An average professional doing the 9-5 grind who really loves wrestling across all platforms. Here's hoping wrestlers finally get some basic workers rights in 2021.
Alan Kan
Toronto, Canada
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Feb 13
What is Happening With Women’s Title Match at Wrestlemania?
Last night’s RAW was a bit of a shocker, as Vince McMahon outright suspended Becky Lynch for 60 days and just replaced her with Charlotte Flair. I am not ashamed to admit that my initial reaction was that I was pissed off because my thought was “so…the Women’s Royal Rumble doesn’t mean anything if Vince …
Feb 04
Thoughts on Current State of WWE’s Women’s Division
With the men’s Royal Rumble’s surprise number 30 entrant and the shaping up of the women’s Elimination Chamber match to crown the first ever (modern era) WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions, I thought I give my thoughts to what is happening with the division right now. Could New Title Be Gateway to Allow Crossover with …
Jan 26
The Merits of Abolishing the”Automatic Rematch” Clause
So one of the new changes since the McMahon family returned to actively “running” RAW and Smackdown is abolishing the so-called ‘automatic rematch’ clause for championship titles. This was evident after Seth Rollins lost the Intercontinental Title to Dean Ambrose and Triple H pretty much said “nobody is going to be automatically handed anything anymore.” …
Sep 03
Booking Predictions for Survivor Series
Although the next WWE pay per view is Hell in a Cell, everyone knows that right after the next topic is going to be Survivor Series, and the excitement over the fantasy match ups being considered as RAW and Smackdown Live go head to head as per the annual tradition. In the first year of …
Aug 28
Observations of Hometown Indy Wrestling Show
I thought I take a moment to get personal and talk about an independent wrestling company in my hometown of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (a city just outside of Toronto). It’s called Destiny Wrestling, and they hold regular shows at an arena / multi purpose fitness and training centre called Battle Arts Academy currently run by …
Aug 23
#KWKorner: My Thoughts on The Shield’s Latest Reunion (@thekantastic)
This past Monday Night RAW saw the return of the Shield as Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose made their way down to the ring in the familiar black riot gear as Roman Reigns was facing down a cash in opportunity by Braun Strowman on the Universal championship. The trio beat down Strowman, a man who …
Aug 15
#KWKorner: Who Attacked Aleister Black? (@thekantastic)
This Saturday is the fourth instalment of NXT Takeover: Brooklyn (4) and the marquee match was originally scheduled to be the NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa defending against former champion Aleister Black and Ciampa’s former partner now bitter enemy Johnny Gargano. But as this video from last week shows, Black was ‘attacked’ in the parking lot …
Aug 02
Takeaways from Table for 3 with Eric Bischoff, JBL, and Bruce Prichard
Sometimes I watch WWE’s Table for 3 series if there are guests on together that would generate compelling conversation (Road Dogg, Jeff Jarrett and Elias or AJ Styles with Shawn Michaels and Kevin Nash) because people know they would talk about things that fans have always wanted to know. A recent episode featured former WWE …
Jul 06
#KWKorner: Possible Other Scenarios for Tag Team Run with Daniel Bryan (@thekantastic)
So after some brief speculation, we are going to see a reunion of “Team Hell No” consisting of Daniel Bryan and Kane taking on the Bludgeon Brothers (Luke Harper and Erick Rowan) at Extreme Rules for the Smackdown Tag Team Championships. In a sense, this is a rekindling of a previous rivalry some years ago …
Jun 20
A Very Solid Smackdown Live for This Week
I have to admit, this entire piece is basically a gigantic mark on this week’s episode of Smackdown Live. How am I confident enough to say this? Occasionally I conduct a live tweet thread on either show, and out of the two I did this week, the #SDLive thread was much more solid and contextual. So …
Jun 18
A Brief History of “Authority Figures” in WWE
In light of the transition that RAW superstar Baron Corbin has made seemingly from in-ring talent to on-screen authority figure, I thought I take a moment to reflect on how well past authority figures have worked in WWE. Authority figures on a brand show tend to provide an additional focus surrounding story lines, and depending …
Jun 10
Which 5 Cruiseweights Could Have Been In Superstar Shakeup?
During the Superstar Shakeup a few months back, fans expected RAW and Smackdown to be trading stars, along with some NXT call ups as well. But one thing that was missing was any call ups from 205 Live. The 205 Live brand has been doing a lot better since Triple H took over producing the …
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