2024 marks the end of Bryan Danielson’s full-time career as a professional wrestler. Letting go of something you love is hard. I’d imagine it’s even more difficult for someone who has spent nearly 25 years perfecting his craft. But all good things must come to an end. In many ways, Danielson’s 2024 and 2015 aren’t […]
On September 2nd, 2023, a day before AEW’s flagship All Out event, owner Tony Khan announced that he had fired wrestler CM Punk following a physical altercation at the last weekend’s All In show. There was a sense of doom and gloom surrounding AEW Collision that evening for the hours leading up to it. For […]
Bryan Danielson’s match against Daniel Garcia at Fight For The Fallen 2022 is a perfect example of how special Bryan Danielson is. After a two-month hiatus with a concussion Danielson returned to the ring, however, if you weren’t privy to that knowledge, one might have thought Danielson was gone for a year with how the […]
None of these matches are an all-time great Daniel Bryan match. Even within 2021, there are better Bryan matches, notaboly within the early days of his AEW career. But I think the performance Bryan gives in all three of the bouts speaks volumes about him as a wrestler. These matches have a lot working against […]
As we head into the last months of Bryan Danielson’s 2nd WWE career, as well as the beginning of the Performance Center/“Thunderdome” year, I’d like to take a step back and admire that Bryan can at least make something out of a less than stellar year. Returning from injury two articles ago, and regaining the […]
In 2019, the late Bray Wyatt debuted a fresh new gimmick after a long absence: The Fiend. Through self-referential Firefly Funhouse vignettes and promos, The Fiend was built up as the ultimate manifestation of the darkness inside of Wyatt’s psyche. The segments got people talking. Wyatt sold plenty of merch. But once The Fiend got […]
THE MYTH My older brother had been a fan of wrestling since he was a kid, when the Mega Powers were on top of the WWF. As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to watch wrestling as a kid knew nothing until one of my best friends got me to watch Great Balls of Fire (much […]
When asked if I wanted to contribute something to this, after instinctively agreeing, I was at a little bit of a loss for a while. In celebration of the career of one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, WET HOT AMERICAN DRAGON SUMMER, many great writers have written about their favorite aspects and/or general […]
There’s a moment that haunts me. March 31st, 2015. Daniel Bryan stands up outside the ring after being beaten senseless by Sheamus, a trickle of blood coming from his forehead. He looks like a ghost, held upright by the sheer willpower of his heart and gut. Bad News Barrett gets up from the commentary table […]
And some people say I shouldn’t be the face of this company. I’d like to ask you to close your eyes and just imagine for a minute (not really, you should be reading this with your eyes open, but bear with me). There are moments that you wish you could simply live in for the […]