Happy Wrestling Land’s The Year of Wrestlers*, 2021 Edition
By way of a pandemic and parenthood, my wrestling watching habits have changed over the last few years. I try...
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WWE and AEW Matches, Angles & Promos Worth Watching In 2021
AEW Matches Worth Watching TNT Title: Darby Allin vs. Brian Cage (Dynamite 1/13/21) Jungle Boy vs. Dax Harwood (Dynamite 1/27/21)...
Bros, Bischoff & A Bloodbath: Hey, It’s WWE TV (12/26/21 – 1/2/22)
With a quarter of the crew down with COVID and a clip show for SmackDown, it was a pretty quiet...
Top 10 WWE Matches of the Month – December 2021
With a disappointing NXT WarGames as the only big show to feature "wrestling matches", it was up to WWE TV...
The Best Stuff I Read Or Saw Or Heard All Year, 2021 Edition
Articles Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes (VICE) Eddie Kingston Got No Business F***ing Being...
Veer Mahaan Takes A Really Nice Turnbuckle Bump: Hey, It’s WWE TV (12/19 – 12/25/21)
'Twas the week before Christmas, when all through the ring... the wrestlers were bumping, in search of a thing. WWE...
Happy Wrestling Land’s The Year of Wrestling Matches*, 2021 Edition
Welcome to a special edition of Happy Wrestling Land's Year of Wrestling Matches*, 2021 Edition. We're looking back at the...
“We’re Winging This”: My Favorite Wrestling Angles and Promos from 2021
Besides Katsuyori Shibata returning to wrestling and Giulia getting a haircut, of course. See the big big list of WWE...
Happy Wrestling Land’s Adventures in Newslettering 2021
This past March, Happy Wrestling Land began publishing a weekly newsletter via Substack highlighting all the posts from the week...
AEW 75: The Best AEW Matches of 2021
Look man, I'm no wrestling expert. I just call it like I see it, or at least what I interpret...
Something Resembling Wrestling: The Best and Worst WWE Matches of 2021
Welcome to Happy Wrestling Land's Best and Worst WWE Matches of 2021. A year ago for the 2020 version of...
What If RK-Bro Is As Good As It Gets?: Hey, It’s WWE TV (12/12 – 12/18/21)
As we head to the end of the year, the past week of WWE TV continued a theme of reading...
NJPW Best of the Super Jr. 28 & World Tag League 2021 Finals (12/15/21): YOH Can Do It
When the coronavirus pandemic delayed the Best of the Super Jr. tournament in 2020, the easy solution was to combine...
NJPW Best of the Super Jr. & World Tag League 2021 (11/13 – 12/12/21): Amid More Uncertain Times… Tournaments
Amid more Uncertain Times, particularly though maybe not as importantly in regards to Japanese pro wrestling, New Japan ran 2...
OK, That Xia Li Debut Was Pretty Cool: Hey, It’s WWE TV (12/5 – 12/11/21)
You could call this week of WWE television ACTION ZONE because it was packed with it: two Steel Cage matches,...
NXT WarGames 2021 (12/5/21): Next Generation Takes Over, Does Same Thing
This was the first NXT pay-per-view without the TakeOver label and possibly the last one with Johnny Gargano. 1. WarGames:...
AEW in November 2021: I Can’t Quit This Cowboy Shit
"I'm sorry ... I threw away our friendship, I cost you a shot at the Tag Titles. But, you cost...
A Remarkable Thing Happened This Week — Something: Hey, It’s WWE TV (11/28 – 12/4/21)
In week 3,439 of a TV run where any ambition left seems not on actual TV, WWE presented a week...
Stardom Tokyo Super Wars (11/27/21): Can A Predictable Match Be A Good Match? Probably!
Stardom has a show in December at Sumo Hall that reads like the culmination of their year, but a month...
Top 10 WWE Matches of the Month – November 2021
Between an underwhelming Survivor Series and a TV effort that at best whelms, November was not a big month for...