Before we even begin with this article let us stipulate one thing: professional wrestling is inherently unsafe. Even the safest workers are risking their health every time they step between those rope...
It’s that time of the year. The time of year of snow falling outside. Of making unnecessary, expensive purchases. Of pledging to correct the mistakes of the past year. Of running around, hectically, t...
In the world of MMA and boxing, pundits and hardcore fans alike have long complained that certain competitors get preferential treatment not because of their skill inside the ring/Octagon, but rather ...
We are witnessing a sea change in professional wrestling. When Triple H took over the helm of NXT some were predicting it as the end for independent wrestling. While independent wrestling would still ...
We're now well underway in the 2018/19 Premier League season. As fans already begin to regret their fantasy teams, and clubs begin to see their new acquisitions' true value, a lot of the talk is about...
It’s WrestleMania season and we’re all gearing up for the "granddaddy of them all"! For months we have been speculating on which matches will occur, who will face off against whom, and who will have t...
We are entering the silly season. Year after year we work ourselves up into a tizzy over all the potential blockbuster trades we will see approaching the NHL trade deadline. Yet, year after year, NHL ...
In the modern day NHL, big trades are relatively rare. We recently saw a blockbuster three-team trade involving Matt Duchene and Kyle Turris. But it took Avs GM Joe Sakic nearly a year-and-a-half to o...
Professional wrestling is unique. No fan of Stranger Things will sit there and ask, “Why was Eleven scripted to say that?” or “Why wasn’t the Demogorgon booked to go over?”. Nor will fans of the UFC c...
The wrestling couple. As much as we might like to say that professional wrestling is merely a choreographed, scripted sport of tough athletes testing their mettle against one another, this is not alwa...
Perhaps no other position in hockey offers itself to meteoric rises from obscurity and remarkably rapid flame-outs as much as does that of the goaltender. Time and time again we’ve seen a backup come ...
Professional wrestling is pretty weird. As fans, we watch real athletes perform genuinely amazing physical feats in sometimes choreographed, always predetermined, fake fights. And then they have to a...
Sports betting resource Odds Shark has recently released the odds they have calculated for each NHL team to win the Stanley Cup at the end of the 2017-18 season. At the time of writing, the top three ...
In 1996, influenced by what he had seen in Japan, Eric Bischoff got the idea to form a stable in WCW; an invading group of outsiders called the nWo. The angle went off amazingly and led to a revival o...
Professional wrestlers are athletes. They have to be in excellent physical shape, perform impressive stunts, have good cardio, possess impressive physiques, and be able to withstand punishment. While ...
Sports fans love to compare different athletes from different eras, even though much of it is subjective. The era of Wilt Chamberlain was very different from Michael Jordan’s era. Wayne Gretzky’s numb...
Like most things in life, and indeed in life itself, professional wrestling goes in cycles. There are peaks and valleys in popularity and quality and the wrestlers themselves come and go. Recently, we...
Professional wrestling is simulated combat. But despite the predetermined outcomes, it is still very dangerous. Even the safest of headlock-filled matches carry a degree of danger. Injuries, and often...
The Toronto Maple Leafs find themselves in one of the better positions of all the NHL teams this offseason. The team and management have engendered a great deal of good will from its massive fan base ...
There’s something in the air in Leafs Nation. Something strange. Something with which Leaf fans have been unfamiliar for some time. And that something is optimism. For the first time in a long time, L...