RADICAN’S TAKE: Why Sanada vs. Yota Tsuji gives NJPW hope for a rise back to...
NJPW’s Dominion PPV is one of the company’s biggest events of the year along with Wrestle Kingdom and the G1 Climax Finals. For the most part since 2015 this has been Kazuchika Okada’s show, as he has...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S WWE RAW RECEIPT 6/5: Strong matches lead the night on a well...
This week’s episode of WWE Raw has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -Raw was excellent this week. Really good matches up and down the show with (mostly)...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S AEW DYNAMITE RECEIPT 6/7: First MJF and Adam Cole encounter average...
This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -Another episode of AEW Dynamite and another very solid match from Orange Cassidy —...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S WWE RAW RECEIPT 6/12: Finn Balor steps up with strong performance...
This week’s episode of WWE Raw has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -No surprise to see Rhea Ripley get awarded a new title and championship belt. Dominik...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE – AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV preview series: Kazuchika...
Note: This is the first installment in a multi-part preview of the AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door PPV that will take place on June 25 in Toronto. The show is available for purchase on Bleacher Report and...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S AEW DYNAMITE RECEIPT 6/21: Forbidden Door gets nice boost with...
This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -Matt and Jeff Hardy both got excellent pops this week to start Dynamite, but I...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE – AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV preview series: Kenny Omega...
Note: This is the second installment in a multi-part preview of the AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door PPV that will take place on June 25 in Toronto. The show is available for purchase on Bleacher Report and...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE – AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV preview series: IWGP World...
Note: This is the third installment in a multi-part preview of the AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door PPV that will take place on June 25 in Toronto. The show is available for purchase on Bleacher Report and...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE – AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door PPV preview series finale: AEW...
Note: This is the fourth and final installment in a multi-part preview of the AEWxNJPW Forbidden Door PPV that will take place on June 25 in Toronto. The show is available for purchase on Bleacher...
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HEYDORN’S TAKE: Don’t hold me to this – AEW & NJPW Forbidden Door 2023
I don’t know about you guys, but I wasn’t chomping at the bit to get to Forbidden Door season in AEW land. The show itself last year proved to be entertaining and a good piece of business for AEW, but...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S WWE RAW RECEIPT 6/26: Cody and Dominik bookended segments lead...
This week’s episode of WWE Raw has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -I liked the Dominik Mysterio/Rhea Ripley/Cody Rhodes promo that opened the show. You...
View ArticleHEYDORN’S AEW DYNAMITE RECEIPT 6/28: Jungle Boy swings and misses with first...
This week’s episode of AEW Dynamite has wrapped. Let’s take a stroll down memory lane and relive some of the madness. -I like the Wild Thing entrance theme for Jon Moxley as much as anybody, but it...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE: My early impressions of the AEW Fight Forever videogame
AEW Fight Forever is finally out on all major consoles. It has been three years in the making and the anticipation of wrestling fans for an alternate to the WWE 2K series has been high. My anticipation...
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HEYDORN’S TAKE: Don’t hold me to this – WWE Money in the Bank 2023
WWE gets two thumbs up for how they built the 2023 Money in the Bank event. Typically, this show is essentially a replica of a mid-2000s Royal Rumble PPV. Back then the thought process was, “well, we...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE: Analysis of the big stories from NJPW Independence Day Night...
Two big stroies coming out of the NJPW Strong Independence Day Night 1 PPV are that David Finlay is rebuilding Bullet Club in his image and it is working out quite well so far and Francesco Akira’s...
View ArticleKELLER’S TAKE: What now for AEW Collision? Suggestions on how to reverse...
The drop in viewership the last two weeks since the premiere episode of AEW Collision is not good. Week 2’s dropoff wasn’t a shock, but it was on a bigger end of the dropoff range most seemed to be...
View ArticleRADICAN’S TAKE: NJPW wins over Korakuen Hall faithful with death match wrestling
NJPW isn’t known for hardcore matches or death matches, so it was a surprise to see that the debut of the U.S. arm of the promotion in Japan running PPVs on back-to-back nights would be fe headlined by...
View ArticleKELLER’S TAKE: Was the right call made to have Reigns retain his title...
Who eventually defeats Roman Reigns and when has become one of the bigger storyline issues in pro wrestling lately. Going into WrestleMania earlier this year, a lot of people thought Cody Rhodes was...
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KELLER’S TAKE: So far so good for Collision as Tony Khan deliberately...
The ratings for AEW Collision from Saturday are not in yet, but AEW is hoping to at least maintain a viewership in the high 500s and ideally getting back into the 600s, while drawing a demo rating...
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KELLER’S TAKE: MJF and Cole got the double-clothesline over, but is the buddy...
So MJF and Adam Cole are buddies, and it seems destined that it won’t last and will lead to an MJF match against Adam Cole for the AEW World Title. What is less sure is how the break-up of the current...
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