Going to be a quick one this week. WWE Backlash was this past weekend and it was a great show. The crowd was amazing and the matches were great. The weakest match was Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill vs. The … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Experiences Backlash

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Going to do something a little different this week. Going to profile a wrestler most of you probably don’t know about. His name was Eddy Steinblock. He was a German wrestler who was champion of European Professional Wrestling. In fact … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Profiles Eddy Steinblock

From a wrestling standpoint, it was a great week. The Royal Rumble was great, featuring the returns of Andrade, Naomi, and Liv Morgan, the debut of Jade Cargill, and Jordynne Grace’s instantly iconic appearance. On free TV, we had amazing … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Not Feeling It This Week

It was a huge week for wrestling, with the biggest news story being Monday Night Raw going to Netflix. There had been speculation that Raw would head to streaming but it was Amazon Prime that received the bulk of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Going to Be on Netflix

This past week, we had yet another very good New Japan event, Battle in the Valley 2024. Here’s my ranking of the matches: The next few Weekly Wrestling Threads are going to be a bit barebones because I’m running the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Battles in the Valley

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

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

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