52 Weeks of Joy: Rey Mysterio and Eddie Guerrero reach lofty heights at WCW Halloween Havoc 1997

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 …

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52 Weeks of Joy: The Ballad of Misawa and Kawada

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 …

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