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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On May 16

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CM Punk AEW Dynamite

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AEW Picked The Wrong Time To Be Boring

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CM Punk’s Arrival Is A Turning Point For AEW

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I’m Mad About How Badly I Want This Frickin’ Wrestling Cowboy To Win This Frickin’ Made-Up Championship

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Malakai Black Was A Gift From WWE To AEW

Jon Moxley with fans at Double or Nothing

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AEW’s Crowd Was The Star Of ‘Double Or Nothing’

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WWE’s Adnan Virk Experiment Is Already Over

Bad Bunny flies to the outside at WrestleMania 37

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Bad Bunny Should Be The New Template For WWE’s Celebrity Wrestlers

<a href="http://www.ddavisla.com">David Davis </a>is the author of Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans From World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation and Waterman: The Life and Times of Duke Kahanamoku. He lives in Los Angeles.
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David Davis

Mil Máscaras finishes Professor Toru Tanaka with a flying body press.

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Pro Wrestling’s Finest Down-And-Dirty Chronicle Is Getting Even Better

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NBA Arena Audio Somehow Invaded AEW’s Broadcast And Ruined A Match

AEW Revolution's Exploding Barbed Wire Death Match ended with a whimper of a bang.

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Let’s Try To Make Sense Of That Awful, Hilarious AEW Pyro Screwup

Nia Jax yells "my hole!" after landing hard on the ring apron during WWE Monday Night Raw

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WWE Doesn’t Think The Public Can Handle Nia Jax Yelling “My Hole!”

Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman struggle with handcuffs at the Royal Rumble

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Enough With The Handcuffs

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Dan McQuade

A collage of newspaper headlines about George Ringo, the Wrestling Beatle. Overlaid with them is a photo of George Ringo from the Los Angeles Times, and another of a poster from an advertisement that says George Ringo, with Jayne Mansfield, manager, vs. Gary Hart

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The Short And Winding Road Of George Ringo, The Wrestling Beatle

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Jon Huber Had Just Reached The Pinnacle Of Wrestling

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Sting’s Return Proves There’s Nothing Like Wrestling Nostalgia

Serena Deeb pins Thunder Rosa on AEW Dynamite

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AEW’s Women Need More Than 20 Minutes A Week

<a href="https://twitter.com/sundownmotel">Bill Hanstock</a> is an Emmy-winning producer, screenwriter, editor and journalist. He has covered and interviewed countless WWE and independent wrestling personalities and events for SB Nation and UPROXX, and been a part of several popular pro wrestling podcasts. He has contributed to Polygon, The Athletic, and Inked magazine. He has also penned nearly a dozen stories for the official WWE comic book published by BOOM! Studios. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, son, and two cats.

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Donald Trump and Vince McMahon at some WWE thing or other in 2009. I'm sure it was great.

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Inside Vince McMahon’s Aspirational, Transactional, Utterly All-American Friendship With Donald Trump

Hikaru Shida holds the AEW Women's World Championship

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One Year In, AEW Feels Too Much Like The Wrestling It Wanted To Rebel Against

Jay Lethal and Dalton castle square off for Ring of Honor

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Ring Of Honor Rose From The Pandemic Ashes With A Welcome Re-Focus On Sports Realism

Split screen of Eddie Kingston and John Cena. Both are wearing a baseball cap, a black t-shirt, shorts and sneakers. Kingston's jorts are much larger

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An Appreciation Of Wrestling Jorts