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So let’s get this out of the way off the top – Final Battle was another strong outing for Ring of Honor’s pay-per-view-level shows under Tony Khan’s ownership. The brand has especially delivered in 2025 with three excellent shows, two of which included potential Match of the Year contenders. Final Battle didn’t have anything on…
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AEW Full Gear 2025 has come and past and, in spite of what some on social media may claim, people are actually talking about the show. Heading into the 2025 edition of Full Gear, there was talk that the show felt thrown together out of circumstance. Multiple rematches up and down the card and a…
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2025 is a monumental year for professional wrestling as it will see two of the biggest icons from the 2000s and 2010s finally hang up the boots. In the U.S., John Cena is on his farewell tour with WWE and set to have his final match on Dec. 13 in Washington D.C. for Saturday Night’s…
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To say the modern professional wrestling scene is loaded with talent would be a massive understatement. AEW and WWE both already have massive rosters, and with the amount of talent to choose from globally, someone could easily build a third nationally televised company and there still be a surplus of talent to pick from. It…
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Shape-shifting dragons, skeleton ninjas, masked bikers, and perhaps a living incarnation of Death. These are just a few of the ideas and characters that permeated the world of Lucha Underground for four seasons on the El Rey Network. Lucha Underground was the answer to a fairly simple question – what if a Robert Rodriguez directed…
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It seems as though every few years, one promotion in particular emerges to become the hotbed of indie wrestling during that period of time. This list includes early Ring of Honor, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, and Game-Changer Wrestling, among others. In the year of 2025, though, one indie promotion has arguably stood heads and shoulders over…
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AEW took to pay-per-view once again on Oct. 18, 2025, for WrestleDream live from the Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri. Coming less than a month after All Out, some fans wouldn’t be wrong for feeling WrestleDream was thrown together in fairly short order. That being said, it is still AEW on pay-per-view and no…
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In the roughly six years of All Elite Wrestling’s existence, the wrestling industry has been through a lot as a whole. AEW was no exception with plenty of highs and lows in the company’s young history, but one thing remained constant – great in-ring action. The action reflected an almost all-star roster of wrestlers from…
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