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CM Punk’s Parting Shot
This is the only way I can get time off. I have to kill myself to get time off. —CM Punk Ten months ago, CM Punk left WWE. It was the biggest pro wrestling story line of the year, and it wasn’t even...
View Article‘Cheap Heat’ Podcast: CM Punk, Vince McMahon, and Pat Patterson
CM Punk meta pod! The guys discuss Punk on Colt Cabana’s podcast, Vince on Steve Austin’s podcast, and the secret life of Pat Patterson. Listen to the podcast here....
View ArticleUFC Goes Punk
Well, I guess we can officially stop fantasy booking CM Punk’s reappearance at WrestleMania. The shocking announcement came Saturday night during UFC 181: Punk is going to the UFC, to fight sometime in...
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An Elegy for the Authority. Plus: The Maskies!
It feels like just last week, the Authority was domineering the WWE and persecuting our beloved heroes under the pretense of doing what’s “best for business.” Led by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, the...
View Article‘Cheap Heat’ Podcast: CM Punk in UFC and the Glimmer of Hope in ‘NXT’
The guys talk Punk in UFC, lack of excitement for TLC, and the glimmer of hope that is NXT. Listen to the podcast here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpjrENiTiVA Subscribe to the Grantland Network on...
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The Best Wrestling Show of the Year Wasn’t WWE’s ‘TLC’ … It Was ‘NXT...
Monday’s Raw ended with John Cena versus Seth Rollins, a rematch of the previous night’s TLC pay-per-view. To underscore the significance of the rivalry, this time they fought in a steel cage. It was a...
View ArticleGrantland Q&A: Fallon Fox
She stands 5-foot-6, but 39-year-old Fallon Fox has had to stand taller than that as the first out trans athlete in professional mixed martial arts. After her gender reassignment surgery in 2006, Fox...
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The Second-Annual Pro Wrestling Draft Board
Extreme Rules is in the past, and if there’s one thing we learned from that show, it’s that the new WWE season is definitively here — the big match hype of WrestleMania is almost completely gone and...
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Reality Bites: Daniel Bryan, Adam Rose, and Heartbreak in Pro Wrestling
The Reality Era may have started with CM Punk — the wrestler who wasn’t seen as main-event material by WWE bigwigs, but made his way to the top via work shoots — but it was taken to its apex by Daniel...
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Us vs. Them: The Story of Kevin Owens’s Stunning Rise to WWE Stardom
There was a moment last year, during Kevin Steen’s last Ring of Honor match, when he sat on the top rope, exchanging head butts with longtime friend and rival Steve Corino. Steen looked exhausted,...
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