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Too much ain’t enough for Tony Khan

Whenever talking about AEW, it’s important to keep in mind that it was formed on, essentially, a bar bet. Dave Meltzer tweeted that no one could fill a 10,000-seat arena with an indie show. Cody Rhodes took that bet, but he had a backer in Tony Khan. That’s the base of everything AEW does, which is ...

by Sam Fels|Tony Khan

|Wed May 03 2023

WWE invents new title that Cody Rhodes can win

Just imagine the heartwarming scene, the one fans have been clamoring for. It’s 2 in the afternoon, U.S. time, as thousands of miles away Cody Rhodes caresses the belt that was introduced to WWE a month prior, at a show drenched in blood money that has an incredible wrestling history of…Goldberg nea...

by Sam Fels|WWE

|Wed Apr 26 2023

Stone Cold suffers identity crisis while filming new show

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by Eric Blum|Wrestling - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinInformation science

|Fri Apr 21 2023

Stone Cold wrestles with where gimmick ends, Steve Austin begins

He’s synonymous with World Wrestling Entertainment if not all of professional wrestling as one of the most popular performers in the theatrical sports’ history. Stone Cold Steve Austin can still garner a crowd reaction like few ever have with the simple sound of glass shattering to start his entranc...

by Eric Blum|Steve Austin

|Fri Apr 21 2023

He (allegedly) tried to live the gimmick

Former WWE superstar Ted DiBiase Jr. has been charged in connection with the now-infamous Mississippi welfare scandal. As revealed in an unsealed federal indictment from the Department of Justice, the 40-year-old DiBiase Jr. was charged with the misappropriation of millions diverted from families in...

by Eric Blum|Professional wrestling

|Thu Apr 20 2023

Jeff Hardy and Darby Allin blur the lines for AEW, but not in a good way

The idea that the wrestling world and the real world are separate entities has generally been urinated on in recent times. With wrestlers and companies using social media to forward storylines and feuds, as well as the “dirt sheets” moving into their own industry with fans gobbling up whatever backs...

by Sam Fels|Darby Allin

|Thu Apr 13 2023

At Princeton, a turnaround one man saw coming

“I was born delusional,” said Chris Ayres, Princeton’s head wrestling coach, earlier this year. “But I think — I really do — that delusion is a good thing.” He just proved his point. At Tulsa, Oklahoma’s NCAA wrestling tournament last month, Ayres pulled off one of the least likely turnarounds colle...

by Josephine de La Bruyère|Money

|Tue Feb 18 2025

Vince McMahon is in charge again, in case you couldn’t tell

The first hour of this week’s Raw was commercial-free and contained two minutes of actual wrestling. Brock Lesnar appeared in both the opening and closing segments, opposing Roman Reigns (if only for a moment in the end), culminating in a nonsensical heel turn. Then there was a rerun of a women’s ta...

by Sam Fels|Vince McMahon

|Thu Apr 06 2023

I don’t know why <i>you</i> trusted WWE to do anything differently

We were just here. Not all that long ago. WWE doesn’t like you. We thought when Triple H took over creative, things would change. They decidedly have not, and it’s a wonder whether he’s actually in charge of creative anymore. Or whether he was yesterday, and whether he will be tomorrow (we’ll get ba...

by Sam Fels|WWE

|Mon Apr 03 2023

Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn crash the party

On a night and weekend that is meant to celebrate the sheer enormity of WWE–the bombast, the cultural reach, the money, the sheer scale of it all–it was two guys who made their names in various, darkly lit auditoriums and armories and bingo halls and whatever other seedy corner you might find indie ...

by Sam Fels|Sami Zayn

|Sun Apr 02 2023

Cody Rhodes proves it doesn’t matter what you actually say

There’s a bit in my favorite stand-up special of all time, Suzy Eddie Izzard’s Dress To Kill, where she mocks most Americans for not knowing the lyrics to the national anthem but also advises them how to get around it. It’s mostly about how one looks and how one sounds, not really what is actually b...

by Sam Fels|Wrestling - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinCody Rhodes

|Fri Mar 31 2023

AEW All Access doesn’t want us to know where the lines are

I’ll get my biases out of the way up top. I’ll never fully buy reality TV as “reality.” It’s hard for me to believe that anyone can act fully natural with a camera around, even if they say that after a while of being followed by them they forget they’re there. Goes for Hard Knocks, too. The conversa...

by Sam Fels|Professional wrestling

|Thu Mar 30 2023

Is the new Vince McMahon biography worth reading?

On one hand, mainstream interest in Vince McMahon, the “Walt Disney of wrestling” has never been higher: last year he retired in disgrace as CEO and chairman after allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. (He has previously been twice accused of sexual assault, and has denied all allegations of...

by Julie DiCaro|Vince McMahon

|Mon Mar 27 2023

Kenny Omega and El Hijo Del Vikingo somehow, miraculously, overcome a lack of build to become the match of the year

The idea that there could be “smart” wrestling debate is probably high comedy to any non-wrestling fan, given the perception that they probably have for creatures like us (not all that inaccurate either). It’s becoming pretty farcical in the wrestling world as well these days, given the split betwee...

by Sam Fels|El Hijo del Vikingo

|Thu Mar 23 2023

Penn State wrestler insults Muslims; NCAA tweets it out

Penn State wrestler Aaron Brooks could have been another heartwarming story. He’d just won his third consecutive national title in the 184-pound division, he’s a devoted Christian and is brolic enough to take down a small polar bear, or at least a panda. ...

by DJ Dunson|NCAA

|Tue Mar 21 2023

Boy, this John Cena heel turn sucks

It’s what a good portion of wrestling fans have wanted for a couple of decades now. John Cena finally going heel. Well, like most things WWE does, when it finally happened it landed with a splat on par of tossing turkeys from a helicopter (IFYKYK). ...

by Sam Fels|John Cena

|Tue Mar 14 2023

Bryan Danielson's road to MJF and the AEW World Title

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by Eric Blum|Bryan Danielson

|Wed Feb 22 2023

Mercedes Moné should have left WWE a long time ago

If you were like me, and god help you if you are, and you needed some sort of wrestling cleanse after WWE barfed up WWE things on Saturday, then Mercedes Moné came to your rescue late in the night. Mercedes made her return to the ring in NJPW’s Battle In The Valley in San Jose, wrestling Kairi (the ...

by Sam Fels|WWE

|Mon Feb 20 2023

I don’t know why I trusted WWE to do anything differently

Let’s start by being complimentary. It’s a new thing for me but I’m getting old and trying to evolve before my cholesterol count gets me. Thanks to the work that Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns have put in over the past six months, what is usually a run-of-the-mill PLE, Elimination Chamber, rose to the l...

by Sam Fels|WWE

|Sun Feb 19 2023

Why Jay White should go to WWE

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by Eric Blum|WWE

|Wed Feb 15 2023

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