Last week, I saluted the 100 people who made wrestling so great this year. This week, I’m shining a spotlight on the people who had startlingly little or negative influence on wrestling this year. From promoters who dropped the ball … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Special Edition: The Least Influential People in Wrestling in 2023
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… Erich von Stroheim. Highly recommended: Foolish … Continue reading Director Profile: Erich von Stroheim
It’s the end of the year and it’s time to salute the many people that made wrestling in 2023 so great. Wrestlers, bookers, and various others helped make this one of the best for wrestling in a long time. There’s … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Salutes the People Who Made Wrestling in 2023 Great
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… Frank Capra. Highly recommended: It Happened … Continue reading Director Profile: Frank Capra
I was planning something very special for this week’s Wrestling Thread. Alas, I’ve come down with Covid and can barely watch something, let alone write a whole piece. I’m sorry about all this. Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Takes a (Hopefully) Small Break
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… Bong Joon Ho. Highly recommended: Memories … Continue reading Director Profile: Bong Joon Ho
NXT Deadline was this past weekend and it was a damn good show. A bunch of great matches and no bad ones. Best WWE matches of the week:1. Men’s Iron Survivor Challenge2. Dragon Lee vs. Tyler Bate3. Ilja Dragunov vs. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Misses Its Deadline
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… Chantal Akerman. Highly recommended: Jeanne Dielman, … Continue reading Director Profile: Chantal Akerman
It was a pretty good week for wrestling. Both companies put some great matches on TV, with there being multiple 10/10 matches. There was also a bit of unfortunate negativity coming from AEW wrestlers regarding their spot in the company. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Plays a Song for Jeff Hardy
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… Robert Wise. Highly recommended: The Day … Continue reading Director Profile: Robert Wise
We were set to lead this week with how great Survivor Series was (easily the best WWE PPV this year). I was all set to turn Peacock off when Cult of Personality started and CM Punk came out. The crowd … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread: Hell Freezing Over Edition
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… Robert Zemeckis. Highly recommended: Back to … Continue reading Director Profile: Robert Zemeckis
The big stories of the week: -Full Gear was this past weekend and it was a great show… until the main event. MJF and Jay White are great wrestlers and they should have had a great match. But Tony Khan … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Still Pissed Off at Full Gear’s Main Event
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… Frank Borzage. Highly recommended: Seventh Heaven, … Continue reading Director Profile: Frank Borzage
It was a pretty good week for wrestling, with the highlights being Drew McIntyre and Santos Escobar turning heel after teases for awhile now. Best WWE matches of the week:1. Judgment Day vs. Cody Rhodes and Jey Uso2. The Miz … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Turns Heel
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… Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Highly recommended: Beware … Continue reading Director Profile: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
It’s been a wild week for wrestling. Crown Royal was a good show, Collision’s ratings fell again, and NXT is going to be moving to The CW. However, it looks like they were thinking of going with Billy Corgan’s NWA … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Was Going to Be on CW
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… Pedro Almodóvar. Highly recommended: Women on … Continue reading Director Profile: Pedro Almodóvar
It was a pretty fun week for wrestling. Some good to great matches on TV and we got some neat PPVs on the horizon. Best AEW matches of the week:1. MJF vs. Kenny Omega2. Konosuke Takeshita vs. Kyle Fletcher3. Orange … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Says Something Nice
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… Wes Craven. Highly recommended: The Hills … Continue reading Director Profile: Wes Craven
It was a slow week for wrestling. The biggest thing this week was week one of Halloween Havoc kicking off. It was a great show, with the main event of Lyra Valkyria vs. Becky Lynch being one of the best … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Wreaks (Halloween) Havoc
