My dad would always say the track marks covering his arms were from “working on cars.” To say I had a complicated relationship with him is both cliché and an understatement. My name is Dan Rice; his name was Dan Rice. That name has hung around my neck my entire life. Dan didn’t raise me, […]
To start off with, I’m aware two weeks after the event is the OPTIMAL time to publish a live report. AEW in All In Texas emanated from Arlington, Texas on July 12th, 2025. So of course I plan a family vacation to AUSTIN, Texas on August 15th. I was so close, but so far. I […]
The Phantom Stranger On August 13th, 2024, Pro Wrestling NOAH announced Yoshinari Ogawa’s immediate retirement following a neck injury in a tag match the prior week. According to NOAH’s social media, Ogawa strongly requested no retirement press conference or ceremony. And the wrestling world kept moving. You could attribute it to the turbulent cycle of […]
There are a number of matches that off the rip I’ll recommend to people looking for That Good Shit. There is only one match that I have paid multiple people to review. It isn’t the match that I consider the best of the 2010s, Hideki Suzuki versus Yuji Okabayashi from 2017. It isn’t maybe the […]
Ring of Honor is, and has always been, a wrestling promotion. A WRESTLING promotion, all caps, hard emphasis. Its mission, its whole niche, was so simple that, in a way, it felt like a cult or a religion: it was for real fans. It was for the ones who traveled the kings road, the ones […]
At the time of this writing, the video game websites Giant Bomb and Polygon are for all purposes, buried in the dirt. Ushered to their demise by venture capitalists. Always existing on the opposite ends of the spectrum for my gaming interests. Giant Bomb always with podcasts and shows that make you burst out laughing […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 25, 2025 DANIEL “WRESTLING GENIUS” MAKABE RETURNS FROM RETIREMENT TO FACE BRYAN “THE AMERICAN DRAGON” DANIELSON IN A DREAM MATCH MAIN EVENTING DEAN~!!! 3 PHILADELPHIA, PA – Its happening. In what promises to be one of the most emotional and technically brilliant matches in professional wrestling history, AEW and Ring of […]
“the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth” -“Diving into the Wreck” by Adrienne Rich In the early morning hours of Easter Sunday, as much of Mexico prepared to celebrate the resurrection, one of lucha libre’s most revered figures quietly departed. Esteban […]
It started as a story about Martin “Farmer” Burns, but while combing through old newspapers, a different figure pulled me in, an untamed storm of a man named Stanley Ketchel. What began as a tangent became an obsession. Martin “Farmer” Burns was a legendary 19th-century catch wrestler, he held the American Heavyweight Championship in 1895 […]
WrestleMania weekend is dumb. There’s too much wrestling. Most of it is bad. Sam was asking if there was a streaming schedule on the Discord, even though he won’t watch any of the shows live. I went looking, and not only could I not find a “WrestleMania Weekend 2025 Streaming Schedule” or anything like that, […]