0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 5/6/2016
WWE’s Black Friday contract-letting cost the company a King. Wade Barrett tweeted his long-anticipated departure from Titan Towers had been expedited. Goodbye
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 10/23/2015
Hell in a Cell 2015 airs on WWE Network Sunday, but I’m not entirely sure this isn’t a 2002 throwaway pay-per-view given the lineup. In fact, two of Hell in a Cell’s featured matches happened on the same card, this same month, 13 years ago. Undertaker-Lesnar is the return engagement of a plodding match that […]
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 10/22/2015
NXT’s latest Takeover event bore an appropriate subtitle: RESPECT. RESPECT was thusly named for the primary storylines and feuds driving the show: respect for the late, great Dusty Rhodes via the Dusty Classic tag-team tournament, and NXT Women’s Champion Bayley’s battle for respect from Sasha Banks. The main-event women of NXT further commanded respect from […]
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 4/24/2015
It’s safe to assume the Superfinger will never become a move in Dolph Ziggler’s repertoire.
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 4/23/2015
Charlotte is everything a wrestling federation could want in a marquee performer. She’s athletic, parlaying her experience as a college volleyball player and former fitness trainer into tremendous ring work. She’s got a great look: tall, blonde and in peak physical condition. She exudes charisma just as much through her facial expressions and mannerisms as […]
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 4/22/2015
Ring of Honor announced most of the lineup for Night 1 of its War of the Worlds joint venture with New Japan Pro Wrestling this week and now I can’t feel my face. Here’s the card, via ROHWrestling.com: – DELIRIOUS vs. GEDO – JAY LETHAL w/TRUTH MARTINI vs. WATANABE – RODERICK STRONG vs. KUSHIDA – […]
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Smackdown, long the WWE’s B-show to Raw, should be the lesser child no longer. USA Network and WWE announced their longstanding partnership is expanding in 2016, with Smackdown moving from Syfy to USA. With there no longer being a clear division in reach, Smackdown’s move to USA is the time for WWE to pump up […]
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 4/21/2015
It’s the go-home Raw before WCW Uncensored Extreme Rules, WWE’s last vestiges of the ECW reboot. The very concept of the Extreme Rules event leaves much to be desired: every match having a gimmick is oversaturation; there was an all-gimmick show just four months ago with TLC; and, in the era of PG, it’s difficult […]
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 4/20/2015
What I want all you fat, internet sweathogs to do right now is keep the noise down while I take off my robe… Ravishing Rick Rude, one of the best heels in wrestling, died 16 years ago today. Rude was effective at his job of being a truly hateable character, and boy, did I hate […]
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Hardcore wrestling fans nationwide probably felt their heart rates quicken this month when the most over wrestler in WWE, Daniel Bryan, playfully called out Shinsuke Nakamura, the most over wrestler in New Japan.
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 3/10/2015
On Monday’s RAW live from Pittsburgh, the top face of WWE, John Cena, got his United States Championship rematch with Rusev for WrestleMania XXXI. In typical John Cena fashion, he did so with heel tactics.
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 3/9/2015
Tom Holzerman graciously hosts The Wrestling Blog 100 (
0 comments by Kyle Kensing on 3/6/2015
Serious allegations of sexual harassment, physical and verbal abuse levied against former NXT trainer Bill DeMott led to his resignation Friday afternoon. DeMott’s resignation via Twitter was also his first public acknowledgement of the allegations, which started with one-time NXT trainee Judas Devlin/Austin Matelson accusing DeMott of threatening and injuring students, as well as using […]
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The match between Charlotte and Sasha Banks on the March 5 edition of NXT was no different than any other encounter the two have had in the past year–save one element. Just like their previous, recent encounters, Banks and Charlotte put on a contender for match of the night that showcased their respective in-ring acumen […]
