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TEN
Another year, another Voices of Wrestling Top Ten Matches of the Year list. 2024… look. Obviously there were plenty of good matches… but as my watching, my interest flag, I found coming up with ten matches that I’d genuinely recommend to be a bit of a challenge. Anyway, I recruited a friend, Tye, er… no,…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I open up my hand and smack dab in the middle is a slow, slow fly
It seems like a pretty easy formula… you start Dynamite hot with dudes the crowd likes and that puts ’em in a good mood for a fun show… LO AND BEHOLD. With maybe one or two little missteps, Dynamite started hot, hotter than it has in a long, long time. Will Ospreay and his hotel…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: The more that you fear us, the bigger we get
I was already a fan, but I remember when Christopher Daniels gained a permanent grip on my heart. I WANT to say it was during ROH Dragon Gate Invasion, but I may be mistaken as I’m too lazy to dig out the DVD and check, but THE KING OF SPICE, CURRY MAN had a hard…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin
As much as I’d like to have told you Dynamite was a home run, especially after a weekend where AEW announced a stinky match and it was OPEN FORUM WARFARE between the haves and have nots… it was probably a solid double, at best. If that. It wasn’t all bad, certainly… Kenny Omega and his…
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I yam what I yam
The other night, I was a bit bored and wanted to draw but couldn’t really find anything I wanted to do. The missus suggested “Why not Popeye?” We both have a mutual fondness for Thimble Theater, particularly under EC Segar’s pen… and of course the character (in)famously just fell into public domain. Actually, before I…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Return of the good gumbo
So God came back the other day. Look, I know I was not particularly kind to the Kenny Omega / Gabe Kidd match, but that was largely due to my distaste for both Kidd as a performer and the match layout casting Kidd as a virtuous defender of New Japan Pro Wrestling. KENNY, in the…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: There’s no more blood and no more pain
I had a startling revelation around about the third time I sat down to try to align my thoughts about the combined Wrestle Kingdom and Wrestle Dynasty shows into a coherent narrative (keeping in mind that I have not yet seen or read results for New Year’s Dash): this wasn’t going to be a review.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: A self imposed penance
Unless I wake up tomorrow and it turns out David Zaslav sold off WBD to a conglomeration of Elon Musk, Donald Trump and Ari Emmanuel, it would be hard to say THE MOTHER OF ALL SIMULCASTS was anything but a success. The picture on MAX was GREAT; the feed looked like a million bucks. The…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: Leonard Bernstein
I find myself coming out of Worlds End happy with the wrestling AEW can field, seemingly at the drop of a hat, but depairing at the focus on certain things, certain things I don’t like. I also despair at the state of (some of) AEW fandom, so desperate to tell you if you don’t like…
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A quick word about grift
“Psst. C’mere. Yeah, YOU.” I beckon you with a crooked finger. “Just a moment of your time, please,” I grin, slipping my arm around you in a friendly, perhaps overly friendly manner. “Ah, you’ve got an eye for quality, don’t you? I can tell right off the bat by the way you dress, the skeptical…
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