The Beast Mortos: A Gentlebull of Asskickery
AEW’s The Beast Mortos walks the line between charming, good-looking academic and feral were-bull.
Kota Ibushi: Wrestling Savant and Giant Kaiju-Fighting Hero
I don’t think I have to tell you that pro wrestlers are a generally mercurial bunch. You pretty much have to be in order to exist between the real and unreal worlds where pro wrestling resides, that blurred-line known as Kayfabe*. Of these profoundly odd men and women, […]
Minoru Suzuki: Wrestling’s Greatest Bastard and a Land of Contrasts
This month’s Guest Star is Sachin Hingoo, a Toronto-based writer and editor at BiffBamPop.com. ~~~ What then is a ‘bastard’ for this audience composed in part, we are told, of people who are themselves outside the rules of society? Essentially someone unstable, who accepts the rules only when […]
The Cultural Gutter 