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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
Please, will someone take away Tony Khan’s access to that accursed social media platform? Elsewhere, Wrestle Kingdom 18 happened, and these boys put on a classic: New IWGP World Heavyweight champion Tetsuya Naito may or may not destroy the new … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Wishes Everyone Would Stop Tweeting
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was a good week for wrestling and an even better one if you like to laugh at promotion owners making a fool of themselves. The big story is Tony Khan having quite possibly the most embarrassing Twitter meltdown of … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Laughs at Owners Making an Ass of Themselves
The big news this week was the Tuesday night war between NXT and AEW. Thanks to sports, AEW Dynamite had to be moved to Tuesday night, going head-to-head with NXT. Both shows went HAM, giving us great match after great … Continue reading And the Weekly Wrestling Thread Thought We Were Spoiled Last Week
It’s been another amazing week for wrestling. We got two great shows this weekend (particularly WrestleDream) and it makes it more and more clear that we are in another golden age for wrestling. It finally sunk in to me at … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Spoiled
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
