The fourth issue of Fair to Flair quarterly is all about women & wrestling. We want to explore this issue as thoroughly as possible. We feel that women’s wrestling is unfairly criticized, unfairly run, and unfairly represented, and the issue will tackle major issues pertaining to women’s wrestling today.

Pre-Order Issue 4 for $20.

Pre-order the print issue and immediately receive a link to download the epub version, which you can read on any iOS device, Sony Reader, Nook, Kindle, or desktop computer. And by immediate, I mean immediate. No more waiting for me to respond via email. It should begin downloading the second your Paypal purchase is finished.

We placed almost every part of this journal on the website over the course of March, as we celebrated our first women’s wrestling month. Please support these great writers you’ve enjoyed over the past month by pre-ordering the print journal. You’ll receive a beautifully designed softcover book containing every issue, plus a photo essay by Leslie L of Dirty Dirty Sheets (if you’ve seen that site, you know his photography is best in class). Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll find in the journal:

• Thomas Holzerman contrasts Beth Phoenix and Tamina Snuka to Sara Del Ray and Aja Kong.

• Stephen T Stone pins a bright future for Kharma.

• Logan Stallings remembers Jazz, one of the toughest women wrestlers in history.

• Trey Irby defends fart humour, Natalya, and broad storytelling.

• Andrea Marshall proudly defends the female gaze on professional wrestling.

• Lydia Cyrus remembers inspirational female wrestlers and how they help her in life.

• Mike Lortz re-introduces us to Isis the Amazon.

• Lacy Fidler tells three killer stories about recruiting women as wrestling fans.

• William S Young writes about being a guilty male fan, who hasn’t given women’s wrestling it’s due.

• Joe Drilling reviews the greatest all-women pro wrestling video game, Super Fire Pro Wrestling: Queen’s Special.

• Yours truly interviewed rising star Mia Yim.

• Ashley Durham champions Kharma as the future of WWE proper.

• Cewsh gives an important and well-researched history lesson on women’s wrestling pioneer Mildred Burke.

• Lex Roberston takes on gender cues, GLOW, and Elizabeth.

• Finally, Leslie L showcases over a dozen beautiful, world-class photographs of women wrestlers all over the world.

Pre-Order Issue 4 for $20.

Epub is a standard format compatible with all PCs, Macs, iOS devices, etc., If you do not have an epub reading app on your PC, Mac, or Android device, we suggest the Sony Reading app. For iOS devices, iBooks works wonderfully.

$20 pre-order includes worldwide shipping.

Your physical order will ship within 10 business days. Please contact us by email with any questions.

We want to have a serious, multi-threaded conversation about women in wrestling here at Fair to Flair, and there’s absolutely no better way to do that than make a literal issue out of it. The fourth issue of Fair to Flair quarterly is all about women & wrestling. We want to explore this issue as thoroughly as possible. We feel that women’s wrestling is unfairly criticized, unfairly run, and unfairly represented, and the issue will tackle major issues pertaining to women’s wrestling today.

Because we want to make this issue known, we’re not only doing an issue of essays, but officially making the month of March “women’s wrestling month.” All month at Fair to Flair, you’ll see articles from guest writers that will also be in the quarterly.

If you’d like to participate (and we’d really love it if you did), email us your article at editor@fairtoflair.com or use our “submit” box above. Please include a little bio of yourself. The article can be anywhere from 750-1500 words. It can include photos and illustrations. This subject matter runs the gamut: write about female wrestlers you like, matches you want people to see, stories you’d like to see told, issues you’d like to discuss, and ideas on how to improve women’s wrestling in the eyes of both promoters and fans. We want stories from the big leagues and the indies (where TH and I recently argued is where you’re most likely to find exciting female action these days), and we want stories that come from the heart.

Women & Wrestling will be the fourth issue of our first volume. Authors will be paid a percentage of the sales, and all authors will receive free digital bundles of the journal.

If you want to be included on the website, please have your piece into us before March 1. We will be bundling the issue together at the end of March, and it’ll be available for pre-order April 1.

We think women wrestlers rock. Let’s make a lasting tribute to their side of the art.

Starting today, you can order Fair to Flair Issue 3: Best of 2011. Inside its pages is a collection of the best writing from this website right here, which means it’s perhaps the best wrestling writing *period*. It’s the best articles from Thomas Holzerman, Jason Mann, Razor, Logan Stallings, Mitch, and K Sawyer Paul. Below is our table of contents. And yes, every single one of these articles is available, for free, on this site. You can totally digest the content for free. But purchashing this book supports us, and every purchase affirms the theory we had when we began Fair to Flair a little under a year ago: Wrestling journalism can be better, and people will appreciate that. We want to thank each and every one of you for reading this site, hopefully learning a thing or two, agreeing and disagreeing with us, and believing that there’s so much more to wrestling worth exploring.

