Besides being “sports entertainment,” professional wrestling has most often been described as one part combat, one part soap opera (obviously with a lot of other parts in the mix). As…
Category: The Five Count
The Five Count: Top Royal Rumble Performers
20 men have won the Royal Rumble – not counting Bret Hart and Lex Luger who both won, like, half a Rumble – but they don’t necessarily represent the 20…
The Five Count: Top Starrcade Main Events
As we all know—unless you came in here looking for a Total Divas recap by mistake, and really even then—World Championship Wrestling went belly up nearly 13 years ago. However,…
The Five Count: Top Survivor Series Teams
Probably the first night after two guys wrestled in the coliseum, a promoter somewhere at a seedy dive bar in Rome came up with the idea to toss a lion…
The Five Count: Top TNA Rivalries
In its decade-plus of existence, like any company, TNA—or Impact Wrestling—has done many things wrong, but also a lot right. They’ve been on the forefront of tag team and women’s…
The Five Count: Top United States Champions
Sunday, September 15th marks the only occasion all year guaranteed to see all six major WWE championships defended on a single show as Night of Champions hits pay-per-view (although by all…
The Five Count: Top SummerSlam Main Events
For 25 years now, SummerSlam has ostensibly been WWF/WWE’s second biggest event of the year. I use the qualifier because it didn’t come second chronologically in terms of WWF PPVs—that…
The Five Count: Top WWE Money in the Bank Winners
In 2005 at WrestleMania 21, the Money in the Bank Ladder match made its debut, with Chris Jericho, Kane, Chris Benoit, Edge, Christian and Shelton Benjamin competing to grab a…
The Five Count: The Most Wasted WWE Title Reigns
When it comes to professional wrestling, opinions are like assholes: everybody’s got one, but my opinion is better than yours. Believe it or not, I thought long and hard on whether or not…
