Weekly thread to discuss professional and semi-professional wrasslin!
It’s been a while since we’ve had a wrestling discussion thread so I thought I would put one up this week in the aftermath of WrestleMania and the insane amount of news that has sprung up recently. As per Post … Continue reading It’s a Weekly Wrestling Thread outta Nowhere!
What’s been happening in the world of pro-wrestling? WWE and TNA announced the signing of a multi-year partnership that will see wrestlers from TNA and NXT crossover, and will undoubtedly lead to the smaller company being swallowed whole at some … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread
Goddamn, what a match Omega vs. Kidd was. I’m confident it will win Match of the Year from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter next year. I already know it’ll be one of my votes. The rest of Wrestle Dynasty was great … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Still Thinking About Kenny Omega vs. Gabe Kidd
Hello, it’s the first Wrestling Thread of the year. I’ve been real busy and wasn’t able to do a full header. I almost skipped but so much happened this past week (World’s End, Kenny Omega returning to AEW, the final … Continue reading The First Weekly Wrestling Thread of 2025
(Apologies for the lack of Wrestling Thread last week. My DVR failed to record Dynamite again and I was so angry that I went to bed immediately. It actually recorded this week. Thank Christ the Max debut is next week.) … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Prepares for World’s End
The big news this week is the odd situation with Rey Fenix. Word on the street is that the Lucha Brothers want to jump to WWE. However, injury time was added to Fenix’s contract, so he’s stuck in AEW while … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Wondering What’s Going On With Rey Fenix
Hello everyone, I’ve sorted out my DVR issues and I’m done with vacations so I can run these threads again. The big story in wrestling this week, even over Survivor Series, was the New Day segment on Monday Night Raw. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Still Thinking About That New Day Segment
Halloween Havoc was this past weekend and it was a decent show. Here’s my grades for the matches: -Tony D’Angelo defeats Oba Femi-4.5/5-Giulia and Stephanie Vaquer defeat Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade-5/5-Ridge Holland defeats Andre Chase-2/5-NXT Women’s North American Title … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread is Bound for Glory and Wreaking (Halloween) Havoc
I didn’t have much to talk about for this week and was planning on doing a little thing about how annoying I find Eliminator Matches. But then someone on r/SquaredCircle posted the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame ballot for this … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Looks at the Wrestling Observer Hall of Fame Nominees
This weekend we saw the last of Bryan Danielson as a full-time wrestler at WrestleDream. It was a great match, not one of Danielson’s best but still a good match to go out on. He’ll continue to wrestle every now … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Says Farewell to Bryan Danielson
The big story this past week was WWE’s Bad Blood PPV. It would be a middling show if it wasn’t for the opening match, CM Punk vs. Drew McIntyre in one of the best Hell in a Cell matches I’ve … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Has Some Bad Blood
At the advice of Snail of the Week, I have decided to move the Wrestling Thread to Thursday so Dynamite could be discussed more quickly. With that out of the way, here’s the big news for the week: -Braun Strowman … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Moves to a New Day
It was a relatively slow week for wrestling, so I decided to post a little project I’ve been working on; my 100 favorite wrestling themes. I went with the songs that best exemplify their wrestlers. If I based this on … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Counts Down the Best Wrestling Themes
The last few months have seen The Outrunners rise to prominence in AEW and thank Christ. I love these guys. They are so goddamn fun to watch. They’re great wrestlers, great characters, and I can’t help but adore people whose … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Loves The Outrunners
Going to be a quick one this week. -All Out was this past weekend and it was a great show. The highlight was Will Ospreay and PAC’s match. Other notable moments were the Blackpool Combat Club (sans a tearful Wheeler … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Goes All Out
It’s been a busy week for wrestling. We had three great wrestling shows over the weekend, one of the most insane career derailments in recent history, one of the greatest wrestlers in the world debuts in NXT, and more. -WWE’s … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Throws a Bash in Berlin
Got my laptop issues sorted out (by buying a new one) and about time too since it’s been wild the past few weeks. Let’s start with All In which, like most AEW PPVs, was a great show. My match reviews … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Goes All In
The big news from the wrestling world was the passing of Kevin Sullivan. He was one of the most iconic Florida wrestlers of the ’70s and ’80s. He had a Satanic gimmick that he kept up 24/7. Most wrestling fans … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Remembers Kevin Sullivan
SummerSlam, Britt Baker suspension, Logan Paul sucks, Hologram is over, and more. Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Had a Busy Week
It was a relatively slow week for wrestling (with the biggest story being Summerslam coming this weekend), so I decided to do mid-year awards (blatantly stealing from the Observer here). Wrestler of the year-Cody RhodesMost outstanding wrestler-Will OspreayTag team of … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread: Mid-Year Awards
The big wrestling news this past week was Hulk Hogan speaking at the RNC and… yeah, fuck him. Linda McMahon also spoke there and claimed that Trump gave WWE their best storylines and highest rating, which hilariously drove Dave Meltzer … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Remembers Some Words of Wisdom from Andre the Giant
