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Expectations can either make you or break you. For every LeBron James, there’s a handful of players like Michael Olowokandi. Remember him? Probably not, my point exactly. Katsuyori Shibata, who was once labeled as one of the “New Three Musketeers” along with Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura, has in...
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The event formerly known as Invasion Attack, Sakura Genesis, looks to be an exciting Sunday morning for fans of New Japan Pro Wrestling who already have their alarms set nice and early. While opening matches featuring the likes of Tanga Toa, El Desperado, Taichi, and Yano justify hitting “Snooze”...
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Within all pro wrestling organizations, there exist multiple hierarchies: one pay-per-view means more than another. A particular championship is more sought after than another. Within the hierarchy of yearly singles tournaments in New Japan Pro Wrestling, the New Japan Cup sits firmly below both the G1 Climax and the Best...
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Matt and Jeff Hardy shocked the world this past weekend by invading Ring of Honor and winning the ROH Tag Team Championship from The Young Bucks. It’s even more surreal because the North Carolina brothers haven’t lost their TNA Tag Team Titles yet on IMPACT. But they have left...
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For the past two weeks, the internet has been ablaze with talk of Kenny Omega’s battle with Kazuchika Okada at the Tokyo Dome. Bestowed with a rare six-star review by Dave Meltzer, and heralded throughout the world of wrestling, the match is rightfully being heaped with praise. But Wrestle...
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For the seventh time, I booted up my laptop to watch the final 46 minutes and 45 seconds of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 11. Not to take away from the 10 bouts prior, which I did enjoy, but it was January 4th’s main event — the longest in...
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An extension of Evan “The Boss” Cross’ Best Bets, each year I give ten predictions for the future of pro wrestling. Only one has ever come true, and I was a year off on it, but I’m satisfied with knowing Brock Lesnar would return to the Octagon. As we...
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Jeff Cannonball compared Combat Zone Wrestling’s annual spectacle to professional wrestling’s biggest stage. “Cage of Death is — and I’m sure this is going to be cliché — but Cage of Death is the WrestleMania of CZW,” Cannonball said as we spoke a few hours before the December staple...
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It has taken me a while to come up with the words to describe a book that has so few. Make no mistake, though. The 60 pages of gore that makes up photographer Chris Grasso’s “The Theatre of Blood” tells an ultraviolent tale of more than 50 characters across...
Expectations can either make you or break you. For every LeBron James, there’s a handful of players like Michael Olowokandi. Remember him? Probably not, my point exactly. Katsuyori Shibata, who was once labeled as one of the “New Three Musketeers” along with Hiroshi Tanahashi and Shinsuke Nakamura, has in...
The event formerly known as Invasion Attack, Sakura Genesis, looks to be an exciting Sunday morning for fans of New Japan Pro Wrestling who already have their alarms set nice and early. While opening matches featuring the likes of Tanga Toa, El Desperado, Taichi, and Yano justify hitting “Snooze”...
Within all pro wrestling organizations, there exist multiple hierarchies: one pay-per-view means more than another. A particular championship is more sought after than another. Within the hierarchy of yearly singles tournaments in New Japan Pro Wrestling, the New Japan Cup sits firmly below both the G1 Climax and the Best...
Matt and Jeff Hardy shocked the world this past weekend by invading Ring of Honor and winning the ROH Tag Team Championship from The Young Bucks. It’s even more surreal because the North Carolina brothers haven’t lost their TNA Tag Team Titles yet on IMPACT. But they have left...
For the past two weeks, the internet has been ablaze with talk of Kenny Omega’s battle with Kazuchika Okada at the Tokyo Dome. Bestowed with a rare six-star review by Dave Meltzer, and heralded throughout the world of wrestling, the match is rightfully being heaped with praise. But Wrestle...
For the seventh time, I booted up my laptop to watch the final 46 minutes and 45 seconds of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Wrestle Kingdom 11. Not to take away from the 10 bouts prior, which I did enjoy, but it was January 4th’s main event — the longest in...
An extension of Evan “The Boss” Cross’ Best Bets, each year I give ten predictions for the future of pro wrestling. Only one has ever come true, and I was a year off on it, but I’m satisfied with knowing Brock Lesnar would return to the Octagon. As we...
Jeff Cannonball compared Combat Zone Wrestling’s annual spectacle to professional wrestling’s biggest stage. “Cage of Death is — and I’m sure this is going to be cliché — but Cage of Death is the WrestleMania of CZW,” Cannonball said as we spoke a few hours before the December staple...
It has taken me a while to come up with the words to describe a book that has so few. Make no mistake, though. The 60 pages of gore that makes up photographer Chris Grasso’s “The Theatre of Blood” tells an ultraviolent tale of more than 50 characters across...
