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Ilja Dragunov debuts and tries to murder Speedball Mike Bailey, the Young Bucks fall to Mark Davis & Jake Doyle, and BULLET CLUB might be back?! AEW Dynamite was cooking! The SmarK Rant is up: www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

1991 WWF: Hogan vs. Slaughter on free TV, then two hours of telling you to buy Summerslam. Vince McMahon has a lot of explaining to do. www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

Yesterday: WrestleDream 2025, a year late. Today: WrestleDream 2026, right on time! Moxley and Mark Davis go to war, the Bucks deliver five stars, and Andrade’s pants nearly steal the entire PPV. The SmarK Rant is up! www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

A year late, but five stars are five stars. Brodido vs. Okada & Takeshita was one of the best tag matches of 2025. The rest of WrestleDream? Well, that's a more complicated conversation. The long-lost SmarK Rant:

Just in time for WrestleDream 2026, I finally review WrestleDream 2025! A FIVE STAR tag team classic, broke Young Bucks, Sting saving the day, and Darby Allin enduring crimes against humanity. A year late!

I bet Anthony Scaramucci is the happiest guy on the internet this morning.

Imagine watching WWF Superstars in August 1991, sitting through six squash matches, and suddenly BOBBY HEENAN IS HOLDING THE BIG GOLD BELT. One of the great wrestling TV cliffhangers.

August 1991 WWF Superstars: Jake Roberts buries the Ultimate Warrior alive, Randy Savage discusses Virgil's financial future, and Bobby Heenan shows up carrying something VERY interesting. Business is about to pick up.

Hot take: Roman Reigns vs. LA Knight was better than either Money in the Bank ladder match. And the men's match might have been the worst thing on the show. Agree?

Je'Von Evans gets carted away in an ambulance, then DRIVES IT BACK to the ring. Apparently it has healing powers. Meanwhile, nobody can figure out how to climb a ladder.

WWE Money in the Bank 2026: Roman Reigns and LA Knight tear the house down, Tiffany Stratton nearly kills herself, and Je’Von Evans discovers that ambulances have magical healing properties. The SmarK Rant is up! www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

The UWF invades the Louisiana Superdome! Or, as Hulk Hogan would call it, the Pontiac Silverdome. Featuring Bill Watts fighting communism, the future Sting and Ultimate Warrior against the Freebirds, and an Isotoner of Death. 1986 was a magical time. www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

Darby Allin apparently took it as a personal challenge that he had never gone through a table facefirst IN FRANCE. Naturally, that had to be corrected. Today's Dynamite rant:

Apparently French wrestling crowds communicate exclusively through song now. Ospreay vs. Okada tears the house down, Darby wages war on his own skeletal system, and the arena becomes French Randy Newmans.

The 11/30/91 WCW Worldwide rant is up! Arachniman dares Marvel’s lawyers to notice him, Mike Graham invents star ratings, WCW bends time itself, and Big Josh battles Tommy Rich in the UFC: Unwatchable Frustrating Crap.

The Phillies might claim the Mattingly departure was mutual but we all know the REAL reason.

Congratulations to Devens, who I didn’t know as a Survivor player, but he was a GREAT Big Brother player and had my favorite eviction of all time in the finale. #bb28

Hopefully he doesn’t trip over anything.

Sen. Eric Schmitt: I only have one more question: Did you or did you not engage in acts of piracy in the Caribbean? Jack Smith: Sir, that was Captain Jack Sparrow.

Sen. Eric Schmitt: I have one more question: When and where were you briefed on the fact that Janie’s got a gun? Jack Smith: I believe you are confusing me with Aerosmith.

Afternoon bump: last night’s Dynamite stopped feeling like just another wrestling show. A beautiful tribute to PAC, an emotional Bryan Danielson return, and a great night of wrestling too.

Sen. Eric Schmitt: I only have one more question for you: Are you BIZARRRRRRRRRE? Jack Smith: I believe you are confusing me with the British Bulldog, Davey Boy Smith.

Sen. Eric Schmitt: I have only one question left for you: How soon IS now? Jack Smith: I believe you have confused me with 80s band The Smiths

Last night’s Dynamite became something much heavier than a wrestling show. A beautiful, heartbreaking tribute to PAC, Bryan Danielson returning in tears, and somehow the matches still ruled.

Oh man are we finally gonna see some UPTOWN FUNK on TV?

This morning on the Blog of Doom: Rick Rude arrives, Bobby Eaton makes bad choices, PN News meets Henry Godwinn, and we uncover the Taylor Swift Easter egg hidden in the WCW Top Ten. Swifties, you’re welcome.

Haven’t actually watched All Out yet tonight and I’m pretty sure I’m not in the headspace for it now. RIP Bastard.

The UWF review is already doing numbers this morning, so apparently you people want UWF chaos. I can work with that. Today’s SmarK Rant:

Once Russo was gone, WCW got less insane. It also got incredibly boring. Which was more compelling: train-wreck WCW or competent-but-dying WCW?

I watched every WCW Nitro from 2000 and all I got was this stupid list. Biggest lesson? WCW punished you for caring until the audience finally took the hint.

New SmarK Rant is live this morning at the Blog of Doom. Come see what I’m complaining about today:

At one point on Dynamite, Taz started discussing farming and “raw-boned type stuff” during a Ciampa match. I do not have further context. Anyway, the review is up: www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

AEW Dynamite opened with a ****½ sprint, closed with another really fun tag match, and somewhere in between Britt Baker suggested that “Hyan” sounds like a pharmaceutical product. So, you know, pretty normal Dynamite. The SmarK Rant: www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma...

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... Tony Schiavone has BREAKING NEWS on this show! See if you can guess and I guarantee you’ll be wrong. 🤼

youtu.be/4KBmoED5fyI?... Don’t remember this one at all.

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... Uh oh, Brutus Beefcake probably isn’t gonna like that haircut he got. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... Despite some DVR issues I got a damn fine episode of Dynamite this morning. 🤼

To clarify, this isn’t them commemorating 9/11 or the victims, it’s them celebrating the anniversary of the self-congratulatory show that they put on a few days later. Stay classy.

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... A HOT show in Texas following All In, and the New Level work their asses off in their debut.

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... A great piece of business with two of the best matches of the year capping it off.

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... Just kind of an average show. Plus whatever that Jericho match was. 🤼

I FINALLY WON A RUN IN BALATRO! But it unlocked the Nebula deck, which I don’t think I’d want. So it’s bittersweet. #balatro

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... One of the best Dynamites of all time? Yeah. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... As Andre notes, three years is indeed a long time to be champion of the World. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/2026/08/04/w... The Observer Flashbacks RETURN with the build to Barely Legal and a review of Spring Stampede 97. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... I enjoyed this one way more than Night One overall. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... A bland, inoffensive outing, suitable for patients recovering from ulcer surgery. 🤼

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... The granddaddy of them all for one last time. No I don’t count that other one. Even though it was probably a better show than this.

www.blogofdoom.com/rant/the-sma... A disappointing show just because the bar is so damn high for these.