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Dark Side of the Ring: In this world I find a way to cross the line
This is for you; you know who you are. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and poorly produced documentaries. While this isn’t really the space to go into a line for line attack on the latest Dark Side of the Ring documentary, this time featuring Total Nonstop Action (a dark…
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I Want To Shoot The Whole Day Down: I hear you knockin’, go back where you been
There’s something special about pro wrestling when it hits, when you get the truly top level stuff. I don’t mean that middling crap you see from time to time, the going through the motions, interchangeable wrestling you see on most Monday nights or even some Wednesday nights (!); I mean the stuff you will remember…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: This is the Knocking Song; I’m knocking on a door
In essence, we’ve got two things to go over, here. Thing the first? No victory laps on Forbidden Door, please. Sure, it looks like a good card NOW, but that largely all came together between the time I last wrote in this space and the time I’m writing this now. I dunno if that’s a…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: With six, you get egg roll
Forbidden Door season remains an awful time for wrestling discourse; everyone up in arms over who is working, who is not, who is xenophobic (!), who has a visa, who has a potential deal on the table and most importantly, who is actually gonna BE on the Forbidden Door show itself. Meanwhile, AEW seems anxious…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: No pasa nada
Man, I was all fired up to tell you what a good Dynamite this was, already mentally composing what I was going to say, tallying up highlights and it WAS good, don’t get me wrong… but then suddenly, five minutes before the show ended, the SPIRIT OF JEFF JARRETT apparently seized the means of production…
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Stare into the lion’s eyes
You know, I’ve made absolutely no secret of the fact that New Japan Pro Wrestling used to be my favorite wrestling promotion on the planet. Of course, that “used to be” is a big part of the equation; for me, New Japan went away from the pandemic and, uh… never quite found its way back.…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Shave and a haircut, two bits
I have very mixed feelings about the Darby Allin AEW title reign. On the one hand, you are getting fun World Championship matches on TV every week (and sometimes more than once a week). On the other hand, those matches are INCREDIBLY formulaic; Darby absorbs egregious, over the top (and sometimes, scary in real life)…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: Just a dream and the wind to carry me
Of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say something about one R.E. Turner the Third. Don’t worry; I’m not doing three thousand words on the eccentric philanthropist. I haven’t the time and frankly, I don’t know the lore that well. This is a light entertainment blog, not a heavy research think tank. The part…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: I’ve got the straight edge
Dynamite was a hot show, in front of a juiced crowd in Fairfax, Virginia. It started with a memorable match, Maxwell Jacob Friedman versus Kevin Knight, and ended with an even more memorable match, Darby Allin versus Brody King. I’m guessing, just due to that last match ALONE, that everyone is probably raving about this…
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More Dangerous Than Dynamite: There used to be a greying tower alone on the sea
If nothing else, you’re going to gasp out loud at least once or twice every week for the next six or seven weeks as Darby Allin does something potentially career threatening to himself or to others. Good Gotch in the Great Ring in the Sky Above; this dumb dumb took an AIR RAID CRASH from…
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