Patrick W. Reed
@patrickwreed.bsky.social
Writer, historian & occasional wrestling commentator/referee/oddjobsman
Host of the Bunkum & Ballyhoo podcast (@bunkumballyhoo.bsky.social)
"Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling", out now:
bit.ly/3N1Q73b
www.patrickwreed.com
Host of the Bunkum & Ballyhoo podcast (@bunkumballyhoo.bsky.social)
"Kayfabe: A Mostly True History of Professional Wrestling", out now:
bit.ly/3N1Q73b
www.patrickwreed.com
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you buy new phone you buy WHY You noT BUY PHONE Feed MOnEY to markets NOW buy PHONE
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
you buy new phone you buy WHY You noT BUY PHONE Feed MOnEY to markets NOW buy PHONE
An incredible lineup for a show just up the road from my current digs! Slightly madly for a show that took place a few months before I was born, I've worked for one person on this bill (for my sins) and met five more.
Referee Billy Finlay there too; he was Fit's big brother, and a regular for Reslo
Referee Billy Finlay there too; he was Fit's big brother, and a regular for Reslo
Programme for the first televised All-Star Promotions show in Catford on 25 November 1986
#OnThisDay 39 years ago ...
It aired on ITV on 24 January 1987
@sherifflonestar.bsky.social @sirlariato.bsky.social
#OnThisDay 39 years ago ...
It aired on ITV on 24 January 1987
@sherifflonestar.bsky.social @sirlariato.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 PM
An incredible lineup for a show just up the road from my current digs! Slightly madly for a show that took place a few months before I was born, I've worked for one person on this bill (for my sins) and met five more.
Referee Billy Finlay there too; he was Fit's big brother, and a regular for Reslo
Referee Billy Finlay there too; he was Fit's big brother, and a regular for Reslo
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An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…
The Antisemitism Post (tm)
Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
An excellent primer on the long, horrifying history of antisemitism. ⬇️
it's worth occasionally reflecting on how AEW has changed wrestling. Imagine telling someone 8 years ago that a major PPV would end with the dramatic post-match reveal of a babyface Prince Nana, and the pre-show would have a commentary team of Tony Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness and The Big Show.
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
it's worth occasionally reflecting on how AEW has changed wrestling. Imagine telling someone 8 years ago that a major PPV would end with the dramatic post-match reveal of a babyface Prince Nana, and the pre-show would have a commentary team of Tony Schiavone, Nigel McGuinness and The Big Show.
super proud of my pal Rhia for putting together and producing an incredible comedy show tonight in The Buffoonery, a fantastic bill who all brought their a-game for a wonderful cause very dear to my heart in the Sumatran Orangutan Society.
Wrestling's loss is the world's gain with that one.
Wrestling's loss is the world's gain with that one.
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
super proud of my pal Rhia for putting together and producing an incredible comedy show tonight in The Buffoonery, a fantastic bill who all brought their a-game for a wonderful cause very dear to my heart in the Sumatran Orangutan Society.
Wrestling's loss is the world's gain with that one.
Wrestling's loss is the world's gain with that one.
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Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
November 24, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Please enjoy this list of ways that the NY Times crossword puzzle has clued the word SEXT, it's my sexy gift to you.
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We are so back. Nature is healing.
Overpromise and underdeliver to me, Peter. The children yearn for The Cube.
Overpromise and underdeliver to me, Peter. The children yearn for The Cube.
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We are so back. Nature is healing.
Overpromise and underdeliver to me, Peter. The children yearn for The Cube.
Overpromise and underdeliver to me, Peter. The children yearn for The Cube.
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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A man from Shropshire possessed by the ghost of a dead samurai to become the world's oldest pro-grappler is pure wrestling!
Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
November 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
A man from Shropshire possessed by the ghost of a dead samurai to become the world's oldest pro-grappler is pure wrestling!
Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Having been pipped to the post by Dory Funk Jr. last year, Kendo Nagasaki has almost certainly set the record as the oldest male wrestler to ever compete, wrestling for LDN on 23rd November 2025 at the age of 84, 61 years after his debut match.
I love this match, a neat perfect model for balancing heat and hope in a way WWE so rarely do.
It's also a brilliant use of that brief period of the brand split where the champion appeared on both shows, & could have a PPV feud on one while working with a midcarder on the other.
It's also a brilliant use of that brief period of the brand split where the champion appeared on both shows, & could have a PPV feud on one while working with a midcarder on the other.
NEW EPISODE!
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
No Scrubs returns with another match from the twisted mind of Jeffrey Nero Hardy, as he does battle with everyone's favourite podcaster, Mark "Big Evil" "Booger Red" Undertaker. Listen to the episode, kid! Make yourself mildly diverted!
open.spotify.com/episode/0wNz...
