of Hirooki Goto Settling
The night after New Japan was at Korakuen Hall, they were back at Korakuen Hall. TJP and Francesco Akira captured...
NJPW New Japan Road (6/20/22): Three Guys Drive Into A Forbidden Door
What do we got over here?... a cuppa middling shows from an ordinary company with just enough legacy and occasional...
NJPW Dominion 6.12 in Osaka Castle Hall (6/12/22): Championships, Interim Championships, And Switchblade Jay White
Forbidden Door was about to be New Japan’s biggest splash in America yet, 16,000 fans expected at Chicago’s United Center...
AEW Double or Nothing 2022 (5/29/22): How To Pro Wrestle And Alienate People
Over the last century the library evolved what it offered, but remained consistent in mission as a reliable source of...
WWE Hell in a Cell 2022 (6/5/22): Cody Rhodes, The Walking Talking Human Interest Story
I was going to go to this year’s Hell in a Cell. Well, I wasn't going to at first, but...
NXT In Your House 2022 (6/4/22): Dudes In Singlets Rock (Plus Mafia Stuff)
NXT 2.0, newborn lovechild of WWE’s inconsistent talent development initiatives, was almost a year old when it embarked on its...
NJPW Best of the Super Jr. 29 Finals (6/3/22): The 5 Stages of Selling the Leg
It’s been a minute since New Japan’s junior heavyweight division felt very distinctive from the New Japan heavyweight division —...
Top 10 WWE Matches of the Month – May 2022
Two nights of WrestleMania in April raised the significance and quality of WWE’s wrestling matches if not the amount of...
Stardom Flashing Champions 2022 (5/28/22): Red, White and Great Pay-Per-View
Among many championships Stardom has on the line, it’s a pair of red and white belts shaped like stars that...
5 Star Movies: On the Count of Three, Lucy & Desi, Chip n’ Dale Rescue Rangers, Ariel Phenomenon, Ambulance
On The Count of Three: Though the mutually agreed double-suicide that’s the setting for both the start and conclusion of...
5 Star Movies: Apollo 10 1/2, Uncharted, Senior Year, The Lost City, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Apollo 10 1/2: Funny, charming, and just a little unconventional… hey, that sounds like my wife! It also sounds like...
5 Star Movies: All the Old Knives, KIMI, Gold, Moonfall, Dune
All the Old Knives: One of those throwback spy thrillers, heavy on talent but light on standing out or even...
Open C3 Subcommittee Hearing on UAP (5/17/22): Enter That Memo Into The Record
May 17th, 2022, marked the first public hearings by the U.S. Congress regarding UAP, or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. In Happy...
NJPW Capital Collision (5/14/22): Tomohiro Ishii vs. Eddie Kingston Invades Washington
The New Japan USA crew has graduated from weekly TV during a pandemic to well-attended monthly shows during an endemic,...
WWE WrestleMania Backlash 2022 (5/8/22): This Is Insanity. Randy Orton… In A 6-Man Tag.
Moving on from the euphoria of a generally well-received WrestleMania weekend, WWE got themselves back to “normal” in pretty swift...
Stardom Fukuoka Goddess Festival (5/5/22): The Wonder of Saya Kamitani
Saya Kamitani is many things, and in the last year she became a main eventer. The Wonder of Stardom Champion...