Everyone remembers Daniel Bryan’s win at Wrestlemania 30, or the day Mankind did himself a mischief with a cell. If NXT sticks around, and it’s got a few years yet,…
Author: Sarah Parkin
Sarah never really got over finding out that The Undertaker and Kane aren't really brothers. Now she spends her time telling anyone who will listen that Bull Nakano should be in the Hall of Fame. When she grows up, she wants to be Lita.
Thirty-two women competed in the Mae Young Classic. That’s 32 individuals from over a dozen countries, representing some of the wrestling industry’s top talent from 20-year veterans to two-year prodigies.…
Sisterhood of the Squared Circle: The History and Rise of Women’s Wrestling Pat Laprade and Dan Murphy (ECW Press, 2017) History is political. It doesn’t feel that way when you’re…
It feels like a bit of a cliché to describe anyone or anything in pro wrestling as ‘problematic’. It’s not like it’s untrue or unfair, but it’s unoriginal at this…
In WWE historiography (read: revisionism), women’s wrestling has a pretty scant history. It’s clear that the company is trying to establish a lineage for its “women’s evolution” through its choice…
In the first part of our series on What WrestleMania Should Be ™, Sarah Parkin details her best-case scenario for the Showcase of the Immortals. First thing’s first: my dream…
The Hall of Fame is a crock of shit, right? That’s what the ‘smarks’ always say. It’s a marketing tool; it draws mainstream attention; you either get inducted because Vince…
If you saw the first round of the WWE UK and Ireland Championship tournament, you saw the best of British wrestling. The matches were fine, with a few great exceptions, but…
Drew Gulak vs Mike Quackenbush Chikara Supremacy 3rd of December 2016 Logan Square Auditorium, Chicago, USA Watch the full match on Chikara’s Facebook page. The match: Supremacy is supposedly over,…
Marty Scurll (c) vs Mark Haskins vs Tommy End Progress Chapter 36: We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Room… Again 25th of September 2016 O2 Academy Brixton, London The match: Haskins…
The match: Remember how Triple H entered WrestleMania 30 on a throne, flanked by masked bikini-clad women? Later we learned they were Charlotte, Sasha Banks and Alexa Bliss. As if…
Sami Zayn vs Kevin Owens WWE Battleground 2016 24th July 2016 Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. The match: It’s a masterpiece. Brutal strikes, ludicrously ambitious moves (did they really get away…