S2E3: The Undertaker vs. Jeff Hardy (WWE Raw 01/07/2002)
open.spotify.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I love this match, a neat perfect model for balancing heat and hope in a way WWE so rarely do.
It's also a brilliant use of that brief period of the brand split where the champion appeared on both shows, & could have a PPV feud on one while working with a midcarder on the other.
It's also a brilliant use of that brief period of the brand split where the champion appeared on both shows, & could have a PPV feud on one while working with a midcarder on the other.
As an aside to this, I love how Okada and Takeshita are doing "can they co-exist?" with the answer just being "absolutely not".
Brodido’s made me actually think about the “two singles guys as a tag team” thing. American wrestling ruined that by making it “can they coexist?” and they win anyway. Funnily enough, when you do it well it’s actually good.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
As an aside to this, I love how Okada and Takeshita are doing "can they co-exist?" with the answer just being "absolutely not".
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The wolves are running…
November 23, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The wolves are running…
I thought that Full Gear was mostly very strong in-ring (it's rare that AEW isn't these days), and a few results surprised me. There were some things that irked me, but generally there was more clarity around the booking than there has been in a while - a better show in isolation than in context.
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I thought that Full Gear was mostly very strong in-ring (it's rare that AEW isn't these days), and a few results surprised me. There were some things that irked me, but generally there was more clarity around the booking than there has been in a while - a better show in isolation than in context.
Adding to the list of bands I've seen live this year that I never thought I'd get the chance to see, with the spiritual successors to one of my all-time favourite bands, in Vapors Of Morphine at the 100 Club last night.
November 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Adding to the list of bands I've seen live this year that I never thought I'd get the chance to see, with the spiritual successors to one of my all-time favourite bands, in Vapors Of Morphine at the 100 Club last night.
At the café, kid at the next table is very adamant that he wants Scrabbled Eggs.
November 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
At the café, kid at the next table is very adamant that he wants Scrabbled Eggs.
I am once again asking...
so is Kyle O'Reilly's name a Rilo Kiley reference or not?
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I am once again asking...
you'd hope that the fact that nobody has yet come up with a policy that could successfully bar entry to all trans people without affecting any cis people would be enough to make people question whether those divisions are as cut & dry and easy to police as they thought, but transphobia is brain rot.
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
you'd hope that the fact that nobody has yet come up with a policy that could successfully bar entry to all trans people without affecting any cis people would be enough to make people question whether those divisions are as cut & dry and easy to police as they thought, but transphobia is brain rot.
For weeks, Moxley had to resort to desperate measures to avoid SUBMITTING to Kyle O'Reilly. In Blood & Guts, Kyle refused to SUBMIT to Jon Moxley, and ultimately made Mox SUBMIT to lose the match.
That's why they're PPV match is, naturally, a No Holds Barred match.
That's why they're PPV match is, naturally, a No Holds Barred match.
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
For weeks, Moxley had to resort to desperate measures to avoid SUBMITTING to Kyle O'Reilly. In Blood & Guts, Kyle refused to SUBMIT to Jon Moxley, and ultimately made Mox SUBMIT to lose the match.
That's why they're PPV match is, naturally, a No Holds Barred match.
That's why they're PPV match is, naturally, a No Holds Barred match.
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In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
November 21, 2025 at 9:55 AM
In highly important news from history today, it’s the 80th anniversary of the 21st birthday of Christopher Tolkien, notable now for the wording (especially the small print) of the invitation to the party
Focus on the "Epstein List" leans into the conspiratorial; it assumes a powerful paedo-cabal and starts from there. The reality is likely more mundane, but tells us more about how the rich actually live - I knew people in Jersey who made excuses for someone's behaviour, or even recognised that...
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding, Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, went to financier Jeffrey E. Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean during their honeymoon.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Visited Epstein’s Island During 2005 Honeymoon | News | The Harvard Crimson
In the winter of 2005, just after their wedding at Elmwood — the Harvard president’s official residence — Lawrence H. Summers and his wife, Elisa F. New, traded Cambridge’s cold for a warmer escape.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Focus on the "Epstein List" leans into the conspiratorial; it assumes a powerful paedo-cabal and starts from there. The reality is likely more mundane, but tells us more about how the rich actually live - I knew people in Jersey who made excuses for someone's behaviour, or even recognised that...
the TayJay vs. Marina & Megan match on Collision has the most egregious example of "stand around like an idiot waiting for your opponents to dive on you" that I've seen in a long while.
November 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
the TayJay vs. Marina & Megan match on Collision has the most egregious example of "stand around like an idiot waiting for your opponents to dive on you" that I've seen in a long while.
new drag name just dropped
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
new drag name just dropped