How Wrestling Explains The World

How Wrestling Explains the World: (…The One With Janice)

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”.

How Wrestling Explains The World

How Wrestling Explains the World: Goldeneye

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.

How Wrestling Explains The World

How Wrestling Explains the World: Gilgamesh

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.

A Wrestler You Should Probably Know Better

#HeenanWeek: Better Know a Heel

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.