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AEW star Cash Wheeler going to trial over assault with a firearm chargeAEW star Cash Wheeler will go to trial in Florida on May 20 for his aggravated assault with a firearm charge. ...

FTR is so good Tony Khan can’t book themFTR — Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler — are the best wrestlers in the world....

Let’s watch two guys chop each other into mushWhile the individual storylines AEW tell can be incredibly intricate and dense (sometimes drenched in history with other companies and/or countries and playing on things only a certain few will know from a decade in the past), the premise of the whole company is pretty simple. Give the people what t...

And just like that… (poof)... NXT is gone

It’s not that it was surprising. Back when WWE announced it was completely reshaping it’s junior brand, NXT, I wrote that it would be the end of what fans of the black and gold had come to love. I guess I’m just impressed (while simultaneously depressed) at how ruthlessly and efficiently it came to ...

AEW <em>Full Gear</em>: Fantastic <em>All Out</em> could look like a community board meeting compared to this

I’m not sure how AEW has put together a card that is the equal, or maybe even better than All Out in September. But this Full Gear one could easily surpass it. The stories are a little more fleshed out, and it also has Bryan Danielson in the ring instead of just making his debut. This has a chance t...

Ruby Soho is yet another chance for AEW to keep promises about its women’s division

My fear is that once or twice a year, until my bosses find out that I’m just an absurd algorithm devised out of some combination of bong water and Primus records and they fire “me” (even though I don’t exist in physical form), I’ll be writing some piece about how this is the time that AEW can, shoul...

WWE will finally kill NXT

I guess the folly for all of us was thinking the NXT we loved could last a long time in the world of WWE, if reports are to be believed. I have to admit that I’m biased. While Daniel Bryan was the reason I started watching wrestling again, NXT was the reason I became such a huge fan. But it’s starti...