Author: Nick Radford

Despite the absence of actual wrestling shows in the Pacific Northwest, there seems to have been a lot of activity in the wrestling scene lately. People are cutting promos and starting feuds left and right. But a lot of these issues are real emotions. Real hurt. Real pain. I fully intended to write a light-hearted blog about filming promos with my friends last week. But as things started happening on social media, I lost the will to do anything. No blog. No podcast. I didn’t want to interact with the outside world at all. The stress, uncertainty, and pain that…

Greetings and welcome to another edition of Notorious Notes, the blog where I kinda just talk about whatever suits my fancy even though it’s kind of supposed to be a wrestling blog. In the last blog, I was finally able to talk about wrestling again, because I actually did something wrestling-related, and boy was it short-lived. The Academy was invited to join in on 5CC’s “Scornucopia” promo tournament and in the first round met with (for the first time) and were heartily trounced by The Caution, all the way from HoodSlam. This is the tale of the first round flops.…

Mark this one down in the record books folks, because this blog will actually be about me doing some wrestling-related stuff. I know that’s a weird thing to say, this being a wrestling-centric blog hosted on a wrestling website and all, but you know as well as I do that since COVID started hitting the U.S. hardback in March, wrestling has been the last thing on a lot of people’s minds – mine included. But we may rejoice because I have found a way to flex some creative wrestling muscles while maintaining safe conditions thanks to our friends at 5CC…

Notorious Notes – Chapter 29 We are now a few weeks removed from the peak #SpeakingOut movement. But it is by design that I delayed writing a blog about it until now. The movement itself is vastly important and long overdue. As the wrestling business is notoriously seedy and sleazy, we as a community needed to take the trash out long ago. I thought it very important to shut up and make room for the survivor’s voices to be heard. And I refuse to believe that the movement is over because this is the second time (in recent memory) that…

The Scientific Nature of the Whammy Heads up, I know a lot is going on in the wrestling world right now, especially with the #SpeakingOut movement, but I think right now, it’s important to save that space for the victims to speak and share their stories. I’ll probably have more to say about it in the next blog when people have more time to process and heal, but for now, I want to discuss something a little more lighthearted: the end of the saga that began as #13Seasonsin30days and ended up as #13Seasonsin90Days. This is what we consider The Scientific…

Boy howdy. So much has happened since the terrible, horrible, not good, very bad week for pro wrestling. As a warning, this blog is going to have pretty much nothing to do with wrestling. I’m going to talk about the Black Lives Matter movement; I’m going to talk about the disgusting filth in police departments nationwide. I am going to put no effort into tying this back to wrestling because this is important and something we need to talk about. BLM. Also, Full disclosure, I am a white man. I can never comprehend the struggle of being black, nor am…

How do I even start? What can I even say? What a terrible horrible no good very bad week we experienced in the world of professional wrestling.    It’s bad enough that we’ve been coping with a worldwide pandemic. Plus a psychopathic regime’s attempts at mass genocide by reopening states far before it is safe. Not to mention withholding funding and supplies to those in need – but I try not to get political. Now we have arguably the most tragic week in professional wrestling history. I won’t recount the events here, you know what happened. It just hurts too…

Eventually, I’m going to run out of things that I can try to tie back to wrestling. But this has just become a general life blog at this point anyway. What else would I talk about? In the last blog, I discussed a topic that came across my Twitter feed and sparked a fair bit of conversation — the Talented and Gifted programs in school and was able to kind of tie that back to wrestling, so let’s try something like that again. Today I’d like to discuss a topic that actually tends to come up every so often on…

Notorious Notes – Chapter 25: Talented and Gifted Yes, we are still in the midst of a global crisis. Yes, we are still severely lacking in wrestling. We are also lacking in any form of live entertainment (or human interactions with the people we want to interact with). Yes, I am still arguing online with people who aren’t taking this seriously. Yes, I am still trying to watch all 11 seasons and 2 movies of The X-Files in a month. Here’s a spoiler: it’s definitely not gonna happen. By the time this silly little blog reaches your eye holes, we…

Whelp, we’re still here folks. We’re addressing just a couple of burnouts. The world is still crazy, there’s still no wrestling except for the stuff provided by the largest companies in the world who can afford (and are clearly willing) to take the risk of holding empty arena shows. Specifically, WWE has somehow been deemed an “essential service” by the Florida governor — which I’m sure has nothing to do with Linda McMahon being in the president’s cabinet. So now they can continue putting all of their “independent contractors” at risk while most of us sit and home and lap…