Hangman's momentum, focus, and confidence are just too great for him to be knocked off the mountain he just climbed anytime soon...

“Wins and Losses Matter.” This straightforward four-word slogan, spoken by EVP Cody Rhodes at the initial AEW press conference in January 2019, quickly became the maxim and driving force for my interest in All Elite Wrestling. In the two-plus years and more than 2000 matches since, this has held up as true to varying degrees. About ten months ago I began developing a system that set out to prove or disprove the above guiding principle because it became clear from anyone who

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

An example of inter-gender wrestling from Lucha Underground 2016

Written by Deb (@codenamedeb) 2020 was understandably a weird year for wrestling. I don’t really need to elaborate much on that note (I hope I don’t). The last thing I want this this write-up to be is a recap. There is one match however, that sticks out to me as one I’ve needed to talk about but somehow managed to miss out on, even going so far as to make a 52-minute video essay and somehow still not touching on it. The most bizarre wrestling match of 2020 to me was not

The Four Pillars #1 - Setting the Stage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FsjI2kATlQ https://fightingfullosophy.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/walking-the-kings-road-part-1/ Cagematch Rating - 9.49 (106) Grappl Rating - 4.62 (24) WON - 5* Summary Genichiro Tenryu bested Jumbo Tsuruta much to the delight of the AJPW crowd in a true underdog performance. The majority of the match was controlled by Jumbo before Tenryu reacted to a period of Jumbo dominance culminating in a Back Supl

Ask any color commentator, (both in professional wrestling and in other combat sports,) and they will undoubtedly assure you that “Styles Make Fights.” In theory, this means that fighters with different styles match up against one another differently--that you can’t go solely by each fighter’s competitive rating to assess the win likelihood of a particular match-up. This makes fighting sports a lot like Rochambeau: just because Rock beat Scissors, and Scissors beat Paper, don