The day everyone was dreading happened last week and WWE announced the wrestlers that were being released due to the TKO merger. It’s sad but, not to sound callous, it could have been worse. The people released were wonderful people … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Gets Released
It’s been a wild week for wrestling. The Rock returned to Smackdown and tore the roof off. WWE is starting to release people thanks to the UFC merger; it’s just been “redundant” workers and Ultimate Warrior’s awful wife but it’s … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Smells What The Rock Is Cooking
It’s been a wild week for wrestling. The WWE-UFC merger is official, Matt Riddle proves once again to be the non-sober CM Punk (kind of an unfair comparison to Punk though), and, best of all, there wasn’t a single match … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Merges with UFC Too
So much shit happened this weekend, I legit don’t know where to start. I could be positive and point out that we got two PPVs with limp builds managed to be better than they had any right to be but … Continue reading There was so much news this weekend, the Weekly Wrestling Thread doesn’t know where to start
Last week’s thread ended with me wishing the next week would be better in terms of both matches and behind-the-scenes stuff. At least the former wound up happening. Cash Wheeler’s arrest has thrown a huge wrench into the plans for … Continue reading On this day, the Weekly Wrestling can see clearly
Aside from NJPW, it was not a good week for wrestling. The matches weren’t terrible for the most part (aside from Saraya and Luchasaurus stinking it up) but there weren’t many great matches either. I’m actually forgoing ranking the best … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is So Tired
SummerSlam was this past weekend and it was a pretty good show. Aside from the lack of Becky Lynch vs. Trish Stratus, Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler putting on a snoozer, and the finish of the Jey Uso and Roman … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Gets (Summer)Slammed
It feels like the complaints over AEW’s handling of its women’s division have been boiling over lately and it’s not hard to see why. We’re lucky if a women’s match in AEW is over five minutes long. It seems like … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Exasperated Over AEW’s Women’s Division
It was a pretty good week for wrestling. AEW was good (aside from one ugly match that we’ll get to shortly) and WWE was on fire (even Dana Brooke had a good match). Best WWE matches of the week:1. Rhea … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Takes Spills (Our Takes on) the Blood and Guts
It was a pretty good week for wrestling, with two absolutely amazing matches on Saturday. In other news, AEW fans got their first look at Nick Wayne and the young wrestler had an amazing match with Swerve Strickland. If you … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Thinks You’ll Be Huge Nick Wayne Fans Soon
It’s time for the Weekly Wrestling Thread, where we discuss the past week in professional wrestling. Best WWE matches of the week:1. Ilja Dragunov vs. Bron Breakker2. Finn Balor, Damian Priest, and Dominik Mysterio vs. Seth Rollins, Sami Zayn, and … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread looks back on the year so far
Money in the Bank was this past weekend and holy shit what a great show. Great twists and turns, great matches, IYO SKY winning, Drew McIntyre returning, and, of course, Roman Reigns eating his first pin in over three years. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Cashes In
Aside from a few missteps (Toni Storm winning and Chris Jericho and Sammy Guevara stinking things up), Forbidden Door was basically everything a wrestling fan could have wanted. Best AEW matches of the week:1. Will Ospreay vs. Kenny Omega2. Bryan … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Opens the Forbidden Door
It was a wild week in wrestling. AEW Collision wound up being a great debut and hopefully a sign of good things for this show. WWE had its highs and lows but was overall good. Best WWE match of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread agrees with CM Punk and FTR
The wrestling world is still morning The Iron Sheik. He’s one of the most famous wrestlers of the 1980s, being the quintessential foreign heel. He’s gotten attention in recent years for his completely deranged Twitter account. By far his best … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Remembers The Iron Sheik
Best WWE match of the week: Gunther vs. Kevin OwensBest AEW match of the week: El Hijo del Vikingo vs. Dralistico vs. Komander Worst WWE match of the week: Scrypts vs. Dabba-KatoWorst AEW match of the week: Adam Cole and … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Remembers Mitsuharu Misawa
It was a wild weekend for wrestling. Two great WWE shows and an AEW show that, if we’re being honest, was mostly lackluster until the last two matches saved the night. What were your favorite wrestling moments of the week? … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Returns
Hello everyone, welcome to the Weekly Wrestling Thread. Here’s the past week’s big news. WWE:-The WWE draft was this past week and here’s the results: Going to Raw: Cody Rhodes, Becky Lynch, Gunther, Ludvig Kaiser, Giovanni Vinci, Matt Riddle, Drew … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Gets Drafted
Welcome to the Weekly Wrestling Thread. Snail of the Week handed hosting duties over to me and I promise to do a great job with it. Goings ons from this the past week in wrestling: -Stardom’s All Star Grand Queeendom … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Goes South of the Border
Seriously, professional wrestlers have to quit social media. All of them. Stop responding to trolls. Stop vague-posting. Stop shit-stirring. Teenagers have better self-control than most of these grown-to-middle-aged adults. On the subject of middle-aged adults and self-control, All Elite Wrestling … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread gets the Hell off Social Media
At Full Gear on Saturday night, the Devil got his due, thanks to William Regal, in an excellent main event. Maxwell Jacob Friedman is the AEW World Champion at 26 years of age, and the home town crowd were in … Continue reading The Monday Wrestling Thread Looks Back over the Weekend
