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.
How Wrestling Explains The World
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 the First Day of #WilliamRegalWeek, a celebration of all things Made in England and the third installment of our patent-pending Juice Make Sugar Wrestler of the Week series. Today, we start by making Mr. Regal A Wrestler You (Should) Probably Know Better.
“Here one can neither stand nor lie nor sit There is not even silence in the mountains But dry sterile thunder without rain There is…
It’s Harley Race’s reluctantly agreeing to give up being “the man” and make way for Ric Flair. It’s also what Hogan tried to do with the Ultimate Warrior, and would refuse to do for Bret Hart, Lex Luger and even the Undertaker. It’s passing the torch, and if you want to see it done right, you should watch this match between Sabu and Rob Van Dam from Hardcore Heaven ’96.
Bret Hart and Randy Savage both reside atop the Mount Olympus of the WWE for good reason. Both were top-notch workers capable of looking great…
The Great Muta vs. Jushin Thunder Liger One of the testaments to this match’s greatness is that it is fully comprehensible and easy to follow…