...looking at every current title in ROH, predicting a likely future champion, and then also suggesting someone!

Is AEW relying too much lately on using "angles" to progress their stories, instead of focusing on character arcs?

After an explosive and shocking night at AEW All Out, we are left with many questions. One of which comes after 'Hangman' Adam Page defeated Swerve Strickland in the Lights Out Steel Cage main event. With Page completing a year-long story arc, what does 'Hangman' do next? The Core of The Character Since day one of AEW’s existence Adam Page has been on a carefully plotted journey as a character. On day one at the press conference where AEW was officially announced, Hangman pro

Last time, I raised the thought of how AEW and ROH both seem to be in a form of transition, with many new champions since December 2023. Quite often, fans will start thinking of who the next champion will be quite quickly, but I wanted to focus on something a little more unique, which was thinking of unique or new challengers for these titles. That doesn’t mean I think these challengers will win the respective titles, though I did mention one or two in the last article that c

Sam Preston, regular of AEWeekly's Throwback of the Week shares the first part of "Challengers" exploring (this time) thoughts on

An analysis of the different approaches to storytelling in pro wrestling between AEW and WWE

Enough words have been spilled wondering where AEW is right now, that I don’t feel like I need to reiterate it. Ratings! Signings! Restore the feeling! I’m sure you’re tired of reading about it and I certainly don’t want to write about it. But one interesting thing that you can see from a thousand foot view is that while this company has built its brand around showcasing young new talent, they’ve currently got a sizable number of older legends likely close to retirement. An

WWE seems to many as on the ropes-- with recent scanadals and setbacks. But the POV from the Global South is a WWE that's Too Big To Fail!

Ever since the announcement of AEW Collision, there’s been a lot of talk about a brand split. Will it be a hard split? A soft split? A rotation? Well all we can say for certain is that with CM Punk’s appearance on the June 21 Dynamite, we know there isn’t a hard split, yet. But with all of this talk about, it seemed worthwhile to have a discussion about what a hard brand split might look like. So we appointed two GMs in Saul Kiloh and Dirk Elevation and went ahead with the dr

My high school playground was most likely similar to any other; a fragmented petri dish of shapes and sizes, creeds and credos, forms and fashions. The smokers, heels for sure, were known for forming a temporary alliance with some of the goths and metalheads, but they would glare with icy contempt across the playing field at the sporty types. Battlelines were not so much drawn as they were tattooed in congealed blood, bile and turkey twizzler grease in this instance. Then you

Who in AEW stands the best chance of beating all Four Pillars?

How many times have you watched the first segment of Rampage on Friday night? I'll make a confession right now. I've watched the 4:40 clip on YouTube of Punk's entrance on over a dozen occasions. I watched it during my lunch break at work on Saturday, I even watched the clip on the walk home from a night out on Saturday night, (they didn't have Cult of Personality at the karaoke bar, which made me very sad,) at half 2 in the morning. So why have I watched this clip on multip

This is going to be a very different article for me, it’s going to be personal and open, I won’t be using numbers or that like normal, just feelings. Ever since I first saw Edge spear Jeff Hardy from a ladder at Wrestlemania X-Seven (2001) I knew I was a wrestling fan through and through. Watching Eddie Guerrero, Kane, Austin, Undertaker was what I’d do every weekend. I’d go to my friend’s house who had pay TV and we would watch it together before doing the typical acting it

Thirty years ago, when John Connor ran rampant at the box office in Terminator 2 and Sinead O’Connor topped the charts with a tear cascading down her cheek, you would need to search high and low whilst travelling far and wide to create the perfect tag team division: Generous lashings of Road Warriors, a pinch of The Brain Busters, a smidgen of The Rock’n’Roll Express, a spoonful of Hart Foundation, a splash of The Midnight Express, the tiniest of touches of The Steiner Broth

In my last article we looked at Wrestling rematches for TV, this time we are going to breakdown PPV matches to see if we can answer the same question, re whether Rematches are an issue. Again, thank you to Wrestlenomics for the stats. So, we are going to keep with the same 2019 – 2021 format as the last article to keep things fair. Let us start once more with AEW, we start off in 2019 with 6% rematches across their PPV’s. Again, we can say this is a brand-new company so most

There’s a scene in For A Few Dollars More, a spectacular one if not the movie’s most iconic, where Eastwood’s Manco enters some dilapidated backwater saloon looking for an elusive bounty. Every direction he turns is a long and winding road to some nameless elsewhere, littered with hitches, hurdles and handicaps. His path is muddied, he’s getting nowhere, he becomes frustrated. So, what does our hero do? In short, cowboy shit. Fists fly, guns sling, hell is raised, cigarettes

It is a common thing to see now, the same two people fighting each other time and time again. It tends to bore fans and create a disconnect to the product, so let’s have a look at Wrestling Rematches and how many rematches we have seen over the last 6 months – Stats provided by Wrestlenomics. As we can see above this is a Six-month TV match graph. Let’s break down AEW first and compare it year to year. AEW starts in 2019 with a 9% of all matches are rematches which is incredi

When AEW first introduced their Women's Championship, many criticised it for being too small. To me, it wasn't a design I would have gone with, but what was more worrying was that the small championship seemed to represent the same small vision offered to women's wrestling across North American wrestling for decades. Don't worry, I'm not talking about changing the design of AEW's women's title in this article. I'm talking about having the vision to take women's wrestling to t

The time is nearly here, it is Wrestlemania season, this year we hit number 37. But it is also the first back with fans since Covid 19, so it is going to be a big show. So, let us look back at Wrestlemania but instead of reviewing matches lets look at the numbers. So, we are going to look at Total Matches, Total championship matches, Total title changes, total fight time. My hope is to dive into the numbers to look back and see what we have gotten out of the show of shows and

Wrestlemania is right around the corner, it is like Christmas for Wrestling fans. Wrestlemania is the most iconic event of the year and still easily the biggest. It is the time most people are excited about wrestling. The road to Wrestlemania starts at Royal Rumble and includes Elimination Chamber and Fastlane before getting to the big event. However, a lot of fans often ask is Fastlane needed to the build to Wrestlemania? So, let us look at some dates for this year and