“My god,” that’s all I could say after watching Claudio Castagnoli vs Konosuke Takeshita. After a solid week of AEW programming, the match that stole the week was the ROH championship bout. This gave off classic ROH championship match vibes, something I feel we haven’t gotten in the last couple years. Maybe it’s a fresh…
Before the first bell rang at least, Forbidden Door sure felt like a cursed show. Dream matches were taken from us almost weekly, with an injury preventing CM Punk vs. Hiroshi Tanahashi before removing Bryan Danielson as well as others from the show also. Wrestling’s many political elements seemed present too, combining with an almost…
Revisit wrestling history, as Manuel Rosales remembers Samoa Joe’s bloody brawl with Necro Butcher, a bizarrely beautiful independent classic.
I probably know what you’re thinking right now. Why am I writing about Kenta Kobashi vs Samoa Joe? Well, while there’s no anniversary coming up or anything like that, Ring of Honor is back in the news as of late. Better yet, for the first time in a long time, a sense of hope has…