Happy Thoughts – NXT TakeOver: Chicago (5/20/17) – LIVE!
I've been going to shows at the Rosemont Horizon, now Allstate Arena, since the early 90s, from my days as...
Dum Dum Daniels
NJPW on AXS (5/19/17): Power Struggle Part 2 (11/5/16)
Hiroshi Tanahashi vs. SANADA (11/5/16) SANADA is an athletic freak, Tanahashi is Tanahashi. This was pretty good. Seems like they...
Happy Thoughts – WWE U.K. Championship Special (taped 5/7/17; aired 5/19/17)
This Special had four of seven matches from Night 2 of the WWE's trip to Norwich, England to tape matches...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 5/14/17 – 5/20/17
The wrestling was hit-or-miss this week. RAW was inexplicably great, a show so stacked that I almost forgot that Braun...
NJPW on AXS (5/12/17): Power Struggle Part 1 (11/5/16)
Super Jr. Tag Tournament - Final: Roppongi Vice vs. Taiji Ishimori & ACH (11/5/16) Oh man Ishimori was THE BEST...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 5/7/17 – 5/13/17
I was listening to the Slate Political Gabfest because I am a tea-drinking liberal fuck from the suburbs of Chicago,...
NJPW on AXS (5/5/17) – King of Pro-Wrestling Part 2 (10/10/16)
TV Anime “Tiger Mask W” Special Commemoration Match: Tiger Mask W vs. Red Death Mask (10/10/16) It's Kota Ibushi vs....
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 4/30/17 – 5/6/17
I take every awful thing I said last week back - WWE done did it again. Like, week-to-week WWE storytelling...
Top 50 WWE Matches of the Month – April 2017
So much good professional wrestling from WWE in April, WHAT A MONTH. I am listing fifty matches because this might...
Happy Thoughts – WWE Payback 2017 (4/30/17)
This was a rock solid professional wrestling show. Almost everything in-ring delivered and the main event was excellent, a big...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 4/23/17 – 4/29/17
This was really a pretty shit week of WWE TV. But it also felt like an anomaly after all the...
NJPW on AXS (4/28/17) – King of Pro-Wrestling Part 1 (10/10/16)
NEVER Openweight Title: Katsuyori Shibata vs. Kyle O’Reilly (10/10/16) This was SOOOOO good. A stiffer, tighter, more fun version of...
NJPW on AXS (4/21/17): Destruction in Kobe (9/25/16)
IWGP Intercontinental Title: Michael Elgin vs. Tetsuya Naito (9/25/16) Well. This was a one match show. It was a good...
NJPW on AXS (4/21/17): Destruction in Hiroshima (9/22/16)
IWGP Tag Team Title: Jay Briscoe & Mark Briscoe vs. The Young Bucks (9/22/16) What the fuck were the Briscoe...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 4/16/17 – 4/22/17
Being a year-round WWE fan / masochist is a marathon. Lot like rooting for a middling sports team, really. A...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 4/9/17 – 4/15/17
This was a fun week of WWE TV, with more post-Mania sugar rushes of wrestling as the two big WWE...
Working Man’s WWE TV Review: 4/2/17 – 4/8/17
I've always been kind of interested in the idea of criticism and moods. Like, how does a movie critic in...
Happy Thoughts – WWE WrestleMania 33 (4/2/17)
RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT EVERYBODY TAKE A SHOT RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU GOT As cheesy as...
NJPW on AXS (4/7/17): Destruction in Tokyo (9/17/16)
NEVER Openweight Title: Katsuyori Shibata vs. Bobby Fish (9/17/16) This felt like a shoot fight within the confinements of professional...
Happy Thoughts – NXT TakeOver: Orlando (4/1/17)
NXT is like three shows away from Bruce Prichard coming out and rebooting everything. Still though, TakeOver always has a...