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We’ve got your Wrestlemania Night 1 preview
It’s the Showcase of the Immortals! And it’s a return to live crowds for wrestling, at least for big-time wrestling. As well as the first time the industry’s biggest show appears on Peacock. So many nuances! Once again, Wrestlemania is split into two nights, and Deadspin wrestling writers Bryan Fons...
Which football powerhouse could cut down nets at the Final Four?
The Madness is finally back, and the matchups are finally set for what will be one of the strangest NCAA tournaments in recent history. Not only will COVID-19 likely have an impact on the games within the Indiana “bubble,” but this year we are missing some of the most storied programs in all of coll...
The wall between AEW and NJPW has come down, maybe, but what’s next?
Ever since AEW formed, wrestling fans have been wondering, hoping, praying for some kind of relationship between AEW and New Japan Pro Wrestling. Most of that was based on a swath of AEW stars who made their name in NJPW. Kenny Omega and The Young Bucks are first on the list, as they became global s...
Orange Cassidy Is the Wednesday Night Wars
It’s been a week where Triple H has admitted that the WWE is directly counter-programming AEW with their NXT shows, essentially an official acknowledgement of the “Wednesday Night Wars” between the companies. Last night seemed the most distinct illustration of the difference between the two. While b...
Crisp Visual Metaphor Of The Week: Jaguars' Mascot Beaten To Pulp In Empty Stadium
In what could only be described as a Jason Mendoza fever dream, AEW held a 10-man main event Saturday night inside the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium with the Jaguars cheerleaders and the team mascot, Jaxson de Ville. Perhaps if Mr. Mendoza had known about this, he wouldn’t have thought a perfect Mad...
Chris Jericho Yelling At A Drone Is Everything I Did And Didn’t Know I Wanted
This is simply the greatest piece of television this year, and quite possibly the past decade:...
This Is Darby Allin And I Love Him
The Tim Burton creature pictured directly above these words is a pro wrestler named Darby Allin, who currently performs for the start-up promotion All Elite Wrestling. Today I am here to tell you that I would die for this skeleton twink. Allin has only been wrestling for about four years, and he’s ...
All Elite Wrestling Is Good, But It Will Have To Be More Unique To Be Great
WASHINGTON, D.C. — All Elite Wrestling, WWE’s stiffest challenge since the Monday Night War years around the turn of the millennium, made its cable television debut on Wednesday night, kicking off a new era in professional wrestling that has already been dubbed the Wednesday Night War. The head-to-h...
Chris Jericho's Stolen Title Belt Saga Is The Perfect Capper To A Wild Week In Pro Wrestling
Leave it to Chris Jericho to make himself the biggest story in professional wrestling by virtue of partying too hard. The 48-year-old legend won the inaugural All Elite Wrestling world heavyweight championship at the company’s All Out pay-per-view on Saturday, defeating Hangman Adam Page in a solid-...
Cody Rhodes, The Khans, And Chris Jericho Made Their New Promotion Official, And It Could Be Big
The news officially arrived through a pair of statements, a rally outside TIAA Bank Field, and a subsequent press junket, but the Jacksonville Jaguars owners Shahid “Shad” Khan and his son Tony made their bold new foray into the pro wrestling business official on Tuesday. The name of the new promot...
Kenny Omega And Chris Jericho Put On A Show
Kenny Omega is considered by many to be the best wrestler in the world. Chris Jericho is an unquestioned wrestling legend. They both showed why in Tokyo on Thursday....
Japan's Version Of WrestleMania Is Striving For A U.S. Audience Tonight
The second-biggest pro wrestling event of the calendar year is already upon us, and you should probably brew a pot of coffee. At 3 a.m. ET on Wednesday night/Thursday morning, New Japan Pro Wrestling’s 12th annual Wrestle Kingdom supershow will air live from the Tokyo Dome on their NJPW World stream...
Chris Jericho To Test Popularity Of Japanese Wrestling After 19 Years In WWE
After IWGP United States champion Kenny Omega dispatched with challenger Beretta in the semi-main event at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s “Power Struggle” event on Sunday in Osaka, the Edion Arena darkened and the venue’s big video screen lit up. On that screen, Omega and the fans in attendance saw a vi...
Bah Gawd! Somebody Used The Walls Of Jericho In A Real MMA Match
An MMA fighter named Jonno Mears dropped the Walls of Jericho on opponent Aaron Jones at Saturday’s FCC 19 event in Bolton, England, winning by submission and becoming a legend in all our hearts:...
Finally, There Will Be Pro Wrestling On A Cruise Ship
Theme cruises are popular. The website Theme Cruise Finder lists more than 500 upcoming cruises, in categories ranging from comedy (there’s a Chris Tucker cruise next week) to History & World Affairs (there are two New York Times cruises coming up) to sports (the Dallas Cowboys Fans Cruise sets sail...
Reports: Brock Lesnar And Chris Jericho Fought Over Bloody SummerSlam Ending
Sunday’s SummerSlam ended with Brock Lesnar opening up a huge gash on Randy Orton’s head via a series of very real punches and elbows. As is often the case when blood is spilled in the ring, it was hard to tell whether Lesnar tearing a hole in Orton’s head was a work, but a pair of reports from the ...
Here's What Happens When A Pro Wrestler Gets Injured And The Ref Doesn't Notice
WWE up-and-comer Neville suffered what looks to be a knee or ankle injury during his bout against Chris Jericho last night on Raw. That’s bad enough news for fans of “The Man That Gravity Forgot,” but the match continued after in-ring referee Charles Robinson didn’t notice the injury—and failed to c...
Diamond Dallas Page Invented His Own Style Of Yoga: "If Yoga Is A Bicycle Then DDP Yoga Is A Harley!"
Some days you just have to sit back and thank whoever it is you thank for wonderful things that the internet exists. Here, for you reading pleasure, is professional wrestler Diamond Dallas Page (hereinafter referred to as "DDP") and his new brand of yoga. It is called DDP Yoga....
This Is A Really Unfortunate Trading Card
You know those game-worn jersey trading cards, with a swatch of cloth cut from a player's uniform? They have those for pro wrestling too. Usually not sweaty spandex, thankfully. Like this 2001 Chris Jericho "event-worn t-shit" insert, with a couple square inches taken from precisely the wrong spot o...
Chris Jericho Nearly Causes International Incident, Gets Suspended After Crumpling A Brazilian Flag
Fresh off a compilation of wrestlers beating up inanimate objects, here's another one: at a house (non-televised) show in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last night, WWE's Chris Jericho crumpled and kicked a Brazilian flag. He's a bad guy, you see, and really good at riling up the crowd. But according to TMZ, ...