Hikaru Shida

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,…

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…

Paul “Triple H” LevesquePhoto: Getty ImagesI’ll admit I was one of the ones that had hope. While the WWE product had left me cold at best for a long while, and utterly bewildered at worst, when Triple H took over creative I had hope. After…

Jamie Hayter has gotten over despite playing second fiddle to Dr. Britt BakerScreenshot: All Elite WrestlingFor those of us hoping that Saraya’s arrival in the AEW women’s division would signal an instant uptick in the time allotted, a…

Tony KhanPhoto: Getty ImagesAEW maven Tony Khan had his pre-All Out media call yesterday. These can be fascinating encounters, where he’s there basically to promote a show, and most of the people asking him questions are throwing hanging…

All Elite Wrestling (AEW) returned with their weekly Dynamite (AEW Dynamite) episode, in which Interim TNT Champion Sammy Guevara kickstarted his title defence against Daniel Garcia. MJF once again dodged a match with CM Punk, however,…

Craig Mitchell vs. Trevor Outlaw (Freelance Wrestling)Illustration: Freelance WrestlingGonna get selfish on this one, as this is my home indie. And it marked the first time I had been to it in a year and a half, and didn’t realize how much…

CM Punk vs. Eddie KingstonImage: AEWSam: Now this is how you build a feud in short order, though you rarely have two people as talented at mic-work as these two. Most everyone is most looking forward to this match, as they’re going to beat…

CM Punk vs. Darby AllinIllustration: AEWFels: OK, hear me out, because I know what suggesting a Punk loss in Chicago means for anyone’s well-being. Punk has made it clear that one of the biggest reasons he has returned is to give younger…