Corey Michaels

“Hear me, man, he said. There is room on the stage for one beast and one alone. All others are destined for a night that is eternal and without name. One by one they will step down into the darkness before the footlamps. Bears that dance,…

"The pines were roaring on the heightsThe wind was moaning in the nightThe fire was red, it flaming spreadThe trees like torches blazed with lightThe bells were ringing in the daleAnd men looked up with faces paleThe dragon's ire, more…

Somewhere, under the bright lights, a crowd is yelling and hollering out of sync. Faceless voices shrouded in the dark as a light shines upon the stage - a square with four ropes and four turnbuckles. Where an act so beautiful will take…

“Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past.”-T.S. EliotBurnt Norton There’s something special about figures in professional wrestling. About the moments and the memories…

There is a tale so grand and so inspiring that, should you encounter it, it will change you forever. It takes place not in an epic world of fantasy or unreal illusion. It doesn’t even take place between the usual ropes of a…

Bitter wind stings my bitter skinLay as a may, on the pristine snowTainted and stained with my blood as I fade with a grinWondering where I go when the gale does blow As it breathes in a dying era with the…

There’s something wholesome in having a “found family”. The notion that the platonic love between a person and a group of people is one that is a miracle to some in real life and a heartwarming thing in fiction. To have a family in others…

In the aftermath of All Out 2022, the seemingly never ending conversation started. What came of a grumpy man devouring innocent muffins (shoutout to Mindy’s Bakery), saw a man lash out at coworkers and his employer before getting in a…

(This article contains a lot of spoilers for various wrestling and Spider-Man storylines. You’ve been warned.) There is a term I've started using when it comes to the presentation of protagonists in fiction. I call it "The Peter Parker…

The atmosphere at a wrestling show is truly an experience to behold. Whether you’re in basketball courts, warehouses, gymnasiums, or bingo halls with fifty to a hundred people, you can feel it. Whether you’re in arenas, ballrooms, opera…