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Pro Wrestling

The AEW-MJF Feud Gets More Fake And More Annoying

Some Good WrestleMania Weekend Matches That Weren’t At WrestleMania

Jeff Hardy’s Last Stand

AEW’s ‘Revolution’ Dared To Ask How Much Of A Good Thing Is Too Much

Luis Paez-Pumar

Brandi Rhodes, and Cody Rhodes of "All Elite Wrestling" speak during the TNT &amp; TBS segment of the Summer 2019 Television Critics Association Press Tour 2019 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 24, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California.

Everybody Wins In The AEW-Cody Rhodes Split

Some Wrestling Matches I Liked This Year

Wrestling Has Jon Moxley’s Back


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Let Wrestlers Freelance

These Are The Books Wrestling Fans Want Philadelphia Children To Read

Bryan Danielson And Kenny Omega Gave Their All And Promised More

For The First Time In Decades, WWE Might Be A Little Scared

Penta El Zero Miedo covered in blood at AEW All Out

Sometimes The Best Moments In Wrestling Are The Simplest

AEW Picked The Wrong Time To Be Boring

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

Jon Moxley with fans at Double or Nothing

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

screencaps from AEW Dynamite and Mavericks-Spurs

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.

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

Jon Huber Had Just Reached The Pinnacle Of Wrestling

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

Serena Deeb pins Thunder Rosa on AEW Dynamite

AEW’s Women Need More Than 20 Minutes A Week

Hikaru Shida holds the AEW Women's World Championship

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

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

An Appreciation Of Wrestling Jorts