pro-wrestling
WWE 2K22 is out now on consoles and PC. It is, based on early impressions, the most immersive, interactive wrestling experience since WWE 2K14, when 2K Games first took over the franchise. Every aspect of gameplay has been taken up a notch—including the accurate, photorealistic appearance of the wrestlers themselves, but also the underlying mechanics […]
Are you aware of the year WWE Superstar Bianca Belair has had? The Tenn. native won the Women’s Royal Rumble back in January, setting a course that led to a championship match of her choice at WrestleMania 37. Belair decided to challenge Sasha Banks for the SmackDown Women’s Championship, which resulted in history: Not only did […]
For many Black kids growing up in America, finding out our roots has been an arduous task. Even with an annual Black History Month, we’re normally given the same stories on the same amazing Black figures in history. Without doing our own research, we may never learn about the likes of James Baldwin or Ruby […]
Griselda Records founder Westside Gunn is one of the biggest pro wrestling fans to touch the mic. Many of his songs are named after some of the biggest legends to touch the squared circle, and a number of them feature superstars of decades past. Back in January, Gunn dropped “The Hurt Business,” a posse cut […]
Since the beginning of 2020, it’s been all eyez on Liv Morgan…for everyone else in the WWE Universe. For me? I’ve been rocking with Liv since before The Riott Squad was formed in 2017. What do you expect, though? She was rocking a “201” on her gear, repping Jersey to the fullest. My favorite emcee is […]
After Night One of WWE’s WrestleMania 36 ended with The Undertaker defeating AJ Styles in a “Boneyard Match,” it was hard to tell what we’d be in for during Night Two. The WWE has successfully pulled off an empty arena (and other offsite locations) WrestleMania, mostly with the help of these movie-esque matches they weaved […]
All week, I’d been waiting for that WrestleMania feel to creep up. Since I was a child, WrestleMania has been a thing; I was three when Hogan teamed up with Mr. T. As I got older, the week leading into WrestleMania felt as big as Super Bowl Week. The way COVID-19 is hitting, the world […]
After kicking off Season 2 of Dark Side of the Ring with a full preview of Part 1 of the Chris Benoit, Vice’s series on the seedy underbelly of the world of professional wrestling returns with the full two-hour premiere episode, featuring the second part of the tragic Benoit murder-suicide saga. Narrated by Chris Jericho and featuring a […]
While it was originally announced that the Season 2 premiere of VICE TV’s Dark Side of the Ring—which is a two-hour episode on the Chris Benoit murder-suicide tragedy that rocked the world of professional wrestling—would air at 10PM on Tuesday, March 24, VICE actually dropped the first part of this episode earlier today on YouTube (you […]
Cody Rhodes, who is not only the son of professional wrestling legend Dusty Rhodes but is an executive vice president at All Elite Wrestling, recently called October 2, 2019 “the most significant night in wrestling in my lifetime.” Why? Because it was the kick-off of AEW’s live, two-hour weekly wrestling program Dynamite, marking the first time professional […]
