Colette Arrand

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Dragon Kid vs. Darkness Dragon Is Great Spectacle, But Not a Great Match

Sometimes watching something for the first time leaves you with more questions than answers.

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Dragon Kid vs. Darkness Dragon is More Mexican Apuesta than I Expected

Mask ripping and blood!

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Jushin Liger vs. The Great Sasuke

Sometimes you biff something and it's for the best.

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Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke Steal the Show at Super J Cup

This time, let’s start with the finish. It’s one of wrestling’s greatest karmic moments. Sasuke slips on an attempted springboard of the top rope, drawing a smug bout of mocking applause from Liger. Immediately paying for this show of arrogance, Liger gets caught off guard with a

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Jushin Liger and The Great Sasuke are Icons in the Coolest Sense of the Term

They're, like, living metaphor, man. Words made flesh and whatnot.

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Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (April 2023)

WrestleMania weekend to a big return in the southeast!

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Fuji Yamada vs. Mark "Rollerball" Rocco

Two greats! And we don't mean "Joseph and Colette!"

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Fuji Yamada and Mark Rollerball Rocco Define the Future of Professional Wrestling

And not just in the sense that Yamada will soon be Jushin "Thunder" Liger

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Fuji Yamada, Rollerball Rocco, and the Breadth of the Wrestling World

This World Heavy Middleweight Championship match between Fuji Yamada and Rollerball Rocco is great, and that’s the least interesting thing about it. Nuts and bolts stuff first though. There’s a great energy to this match from the get go. At this point in time, Rocco and Yamada have

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Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (March 2023)

From Revolution to the first half of WrestleMania weekend, it's a big month in wrestling!

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Athena vs. Mercedes Martinez

SHIMMER Month comes to a close

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Athena Gets Past the Gatekeeper of SHIMMER

It’s weird to think that Mercedes Martinez hadn’t been SHIMMER Champion yet at this point. Given how big a role she played early in SHIMMER’s run, one would think she’d have been in that lineage by now. Instead, her consistent veteran presence through the years made

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Against Mercedes Martinez, Athena Fights Her Future

Someday, Athena will rough up her challengers in much the same way Mercedes Martinez did here. Someday, her downfall will be as sweet.

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Madison Eagles vs. Cheerleader Melissa

What makes a match better than 6/4/94?

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Against Madison Eagles, Cheerleader Melissa Bides Her Time

You know what should happen when a heel champion forces a babyface challenger to climb a ladder of opponents before a title match? The heel should get SMASHED.

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Madison Eagles vs. Cheerleader Melissa is SHIMMER at Its Finest

When people talk about peak SHIMMER, it's for matches like this.

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Joseph and Colette discuss Cheerleader Melissa and MsCHIF vs. The Canadian NINJAs

Tag team wrestling that's as solid as Sears.

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The Canadian NINJAs Demonstrate Perfect Tag Match Structure

It's like they copy-pasted it right out of the 1980s southern territories.

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Canadian NINJAS vs. MsCHIF and Cheerleader Melissa Is Meat and Potatoes Tag Wrestling

A superteam. Tag team specialists. This plays out exactly as it should, and that's a good thing.

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Sara Del Rey vs. Amazing Kong

We should have had more of this matchup, but we didn't. That's wrestling, baby!

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Sara Del Ray vs. Amazing Kong Could Have Been Great

Sometimes wrestling offers up something that is more amazing on paper than it ever gets to be in the ring. This match is one of those moments.

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Sara del Rey and Amazing Kong Don't Need Pinfalls

A masterclass in making a non-traditional finish feel earned.

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Joseph Montecillo's Best of the Month (February 2023)

Dream matches and interpromotional rivalries all in one month!

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Joseph and Colette Discuss Sara Del Rey vs. Mercedes Martinez

BIG EGG's SHIMMER month starts out with a classic match from two of the promotion's signature talents.

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Sara del Ray vs. Mercedes Martinez Takes Its Time

Two of SHIMMER's earliest stars put on a masterclass of pacing.