The Firefly Funhouse
A match between the late Bray Wyatt and John Cena called a “Firefly Funhouse Match” showed that WWE could do something truly subversive.
Loving Disreputable Wrestling
Given all the other things I like, it should come as no surprise that the wrestling I love most is disreputable wrestling. Wait, you might say, all wrestling is disreputable. That’s true, but some kinds of wrestling are more disreputable than others among reputable wrestling fans. And it […]
“Making MJF (Maxwell Jacob Friedman) / A Real Documentary”
Kenny Johnson tries to discover the truth about professional wrestler, MJF. The “truth” is something that probably no one expects. “This is all true. This is a real documentary. All other wrestling documentaries are pre-determined or ‘fake.’ Documentary filmmaker Kenny Johnson sets out to discover the real person […]
“The Refs Reveal All!”
At “Hey (EW),” RJ City interviews the referees of AEW! It’s pretty entertaining. Watch here.
“How Danhausen became Professional Wrestling’s Strangest Star”
Whether you love that Danhausen or not you might want to listen to this (free as of this time) profile of the very nice, very evil wrestler. “ Like a lot of people who get into professional wrestling, Donovan Danhausen had a vision of a different version of […]
Getting Over
As Max Castor and Anthony Bowens, a tag team known as The Acclaimed, step through the ropes of the AEW ring, thousands of fans–many male and statistically very likely to be cis-hetero-identifying–sing in unison to the tune of the main riff from “Seven Nation Army” by the White […]
The Cultural Gutter 