The WWE Draft was this past weekend and there weren’t many changes. That said, there were quite a few NXT call-ups and it’s great to see them get a chance for the big time. Staying on Smackdown-Cody Rhodes, Bayley, Logan … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Gets Drafted
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Krzysztof Kieślowski. Highly recommended: No End, … Continue reading Director Profile: Krzysztof Kieślowski
AEW Dynasty was this past weekend and goddamn what a show it was. Let’s review the matches. -Trent Beretta defeats Chuck Taylor. A fun opening match and a good lead-in for what should be a good feud with Beretta and … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Starts a Dynasty
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Todd Haynes. Highly recommended: Superstar: The … Continue reading Director Profile: Todd Haynes
Back in 2005, TNA had one of their most embarrassing moments. WWE was in their area, shooting a promo (the legendary West Side Story commercial for that year’s Royal Rumble) and some TNA wrestlers decided to pay them a visit. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Remembers “Cookiegate”
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Francis Ford Coppola. Highly recommended: The … Continue reading Director Profile: Francis Ford Coppola
It was Wrestlemania weekend and what a weekend it was. Let’s get to the matches: Night 1:-Rhea Ripley (c) defeats Becky Lynch for the WWE Women’s World Title. Goddamn what an opening match. Becky apparently had strep throat but she … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Finishes the Story
I went to my first wrestling show over the weekend, a WWE house show. It was a lot of fun. The matches were great and the crowd (nearly 5,000 other people were there) was on fire. NXT interviewer Kelly Kincaid … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Went to a Wrestling Show
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Ron Howard. Highly recommended: Apollo 13 … Continue reading Director Profile: Ron Howard
I could talk about how great wrestling was this past week but let’s be real, the thing everyone is talking about is the ending of this week’s Raw, where The Rock just fucking obliterating Cody Rhodes. It’s one of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Still Thinking About That Raw Ending
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… William A. Wellman. Highly recommended: Wings, … Continue reading Director Profile: William A. Wellman
Mercedes Mone finally debuted in AEW this past week. She debuted to a super hyped crowd, excited internet reaction (especially from her stans), and… lower ratings than expected. Part of this is partially out of AEW’s control (Mercedes stans are … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Does Mid Business
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Orson Welles. Highly recommended: Citizen Kane … Continue reading Director Profile: Orson Welles
There is a lot to talk about this week. Will Ospreay had his TV debut last Wednesday and it was amazing. TNA had a pretty good PPV with Sacrifice. Sami Zayn is going to be facing Gunther at WrestleMania. We’re … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Cuts a Promo
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… William Wyler. Highly recommended: Dodsworth, Jezebel, … Continue reading Director Profile: William Wyler
This past weekend, the wrestling world said goodbye to Sting as an active performer. His final match was a Tag Team match with Darby All in against The Young Bucks at AEW Revolution. With most retirement matches, it’s expected that … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Says Goodbye to Sting
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Sidney Lumet. Highly recommended: 12 Angry … Continue reading Director Profile: Sidney Lumet
The winners of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards were announced this past week. Here are the top five vote getters for each category (alongside what I voted for). Wrestler of the Year:1. Will Ospreay (302 first place votes) 1,814 points2. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Looks at the Wrestling Observer Awards
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Richard Fleischer. Highly recommended: Soylent Green … Continue reading Director Profile: Richard Fleischer
For once, the biggest wrestling story this week wasn’t a horrible, depressing scandal. Instead, it’s about Dave Meltzer. Meltzer is one of the greatest wrestling historians ever. He’s also a journalist and… he’s one of the greatest historians at least. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Wonders What’s Going on With Dave Meltzer
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Luis Buñuel. Highly recommended: Un Chien … Continue reading Director Profile: Luis Buñuel
