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Your Pro Bowl Highlight Is Richard Sherman Dropping An RKO On Clay Matthews
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"The Weed Is Good In Miami Tonight"
The Rock returned to the WWE tonight in Miami, as Dwayne Johnson took a step away from his Ballers filming to deliver an, uh, energetic performance on Raw....
A Lesson In Sportsmanship
Reader Chris sends along a clip of his 7-year-old twin sons, with the traditional post-fight handshake following their wrestling match. We could all learn a thing or two about being a gracious loser from these boys....
Here Are Your Seattle-Carolina First Half Highlights As Called By Jim Ross
With a halftime score of 31-0, the public demanded it. So here’s the first half highlights of today’s Seahawks-Panthers as called by pro wrestling legend “J.R.” Jim Ross....
25 Years Later, The Undertaker Is Still Not Resting In Peace
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
Tonight In "What's Wayne Rooney Up To"
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Goldberg Was Ridiculous
I thought he wasn’t a big deal, but I was totally wrong....
Mount Union Football Coaches Crush It As Pro Wrestlers For Halloween Practice
The Mount Union Purple Raiders are the best team in the history of Division III football, having won 23 straight conference titles and 11 of the past 22 national titles. One of their secrets of success, apparently, is lightening things up at practice. Enjoy the team’s coaches hamming it up as wrestl...
The Hateful Life And Spiteful Death Of The Man Who Was Vigo The Carpathian
You’ve seen a painting of Norbert Grupe. A heavy, creased brow and shoulder-length hair framing a frightening scowl, the massive work hung in the fictional Manhattan Museum of Art in Ghostbusters II. When the medieval sorcerer pictured within the painting begins to physically manifest, it is on the ...
NXT Is Lapping WWE Right Now
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
Can TNA Wrestling Survive?
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
Seven Habits Of Highly Awesome Middle School Runners
We’re trotting along, arms uptight and locked, kneecaps clanking, when one of the sixth-grade harriers pulled up short. In this group, sudden cessation of movement indicates either a haphazardly attached body part has fallen off, or the stalled vehicle has decided he hates cross country and is dropp...
WWE Invaded By Yet Another Idiot On The Field [UPDATE]
Dumbasses trying to make scripted grappling “real to them” have increased their attempts to invade the pro wrestling ring, and one such Idiot made it in as a pretend secret guest on tonight’s WWE pay-per-view (the real secret: Chris Jericho). His reward? The usual: getting sacked by WWE security....
An Idiot Invaded <i>WWE Raw</i> Tonight
It’s a miracle, given the proximity to and fanatical attitudes of fans at live wrestling events, that Idiots On The Field don’t turn up more often. But it happened tonight in Baltimore, as someone invaded the set and actually managed to hang around a bit during Seth Rollins’s ring entrance on WWE Ra...
32 Years Later, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka Charged With Girlfriend's Death
Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka was charged today with one count of third-degree murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the bizarre 1983 death of his girlfriend, Nancy Argentino. Until today, no charges ever had been brought in the case....
Dudley Boyz Return To WWE, And You Better Believe There Were Tables Involved
New Day seized the WWE Tag Team championship during last night’s SummerSlam pay-per-view, but their victory lap on tonight’s Raw was cut short by a duo that hasn’t been seen on pro wrestling’s biggest promotion in ten years: Bubba Ray and D-Von Dudley. The Dudley Boyz—who, in WWE’s Attitude Era popu...
SummerSlam Weekend Will Be A Glorious Weekend For Wrestling
Welcome to Deadspin’s irregular pro wrestling column, in which Tom Breihan and Ernest Wilkins will comb through the past month or so of superkicks, lariats, and 450 splashes in search of the greatest things that this most American of artforms has given us....
Remember When Steve Austin Hit Donald Trump With The Stone Cold Stunner?
With GOP frontrunner Donald Trump earning his way into daily headlines—often in the grossest way possible—it’s worth remembering The Donald’s long affiliation with professional wrestling. Trump played host to some early Wrestlemania events, and famously “bought” WWE Raw, only to sell it back the nex...
Watch WWE's Salute To "Rowdy" Roddy Piper
Tonight’s WWE Raw opened, as it did just a few weeks ago for Dusty Rhodes, with the full company of superstars lined up to recognize a 10-bell salute to “Rowdy” Roddy Piper—followed by a career montage that touches on pretty much everything you could remember about “Hot Rod.”...