Category Archives: professional wrestling

To Be the Heel: Ox Baker

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Mike

Originally published via The Wrestling Daily in late 2009; republished to mark the passing of Ox Baker on October 20, 2014. If there was ever a man who is truly the “total package” of a wrestling heel, it’s the legendary … Continue reading →

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Whither “revisionism”?

Posted on March 3, 2014 by Mike

Marxist circles on the Internet are some of the scrappiest neighborhoods in cyberspace. It turns out that lefites, when critiquing one another, are almost as dysfunctional as the kind of keyboard warriors who inhabit the so-called “Internet Wrestling Community,” except … Continue reading →

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Wrestling’s “Rules for Radicals”

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Mike

Originally written in late 2009 I first heard of Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals, a primer on community organizing, during a job interview some years ago.  It was an informal interview over lunch with a couple of guys I … Continue reading →

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Matches To See Before You Die: Eddie Guerrero vs. JBL (Judgment Day 2004)

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Mike

We wrestling fans have a penchant for sharing our favorite moments of the sport with our fellow enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts (much to the collective chagrin of the latter group, I’m sure).  We have our own respective opinions about what constitutes … Continue reading →

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