Bryan Danielson

On Friday night, Athena and Willow Nightingale had one of the best matches, not just women’s matches, of 2023 on Ring of Honor’s Death Before Dishonor PPV. Not only was it the culmination of a three-match trilogy through both ROH and AEW,…

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…

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…

WWE continues to beat a dead horseGif: WWELet’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…

Bryan Danielson is a very good professional wrestlerScreenshot: AEWThis is what I came for, just eight years later. The very reason I got back into wrestling in 2015 was because of Bryan Danielson. The thing is, I never really got to see…

AEW Women’s World Champion Jamie Hayter (center)Screenshot: AEWA rising tide lifts all boats, so they tell me. The tide on the women’s side of AEW, for pretty much its entire three-plus-year existence, seemed pretty stagnant, with the…

Roll your eyes if you saw this coming.Image: Getty ImagesYou’d be forgiven if you thought that WWE falls into its best long-term storytelling by accident, including in last night’s Royal Rumble. It’s so fixated on providing “moments,” where…

R.I.P. Jay BriscoeScreenshot: Ring of Honor WrestlingOne-half of the best professional wrestling tag team of all-time to never get a chance in a major promotion died Tuesday night. Jay Briscoe was involved in a fatal car crash in Laurel,…

Mercedes Moné didn’t appear on AEW DynamiteImage: Getty ImagesIt was such a perfect setting for Mercedes Moné, the former Sasha Banks, to arrive on AEW Dynamite last night. It’s not that Tony Khan could have possibly known ahead of time…

Screenshot: AEW/TBS“Starksdom?” I’ll show myself out.For the core AEW fan, the current state of the company has gone from a little anxious to very exciting. The company continues to pivot to its younger stars, resetting a foundation for…