Buy Fair to Flair Quarterly, Autumn 2011:

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Summer 2011 - Live Experiences

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Logan Stallings

• Mark Henry has finally arrived
• The Booth: Bound for Glory 2011
• Bobby Roode: TNA’s Bastard King
• Dragons & Titans

Jason Mann

• Jerry Lawler: Appreciating a wrestling hero
• Debating Zack Ryder
• Wrestlemania’s Mount Rushmore
• I’m a sucker for one last stand between two legends
• Sheamus: The Throwback

K Sawyer Paul

• This is what happened: Wrestlemania XXVII
• Taking a Bow
• The Spring, Summer, and Fall of CM Punk
• Managing Expectations, Nintendo, and Your Problem with Wrestling

Mitch

• Raw Review-a-palooza, a compilation of Mitch’s excellent Raw reviews

Thomas Holzerman

• The Macho Man and Letting Go
• Differentiation and Integration
• I Enjoy Wrestling
• The Improbable Survival of the Wrestling Industry

Razor

• I Guess This is Growing Up
• Lie to Me
• The Business of Storytelling
• Louis CK vs Dane Cook & CM Punk vs John Cena
• WWe are the 1%

We’ve had a hell of a year at Fair to Flair. We’ve written more than several books of material here, and I believe we absolutely changed what people think wrestling journalism can be. We’ve done it without showing a single ad, without charging for membership, and, most importantly, without being cynical. If I sound like I’m on a bit of a high horse, it’s because I had my doubts. I didn’t know if this experiment would work. I didn’t know if we’d be able to get along, if our opinions would differ too much, and if anybody would care what we had to say. So, thank you. It’s been a lot of fun.

Starting today, you can pre-order Issue 3 of Fair to Flair Quarterly. Inside its pages is a collection of the best writing from this website right here, which means it’s perhaps the best writing about wrestling period. Just the best articles from Thomas Holzerman, Jason Mann, Razor, Logan Stallings, Mitch, and myself.

Click here to Pre-order Issue 3 of Fair to Flair Quarterly

We’ve tinkered with our pre-order process with each issue, and this one is no different. I’m going back to the single worldwide pre-order option: $20 Canadian dollars gets you a print version of the journal, mailed to you in early January. This time around, we’ve got two fresh goodies for those who wish to pre-order:

1) An epub version of the journal. We’ve done PDFs in the past, but due to how this issue was created, we’ve got the epub ready today, while the PDF won’t be done for a few days (business days, around Christmas). Epubs are readable on every computer and smartphone, and please don’t hesitate to email me if you’ve got an edge case or can’t figure it out.

2) A hi-res, layer-included TIFF image of our custom cover that you see above. It’s 58mb, and you can tear it apart, remix it, do whatever you want with it. I’m really proud of this cover, and I’d love to see what other people do with the idea.

As for the issue itself, what’s in it? Below is our table of contents. And yes, every single one of these articles is available, for free, on this site. You can totally digest the content for free. But purchashing this book supports us, and every purchase affirms the theory we had when we began Fair to Flair a little under a year ago: Wrestling journalism can be better, and people will appreciate that. We want to thank each and every one of you for reading this site, hopefully learning a thing or two, agreeing and disagreeing with us, and believing that there’s so much more to wrestling worth exploring.

Click here to Pre-order Issue 3 of Fair to Flair Quarterly

Logan Stallings

• Mark Henry has finally arrived
• The Booth: Bound for Glory 2011
• Bobby Roode: TNA’s Bastard King
• Dragons & Titans

Jason Mann

• Jerry Lawler: Appreciating a wrestling hero
• Debating Zack Ryder
• Wrestlemania’s Mount Rushmore
• I’m a sucker for one last stand between two legends
• Sheamus: The Throwback

K Sawyer Paul

• This is what happened: Wrestlemania XXVII
• Taking a Bow
• The Spring, Summer, and Fall of CM Punk
• Managing Expectations, Nintendo, and Your Problem with Wrestling

Mitch

• Raw Review-a-palooza, a compilation of Mitch’s excellent Raw reviews

Thomas Holzerman

• The Macho Man and Letting Go
• Differentiation and Integration
• I Enjoy Wrestling
• The Improbable Survival of the Wrestling Industry

Razor

• I Guess This is Growing Up
• Lie to Me
• The Business of Storytelling
• Louis CK vs Dane Cook & CM Punk vs John Cena
• WWe are the 1%

We’ve had a hell of a year at Fair to Flair. We’ve written more than several books of material here, and I believe we absolutely changed what people think wrestling journalism can be. We’ve done it without showing a single ad, without charging for membership, and, most importantly, without being cynical. If I sound like I’m on a bit of a high horse, it’s because I had my doubts. I didn’t know if this experiment would work. I didn’t know if we’d be able to get along, if our opinions would differ too much, and if anybody would care what we had to say. So, thank you. It’s been a lot of fun.

Click here to Pre-order Issue 3 of Fair to Flair Quarterly

Due to timing and manpower limitations, we’re going to be changing things up a little for the 3rd issue of the quarterly. We’ve decided to shelve the WCW idea for now and go in a different direction.

We were planning on making the 4th issue of Fair to Flair a best-of retrospective of the first year of the site. All throughout 2011, Fair to Flair has been the place online to read quality wrestling journalism, and we think it deserves being immortalized in a volume. But because the 3rd issue is coming out at the end of the year, it makes sense for us to use it instead.

Issue 3 will be a collection of the best essays from Fair to Flair from our first year, as well as exclusive new essays from each staff writer. Pre-orders will open up in mid-December. It’s going to be awesome.

Now, what to make for issue 4? Backstage, we’ve been tooling with the idea of a “women’s wrestling month,” and we’ve decided that issue 4 will be the launch of an annual celebration of all things women in wrestling. It will launch March 1, 2012, the first day of the very first Women’s Wrestling Month. Today, we’re inviting everyone who wants to contribute to send your essays, art, and musings to fairtoflair@gmail.com. We’ll take the very best of it for the print issue, and, throughout March, publish everything to Fair to Flair.

—K Sawyer Paul, Editor, Fair to Flair Quarterly