Writer
Dylan Byrne
Writer covering features, retrospectives and long-form wrestling stories for Wrestling Remembers.
Dylan Byrne focuses on wrestling history, major moments and long-form storytelling that helps connect current coverage to the people, events and eras that shaped the business.
He has also published feature work for NoDQ, experience that helped sharpen his approach to retrospective writing, structure and historical context.
His work at Wrestling Remembers is aimed at readers who want more than a headline summary, offering deeper context and a clearer sense of why a moment still matters.
What Dylan covers
- retrospectives on important wrestling moments
- history-focused features and timelines
- long-form stories that connect past events to present context
Coverage approach
- go beyond headline-level summary
- add historical context without losing the core story
- write features that still feel grounded and readable
Profiles
On April 28, 1995, pro wrestling walked into Pyongyang's May Day Stadium and blew up every crowd number the business thought it understood. The first night of Collision in Korea, t
On April 27, 2015, Verne Gagne died at 89, and wrestling lost one of the few figures who could honestly claim to have shaped the business from almost every angle that mattered. Gag
On April 26, 1998, WWF leaned all the way into the madness of the Attitude Era and gave fans something they had never seen from the company before. At Unforgiven: In Your House in
- On This Day in 2000: David Arquette won the WCW title in one of wrestling's strangest momentsFeature
By the spring of 2000, WCW was already in deep trouble. The company was getting beaten badly in the ratings, creative direction changed by the week, and the world title had started
On April 24, 2001, Johnny Valentine died at 72, and wrestling lost one of the rare figures whose reputation still carried real weight long after his working days were over. Valenti
On April 23, 2007, WWE gave away something television almost never gives away on purpose, time. Not a rushed main event designed to hit a final commercial break. Not a trimmed down
On April 22, 2000, Tommy Dreamer finally got the moment ECW fans had spent years waiting to see. In the main event of CyberSlam at the ECW Arena in Philadelphia, he beat Tazz and w
On April 21, 2002, Hulk Hogan defeated Triple H in the main event of Backlash and walked out of Kansas City with the Undisputed WWF Championship. It was one of those wrestling mome
- On This Day in 2016: Wrestling lost Chyna, the trailblazer who changed what women could do in WWEFeature
On April 20, 2016, Joanie Laurer was found dead at her home in Redondo Beach, California. She was 46. For wrestling fans, the shock was not only that Chyna was gone so young. It wa
On April 19, 2010, TNA stopped pretending it had time to ease into anything. The promotion was deep into its risky Monday night push against WWE Raw, the ratings had already gone s
On April 18, 2018, Bruno Sammartino died at 82, and wrestling lost one of the few figures who still felt larger than the industry that made him famous. That can sound like obituary
On April 17, 1994, WCW put on the kind of pay-per-view that still makes historians stop and ask what the company might have looked like if it had stayed on this path a little longe
On April 16, 2020, wrestling lost one of the few voices that could make an arena feel bigger before a punch had even been thrown. Howard Finkel died at 69 that day, ending a career
On April 15, 2001, Mitsuharu Misawa did more than win a championship. He gave Pro Wrestling NOAH the sort of image every new promotion hopes for and almost never gets, its founder
Summary This longer clip revisits Oba Femi speaking before his current Ruler presentation, giving fans a clearer look at how his natural delivery sounded before the character shift
Summary This short compilation focuses on Brock Lesnar landing the Shooting Star Press in highlight moments that still stand out for timing, control and risk. Why It Gets Attention
Summary A video clip shared by FadeAwayMedia shows Triple H in an interview setting discussing the dynamic between CM Punk and Roman Reigns. In the post text, the quote is framed a
On April 14, 2010, wrestling lost one of the last men who truly looked and carried himself like the old idea of a world champion. Gene Kiniski died that morning at his home in Blai
On April 13, 1997, ECW stopped feeling like an underground secret and started looking like a national force. That was the meaning of Barely Legal, the Philadelphia promotion's firs
On April 12, 1997, New Japan put one of its biggest stars in the ring at the Tokyo Dome and let chaos take over. Shinya Hashimoto was not just another champion walking into a title