This is a little feature we like to call “Is Wrestling _____?”, where we attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. Today, we’ll look at Janice from Friends and the dangers of “X-Pac heat”.
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This is a little feature we like to call “Is Wrestling _____?”, where we attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. Today, we’ll look at Harry Nilsson (and Why Everyone’s Talking About Him.)
This is a little feature we like to call “Is Wrestling _____?”, where we attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. Today, we’ll look Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem.
This is a little feature we like to call “Is Wrestling _____?”, where we attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. Today, we’ll look James Bond and the changing face of heroic nationalism.
This is a little feature we like to call “Is Wrestling _____?”, where we attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. Today, we’ll look at LeBron James, the best pure heel in professional sports.
Today, we look at the building of the American narrative through the history of the United States and its first homegrown baby face, Abraham Lincoln.
With the Great YouTube Purge of 2014 making most of the work we do with Wrestlers of the Week somewhere between “impossible” and “totally and completely impossible”, we’ve decided to officially (quasi) retire the feature. In its place will be something we are calling Is Wrestling _____?, where we will attempt to make a connection between professional wrestling and something from the world outside of Kayfabe. We will try to post at least one thing per day, though we obviously can’t promise anything because we’re not so secretly the worst. And to start everything off, we’ll look at where it all — meaning, all of literature as we currently understand it — with the Epic of Gilgamesh.
It’s Day One of #HeenanWeek, the 30th installment of our (patent-pending) Juice Make Sugar Wrestler of the Week Series. As always, we’ll start by making The Brain a Heel You (Should) Probably Know Better.
For every Wrestler of the Week, there are performers who came before or after them that either learned from their work or influenced it. This week, it’s Bret Hart, Chris Benoit and Dean Malenko.
After a rough few months — okay, years — it looks like TNA is finally back on track.