Embracing the fun in Wrestling
The opening segment is a blur, anime brought to life as a masked marvel matched wits and skill against a sneering villain straight out of the movies, a man with a bodyfat percentage as impossible as his perfectly coiffed mullet. Today, more than two decades later, Rey Misterio Jr. versus Eddie Guerrero just looks like wrestling. So much of …
Everyone has a favorite wrestling match, one that just hits them in that special place in the heart reserved for great art. Sometimes, it’s technical craft that compels. Two performers perfectly in sync, creating a tapestry of believable, powerful simulated violence. On other occasions it’s the pure grandeur of the occasion, the pomp and circumstance of a particularly gaudy …
Based in no way entirely on a whim, what follows is a very serious list of the ten best professional wrestlers in the world on July 15, 2020. The criteria you ask? A combination of doing awesome things in and out of the ring, my sense for how likely they are to have purchased one of my books, general …
It’s the finish that people remember. More than 26 years removed from the explosion of skull on canvas, it still echoes, a violent, visceral reminder of the extremes to which performers will go to tell their story inside a wrestling ring. There’s no delicate, artful way to describe what happened to close the greatest wrestling match of all-time. It’s …
It was as far as you could be from his native Scotland and still be in the United Kingdom, a journey 12 hours in total by train. His mother had said no at first, then said it again and again and again. And who could really blame her? Pro wrestling seemed like a pipe dream for a wiry, fifteen-year-old …
