For those of us that follow wrestlers on social media, we are often exposed to a blend of both fantasy and reality in what they say. A retired wrestler that is as intelligent in other aspects of life as he is in wrestling is one John Bradshaw Layfield. He has been there and done that in...

-For a Fight Pass show this looked like an incredibly strong card, with the debut at WW of former Lightweight champ Rafael Dos Anjos, another fight for Andrei Arlovski against one of the better prospects in the HW division, and then a strong main event between former champ Holly Holm and...

-This was another international card considered largely as a weak one by fans, but personally I was expecting some fun fights as it seemed full of top action fighters (Nguyen, Elliott, Cutelaba, Hunt, etc) and the UFC has delivered massively this year so far with their Fight Night shows. UFC...

-Despite having arguably the best main event on paper of any UFC card thus far this year, this show felt like it was flying a bit under the radar – probably because it was following the card they were pushing as the biggest one of 2017 in UFC 211. Still, despite a lesser undercard I was...

-This was undoubtedly a weak card even for 2017 standards, as for once there weren’t even any prelims more worthy of the main card than the fights selected. Admittedly it lost its third-best fight late on when Emil Meek had to drop out with an injury, but even so. I guess the two top fights...

Ring of Honor has consistently been a promotion that strives to get better each and every time they put on a program. Since 2002, ROH has not only developed talent that has provided fans with memorable matches but has arguably produced the biggest names in wrestling over the last two decades....

-All of the video packages coming into this one were hyping it as the card of the year (thus far) and on paper at least they weren’t wrong, with two title fights, a Welterweight title eliminator and one of the year’s most intriguing Featherweight clashes on tap. Sure, we lost Henry Cejudo...

It would be easy to condemn them. It would be easy to say that WWE is just evil and that all they provide fans with is poor writing and poor character development. However, though it is easy to do that doesn’t mean it is necessarily true. Fans will often question what their motives are...

-Not much fanfare around this one mainly because the main event was Cub Swanson vs. ARTEM LOBOV, arguably the least deserving UFC main eventer of the modern era, but actually it was a solid card for a Fight Night outside of that, with the likes of Diego Sanchez, Joe Lauzon, OSP, John Dodson et...

-The UFC’s debut in Missouri (finally!), this show was one of the best on paper of 2017 thus far, despite the main event of Demetrious Johnson vs. Wilson Reis seeming a bit one-sided to most. With the UFC in dire need of a great show following a handful of stinkers recently – most notably...

On Friday, June 3rd, 2016, Muhammad Ali, born Cassius Clay, passed away at the age of 74. Ali’s death, and more importantly his life, is the inspiration behind this column. Whether it was musicians, actors, athletes, or any other celebrity, the one constant comment was that Ali was...

-Despite a couple of odd fights this was largely being seen as the UFC’s first “loaded” PPV card of 2017, as the main event between Daniel Cormier and Anthony Johnson had been building for a long time, and Weidman/Mousasi as a co-main sounded pretty cool. Being a UFC show in 2017 there...

It seems a bit much, doesn’t it? When it comes to WWE, the numerous compliments about the product are followed by as many criticisms about it. Whether it’s the characters, the storylines, who is getting a push, who isn’t a getting a push, who won a title, who lost a title,...

Kenny Omega and Kazuchika Okada are two names that fans who generally don’t follow wrestling outside WWE would be familiar with. These men appear to have done something in the first week of 2017 that few can do, and that is set the bar by which all matches are measured. When fans who...

-This was the UFC’s first visit to London since last February’s Bisping vs. Silva card and the main event here was hardly as big on name value – not that Manuwa/Anderson was a bad fight, it just isn’t a big time main event, but then it’s been tough this year on that front anyway. If...

  Welcome again to The Franchise, where I examine and analyze entire bodies of work – discographies, filmographies, works in a series, etc. While the last installment was focused on all the video games in a particular franchise, this time around I am going to talk about the full...

-This was a *great* card on paper for a Fight Night, it must be said – sure, we had a fight between two borderline top ten 155lbers on the prelims (Trinaldo vs. Lee) but realistically there wasn’t a fight on the main card you’d have wanted to move anyway! To me it looked like a great mix...

Baron Corbin and Braun Strowman, Braun Strowman and Baron Corbin. In some ways they are very alike, while in others they couldn’t be more different. When exploring their contributions to the Raw and Smackdown Live brands, it has been a very different road taken by each man. On one hand...